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</div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/watch-angelo-carusone-explain-how-trump-town-hall-exposes-cnns-willingness">https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/watch-angelo-carusone-explain-how-trump-town-hall-exposes-cnns-willingness</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/right-wing-media-figures-celebrated-trumps-sexist-and-anti-abortion-comments-cnns-town">https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/right-wing-media-figures-celebrated-trumps-sexist-and-anti-abortion-comments-cnns-town</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-disastrous-trump-town-hall-was-exactly-what-its-leaders-want"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-disastrous-trump-town-hall-was-exactly-what-its-leaders-want</font></a></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>cNN’s predictably calamitous town hall with former President Donald Trump is the natural extension of the ideological vision cultivated by the network’s leaders.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can tell that’s the case because even as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-boss-chris-licht-doubles-down-on-disastrous-trump-town-hall" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">network’s journalists</a>&nbsp;are describing the event as “awful” and “one of the worst hours I’ve ever seen on our air,” CNN CEO Chris Licht is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/business/media/cnn-donald-trump-chris-licht.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">singing its praises</a>, reportedly&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1656650741719728128" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">telling his staff</a>&nbsp;that “America was served very well by what we did last night."&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My colleague John Whitehouse&nbsp;<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/cnn-trump-town-hall-kaitlan-collins-propaganda-rcna83957" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">documented</a>&nbsp;last night’s atrocities for MSNBC.com:</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some are trying to blame CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who moderated the event. There were some glaring Trump lies that she didn’t correct. But on the whole, it’s impossible to deny that she tried to some degree, and that it wasn’t close to enough. Her colleague Jake Tapper gamely tried to clean up immediately after the event, before admitting that there wasn’t enough time in the night to fact-check every false statement Trump made. The format forced Collins to try to interrupt Trump with various fact checks, which only turned him and the audience more against her as the night went on. It culminated with Trump calling Collins “a nasty person” — to big applause from the audience.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement, a CNN spokesperson defended Collins as “a world-class journalist” who “asked tough, fair and revealing questions ... and fact-checked President Trump in real time.” Yet primary fault for the disaster lies not with Collins, but with basic errors CNN made well before the town hall aired — decisions that guaranteed to push things beyond a breaking point. It’s no coincidence that Fox News and conservatives loved this event: It was, literally, classic Republican propaganda that Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes, who died in 2017, likely would have applauded.</font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The town hall debacle brings back disturbing memories of CNN’s coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. Under&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/03/jeff-zucker-donald-trumo-cnn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Jeff Zucker</a>&nbsp;— who had previously overseen Trump’s NBC reality show&nbsp;<b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Apprentice</span>&nbsp;</b>— the network’s spectacle-obsessed, horse race-focused treatment helped lift Trump to the presidency. CNN’s new leaders seem to be returning to old practices as they seek to move the network to the political right. And that bodes ill for the quality of CNN’s coverage as the 2024 presidential election looms.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNN regularly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/you-showed-empty-podiums-gop-operatives-blast-cnn-president-jeff-zucker-networks" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">built its coverage</a>&nbsp;of the 2016 race around obsessive promotion of Trump's rallies, which the network frequently aired live and unedited. The network also hired a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sexual-harassment-sexual-assault/video-cnn-has-trump-surrogate-problem" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stable of unhinged pro-Trump contributors</a>&nbsp;whose lies frequently turned segments into trainwrecks, including former Trump campaign manager and walking ethics disaster&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-chief-criticizing-presidents-war-media-last-year-he-hired-trumps-top-press-abuser" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Corey Lewandowski</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">None of this was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/there-are-plenty-good-reasons-oppose-mega-mergers-trump-hates-cnn-isnt-one-them" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">enough for Trump</a>, who prefers his propaganda purer. He regularly denounced the network as “fake news” and threatened on the campaign trail to halt the merger between its then-parent company Time Warner and AT&T.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following Trump’s election, out of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/media/jeff-zucker-helped-create-donald-trump-that-show-may-be-ending.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">guilt or duty or (most likely) pursuit of an audience</a>, Zucker’s network pivoted. There was still plenty to criticize about the network’s coverage, particularly its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/study-cnns-paid-trump-shills-made-more-500-appearances-over-last-three-months" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">nonstop platforming</a>&nbsp;of dishonest&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-bemoans-lack-civility-after-spending-years-hiring-pro-trump-commentators" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pro-Trump pundits</a>. But it also provided an outlet for journalists and commentators like Brianna Keilar, Jim Acosta, Brian Stelter, John Harwood, Chris Cuomo, and Don Lemon to take on Trump and his Fox News megaphone. The president responded with fury, and his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/trump-administrations-war-press" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">denunciations of the network</a>&nbsp;were followed with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/attack-twitter-right-shows-it-has-institutionalized-trumps-corrupt-use-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">action</a>: Trump’s Justice Department tried to halt the AT&T-Time Warner merger, he seems to have tried to broker a sale of CNN to Rupert Murdoch, and his White House&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/40-times-trump-administration-specifically-targeted-jim-acosta-and-cnn" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spiked</a>&nbsp;Acosta’s press pass.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">These external attempts to bring CNN under MAGA control were unsuccessful. But a second try from within appears to have gotten the job done. Following a corporate&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/warnermedia-discovery-complete-merger-become-warner-bros-discovery.