Golden Showers Dossier: After the bedbug infested
BuzzFeed News published the infamous, error-ridden dossier (which was paid for and produced by pro-Clinton Democrat operatives), CNN breathlessly repeated the coverage. CNN’s lead anchor Jake Tapper got in on the action, as did former Obama admin appointee Jim Sciutto and Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. The dossier, which has never been substantiated, lives on in the fever dreams of American liberals.
Anthony Scaramucci: CNN ran a story on June 22 about Trump campaign adviser Anthony Scaramucci. The story alleged the campaign aid had deep ties to the head of a Russian investment fund. The problem? The story was bogus. It relied on a single anonymous source from a Democrat senator’s office. The story was retracted in less than 24 hours. Three CNN staffers – Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau and Lex Harris – all resigned in the wake of the fake news report.
Trump Investigation: On May 9th, President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and noted in a public letter that Comey had told Trump three separate times that he was not personally under investigation. Based on an anonymous source, CNN ran a story with this headline: “Comey expected to refute Trump”. As we all know, Comey’s testimony bolstered Trump’s claim. Which means CNN’s big scoop was fake news.
CNN Lies About FOX News: CNN’s John Berman used misleading numbers in order to attack FOX News in May. As the
Daily Caller reported at the time, Berman cherry-picked data from a Harvard study to imply that FOX’s coverage of the president is always glowing. Berman conveniently ignored the part of the study that showed FOX’s coverage is 52 percent negative and 48 percent positive. He also ignored the Harvard researchers’ conclusions that CNN strikes a negative tone toward the White House 93 percent of the time.
Staged Protests: CNN wanted to show Muslims protesting an Islamic terror attack in the United Kingdom. So what did CNN do? Organize the protest! Leaked footage shows CNN carefully setting up a live shot.
Gulf War Lies: In 1991, CNN’s Peter Arnett was a witting or unwitting victim of Iraqi propaganda. The U.S. had destroyed what it believed was a military chemical weapons depot. Arnett advanced the convenient fiction that the heavily-guarded military facility was in fact a “
baby milk plant.” (h/t
NewsBusters.org)
Vietnam War Lies: In 1998, CNN’s Peter Arnett struck again, this time with a fictitious story about American armed forces deploying nerve gas in Laos during the Vietnam War. The story was so outrageous that CNN’s military affairs consultant Perry Smith resigned in protest. “I can’t work for an organization that would do something like this and not fess up to it,” Smith told then Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz.
Iraq War Lies: CNN’s Eason Jordan resigned in February of 2005 after he told an international conference that coalition forces targeted journalists.
Donna Brazile Lies: One of the major revelations from the Wikileaks disclosure of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails was that CNN contributor Donna Brazile leaked primary debate questions to the Clinton campaign. Knowing the questions in advance provided Clinton with an unfair advantage over Sen. Bernie Sanders. CNN claimed Brazile did not get the questions from CNN. Instead, CNN claimed, Brazile got the questions from Roland Martin, a CNN contributor. When yet another email emerged showing Brazile leaked a second question to Podesta, CNN said it had accepted her resignation.
Trump at the CIA Fake News: CNN’s Jim Sciutto (who, remember, used to work for Obama) claimed on the network that President Trump failed to say anything about the Memorial Wall at the CIA, which commemorates those who have given their lives in service to the nation. Trump did; Sciutto was misinformed or lying.
Trump Visits Scalise: Following the attempted mass political assassination of Republican Members of Congress by a Bernie Sanders-supporting liberal, CNN’s Jim Acosta pushed out some fake news. Acosta used his Twitter account to claim President Trump did not visit wounded Rep. Steve Scalise in the hospital, only to correct his first claim less than an hour later. His fake news got over one thousands retweets, while his correction got less than one hundred.
Baseball Game Prayers: It was a moment of bipartisan unity. Prior to the annual congressional baseball game, Democrats and Republicans joined in prayer. At least, that’s what happened if you were watching FOX. If you were watching CNN’s Fake News, only Democrats were praying that day.
CNN’s Boston Blunder: CNN embarrassed itself in 2013 with a bogus story about the Boston bombing. Correspondent John King reported on air that suspects had been arrested. But that was… fake news.
Blackhole Don: Any list of CNN’s fake news reports would be incomplete without mentioning Don Lemon’s suggestion that the missing Malaysia airlines jet could have been swallowed up by a black hole. Now, any high school student remotely aware of the laws of physics would not be foolish enough to say that. But not Tequalia Don! Watch it here in all its glory: