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CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton began by claiming that anyone can be radicalized, pointing to Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber! If ours is a country of 350 million potential mass murderers, all the more reason not to add to the count by admitting millions of lightly-vetted foreigners! Leighton went on to say that the Afghan's struggles to make ends meet after coming to US might have set him off. Seriously? Perhaps he should have stayed in Afghanistan, that land of plenty! Meghan Hays, a CNN commentator and former Biden aide, claimed that the fact that the Afghan shot at...

hanksgiving week is an obvious time to roll out the liberal media's tradition of exaggerating the hunger problem in America. On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish kicked off the segment by claiming: "One in five children in the US experiencing hunger right now."Utterly false. Her guest, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the head of the "Feeding America" organization, cleaned that up a bit. But apparently not wanting to call Cornish out on her gross misrepresentation, Babineaux-Fontenot said: "You said it before. One in five of our children are food insecure." No, Cornish didn't say before that 1-in-5 children are "food insecure." She...

In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as saying, "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” The actual quote might actually have been a bit different, but the point remains: liberal elitists live in an echo chamber of their own ideas. On Monday, Phil Mattingly (recently named Kaitlin Collins' permanent replacement as a co-host of CNN This Morning) seemed to have his own Pauline Kael moment. Mattingly was commenting on a recent column by CNN analyst Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic entitled "Why Biden Just Can't Shake...