Matt Hadro

a News Analyst
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Piers Morgan Spins Todd Akin Controversy Into 'Romney's Worst Nightmare'

CNN's Piers Morgan played right into the hand of the Obama campaign's co-chair on Monday night, casting the fallout from Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) rape remarks as "Romney's worst nightmare." He ...
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CNN's Banfield Surprised at 'Very Far Right-Wing' GOP Pro-Life Platform

For CNN's Ashleigh Banfield, complete opposition to abortion equals a "very far right" position, as she insisted on Tuesday about the new Republican Party platform. For context, CNN used the ...
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Soledad O'Brien Defends Stimulus: 'Didn't That to a Large Degree Help the Economy?'

CNN's Soledad O'Brien defended the stimulus bill on Monday's Starting Point, calling it a "big thing" that President Obama accomplished and adding that police officers and firefighters kept ...
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CNN (Again) Gives Credibility to 'Hate Group' Label for FRC

Having already stood behind the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling the Family Research Council as a "hate group," CNN gave the label more credibility on Saturday morning. Anchor Randi Kaye ...
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CNN Hypes GOP Links of Obama Critics Who Are Military Veterans

CNN is harping on the "partisan" connections of a group of military veterans criticizing President Obama, likening it to Swift Boat, yet it has helped further liberal partisan attacks in the ...
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Like MSNBC, CNN Ignored Poll Showing 74 Percent of Americans Support Showing Photo ID to Vote

In spite of a Washington Post poll showing 74 percent of Americans favor government-issued photo ID mandates at polling places, CNN skipped those numbers this past week in six separate ...
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Piers Morgan Invokes FRC Shooting to Cry for More Gun Control

CNN's Piers Morgan is up in arms again over guns, and tried to use Wednesday's shooting at the Family Research Council to shill for more gun control. There's one problem – the shooter was not ...
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Less Than a Day After Shooting, CNN Affirms FRC's 'Hate Group' Label

Less than a day after a shooting at the Family Research Council, CNN dug up a 13 year-old FRC quote to support the "hate group" label by the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center. Early Start ...
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CNN's Baldwin Misses FRC Shooter's Political Motive -- Despite CNN Reporting It Earlier

CNN's Brooke Baldwin couldn't find a motive behind the Family Research Council shooting, on Thursday afternoon – despite CNN having earlier reported that "politics" was involved in the ...
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Mediscare! CNN Hypes Cartoon Characters' Plight Under Romney-Ryan's Medicare, Medicaid Plans

In an elementary and partisan stunt, CNN used cartoon characters to hype that seniors might lose ObamaCare benefits if the Romney-Ryan ticket wins in November. On Tuesday, medical correspondent ...
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Piers Morgan Tries to Bait Gingrich; Isn't Ryan Budget 'Radical Form of Social Engineering'?

When CNN isn't reading liberal talking points about the Romney-Ryan ticket, it's resorting to using conservative friendly fire against the Ryan budget, like Piers Morgan did on Monday. ...
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CNN Repeats Dishonest Obama Attack on Ryan

Instead of fact-checking President Obama's dishonest attack on Paul Ryan for blocking a farm bill, CNN simply reported it three times on Tuesday morning. Correspondent Brianna Keilar actually ...
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Obama Shill? Soledad O'Brien Says Factually-Correct GOP Claim Was 'Debunked'

On Monday's Starting Point, CNN's Soledad O'Brien slapped away as "political spin" a factual statement that President Obama has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion. "But I have to tell you as ...
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CNN Re-Airs Paul Krugman Saying Ryan's Budget Will 'Kill People,' Shows No Outrage

CNN's Gloria Borger dug deep for disgusting liberal smears of Paul Ryan's budget proposals and aired them without any criticism or outrage on Monday. In her report on the new Vice ...
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CNN Rehashes Obama Spin to Whack Romney Ad as 'Ridiculous'

It's laughable when CNN's Erin Burnett claims to police "sandbox" politics when she covers for Obama like she did Thursday. Like her colleague Brooke Baldwin did earlier, she stood by the Obama ...
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Non-Partisan? CNN Uses Dem Talking Point to 'Fact-Check' Romney Ad

In quite partisan fashion, CNN used a Democratic talking point to "fact-check" what is simply the valid opinion of many conservatives. Taking a Romney campaign ad claiming Obama is waging a "war ...
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Obama Guts Welfare Reform, But CNN Wields Liberal Talking Points to Say Otherwise

CNN relied on liberal analysis and Democratic talking points to dismantle a new Romney campaign claim about Obama gutting welfare reform. On Wednesday morning the network twice cited PolitiFact ...
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CNN Uses Sikh Shooting to Tackle Islamophobia -- Despite No Evidence Linking the Two

Despite admitting no direct evidence of Islamophobia behind the recent Wisconsin Sikh shooting, CNN's Carol Costello still tried to connect Islamophobia to the shooting and hype it as a ...
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Howard Kurtz: Shouting Reporters a 'Model of Decorum' Compared to Cursing Romney Aide

CNN's media critic Howard Kurtz made the ludicrous assertion that reporters shouting loaded questions outside of a sacred site in Poland were still a "model of decorum" compared to Mitt Romney ...
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CNN Smears Political Right, Labels Wisconsin Shooter's Racist Neo-Nazi Band as 'Far Right'

CNN associated a white supremacist neo-Nazi band with the political right-wing as it labeled the punk rock band of Wisconsin shooter Wade Michael Page as "far right." CNN had reported Page's ...