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Boosting Obama, Landler Quotes Zakaria's Praise, Omits He Advises Prez

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Mark Landler gushed: "In a delicious coincidence for the White House, the author is Robert Kagan, a neoconservative historian and commentator who advises Mr. Romney." Landler also used commentator Fareed Zakaria to praise Obama without noting his own reporting that Zakaria has advised Obama on foreign policy.

Clay Waters

Times reporter Mark Landler's lead story for Saturday's National section boosted Obama (and slapped down Mitt Romney) via the unlikely topic of the president's reading material: 'Obama Buttresses Case for U.S. Resilience With Book From Unlikely Source.'

Fareed Zakaria Hosts Ground Zero Mosque Developer for Puff-Piece Interview

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:51:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's Fareed Zakaria made it quite clear last summer that he supported the construction of the Ground Zero mosque. He was much more neutral in an interview with the mosque's developer Sunday, but was content to let his guest tell his side of the story without any scrutiny from the CNN host.

Fareed Zakaria Praises Obama's Mideast Foreign Policy 'Restraint'

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:19:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria – who has recently had off-the-record conversations with President Obama on foreign issues – noted the president's "restraint" in his dealing with the "Arab Spring" and the conflict in Libya Wednesday.

CNN Analysts Want Constitution Modernized; Bash Second Amendment Wording, Electoral College

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:39:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

Continuing his push to "modernize the Constitution for the 21st century" by talking about "a few revisions," CNN's Fareed Zakaria hosted legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin for a liberal gripe session on his Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS. Both criticized the current Electoral College and state representation in the Senate, and also slammed the "grammatical mess" that is the Second Amendment.

CNN's Zakaria: Obama's Afghan Speech 'Remarkable Speech for an American President'

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:28:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

Fareed Zakaria, CNN's world affairs analyst, hailed President Obama's Afghanistan speech as a "remarkable speech for an American president" Wednesday and defended the president's decision to ignore the advice of his generals on the target dates for pulling troops out of Afghanistan.

Fareed Zakaria: Today's Conservative Movement Like 'the Old Marxists,' Too Much Rooted In Abstract Ideas

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:48:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's Fareed Zakaria regurgitated his conservative-bashing Time magazine piece on his Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS. He opened up his program with the same barrage against conservatives that he launched in Time on Thursday, namely that today's conservatism is woefully divorced from reality like the Marxists of the 19th century.

Fareed Zakaria Rips Conservative Movement In Time Magazine Piece

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:13:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN host Fareed Zakaria, also the editor-at-large for Time magazine, derides today's conservative movement as out-of-touch and too abstract in a scathing Time article "How Today's Conservatism Lost Touch With Reality." He argues, "Conservatives now espouse ideas drawn from abstract principles with little regard to the realities of America's present or past."

Obama's Other Foreign Policy Sounding Board - NYT's Thomas Friedman - Mocks Israel, Congress

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:26:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

NewsBusters previously reported that CNN's Fareed Zakaria had met with President Obama face-to-face to discuss foreign policy. Obama's other reported "source" of information on foreign policy, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, mocked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday on CNN, and added that he should have dutifully obeyed the demands Obama outlined in his recent Mideast speech.

Need "Courage" to Raise Taxes; Tea Party Nothing But "Haters"

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After Predicting No Israeli Objections to Obama's Mideast Speech, CNN's Zakaria Hits Netanyahu for Objecting

Fri, 27 May 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

After proclaiming that he would be "surprised if anyone in Israel" objected to Obama's Middle East speech, CNN's Fareed Zakaria ripped Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his refusal to accept the President Obama's plan for Israeli-Palestinian borders.

CNN's Zakaria Praises Obama's Middle East Speech on CNN; No Mention of His Face-to-Face Meetings with President

Thu, 19 May 2011 21:29:00 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's Fareed Zakaria appeared three times on Newsroom Thursday to preview and afterward praise President Obama's speech on the Middle East - but never revealed that he has recently had face-to-face meetings with the president on foreign policy matters.

CNN's Obama Adviser

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's Sunday show Fareed Zakaria GPS, boasted of his access in advising the president on foreign affairs. Neither he nor CNN found this compromised their journalistic independence for an instant.

L. Brent Bozell III

As much as CNN likes to tell the public and advertisers that it's squarely in the sensible center between the partisan attacks of MSNBC and Fox News, the reality says otherwise. Even if CNN has no Screaming Schultzes or Crazy Larry O'Donnell types, it's still firmly in the Democratic sphere of influence.

CNN's Obama Adviser

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:42:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Bozell to CNN: Zakaria Must Recuse Himself Immediately

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Alexandria, VA - Media Research Center President Brent Bozell denounces CNN for allowing the host of their "flagship international affairs program" to meet with President Obama on issues of foreign policy that affect the United States, issues that reporter Fareed Zakaria is charged with reporting objectively.

According to Bozell, Zakaria's admission warrants an immediate recusal from reporting on these issues:

CNN Tries to Contain Damage from Spitzer Outing Zakaria's Consultations for Obama

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:19:00 +0000

Brent Baker

Two days after liberal Democratic politician/CNN host Eliot Spitzer told fellow CNN host Fareed Zakaria it "brought a smile to my face" and "makes my heart warm" to learn President Obama "calls you for wisdom and advice about issues around the world," Zakaria took to CNN's site for his Sunday show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, to issue a "clarification on my conversations with the President" in which Zakaria, an in unusual late Sa