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hey CNN stop being biased and post my comment...

I used to watch CNN all the time. they had good people, Paula Zan, Judy, Anderson (and still he is). but this election coverage of CNN was soo biased. dont believe me, look at the statistics, Campbel was bashing hillary and then Mcacin. It was obvious that who you supporting. But there is something called impartial coverage which i dont think you understand!

Actaully i hated Fox but now check it all the time. CNN most of the people watched the elaction results are the people voted for Obama (even my puppy new that he is going to win). so obviously most of them watched you.

Anderson, Lou, Dana, John king...you guyz are great..and by the way just saying that you have the best political team does not mean that you have the best political team. that Roland guy, Campbel, Gloria please shut up!!!

CNN Rocks! I am already having election withdrawals! You have the best political team, ever! Particularly found of David Gergen Was glad James Carvelle was there, too. I am a die-hard democrat, and sometimes get fired up when I watch the conservative correspondents; however, CNN is well rounded and I enjoy hearing all points of view. Except for Bay-strongly disagree with her cheerleading Palin-and have been known to be a bit annoyed And then there is Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs-oh well, no one is perfect! Anyway--CNN, you are awesome and congrats!

I love CNN but their reluctance to call races left them behind all including FIX. I finally turned to NBC for current information. The holograms were also way over the top and not necessary at all.

For us, we watched CNN because it is the only news station that we get in HD. I'm willing to bet that a lot of other dish network subscribers can say the same thing

All credit to Wolf Blitzer, John King and the Best Political Team on TV.

So CNN gets the credit for being the most influential in slanting the media toward Obama and the liberal agenda. The influential media of Rwanda got the "credit" for their part of a radical agenda, also. Too bad these media outlets moderate according to their own ideology instead of giving all the facts.

I am a retiree so I have plenty of television time. I watched MSNBC, FOX, and CNN, giving each an enormous amount of my viewing time. I settled on CNN for the great unbiased reporting. MSNBC was all Obama, FOX was completely McCain/Palin to a fault but CNN was totally down the center enabling me to make my choice of a President......Many, many thanks CNN from a viewer for life!!

Kiera, go back and read my post. I didn't say one word about CNN. And I'm blind?!!!

Clearly people on here have a wide range range of thought about CNN's coverage. I made no comment on this.

However, I do note your questioning my judgement that because FOX favors the "conservatives" that I am wrong to think them biased. What??? This is the very type of rightwing delusion I've been posting about on here. You neo-nitwits think that favoring "conservatives" is fair and balanced, even as you shrilly claim bias if you think another network favors "liberals". You people are pathetic mental midgets. Only in such a great country as ours could people like you be given the right to vote.

I started watching the situation room and the campaign trail since the start of the campaign. I will miss all the excitement of the election now that it has finished. Wolf and jack are my heroes. I will continue watching them all the time. Congratulations with your success CNN. Keep up the good work.

CNN ; a media outlet dedicated to the liberal socialist line. Some where Marx and Lenin are toasting to the far left turn of America!

and the graphics were much easier to follow on CNN. i did however watch FOX (not my favorite station) and found it interesting how quickly they projected states compared to CNN. the hologram made me laugh though – seriously, w(hisky) t(ango) f(oxtrot)?

You go, CNN!

Wow, you are so blind Ken. CNN is incredibly liberal. Just because Fox favors the conservatives you think that they are unfair? They are not biased compared to CNN

Why bother writing a "patting yourself on the back" article?

Just another example of the "we are the news" mentality of the MSM.

Yes, CNN, it's high time to send all your employees down to Disney World for a week of paid vacation and stimulate American economy.

I too watched CNN on Tuesday evening in my home, so did my wife, mother, sister, her husband and 5 week old son.
We all wanted to watch history being made and we were not disappointed, thank you USA.

Craig Paice
Stanley
Falkland Islands

I wathced MSNBC all night...got to love Mathews, Maddow, and Olberman...i thouhgt they did a good job. i did switch to CNN at one point during a commerical, and was not impresed.

