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Soledad tells gun advocate: Newtown residents would ‘be stunned by you’
Soledad O’Brien could not disguise her incredulity on Monday when dealing with a guest’s proposal that the best way to prevent school massacres like Friday’s attack at Sandy Hook Elementary was to do away with gun regulation. “How you can say that people should have fewer laws and not more?…
Soledad grills Jeff Sessions: ‘You hurt people who need food’ with food stamp cuts
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Tuesday faced tough questions from CNN host Soledad O’Brien for his plan to cut the food stamp program and “hurt people who need food,” including 20 percent of his own constituents in Alabama. Speaking to Sessions in an interview on CNN’s Starting Point, O’Brien wondered…
O’Brien and panelists mock ‘off his rocker’ Rupert Murdoch
CNN host Soledad O’Brien and her panelists spent some time having a laugh over Rupert Murdoch’s anti-Semitic Tweeting Tuesday morning. “He’s a little bit off his rocker,” O’Brien said of the NewsCorp CEO. “It’s awesome. I like that.” At one point, O’Brien read another tweet from Murdoch with faux-seriousness, intoning,…
Soledad O’Brien scolds Giuliani: ‘Stop putting words in my mouth!’
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani found himself getting an attitude adjustment from CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Monday after he suggested that she was blaming former President George W. Bush for recent attacks that left four Americans dead in Libya. In contrast to claims made by Republican presidential…
Soledad O’Brien asks for ‘vodka tonic’ after Sununu calls her an Obama ‘groupie’
CNN host Soledad O’Brien found herself needing a drink on Wednesday after former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told her that she worked for the Obama “groupie channel” because she refused to back down on CNN’s fact check of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the prior night’s debate. Sununu,…
O’Brien gets Giuliani to admit to politicizing Libya attack
While challenging former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani during an interview Monday morning, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien got Giuliani to admit to framing discussion of the fatal attack on a U.S. consulate for political gain. Giuliani, a surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, accused President Barack Obama’s administration of…
Reince Priebus whines that Soledad O’Brien too ‘passionate’ about grilling Romney
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus became frustrated on Thursday and accused CNN host Soledad O’Brien of not being “passionate” about taking on President Barack Obama after she questioned Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s “completely contradictory” positions on abortion. In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Tuesday,…
Soledad O’Brien presses Romney surrogate who voted to cut embassy funding but blames Obama for attacks
CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Wednesday challenged a Romney surrogate who is blaming President Barack Obama’s administration for the attacks in Libya even though he pressured the State Department to reduce security personnel when he voted to cut embassy funding. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has spent the week appearing on…
Soledad O’Brien grills Romney adviser over ‘completely contradictory’ foreign policy
CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Monday held Romney senior campaign adviser Tara Wall’s feet to the fire on the former Massachusetts governor “completely contradictory” positions about whether Israel and the Palestinians could live in peace. In a secretly recorded video published by Mother Jones last month, Romney had told a…
Romney aide dismisses Soledad O’Brien questions as ‘spin’ and ‘talking points’
Wednesday morning, Virginia State Assembly member Barbara Comstock, an adviser to former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s presidential campaign appeared on CNN’s “Starting Point.” When the interview got heated, the former lobbyist and Republican strategist accused anchor Soledad O’Brien of using political “spin” and anti-Romney “talking points” as her interview technique.…
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