CNN's Bill Schneider misidentified Lieberman as a Democrat

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200712170005?f=h_latest

On the December 17 edition of CNN International's Your World Today, while reporting on Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) recent endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (AZ), CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider misidentified Lieberman as a Democrat, stating, "And, of course, Joe Lieberman is a Democrat who has voted very often with Republicans, especially on the Iraq war, so there's a kind of commonality between the two of them." In fact, Lieberman lost the 2006 Democratic Senate primary, but subsequently won re-election as an independent. As Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, on January 12, Congressional Quarterly reported that "Lieberman has asked to be called an Independent Democrat," adding that, "if the compound modifier that the senator prefers was not going to take hold, then Lieberman's second choice is to be described as an Independent," rather than being described as a "Democrat."

While Schneider misidentified Lieberman as a Democrat, he did mention that Lieberman "did not get elected in Connecticut as a Democrat," "rel on Republican votes to get elected."

From the December 17 edition of CNN International's Your World Today:

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1. Lieberman"s suffix is actually "A"

for asshole.