The U.S. Ambassador to Russia refused to deny on Sunday whether hosting the Winter Olympics in Sochi was a mistake. Appearing on Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday, Mike McFaul was asked whether it was “a mistake to hold the games
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hasn’t interviewed Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice since she made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows last year falsely blaming the attacks at Benghazi, Libya on a “Youtube video,” and yet, Zakaria couldn’t take a
National Security Adviser Susan Rice appearing on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria…
Former president Bill Clinton in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria discussing hoe the Obama administration is handling Syria’s chemical weapons
On Sunday morning, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN pitched a segment on whether the United States needed to cut aid to Egypt. The information on the screen was accompanied by a picture of a flag … of Syria. The Syrian
Gay commentator Andrew Sullivan on Sunday CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: “I would say the religious arguments are more based in fear than in the actual teachings, that they’re based upon stray texts that actually don’t mean what you think they mean.
Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American activist on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS…
On Sunday’s edition of Global Public Square, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria invited Mona Eltahawy to offer her perspective on the anti-government protests in Turkey and the rights of women in the Muslim world. It is unclear what qualifies Eltahawy as an
On Sunday’s Global Public Square on CNN, host Fareed Zakaria presented a version of the same argument percolating through much of the mainstream media: that our economy is succeeding thanks to government. Zakaria did allow that the private sector had led the
Michelle Obama may have spoken at the Oscars, but Oprah Winfrey is going her one better in the prestige department; she will be the speaker at Harvard University’s 2013 commencement. It’s hard to take the announcement seriously as an indication
Larry Summers interview on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS…
Pay cable giant HBO announced a raft of new projects for the next two years, including a new comedy from mockumentary king Christopher Guest and a pair of films that fit tidily within the network’s liberal bent. “The Normal Heart”
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has landed a lucrative speaking bureau gig, despite having brought shame upon the network for having plagiarized others’ hard work. Royce Carlton, a premiere and exclusive speakers bureau, has taken Zakaria on as a speaker and trumpeted
On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN spot he explains how we can be “real” Americans…
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of the network’s weekly international affairs program and author of The Post-American World, has some advice to offer on how to be a “real American”: “Part of being a real American is urging the country to
Salman Rushdie on CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria.
Now that his plagiarism tribulations are over, TIME and CNN correspondent Fareed Zakaria has made a few new promises in order to prevent such a mess in the future. He plans to scale back some of his workload. One of
Both TIME magazine and CNN have finished their internal review of Fareed Zakaria and have come to the conclusion that his plagiarism was an “isolated incident.” Hence, the Zak is back! TIME announced that Zakaria’s obvious — and admitted —
Last week, CNN and TIME Magazine correspondent Fareed Zakaria got in hot water for plagiarism by lifting a few paragraphs from another writer for one of his articles. Now, the debate rages about whether Zakaria is guilty or not despite
Just before Mitt Romney’s pick of Wisc. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria got himself in a spot o’ trouble when it was discovered that he had plagiarized a piece he wrote for TIME magazine.
***3rd Update: CNN has suspended Zakaria indefinitely, and say he plagiarized the same article in a CNN blog post: We have reviewed Fareed Zakaria’s TIME column, for which he has apologized. He wrote a shorter blog post on CNN.com on
Writing for Time magazine, Fareed Zakaria has made a solid argument for public sector pension reform. He makes no bones about who is at fault in what he labels “the single biggest threat to the U.S.’s fiscal health.” [O]n the
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao: “You know, there are reports, your Forbes magazine, other places say you make tens maybe more millions of dollars, $40 million one year. Philippines is a very poor country. Do you think
On Sunday, former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles of “Bowles-Simpson Commission” fame said he is not interested in becoming Barack Obama’s Treasury secretary. When asked about his name being among those on a short-list of possible appointees, Mr. Bowles
The number of liberal commencement speakers at America’s top colleges dwarfs the number of conservative speakers. The ratio, 7-1 this year, has never been higher, according to Young America’s Foundation (YAF), which made a list of speakers invited to the
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria used to have some interesting things to say about democracy and economics. But in the Barack Obama era, he has become little more than a political hack, twisting facts and spinning news in the hope of benefiting
On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show George Soros says he is “pretty sure” a President Mitt Romney would seek to pass a stimulus.
Fareed Zakaria does a pretty good job explaining the global monetary crisis and proposes that the only solution to the debt problems plaguing the EU is to allow China a larger role in the global political sphere. He compares the
Donald Rumsfeld also complained about the Obama Administration’s inability to even discuss radical Islamist terrorism and Fareed Zakaria interrupts him and says “But, he did kill Osama.”
Imagine my surprise when, during Fareed Zakaria’s monologue on how the tea party is “extreme” and unyielding, a familiar sight flashed onto the screen, a backdrop for his critical opinion of the tea party movement: my costumed husband and his
From Accuracy in Media‘s Michael Watson: On his TV show “Fareed Zakaria GPS” (transcript here) from Sunday, June 19, 2011, journalist Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Time magazine stated that “we could use the ideas of social media that were
From Fareed Zakaria on CNN:
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria was on Charlie Rose recently and made the claim that America has become “antiquated” and the system our founding documents created is “dysfunctional.” Zakaria begins by adopting the epic straw man of an arrogant American who thinks
Recently, CNN host Fareed Zakaria admitted to having regular advice sessions with President Obama.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has ranked Yale University as among the worst violators of free speech on U.S. campuses. Alum Michael Rubin, writing at Commentary, provides examples: In 2009, Yale College Dean Mary Miller censored the
With faced with a reasoned, logical argument, Mr. Maher’s only answer as to why the voting public voted for conservative Republicans is “They were confused.”
Remembering that CNN’s president, Jon Klein, has touted its down-the-middle coverage and claims it is situated in the “center” of American politics, on a recent episode of Fareed Zakaria GPS, host Zakaria tried to claim that Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah