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The president reportedly demanded the Justice Department file an antitrust lawsuit to hurt CNN. react-text: 218 /react-text by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Presidents don’t typically get involved in anti-trust matters before the Justice Department. But according to a new report, that’s precisely what Donald Trump did, in an apparent effort to hurt CNN and boost his…
The news has been so batshit this week that we almost forgot to tell you there’s a new tell-all book from a pissed off former Trump staffer! This dude’s name is Cliff Sims and he was a communications aide — you know, when the comms department wasn’t quite as much of a wasteland as it…
Screenshot: CNN Extremely hit-or-miss CNN anchor Don Lemon offered an absolutely reasonable, moderate defense of the loose collective of anti-fascism activists known as Antifa on Tuesday night, so, predictably, people are well on their way to making this a Big Bad Thing. “It says it right in the name: Antifa. Anti-fascism, which is what they were…
On July 2, President Donald Trump tweeted out a video showing himself, as he had appeared in a 2007 WrestleMania event, attacking a person whose head had been replaced with the CNN logo. Two days later, CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski wrote an article about the origins of the video and the anonymous Reddit user who…
Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway this week complained that the media has been paying too much attention to only one of President Trump’s executive orders — namely, his temporary ban on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries — and not enough to the many others Trump has signed since taking office. So Seth Meyers…
Don Lemon had an interesting New Year’s Eve. The CNN personality did shots of tequila at The Spotted Cat in New Orleans, where he and Brooke Baldwin were broadcasting the network’s festivities. Lemon got the party started early, knocking back drinks on TV more than three hours before midnight. It seems @donlemon, @BrookeBCNN got the #CNNNYE party…
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who pressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Michael G. Flynn’s role in the transition. Credit Lexey Swall for The New York Times Too often television news, especially on cable, serves as a megaphone for politicians who use it to forward lies and propaganda while so effortlessly ignoring questions they’re supposedly…
Reporter David Fahrenthold got a phone call around 11 a.m. Friday from a source with a tip about Donald Trump. The source asked: Would Fahrenthold be interested in seeing some previously unaired video of Trump? Fahrenthold didn’t hesitate. Within a few moments of watching an outtake of footage from a 2005 segment on “Access Hollywood,”…
Yo listen up if any of you know what a blizzard is please get in touch as soon as possible (ASAP) because I’m covering the blizzard live on CNN and I’ll be god damned if I know what all this snow is about, really. At least CNN has found something it is worse at than…
Thirty-four years ago, at the launch of Ted Turner’s Cable News Network, the founder made a grandiose and specific promise about his newly created round-the-clock operation. “Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends,” Turner declared. And in anticipation, he prepared a final video segment for the apocalypse: We’ll be on,…