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Texas ‘terror baby’ Rep. Riddle muddled on anchor baby concept

By | 08.16.10 | 12:23 pm

Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle is making national news for advancing the “terror baby” concept, in which terrorists are said to be coming to the U.S. to give birth to babies who are born citizens and then taking the babies…

Who are the Tea Partiers? They’re white middle-aged Republicans

By | 02.17.10 | 12:12 pm

CNN posted a poll today on the Tea Party that paints a pretty clear demographic picture. The Tea Party is, as expected, a subsection of the Republican Party. The pollsters guess roughly 5 percent of Americans have attended a…

Freshman Year, the gay marriage episode: Polis versus Chaffetz

By | 12.23.09 | 3:10 pm

Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is an openly gay Democrat internet millionaire who fights for gay rights. Utah U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz is a Mormon Republican skin-care professional who is now fighting to revoke the right to gay marry in…

‘Drop Dobbs’ ad will not air on CNN or in Colorado

By | 10.29.09 | 11:45 am

America’s Voice and Media Matters weeks ago announced a “Drop Dobbs” ad campaign that seeks to force CNN to take Dobbs’s political commentary show off the air. The ad will begin airing today but the groups behind it planned…

Latino groups say ‘Basta!’ to Dobbs, call on CNN to exile him to FOX

By | 10.13.09 | 2:47 pm

CNN next week is airing a series called “Latino in America” in which Soledad O’Brien will explore and celebrate the ways the exploding U.S. Latino population is shaping the country. But isn’t CNN the same station that airs the…

News Nuggets, 20 August 2009: CU’s Lahn gets a few more minutes of fame

By | 08.20.09 | 7:50 pm

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NOT EXACTLY OXFORD STYLE: CU student Zach Lahn continues to follow up on his contentious questioning of President Barack Obama in Grand Junction last weekend with a tour of cable news shows. Yesterday, the…

Palin’s death panel and her CNN apologist

By | 08.10.09 | 10:15 pm

On CNN today, conservative pundit Larry Elder agreed that Sarah Palin’s “death panel” comments (see below) were “over the top.” Good. But then he has to try and save it. He keeps repeating that the comments were over the top…

News Nuggets: 5 August 2009

By | 08.05.09 | 5:52 pm

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HEALTH-CARE RICHES: Colorado anti- health-care reform protesters are being rallied and bused around tomorrow by “free-market” group Americans for Prosperity. On its “Patients First Bus Tour,” AFP will be hauling the group to Fort…

News Nuggets: 23 July 2009

By | 07.23.09 | 8:12 pm

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GUNS AND GAYNESS: CNN has done something really right. Its show, Freshman Year, available on the web is something like a Real World Capitol Hill, featuring freshman representatives, whom I guess the…

CNN on ambivalence of US withdrawal from Iraqi cities

By | 06.30.09 | 11:14 am

CNN’s Michael Ware weighs in from Baghdad on the feeling there as U.S. troops begin pulling out of the country’s cities according to an agreement reached with the government in Baghdad. “It’s a really mixed bag,” he says. Ware’s face and voice and reaching descriptions actually describe the ambivalence he’s reporting really well.