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Posted at 1:46pm on Apr. 21, 2008 CNN's Rick Sanchez Accused of Pushing Left Agenda in College Interviews

By Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Monday morning, April 21st, CNN aired "America Votes 2008” with Rick Sanchez, (11:30 AM CT) a segment that featured reporter Sanchez visiting Penn State University to talk to some of the students about the upcoming Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. In the aftermath of CNN's visit, some of the students involved in the taping are alleging that Sanchez was so virulently skewed to the left that he berated and bullied students who held a differing point of view. It was reportedly so bad that CNN crewmembers even apologized to several students for Sanchez' incivility.

On Sunday, CNN touted Sanchez’ Pennsylvania segments as putting him "on the road in Pennsylvania ahead of Tuesday's crucial vote" and claims to be interested in "what's on their minds before they cast their ballots?" But at the Penn State University segment, at least as far as at least some of the students involved are concerned, what was on their minds didn't interest Sanchez at all. To the contrary, what was on his mind was all that concerned him they allege.

CNN contacted students in several political clubs at Penn State to arrange for the interview and two weeks ago their cameras and crews arrived at the university to film the segment with the on-air personality.

Read on. . .

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Posted at 12:22pm on Nov. 14, 2007 CNN goes where Whoopi won't

By Soren Dayton

Yesterday a shocking video came out. A Republican activist -- one of those blue-haired ladies at the county party -- called Hillary Clinton a "b*tch".

Unheard of.

So what does CNN do? They attack John McCain and try to manufacture outrage.

Rick Sanchez asks "Is John McCain done?" What? Erick here at Redstate loved it. Every GOP activist that I talked to laughed. It probably helped McCain.

But CNN needed outrage. They tried to manufacture it. So who do they invite to perform outrage on cue? Whoopi Goldberg, the brilliant political analyst and actor, Sanchez asks her opinion "as a woman." But even she won't play along:

I'm not taking offense from John McCain's response

However, that is not enough to stop a reporter on a rampage.

No wonder Americans distrust the press.

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