Accuracy in Media

Stephanie Cutter, who was the deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, was hired and quickly fired by NBC News as a political analyst on Friday without ever appearing on the air, after it was reported that she had a massive conflict of interest. Cutter, whose last regular television gig was the failed […]

On Wednesday, CNN made the move that I have been calling for since April. They canceled the ratings-challenged Crossfire program after less than one year on the air. Crossfire, which ran on CNN originally from 1982 to 2005, returned last September with four rotating hosts—Van Jones and Stephanie Cutter on the left, and Newt Gingrich […]

It looks like CNN president Jeff Zucker’s gamble to bring back Crossfire has failed. as the network has put the show on “extended hiatus,” according to The Daily Caller. Sources told The Daily Caller that staffers from Crossfire are being absorbed into The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, and that personnel from other shows are […]

CNN has announced that the new version of Crossfire will debut on September 16, and that they are tweaking the current programming lineup to accommodate the show. Crossfire, which aired on CNN from 1982 – 2005, is being rebooted with new hosts Newt Gingrich and S.E. Cupp on the right, and Stephanie Cutter and Van […]

During an appearance on The Today Show on Monday, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, defended the administration’s response to last month’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, calling the investigation a “very transparent process:”   The President has been clear it was a terrible tragedy that took place in Benghazi, we lost four American […]

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace grilled Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod over deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter’s remarks that the “entire reason” that Libya has become a political topic is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Wallace asked Axelrod if he thought that the concern over Libya is “just politics” ginned up […]

During a “Newsmakers” panel earlier this week featuring several top Obama campaign officials, ABC News’ Jake Tapper questioned the campaign’s aggressive effort to accuse Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan of lying, and whether fact checking is important in light of Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent fact-challenged statements. Tapper was referring to Biden’s claim that Romney received […]

After weeks of silence on the Priorities USA Action ad, President Obama finally commented on the ad, saying that he didn’t believe Mitt Romney had anything to do with the death of Joe Soptic’s wife and that the ad was not approved or produced by his campaign. I don’t think that Governor Romney is somehow […]

On Saturday, The Boston Globe published an editorial that criticized Vice President Joe Biden for telling a group of supporters, which included “hundreds of African Americans,” that the Republicans would “put y’all back in chains” if they were given the chance to loosen banking regulations. The Globe correctly pointed out that if Paul Ryan had […]

Vice President Joe Biden created quite an uproar when he told a crowd of supporters that a Romney administration would “put y’all back in chains” during a campaign speech in Danville, Virginia on Tuesday. They’ve said it. Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re […]