CNN's Wolf Blitzer channeled his inner Jack Nicholson and told GOP Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that he couldn't handle the truth about not being able to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment through the Senate.
Openly-gay CNN anchor Don Lemon, who told HLN's Joy Behar back in May that he would try to be objective on the gay rights debate, devoted much of Sunday's 6 p.m. EDT news hour to the same-sex marriages in New York. He gushed over the weddings being conducted and capped off the hour with live coverage of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg marrying two of his male aides.
CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield reported that although President Obama is offering to compromise with Republicans on the debt ceiling debate, some important players -- from both parties -- think he's caving.
Republican congressman Tom Graves informed CNN host John King Thursday of CNN's own poll results it had yet to report -- that about two-thirds of Americans favor a Cut, Cap, and Balance plan.
Having before touted moderate "conservative" David Brooks as a voice of reason for Republicans in the debt ceiling debate, CNN then used the words of Senator John McCain to frame dissenting Republicans as extremists. Will the House GOP heed McCain's warning not to invoke a government shutdown? CNN asked.
CNN's Piers Morgan lashed out at Parliamentary member Louise Mensch Tuesday afternoon for accusing him of phone hacking while he was editor at British tabloid The Daily Mirror. He demanded that she "show some balls" and repeat her accusation and give the source for it.
CNN's Brooke Baldwin referenced the sweet reason of the New York Times's "conservative" David Brooks in an effort to convice Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) of compromise in the debt ceiling debate.
In the wake of the scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid paper, News of the World, CNN host Piers Morgan revealed for the record on Monday that he was an editor at the paper from 1994 to 1995. CNN had previously devoted much coverage to the scandal but little mention was made of Morgan's connection with the paper.
CNN host Ali Velshi tried to pin the blame for the debt ceiling standoff on the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. Referencing Norquist's pledge of "remarkable inflexibility" that elected officials who sign it never vote to increase taxes, Velshi interrupted and scorned his guest Saturday on CNN's Your Money, even making known that he believes certain higher taxes are "fair."
CNN's Eliot Spitzer took a shot at cable news debates on his last day at CNN and derided the debt ceiling debate as a "new low" for politics -- ironic, coming from a former governor who resigned in a scandal. Spitzer made sure to host a lengthy liberal discussion about the Constitution and what needs to be changed.