Jeffrey Toobin

CNN Guest Likens 'Hurtful and Harmful' Spanking to 'Segregated Schools'

matthew.balan — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:50:47 +0000

Matthew Balan

Areva Martin brought in the specter of Jim Crow on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, as she commented on the child abuse case against NFL player Adrian Peterson. Martin contended that "corporal punishment, in any form, is abusive," and emphasized, "We used to not wear helmets when we rode bikes. Women used to smoke when they were pregnant.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN Plays Up 'Tough Year' for Obama White House in Wake of Supreme Court Rulings

matthew.balan — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:45:42 +0000

Matthew Balan

On Monday's This Hour, CNN's John Berman underlined that the Supreme Court's ruling against the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate was "another setback to the administration, in what has been a difficult year for this White House." Berman later asserted that "this has to be very frustrating for them. They feel blocked politically, legally, foreign policy-wise.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN's Costello Bewails 'Big Advantage' Court Gave 'Wealthy' in Campaign Finance Ruling

matthew.balan — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:53:24 +0000

Matthew Balan

On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello decried the Supreme Court's latest decision underlining that political donations are a form of free speech: "You know, these rulings continue to surprise me – only because so many Americans are concerned about the money factor...They think it's a real problem, and these kinds of rulings seem to only exacerbate those problems."

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

Toobin Calls Clarence Thomas ‘Disgraceful,’ CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Hails ‘Excellent Article’

brent.baker — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:56:29 +0000

Brent Baker

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer brought Jeffrey Toobin aboard Monday’s The Situation Room to expound on his New Yorker magazine blog, “Clarence Thomas’s Disgraceful Silence,” posted on Friday. After quoting how Toobin derided Thomas as an “embarrassing” justice, Blitzer ended the segment by endorsing Toobin’s screed denigrating Thomas, trumpeting: “It’s an excellent article in the new issue of The New Yorker.”

— Brent Baker is the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center. Follow Brent Baker on Twitter.

CNN's Toobin Slams Pro-Life Movement: 'They Want Women to Have No Control Over Their Own Bodies'

matt.hadro — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:03:16 +0000

Matt Hadro

On the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, CNN's senior legal analyst smeared the entire pro-life movement in saying on Wednesday's AC360 Later, "They want women to have no control over their own bodies."

— Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matt Hadro on Twitter.

Daily Beast's Beinart Says Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage 'Deny the Most Basic Rights'

matt.hadro — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:18:55 +0000

Matt Hadro

How's this for intellectual diversity? The panel on Monday's AC360 Later included three NYC liberals and was unanimous in support of same-sex marriage. The topic was the spat between Liz and Mary Cheney.

"I don't think you can actually respect somebody to whom you want to deny the most basic rights," declared The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart, who also teaches journalism at the City University of New York.

— Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matt Hadro on Twitter.

CNN's Toobin: Scalia 'A 1950s Social Conservative' While Ginsburg 'Very Much In Tune With the Modern World'

matt.hadro — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:53:40 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's legal analyst Jeff Toobin thinks Justice Antonin Scalia is stuck in the 1950s on social issues but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up to date with today's citizens.

— Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matt Hadro on Twitter.

CNN Legal Analyst Scoffs at Notion of 'Earth-Shaking' IRS Scandal, Calls for 'a Little Less Hysteria'

matt.hadro — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:59:41 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's senior legal analyst thinks there's too much "hysteria" over the IRS scandal and that it really may not have been that big of a story to begin with. He argued thus on the 11 a.m. ET hour of Thursday's Newsroom.

CNN's Amanpour Mocks 'Roughty-Toughty' Rumsfeld, Calls Gitmo 'Not American'

matt.hadro — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:54:50 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's Christiane Amanpour and Jeffrey Toobin continued to push for Guantanamo Bay to be closed on Thursday's 10 p.m. ET hour of Anderson Cooper 360. "It's just not American," Amanpour insisted.

Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, knocked the "roughty-toughty Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld decided no Geneva Conventions" for the detainees. Toobin, CNN's senior legal analyst, challenged the law passed by Congress mandating that Guantanamo be kept open. "That doesn't mean it was right," he said of its bipartisan passage.

Nothing to See Here: CNN's Toobin Denies Media Bias In Gosnell Blackout

matt.hadro — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:14:06 +0000

Matt Hadro

On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360, hours after CNN finally covered the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell for the first time in weeks, CNN's legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at the notion of a liberal media bias responsible for the cover-up.

"Well, the people making those criticisms by and large are conservatives, who are saying the liberal media is trying to protect abortion rights by not showing this horror show. I don't buy that at all," Toobin asserted.

CNN's Legal Analyst Smacks Down CNN's Hype of Republicans Supporting Gay Marriage

matt.hadro — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:46:59 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's own legal analyst scoffed at CNN's notion that 75 Republicans supporting legal gay marriage is a "big turning point" for the party. Anchor Ashleigh Banfield did her best to drum up the matter on Tuesday, for the network that has repeatedly shown a bias favoring gay marriage.

CNN Legal Analyst Toobin Dismisses GOP Accusations Against Holder

matt.hadro — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:12:50 +0000

Matt Hadro

Dismissing Republican accusations against Eric Holder as "politics," CNN legal analyst Jeff Toobin claimed that allegations of corruption against the Attorney General have "not been proven at all, at least as far as I can tell."

NBC Rips GOP Budget: "Where Is the Empathy?"

rich.noyes — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:57:12 +0000

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Conservative Legal Scholar Confronts CNN's Toobin for Defending Obama

matt.hadro — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:31:54 +0000

Matt Hadro

The fact that CNN's senior legal analyst squared off against a conservative legal scholar should be telling for the network's liberal bias. On Thursday night's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin was confronted by Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice over his defense of President Obama's comments on a pending Supreme Court case.

CNN: Some Republican Judges Are 'Deranged by Hatred' of Obama

matt.hadro — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:13:57 +0000

Matt Hadro

CNN's senior legal analyst charged on Thursday's Starting Point that "some of these Republican judges are just deranged by hatred of the President." Jeffrey Toobin was railing against the three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court that had made the Justice Department write a three page memo about the Obama administration's take on judicial review.