I could hardly stand to watch any of the news stations, they were soooo in the tank for Obama it made me ill. The only one who I can respect anymore is George Stefanopolous (sp?). He is fair.

I love CNN. I watch it all the time and it was absolutely my only choice for election night coverage.

Until the disembodied midget hologram arrived. And if projecting a corrrespondent as wasn't stupid enough... will.i.am? Are you kidding me?

Sorry, but I was channel surfing my way over to msnbc whenever the circus started. Of course, their holographic room usually sent me to the mainstream networks.

And by the way, Wolf, it's not true that we've never seen that before... I believe obi-won-kenobe was similarly transported to talk to Luke Skywalker. Your holograms looked eerily the same.

lets see now if you will report on things that should have reported on in the election. you slanted mediators will now have to face the pulper, or will you omit items, like the many things you did about Obama in the campaign, or news items that your head hanchos did not want to bring into play during the election.

you reporters and mediators should all be fired for the crap that was pulled to get obama elected

Kudos to CNN. When they were calling out the numbers and President Elect Obama stayed at 207 for a while I began to get worried but when David Gergen said in one of the segments that it was over I began to celebrate because David knows his stuff.

Congrats CNN- love you guys!

Good Job CNN!

But did you really need the hologram thing...seemed a little excessive. The whole point of sending a CNN correspondent is to report from location, so why bother virtually bringing him or her back to the CNN studio especially when the HD alternative was doing pretty good?

I was at work on Tuesday evening. I was on CNN.com all night and you guys had the best online site out there. I checked out FOX.com and MPR.com and CNN's site was absolutely the best. Thanks!

I love CNN. I want to work for you guys!

Great Job CNN. I enjoyed the comments by David Gergen and rest of panel but I would like to see more analysis of battleground states as done by John King. He showed us in detail what was happening. It was the information that I wanted to know. Through the analysis of where the completed votes were coming from and what that area had voted for in the past , I was able to really understand the vote totals in the state really meant. Also knowing what areas votes were incomplete and how they voted in past put the numbers in percepetive.
Great job!
Loses the Holograms though.

Ken..Fantastic job with your comments.

I must say that I was disappointed when CNN chose not to air Obama's paid 30 min ad to show the boring and meaningless free air time with McCain. However, I think they did a good job with the election coverage.

Janey thinks FOXnews has "been fair and balanced about the candidates". I'm afraid Janey has lost her way in the dark - can someone get her a GPS or talk her back to the campfire? The utter delusion of the rightwing in this country is just remarkable.

Many times we as Americans wonder about the debacles in other country's governments - for example, how the Germans allowed Hitler to come into power, or how the Iraqis got saddled with Saddam. I'm afraid we need look no further for some insight into this issue than to our own home-grown rightwing. These people exhibit the very type of delusional, backward, ideologic-driven thinking that has lead to many of the world's past troubles. These are the very people who, after 8 years of abject failure in our government, make up the 10-20% of us who actually think America is heading in the right direction. With all the real outside threats to our country that we are attempting to handle, it is sad to know that the seed of yet another disaster grows within our own country.

But FOX and Brit Hume still had the fairest coverage

I'd say Fox rated VERY well and got #2 behind CNN: "Fox News Channel posted 8.1 million" + "FOX posted 4.7 million" = 12.8 million which trumps ABC by 300k.

Go Fox News!

Good job Cnn for beating Fox. I hope you continue to do so.

Two things:

1) It's true that CNN was a bit behind ABC, Fox, etc when it came to calling states, but after the third-degree burns I got in 2000 watching networks give one candidate a state only to take it away 30 minutes later, I actually appreciated that CNN waited to call a state until they had sufficient confidence in their correctness
and
2) Anyone who has seen Lou Dobbs' non-stop daily Obama-bashing over the past month knows that CNN was certainly NOT "in the tank" for Obama. Geez, was Dobbs on the McCaign camp's payroll or what???

CONGRATS CNN you are and have always been the best reporting network on TV even prior to the election.

CNN is liberal.

I love Sean Hannity, he single handily gave Obama the election. Keep up the good work Sean
Congratulations CNN you did a fantistic job. I hope you continue to beat Fox.

I think CNN did an outstanding job. The coverage was clear, consice, and non-partisan. Wolf and his team showed all aspects of the race and only called the states when they were sure of the winner. I'm sure everyone remembers 2000 and Florida. Great job CNN!!!

Congrats to CNN for the records (though the post was unnecessary and a bit self-serving). Still, I'm one of those people that was glued to my television all day. I start my day with CNN and check it regularly. Great job, guys,

I watched NBC and CNN. I have made a permanent change from FOX. I can't even watch O"Riley ever again. He used to be really good and indeed fair and balanced. He became mean, nasty and aggressive the last few months. He is a pinhead now. So sad.

And the hologram effect made me laugh because first you are thinking why.. and.. what for.. and overkill. But it was probably one of the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Great job CNN. I watch you guys all the time. Cheers for Robin Meade and the Morning Express also.

CNN does have very good political analysts. None of you are bad at all and I appreciate the non-bias. You set the standard and should be a role model to other networks. The only person there that I don't really care for is Lou Dobbs. He seems to be too overcritical at times and tries way too hard to be nonpartial, not giving credit to candidates even if it is deserved. He seems angry a lot, and I get this notion that the guests and analysts like Zimmermann and Cooper wanna smack that guy for some of the stuff he says to them. He makes his guests feel uncomfortable.

I am so happy that the election is over. I hope that the bias media and particularly CNN starts doing a better job now.

I will also be happy to not listen to Rolland Martin reverse racist comments. This is a guy that trashed Hillary from the very beginning on a clear rude way. He will not tolerate any critic of Obama at all inmediately saying that it was racist. ON THe New York Time yesterday there is an article on Page 8 on which qoute Obama's campaing Chief Startegist David Axelrod saying that they decided as part of their strategy to protray HIllary as a divisive and partisan politician who will not bring the country together. IS that is not a negarive campaing against a member of Obama's own party thell me what it is. Obama is a smart and talenten politician who run an almost perfect campaing and won 53% of the votes but he is an average politician and he used negative tactics to win as he has always done. Asked Alice Palmer the Democrat he kicked out of the ballot to run alone in Illinois.

So I hope that Rolland Martin stopped using the race card and tell the truth

We watched it only because they were the most up to date.. but I hate it when they analize and give their opinions into the specifics so much it gets boring and WHO CARES!!! I dont care what made this happen or that happen and what religion, race, color, age did this or that and why this state age did and this one didnt.. Geesh!!!

CNN has the best, most balanced coverage I've ever seen besides PBS. Fox News leans too far right, MSNBC leans way too far left. I have the Political Ticker as one of my RSS feeds to follow every day.

I definitely do not believe that statistic–I have heard different numbers fron FOXNEWS. At least they have been fair and balanced about the candidates–CNN would say anything to prop up their free falling numbers due to documented Bias.

Ken, your analysis of FOX's pro-republican bias is brilliant. Hats off to you.

I love CNN!!!!!

CNN, I watched you 80% of the time. Your reporting was fine, what I don't like about it is
# 1 It is not " Breaking News" if it's 12 hours old and you already reported it.
# 2 Don't do 3 minutes of commercials, come back and give us a 15 second tease and go back to 3 more minutes of commercials.
# 3 Don't tells us something exciting to report " Right after the Break"
and after the break you don't go right to it.
Also, get rid of the headlines on the bottom. You already take up 1/3 of my screen. I would like to see their whole face, not just fron the nose up.
Jacks the bomb, Lou and Glenn are idiots and Wolfe, when you ask someone a question, let them answer it. Quit interupting.

I watched NBC and have made a permanent change from FOX. I can't even watch O"Riley ever again. We used to be really good and indeed fair and balanced. He became mean, nasty and aggressive the last few months. He is a pinhead now. So sad.

Ken, your comment was priceless. I agree whole heartedly. Thanks for the (probably unintentional) humor!

Really? Broke records? Surprising since no one I know of watched CNN during this entire election process. Your network is entirely biased for Republicans amd not running Obama's closing argument infomercial was the epitomy of bad journalism.

By the way, I cannot stand Campbell Brown or Lou Dobbs or Larry King Live. The only segment worth watching is Jack Cafferty.

Fixed news is going down. I lifted my ban of Fox news to see what they were up to over there and they are a bunch of sad, sorry, sore losers....HA!

Fixed news last in ratings? That's great news for Fixed news.

@ KEN........ BRILLIANT COMMENT SIR! THANK YOU!!!

pa! papapa! pa! pa!... Blow it harder, CNN.
Well, If you gotta it, flaunt it...

you drive me crazy one min, i get hooked next.
You still are the best out there, with Wolfe,tigressCampbell, logic Gergen, irresistableAC,king Larry, Magic Map, Candy, demostartor Bagala,crazy Roland,... and now beamed people...it's entertainment through out.

SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT 'FAUX NEWS' WAS .......DEAD LAST!!!

I WILL BE SO THRILLED THE DAY 'FAUX NEWS' GOES OFF THE AIR!!

CNN, honestly, I watched you, because you are HD and MSNBC is not yet!

At our house, we prefer MSNBC, BUT we were with friends on election night..... at an OBAMA Party, and they had CNN on. Otherwise we would have been home watching Keith Olbermann & CO. on MSNBC!

However, CNN you did do a good job. Thank you.

Lou Dobbs is an independent and Glenn Beck is no longer on CNN.

You are no longer worth commenting or reading...

Just go away, Noah. I hear Red State calling your name. Free Republic needs you right now. You can go huddle up with the sob sisters over there and stroke your guns. Lick your wounds somewhere else, and take Dave with you.

(One other thing. "Slash" is a pretty common directory delineator in most computer systems. You can try slashdot.com, for instance. Guess what? It's not a GNR fan site. You and your Republican brethren should try to get savvy with this new-fangled internet thing. Hint: it's largely responsible for Obama's win.)

I start my day by turning on my TV to CNN and seeing what's new in the world. I enjoy the laid-back reporting of your people who not only take it serious but seem to enjoy it. I especially like Jack Cafferty's incisive and cynical outlook on the sometimes outlandish news that comes up. Candy Crowley is excellent at covering the news. In fact, I'm never disappointed in any of your people's work.

Your reporting on the election and election night was superb! Even after it's over, I still enjoy the lingering effect it has on this nation as you report it. I am anxious to watch CNN on 20 January when President Obama is sworn in. I know I won't be disappointed.

Thanks to all of your people and their sincere dedication to reporting.

What kind of name is Noah anyway? Are you named after the biblical figure? If so, that's amusing, because the biblical Noah was intelligent, family oriented, attuned to God, and empathetic towards the plight of his fellow humans. You, on the other hand, bring nothing to the human table except divisiveness, poor judgement, and very little knowledge of God or humanity. Noah that, you moron.

Since when does CNN ever support Republicans with the exception of a specific strategist that represents the party?

You, like many bloggers on here, are clueless sheep.

Wow, you Liberals are so insane. Cnn does not support Conservatives. They are almost as Left as MSNBC. Begala, Campbell Brown, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, and James Carvale? Who are you kidding? So pathetic

My eyes stayed glued to CNN from 6pm to 3am. Simply put, you guys and girls are the BEST!

Fantastic coverage – Thanks for not calling a race before it was backedup with real numbers.

dave: we're so sorry you are not going to be able to start a war with iran. not! that is why you lost!

Are you kidding? You team was at least half an hour behind MSNBC in calling states for Obama – sometimes more. Less talking heads more reporting...

although i agree that CNN rocks, i do have to give credit to FIX network for their election night coverage..they were dull and boring, but they were on point and ahead of the other networks in calling each prediction..they still suck,, as a whole.. and i couldnt wait to see Hannity's face the next day..!!!!!

What landslide? 52-47 is not a landslide.

I had never paid to much attention to CNN until this election period. II usually sleep around 8:30 -9 pm but on 11.4.08, I was up watching CNN until 1 am on Wednesday ( not minding the fact that I had to be up at 5:15 am). I recorded and watched the entire broadcast from 5 pm until 1 am. I will be giving this recording to my 15 months old son to watch when he get old enough. FOXnews channel looked like a drag compared to CNN on Tuesday night. GREAT job!!!

CNN's humble too...

I watch CNN on a regular basis.

To Dave:
Most people have congratulated President Elect Obama including the British Prime Minister, President Bush, Senator McCain, the Pope, etc... GET OVER IT!!!

noah. a 5 point lead in this country IS a landslide.

CNN all the spin you have been doing to get Mccain elected failed. From today I am done with CNN, I will never watch CNN except Larry King. You guy tried so hard not see the first African American elected shame on you hire young people.

Really enjoyed the coverage (save for the hologram). A little too conservative in your projections, NBC had it first on Ohio and Pennsylvania. I realize you don't want to get burned. But when it came to who broke the news on Election Day, it wasn't you guys.

i kept waiting for princess leia to appear with a message to help save obi wan kenobi.

I personally did not watch CNN as am disgusted and tired of their constant support for the republicans.
If they did not have Jack Cafferty would never watch them.
At least from Jack we get another side of the picture.
It is a shame when a news media puts their bias over
fair and balanced reporting.

It is another positive sign for this country that the rag-TV network FOX posted LAST in election-night viewership. Can there be any question that FOX is the most biased and underhanded TV network, one that even now works to slander our new president-elect while pandering to the rightwing underbelly of this nation?

To review and address some of the unusual and underhanded "issues" generated by FOX in the recent campaign:

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different", something to be feared. While if you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers and shooting animals from a helicopter, you're a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. While, if you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're an adorable maverick.

* If you graduate from Harvard law School with an admirable scholastic record, you are unstable. But if you attended 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. While, if your resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a "real" Christian. While, if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you are a "real" Christian.

* If you teach teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society. But if, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's. While if you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

FOX is entartaining only for their amusingly naive hypocricy. But that network does serve one useful purpose as a window into the dismally disfunctional mind of America's rightwing. I urge everyone to watch FOX every now and then for one reason: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

JIM- I am not denying that, you are quite correct about the plan. But keep in mind that John McCAin is not a true conservative and he never has been. Therefore, this was not a defeat for conservatism. In fact, Obama even ran away from his liberal record durign this election in order to move to the center (aka more to the right) and win the election. He ran on lower taxes, less abortions, pro 2nd amendment and gun owner rights, invading Pakistan if we need to, all of which are conservative principles. The country is not moving to the left. It is still largely center-right. This was a vote against the Bush Republicans and not a vote against true conservatism

Outstanding work on election night. Not feeling well kept me home and not with my Obama friends but you made me feel the joy and united with the celebrations going on all over the world. Thanks!

Noah:

You personify the exact reason McCain lost. Anyone with a brain knows you can't compare and electoral/popular vote victory with a statewide race. Duh! More right-wing nutjob spin courtesy of Karl Rove and FAUX NEWS.

Of course this is a liberal year thats why CNN did good. Hey CNN if Obama starts his tax and spend I wonder how you will be doing 4 years from now and if you will be able to afford to pay those 12 political ANALysts giving their view on election night or will it be Blitzer, Larry and John King in 2012. hahaha

Ever since the election started this is the only channel i watch.

CNN is the best indeed!

»CNN ROCKS! Of course! Aah!

Where in the world is Barbara 65 wihte female NC?

Did the Obama campaign lay her off?

How do they figure out who watched what station. I always wondered how they can tell how many people tuned in to what station. Help me out somebody.

Thanx.

Noah..Noah..Noah...still trying to rationalize the Republicans losing huh? They had NO PLAN to win this election after McCain became the nominee. Any other of the candidates they had at 1st would have been able to better handle the circumstances of the financial crisis when it came up and shot McCain down( OOPS...I Bad). You CAN'T win without a plan. Obama obviously had a GREAT plan and executed it flawlessly!

CNN...are you going to learn a lesson from this?
People WANT real reporting – not bias bull!

Are you smart enough to learn from this?

I STATR MY DAY WITH CNN EACH DAY, I TRUST YOUR REPORTING, HAVE A GREAT DAY.

i love cnn i've started my day with you for years, you guys seem more down to earth to me. nancy grace is wonderful. have a great day.

What kind of a name is slash anyways? You parents were clearly Guns N Roses fans. This election was not a landslide. Obama won 52% to 47%. Sure he soundly defeated McCain in the electoral voting, but McCain still won 23 states, almost half the country. A landslide would be Reagan winning 49 of 50 states in 1984. Why is it that the NYTimes call this election a landslide victory, but when California voted to ban gay marriages by the same margin, 52%-47%, the NYTimes says that the ban "narrowly won?" That would be yet another example of the hypocrisy of the media. Slash that

Guaranteed that if McCain was the favorite going into election night, Fox news would have come out on top.

You did well CNN. No bias, no bull. It paid up for you. Fox is too much to the right and MSNBC is too much to the left. There were anchors at MSNBC that I thought were highly unprofessional in their reporting because of their biasness. People at CNN provided a balanced opinion, there were supporters of both parties at your show. Kudos and Bravos to you. I watched CNN most of the nigth.

Watched election night over here in Europe...

Stayed up to watch Obama's victory speech before goin' to bed...

Loved every minute of it !!!

What???????

CNN is soooooooooo pro Replicans,,,,,

CNN Never talked about AIP and Palin's tie to them.

CNN Never talked about Palin's Witch Hunt(Her Paster), if it was Obama the type would be on 24/7.

CNN shame on u.

as long as u have people like Lou Dobbes and Glenn Beck , You Are
NOT worth Watching.

Fabulous job. But lose the hologram – looked like all you needed was Hans Solo and Darth to visit too and we all want to see Cheney gone, gone, gone...

Though I still find CNN to be needlessly divisive in this election-manufacturing controversy and vastly understating the lead Obama had to make the race seem more competitive and ratings-drawing-it is indeed satisfying to watch Fox News get whipped.

Now, for the next four (preferably eight) years, watch Fox News proceed to make every use of signed statements an affront to the Constitution, every claim of executive privilege to be cronyism, and every instance of genuine hope in the American people to be restricted to the "less-real America".

And watch those same nuts get ANOTHER landslide loss in the next election.

Congratulation CNN. Once again you rose to the occasion. You guy's are the best.

Last night was the first night in a year that I didn't tune into political news.

the hologram technology was intriguing, but i would have enjoyed the coverage on cnn more if it was in HD. surprised cnn hasn't made that swtich yet.

i am glad to see that FOX did not rate well. they have been so biased over this election and openly tried to hurt obama. sean hannity was a disgrace to his profession in my opinion. he ranks right up there with rove,guiliani and sarah palin as being nasty,negative and they all beat a dead horse to death over ayers and rev. wright.
congratulations CNN you are the best!!

Hey CNN, I've news for ya. Ahmadinejad has Congratulated Obama! They're gonna sit down and talk now!

Go CNN!! Congrats on breaking records!! The best political team on television has done it! Thank you for telling both sides without taking sides, unlike some other channels (Fox News)!