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spin-off and a merger</a>&nbsp;in 2021 and 2022, CNN is now part of Warner Bros. Discovery. Those developments were overseen by David Zaslav, the company’s CEO, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/discovery-warnermedia-merger-john-malone-synergies-1235039183/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">John Malone</a>, a right-wing billionaire who was Discovery’s largest shareholder and has a seat on the new conglomerate’s board.</span>&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Malone, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">legendary media investor</a>&nbsp;who chairs Liberty Media, is a self-described libertarian and former member of the Cato Institute’s board. A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=John+Malone&contributor_employer=Liberty&max_date=12%2F31%2F2022" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">frequent donor</a>&nbsp;to Republican candidates and causes, he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476079/Billionaire-John-Malone-known-corporate-policies-followed-Zuckers-romance.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">chipped in</a>&nbsp;$250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=John+Malone&contributor_employer=Liberty&two_year_transaction_period=2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tens of thousands of dollars</a>&nbsp;to Trump’s 2020 campaign and political committees focused on his reelection, and even “contributed to Trump’s ‘Save America’ PAC, which funded the January 6 rally” at which Trump encouraged the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, as my former colleague Parker Molloy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.readtpa.com/p/trump-announcement-headlines" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reported</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Malone&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/discovery-media-board-chair-john-malone-lauds-fox-news-before-saying-he-wants-cnn-to-evolve-back-to-actual-journalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">detailed his hopes for CNN in a November 2021 interview</a>, as the corporate merger that would put him on the board of its parent company was underway.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">According to Malone, CNN needed to start emulating Fox News, which had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-republican-party-here-are-over-400-examples-proving-it" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spent the previous four years</a>&nbsp;merging with Trump’s White House and serving as his right-wing propaganda organ.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have news news — I mean some actual journalism — embedded in a program schedule of all opinions,” he explained. “And I think they’ve been relatively successful with that, with a service like Bret Baier, and Brit Hume before him, that tried to distinguish news from opinion.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he ad</span>ded.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Malone has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/business/media/cnn-brian-stelter-reliable-sources.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">denied</a>&nbsp;that he is “directly involved” in shaping CNN’s programming to that vision. But he doesn’t need to have a day-to-day role to influence the network. Licht, whom Zaslav hired as CEO of CNN last year after Zucker&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/media/jeff-zucker-cnn/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">resigned</a>&nbsp;over a relationship with a subordinate, seems to be&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-air-talent-get-message" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">operating from the same playbook</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Licht has engaged in a “strategy shift” geared at presenting “a new, more ideologically neutral CNN,” as The Washington Post put it. Stelter and Harwood lost their jobs while Keilar was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/15/cnn-morning-don-lemon-chris-licht/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">demoted</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/chris-cuomo/widespread-condemnation-chris-cuomo-focuses-attention-cnn" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Cuomo</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/media/don-lemon-cnn.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Lemon</a>&nbsp;are also out — albeit for much more credible reasons — with their prime-time slots now filled by coverage from the network’s anchors. <b>These changes don't seem to be benefiting the business — CNN’s ratings&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/cnn-ratings-chris-licht-584ea2b45819d2cc416006d7bd8b77e8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have tanked</a>&nbsp;under Licht — but he’s accomplishing Malone’s ideological goal.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those decisions set the stage for Wednesday’s disaster. In a CNBC interview&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/warner-bros-ceos-comments-raise-serious-questions-about-how-well-equipped-cnn-confront-dangers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">last week&nbsp;</a>touting the town hall, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zaslav made clear that his network was deliberately avoiding the lessons of the past. “Republicans are on the air on CNN, Democrats are on the air. All voices should be heard on CNN,” he said. “We've got a great political season coming. This is a new CNN.</span>”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That sounds a lot like the old 2016-vintage CNN. </b>It’s clear that’s what Licht, Zaslav, and Malone want — a more compliant network that treats Trump like any other candidate, lets him make his case to viewers regardless of how frequently he lies, and gets attention that might generate ratings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s the Trump Show all over again. And we know how that one ends.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">related</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-wing media celebrate CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">05/11/23&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN should have known better than to give Donald Trump free rein to lie to a national audience</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">05/11/23&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN’s on-air talent get the message</font></p></div></div><p name="c89f" id="c89f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p name="c89f" id="c89f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 4 23</font></p><p name="c89f" id="c89f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" color="color" rgba="rgba" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">during an appearance on&nbsp;<b>CNN's "State of the Union"</b>&nbsp;to praise House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for getting his budget proposal passed by a very slim margin, a member of his caucus was confronted by host<b>&nbsp;Dana Bash&nbsp;</b>about how the proposal will hurt his own constituents.</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was on to make the case that it is up to President Joe Biden to meet with McCarthy to resolve their differences which led the CNN host to dig into the details of how the proposed budget will impact the state he represents</font></span></p><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style=""><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Let me quickly look deep inside what you did get passed this past week," Bash began. "The bill would cut all non-defense discretionary funding by 22% — that is a lot of money and I want you to look at what the administration would say it would mean for your home state of Minnesota."</font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Putting a graphic up, she continued, "Thousands would lose food, rental assistance, and they would pay more for college<b>. Outpatient VA appointments</b>&nbsp;for veterans could be cut. This will make a big difference if, what you want, this bill actually would become law. A big difference in the lives of Americans, especially those living paycheck to paycheck. What do you say to them?"</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Well, I actually challenge it," Emmer bristled. 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</div><div>Meaghan EllisMarch 04, 2023</div><div>A CNN fact-checker recently slashed through more than a dozen false claims that derived from this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) currently underway in Dallas, Texas.</div><div>
</div><div>On Saturday, March 4, CNN's Daniel Dale penned an analysis to offer insight and clarity on the claims. In his analysis, he began with a clear introduction about the false claims he intended to debunk.</div><div>
</div><div>Starting with the first day of the conference, Dale researched claims made by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and offered corrections to refute their inaccurate remarks.</div><div>
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</div><div>"The members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics," Dale wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>"Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky," he added.</div><div>
</div><div>"Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat," he wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>Dale went on to address claims from Reps. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)</div><div>
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</div><div>"Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida incorrectly said a former Obama administration official had encouraged people to harass Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina inaccurately claimed Biden had laughed at a grieving mother and inaccurately insinuated that the FBI tipped off the media to its search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence," he wrote. "Two other speakers, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka, inflated the number of deaths from fentanyl."</div><div>
</div><div>In total, Dale debunked 13 misleading claims made by Republican lawmakers during the conference.</div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-conservative-contributors-still-pushing-false-notion-fox-has-separate-straight-news-and" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-conservative-contributors-still-pushing-false-notion-fox-has-separate-straight-news-and</a></font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The latest filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News further demonstrates that there is no difference between the network’s purported “straight news” and opinion divisions. However, during CNN’s coverage of the filing, conservative commentators, including<b>&nbsp;David Urban</b>,<b>&nbsp;Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Jonah Goldberg</b>, continued to claim otherwise — contradicting CNN’s own journalists.</span>&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On February 27, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/1055b2d7-21ea-4b15-bc38-368812b9c3b1.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">latest filing</a>&nbsp;in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit was released to the public and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/27/rupert-murdoch-testimony-fox-dominion/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">revealed</a>&nbsp;that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox News’ parent company Fox Corp., and other executives&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/10-most-important-things-we-learned-about-fox-news-dominion-case" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">knew that claims</a>&nbsp;about Dominion and election fraud during the 2020 presidential election were false, but allowed hosts and guests to continue to push them.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The filing also included new details about how decisions around reporting were made to appease the network's pro-Trump viewers, rather than on the basis of facts. In one instance, the filing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/business/media/fox-news-trump-break.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">revealed</a>&nbsp;that Murdoch instructed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to fire then-Managing Editor Bill Sammon, who oversaw the network’s call of Arizona for now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and drew ire from former President Donald<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong>Trump, his supporters, and hosts such as Tucker Carlson. The filing also showed that Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-corp-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-insisted-network-cover-proto-jan-6-rally-more" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">complained</a>&nbsp;that coverage of a Trump rally was too critical, telling Scott, “News guys have to be careful how they cover this rally. So far some of the side comments are slightly anti, and they shouldn’t be. … The narrative should be this is a huge celebration of the president.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the release of the filing, which clearly laid out how Fox personalities on both the “straight news’ and opinion sides were influenced to deprioritize factual information, some mainstream media figures, including a CNN host and some reporters, acknowledged that Fox News does not truly have separate “straight news” and “opinion” divisions. Yet, some of CNN’s paid contributors, who have ties to the Trump administration, Fox News, or conservative circles, have continued to push the fiction that Fox distinguishes between real reporting and opinion.&nbsp;</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNN pundits are still pushing Fox talking points, saying that there is a distinction between “straight news” and opinion at the network&nbsp;</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative CNN contributors Urban, Griffin, and Goldberg continued to defend Fox’s reputation as a news outlet during CNN’s coverage of the latest filing.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Urban</span>&nbsp;said that there’s a difference between “hard news and entertainment” on Fox, calling shows like&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Today</em>&nbsp;“the news equivalent of the WWE.”</strong>&nbsp;Urban has been a paid contributor at CNN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-urban-why-is-cnn-paying-a-trump-campaign-adviser" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">for years</a>, and Media Matters has previously highlighted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-ethics-mess-employee-again-used-network-job-promote-his-lobbying-clients-cause" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">numerous ethical problems</a>&nbsp;with the arrangement, as the network has repeatedly failed to disclose&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-employee-used-network-push-trump-trade-agreement-days-after-registering-lobby-it" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Urban’s</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/pro-trump-cnn-commentator-used-network-push-lobbying-client-without-disclosure-viewers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lobbying</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-doesnt-tell-viewers-its-analyst-who-urged-military-strike-against-iran-lobbyist-defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">efforts</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/broken-record-cnns-david-urban-touts-defense-secretary-doesnt-disclose-financial-conflicts" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">and</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-commentators-having-been-acting-surrogates-trump-campaign-iowa-and-new-hampshire" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">role</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cnn-and-fox-news-contributors-are-appearing-numerous-trump-campaign-videos" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">in the</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/study-cnns-paid-trump-shills-made-more-500-appearances-over-last-three-months" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Trump campaign</a>. Most recently, Urban participated in discussions about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, during which&nbsp;the network&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-commentator-lobbied-norfolk-southern-network-didnt-tell-its-audience-during-east-palestine" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">failed to disclose</a>&nbsp;that Urban lobbied for the train operator Norfolk Southern. On the February 27 edition of CNN's&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lead with Jake Tapper</em>, Urban pushed the false notion that Fox has separate news and opinion divisions.</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[ vid]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jaKE TAPPER (HOST): And David, Fox viewers heard these false claims night after night after night, and Murdoch apparently, according to Oliver, said it was damaging. What was it damaging though?</font></li></ul></div></div><div data-align="center" class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-web-video paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="erd-list--editorial-embed-transcript field field--name-field-stories-web-video field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media-player media-player--video" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 731.463px;"><figcaption class="media-playercaption block-quote block-quote--minor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVID URBAN (CNN CONTRIBUTOR): You know what it was damaging? Their brand. Their price. How much the company&nbsp;— how much Fox was valued at, right? That’s what it was damaging. They weren't concerned about damaging the body republic. They were concerned about damaging corporate profits and that's what I think is the most troubling. And what Fox viewers, and what people don't understand is there's a difference between hard news and the entertainment it is, you know, 7 p.m. on, on Fox News, right. Hannity, Tucker, and those shows, which are purely&nbsp;— they’re the news equivalent of the WWE.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Griffin</span>&nbsp;placed blame on&nbsp;Trump for Fox News hosts spreading conspiracy theories&nbsp;in hopes of retaining their viewership, while claiming that “there’s a lot of really good journalists at Fox, dayside programming I don’t have really any major problems with.”</strong>&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-hiring-serial-liar-and-trump-propagandist-alyssa-farah-huge-mistake" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">formally hired</a>&nbsp;Griffin in December 2021, despite her lengthy history of lies and distortions, including during her tenure as a spokesperson for the Trump administration. In December 2020, Griffin had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/cnn-ignores-former-trump-staffer-alyssa-farah-helped-spread-his" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">appeared</a>&nbsp;on Fox News and claimed there had been&nbsp;voter fraud in the election[ vid]</font></li></ul></div></div><div data-align="center" class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-web-video paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="erd-list--editorial-embed-transcript field field--name-field-stories-web-video field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="media-player media-player--video" role="group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 731.463px;"><figcaption class="media-playercaption block-quote block-quote--minor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aLYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN (CNN CONTRIBUTOR): Donald Trump is a big part of this by the way, because he started to create the narrative after he spread the election lies that, you know, Newsmax is where we should go, One America News Network is where true believers are going. So there was a sense of fear within Fox that they were going to lose market share to the outlets. The reality is that they never even picked up enough that it in a major way affected the very high viewership that Fox News had. But you can just see sort of the fear he instilled in the big-time hosts, the prime-time hosts. And I just want to say, like there’s a lot of really good journalists at Fox. Dayside programming I don't have really any major problems with. But prime-time is where they make their money and it has descended into conspiracy-mongering. It is basically anything to get people to tune in and drive viewership and not risk losing to the fringier outlets.&nbsp;</font></p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Goldberg placed blame on Fox CEO Suzanne Scott for her “lack of leadership,” claiming&nbsp;that, when it comes to Fox’s role in the lawsuit, “the opinion side basically became the dog wagging the tail instead of the other way around, and the news side basically became sort of this cleanup crew.”&nbsp;</strong>Goldberg is a former Fox News contributor and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/jonah-goldberg/jonah-goldberg-still-god-awful-media-critic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">founding</a>&nbsp;editor for conservative magazine National Review, who now simultaneously works as a CNN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jonah-goldberg-who-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlson-joins-cnn" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">contributor</a>&nbsp;and editor-in-chief of right-wing online magazine The Dispatch</span>[ vid]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jONAH GOLDBERG (CNN CONTRIBUTOR): I know too many people who work in the Fox News division to this day who are serious, honest, and sincere journalists trying to do the job right. There are too many people, including who work at CNN, who got their starts or worked at Fox for a while and have warm things to say about it, to just say that it was always a political operation. I think the problem that happened at Fox was that the opinion side was allowed to run free. Everyone likes to think that this was some grand policy, the transformation of Fox, set from above. It was really the lack of leadership under Suzanne Scott, the CEO, to reign in, curtail, discipline the prime-time people in any way to the point where the opinion side basically became the dog wagging the tail instead of the other way around. And the news side just became sort of this cleanup crew. Even in the Dominion filings, the news division comes out OK in this. Bret Baier and<span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Special Report</em><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">fact-checked this stuff.</span></font></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNN’s own journalists point out that there is little difference between Fox’s opinion and news branches&nbsp;</font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others at CNN, such as host John King and reporters Oliver Darcy and Phil Mattingly, have emphasized that the most recent Dominion filing shows Fox’s lack of news credibility because “news networks are supposed to inform viewers what's the truth.”&nbsp;</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy has repeatedly pointed out the lack of distinction between opinion and news at Fox</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Monday, he said, “I think this really actually exposes the fact that Fox is not at its core a news network. News networks -- they deliver the truth as they know it to viewers. They do the best job to attain the truth and sometimes it's not perfect but that's what they do.” [CNN,&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Anderson Cooper 360</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-oliver-darcy-dominion-filings-prove-fox-news-knowingly-lies-its-viewers-and-not-its-core" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/27/23</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]&nbsp;</span></font></li><li aria-level="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">When asked if he would call Fox News a “news organization” on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Morning</em>, Darcy said: “No, and that’s because news networks are supposed to inform viewers with the truth.</strong>&nbsp;In this case we know that Fox News knew the truth and refused to not only tell their viewers but they actually fed them lies to keep their audience because of the financial incentive. That's not what news networks do. That's what maybe, you know, propaganda outlets might do, but it's certainly not what a news network would do.” [CNN,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Morning</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4001292" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/28/23</a>]&nbsp;</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Darcy also wrote an analysis on some of the biggest revelations from Dominion’s legal filing, saying that Fox “continues to be exposed for the dishonest organization that it is – this time, with the help of its billionaire owner.”&nbsp;</strong>He later continued,&nbsp;“In totality, the documents continue to underscore that at its core, Fox News is not a news network. News networks work hard to deliver the truth to their viewers. … The documents lay bare that the channel’s business model is not based on informing its audience, but rather on feeding them content — even dangerous conspiracy theories — that keeps viewers happy and watching.” [CNN,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/media/dominion-legal-filing-fox-news-reliable-sources/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/28/23</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Darcy said that “the perception that they are a news company is crumbling.”</strong>&nbsp;According to Darcy, “To preserve these business relationships they have to at least, have some reputation they're a legitimate news company. And I have been saying obviously that that's not the case. But the perception that they are a news company is crumbling, and this could result in damage to the actual Fox Corp. brand and really result in problems for shareholders.” [CNN,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Morning</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4001293" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">3/1/23</a>]&nbsp;</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">On&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inside Politics with John King</span>, King claimed that “Fox is not about news, it's about opinion.”</strong>&nbsp;King then played&nbsp;clips of Fox hosts airing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election and said, “It was not just once, it was not twice. It was this over and over and over again.”&nbsp;[CNN,&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inside Politics with John King</span>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cnns-phil-mattingly-dominions-filings-are-laying-bare-fallacy-idea-there-separation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/28/23</a>]&nbsp;</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">In response to King, CNN reporter Phil Mattingly said, “These filings are laying bare the fallacy of the idea that there is a separation between opinion and editorial.”</strong>&nbsp;[CNN,&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inside Politics with John King</span>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cnns-phil-mattingly-dominions-filings-are-laying-bare-fallacy-idea-there-separation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/28/23</a>]&nbsp;</font></li></ul></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">random p1 of many</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ARCHIVES</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cable News Network, the first 24-hour cable news channel</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Boston Globe's Jackie Kucinich: Dominion filing showed Fox News' internal workings are “the antithesis of what journalism should be”</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/17/23 4:56 PM EST</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN media reporter on Dominion filing: “These messages really just expose Fox News as a propaganda network. That's what they do at the core.”</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/17/23 12:32 PM EST</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN's Bill Weir describes how the Trump administration gutted train regulations before the East Palestine disaster</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/16/23 10:15 AM EST</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chyron: "MISSED OPPORTUNITY: WH TURNS DOWN SUPER BOWL INTERVIEW WITH BIDEN"</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN’s Kaitlan Collins suggests Biden “missed opportunity” for pre-Super Bowl interview on Fox, ignoring network's history of right-wing propaganda</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/13/23&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mainstream media’s extensive reporting on the GOP’s efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare undermines protests that the claim is “dishonest”</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/09/23 3:51 PM EST</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN begins State of the Union coverage with a Republican strategist urging Biden to announce he won’t run for re-election</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/07/23 10:32 PM EST</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN highlighting poor polling numbers for Biden as his "State of the Union challenge"</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN attacks Biden’s State of the Union address hours before he delivers it</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/07/23&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN lets DeSantis rewrite his anti-LGBTQ attack on Disney</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/07/23&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Media, Trump campaign, and January 6</font></p><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Media largely fail to mention Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection while reporting on his 2024 presidential campaign</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">02/06/23&nbsp;</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1 23
</font></font></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> powerful Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=James+%C2%A0Comer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked"><strong>James Comer</strong></a> (R-KY) is being highly mocked after declaring he will investigate <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Joe+Biden" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked"><strong>President Joe Biden</strong></a> for “influence peddling” despite admitting there’s little if any evidence President Biden has engaged in influence peddling.</font></font></font><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When pressed, he pointed to Biden’s classified documents and one alleged email from Hunter Biden’s laptop.</font></font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But

when pressed again by a frustrated CNN host, asking why he’s not

investigating ex-president Donald Trump, he couldn’t offer a valid

reason, except to claim there no evidence of it.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some were quick to point out the Trump’s tenure in the White House was filled with alleged <a href="https://www.citizen.org/news/trumps-first-year-influence-peddling-demolishing-safeguards-and-self-dealing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">influence peddling </a><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/trumps-last-power-grab-will-involve-around-100-pardons-in-massive-influence-peddling-operation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">operations</a>.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s Chairman Comer with <b>CNN’s Pamela Brown on Sunday</b>. While the transcript is a bit simplified, it’s not far off.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-desktop" style="padding-bottom: 141%" /></font><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">J<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">AMES

COMER: We're investigating the Biden family for influence

peddling\n\n</span></font></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN'S PAMELA BROWN: But why not investigate the Trump family

for the same?\n\nCOMER: We have no evidence\n\n</font></span></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BROWN: What evidence do

you have for Biden?\n\nCOMER: That's what we're investigating\u201d</font></span></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""> — Aaron Rupar </font><p style="" /><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1 23</font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">it's only been two weeks since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was elected House Speaker and already, CNN is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/01/24/kevin-mccarthy-pelosi-irs-trump-claims-fact-check-dale-cnntm-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked">taking swift action</a> to correct inaccurate claims he's shared. </font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On

Tuesday, January 24<b>, CNN's Don Lemon</b> aired a brief clip of the

top-ranking Republican lawmaker's remarks about the debt ceiling. </font></span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In

the clip, McCarthy could be heard saying, "Listen, when Trump was

president and Nancy Pelosi was speaker, they became a debt ceiling

agreement. And it was a cap agreement for two years to cap the spending

and make those decisions." </font></span></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/kevin-mccarthy-2659057041/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Republicans withholding speakership support from Kevin McCarthy cite 'past and ongoing GOP failures'</a></strong></font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon turned the segment over to<b> CNN Daniel Dale </b>who broke down the claims and pushed back against McCarthy's arguments. </font></span></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"John

McCarthy is wrong in two ways here. First of all, House Republicans

didn't actually repeal anything they did vote to repeal. They passed a

bill to repeal more than 70 billion in new IRS funding," Dale explained.

"But that bill is not going to get through the Senate or President

Biden. So they have not changed the law. Second of all, this frequent

Republican talking point you hear about how Democrats are hiring 87,000

new IRS agents is just not true. It's an exaggeration. </font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He went on to discuss President Joe Biden's legislation to combat inflation. </font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The

inflation reduction act that Biden signed into law last year includes

80 billion in additional funding for the IRS that will very possibly

allow the IRS to hire tens of thousands of additional employees," he

said. "But not even close to all these employees, Don, will be agents.

<b>The people who conduct audits and investigations sometimes frighten

people. Non-agents make up the vast majority of the IRS workforce.</b>"</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/kevin-mccarthy-2659065211/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Kevin McCarthy is being imperiled by the very 'extremists' he encouraged: ex-Reagan speechwriter</a></strong></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He

continued, "And many of the newly hired employees we know will be in

things like customer service and operations in it. And experts tell us

that many of the new hires will be making up for attrition filling posts

left by tens of thousands of retirements departures, not taking newly

created jobs."</span>
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale added, "So the image McCarthy and other

Republicans are trying to conjure, Don, of this army of 87,000 new

agents coming to get you is not based on the facts."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/hakeem-jeffries-rips-kevin-mccarthy/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked">Hakeem Jeffries rips Kevin McCarthy's apparent double standard' with committee assignments</a></strong></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During a conversation about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jan-6-riot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the mass shooting in Los Angles</a>&nbsp;that took place late Saturday night and claimed at least ten live<b>s, CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash</b> called out at GOP lawmaker who attempted to brush off the need for new gun laws by pointing out gun violence in Chicago -- a favorite rightwing talking point.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sitting down with McCaul to discuss what to expect now that Republicans have majority control of the House, Bash first asked about the latest gun-related bloodshed in California.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I was a counter-terrorism federal prosecutor and I was chair of Homeland Security," the Texas Republican replied. "Chicago has probably some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, yet the highest murder rate. The way I look at it is we need the intelligence, we need information sharing, we need to connect the dots."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Every one of these cases, and I guarantee you'll see it in this one as well, the shooter had warning signs along the way," he continued. "We just didn't respond or pick it up. In my judgment we can create a system.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> I introduced a bill that we can take published information on the internet, have an algorithm to stop the threat before it happens. That is a smart approach rather than violating Second Amendment rights. So, look, I hope we can get that passed -- we're seeing this movie way too many times."</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"What about a red flag law? A federal red flag law?" Bash asked.</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"In a way what i'm talking about are red flags," McCaul replied before adding, "Chicago, Illinois has red flags --"</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"You keep bringing up Chicago, which I understand," the CNN host interjected before adding, "But the guns in Chicago come in from other places because there is a patchwork of laws across the country, there's no federal law."</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Right. Again, we stopped ---," he backtracked. "I saw it when I chaired Homeland, so many terror attacks because we got the threat information in advance and we stopped it. We can use the same formula here domestically, although it's a little different.<b> The Constitution didn't apply overseas</b>, but we can do that here and stop these threats before they happen."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/mass-shooting-2659292733/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">or at this link</a>:</font></p><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wildfire plus rain = mud slide</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 1 23</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bomb cyclone and mult atmos rivers!</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><ul class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden l--gutter-pull narrative-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px -56.2625px 1.5em; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li class="narrative-listitem-bullet narrative-listitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px 56.2625px 3rem; position: relative;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">b<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/atmospheric-river-floods-northern-california-rcna63902" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(25, 118, 210) 0px -2px 0px inset;">eginning on New Year’s Eve</a>, heavy rains resulting from two distinct weather events have inundated parts of California, breaching a levee, causing flooding and power outages, and yielding multiple<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/01/05/at-least-two-dead-and-nearly-180000-without-power-in-california-brutal-system/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">&nbsp;fatalities</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/climate/california-flood-atmospheric-river.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Climate scientist Daniel Swain explained</a>&nbsp;that the warmer atmosphere resulting from climate change means these weather systems can hold exponentially more precipitation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/01/san-francisco-flooding-rainfall-record/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">According to The Washington Post</a>,<b>&nbsp;“While storms like this do periodically occur, heavy precipitation rates are made more likely by the effects of human-induced climate change, which is warming the atmosphere.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However, a review of coverage by national TV news from December 31 through January 4 of the first atmospheric river that hit California and the second atmospheric river,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atmospheric-river-rcna64080" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">which&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atmospheric-river-rcna64080" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">triggered</a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atmospheric-river-rcna64080" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">&nbsp;a “bomb cyclone</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,” found that with</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;one exception, cable news networks — CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — and national broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — failed to link these events to our warming climate.</span></font></p><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TV News failed to explain how climate change is making precipitation events, like those that have flooded parts of California, more severe and more frequent</font></h4><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Print and online news sources have contextualized the extreme weather events devastating California:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/01/03/atmospheric-rivers-threaten-california-as-state-reels-from-deadly-storm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Axios noted</a>&nbsp;in its report of the storms pummeling California that “climate change is adding even more moisture to atmospheric rivers, enabling them to dump higher rain and snow totals.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/climate/california-flood-atmospheric-river.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">New York Times</a>&nbsp;published a January 3 article titled “How Climate Change Is Shaping California's Winter Storms” which specifically addressed the role of a warming climate in the severity of the storms.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atmospheric-river-rcna64080" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">NBCNews.com</a>&nbsp;included research by The Center for Western Weather and Extremes, which warned about the future of storms if climate change continues unabated, noting, “Flooding damage from atmospheric rivers in the West could double or triple by the end of the century.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; list-style: none; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-climate-and-environment-storms-europe-819908345ed948e078d72e7de9fcd4bb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">The Associated Press</a>&nbsp;led with climate change in its January 4 article on the storms beginning the report: “In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it’s natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change.”</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But TV news largely failed to explain how climate change is fueling these storms.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Of the 60 segments aired by national TV news networks from December 31 through January 4, 2023, only 1 mentioned climate change.&nbsp;</font></strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cable news — CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC — aired a total of 33 combined segments on the California rain. CNN covered the storms the most, with 24 segments, followed by Fox News with 8 and MSNBC with a single segment.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNN was the only network to air a segment linking climate change to the storms impacting California.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In an exchange between CNN anchor Kate Bolduan and San Francisco Mayor London Breed on the January 4 edition of&nbsp;<b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">At This Hour</span>,&nbsp;</b>the two discussed the ongoing impacts of climate change on California, including its historic drought and worsening wildfires, and concluded that preparation for the climate crisis is not a future exercise but an imperative for a crisis that is unfolding now</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. [cnn vid]</span></font></p></div></div></li><li class="narrative-listitem-bullet narrative-listitem" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px 56.2625px 3rem; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">national broadcast news ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 27 segments on California storms during the same time period. None of ABC’s 11 segments, NBC’s 9, or CBS’ 7 segments mentioned climate change.&nbsp;</font></p></li><li class="narrative-listitem-bullet narrative-listitem" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px 56.2625px 3rem; position: relative;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TV News must stop relegating climate-fueled extreme events to a season – they are now happening year-round</font></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Extreme weather has become a year-round phenomenon not limited to the heat and megastorms that usually peak over a few months of the year. In 2022,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffic-qas/texas-tornadoes-and-wildfires-is-climate-change-to-blame/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">wildfires torched Texas</a>, months before peak U.S. wildfire summer season,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffic-qas/texas-tornadoes-and-wildfires-is-climate-change-to-blame/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">destructive unseasonable tornadoes</a>&nbsp;caused chaos&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/23/new-orleans-tornado-multivortex-rating/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">in New Orleans</a>&nbsp;and across parts of Texas, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/satellite-data-shows-entire-conger-ice-shelf-has-collapsed-in-antarctica" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">an ice shelf the size of Rome collapsed</a>&nbsp;in Antarctica&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/weather/antarctica-world-record-high-temperature-anomaly-climate/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">after temperatures reached 70 degrees above normal</a>&nbsp;in March. Even the hurricane that leveled&nbsp;<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/late-hitting-ian-keeps-expensive-and-high-risk-hurricane-season-on-track-fueled-by-climate-change-11664304818" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Florida hit later in the season</a>&nbsp;than storms of that magnitude usually do.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These supercharged winter storms should also be presented as an impact of our increasingly warming planet. However,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2021" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climate coverage is still concentrated around the summer and fall months</a>&nbsp;that have traditionally constituted peak extreme weather season, with events outside of this period often left isolated instead of covered as part of the broader landscape of global climate events. The scope of how climate change impacts weather events is expanding, and TV news coverage needs to expand with it.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/cnn-following-right-wing-medias-playbook-how-fearmonger-about-immigration">https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/cnn-following-right-wing-medias-playbook-how-fearmonger-about-immigration</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/does-not-need-to-apologize/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/does-not-need-to-apologize/</a></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch: Former Trump staffer says Donald 'does not need to apologize' for dining with Holocaust denier</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via screengrab.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brandon Gage November 28, 2022</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN anchor Don Lemon on Monday morning grilled former President Donald Trump's Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Len Khodorkovsky about the attendance of antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes – an outspoken Holocaust denier – at a dinner that Trump hosted on Tuesday, November 22nd at his Palm Beach, Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump's association with West and Fuentes has triggered widespread outrage and frustration, most notably among Republicans, many of whom believe that Trump has all but sabotaged the party's chances of retaking the presidency in 2024 if Trump wins the GOP nomination.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet there are exceptions, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California), who has not opined on the clandestine company that Trump appears to be keeping. Trump, meanwhile, has refused to acknowledge the bigotry that Fuentes espouses and has denied having any knowledge of Fuentes prior to their meal. Trump also reportedly fears that disavowing white supremacy and antisemitism would alienate his supporters.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: 'Entrenched in obstinance': Donald Trump is refusing to condemn Holocaust denier despite allies' pleas</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Karen Giorno, an ex-Trump aide and senior advisor who was at the event, told The Washington Post on Friday that Trump "was impressed with Nick and his knowledge of Trump World. Nick knew people and figures and speeches and rallies and what surrounded the Trump culture, particularly when it came to the base."</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During Monday's CNN segment, Lemon asked Khodorkovsky to condemn Trump for meeting with West and Fuentes.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was a struggle.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Khodorkovsky:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I am concerned with the mainstreaming of antisemitism wherever it comes from. And I, I, I, condemn Kanye's antisemitism and I condemn his psychic's antisemitism.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Do you condemn the former president for meeting with antisemites?</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Khodorkovsky:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sir, sir, alright you know, I would appreciate the opportunity to...</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: 'Not accidental': GOP governor admonishes Donald Trump for dining with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You said you condemn antisemitism and the mainstreaming of antisemitism. Do you condemn the former president for meeting with antisemites? For entertaining antisemites and antisemitism?</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Khodorkovsky:</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Let me just explain it to you this way sir. I know the president is not an antisemite. He does not need to apologize to me or anybody else.</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I'm not asking if he's an antisemite. I'm asking if you entertain – do you condemn him for entertaining and meeting with antisemites? It's a very simple question.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Khodorkovsky:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Well and I'm trying to give you an answer that I wish he wouldn't have met with them.</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's a yes or a no.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Khodorkovsky:</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I didn't realize I was on a witness stand here, Don</b>. look, I'm trying to have a substantive conversation about a real issue like antisemitism and you're trying to make it all about Trump. It's not about Trump.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Well, it is about Trump. Sir, we're talking about the former president meeting with an antisemite. How is this not about Trump?</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Khodorkovsky:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Because it's about the antisemitism. It's not about Trump.&nbsp;</b>It's about making sure the issue of antisemitism is confronted in a way, in a substantive way, in which, you know, obviously, I'm sure you're aware there's rising antisemitism in the United States and the world. It certainly is important for us to take it on. It is important for us to call it out.<b>&nbsp;I am calling it out. I am saying he should not have met with Kanye West and his psychic.&nbsp;</b>What I'm also trying to point out,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Don, is that it behooves you and CNN and every other press outlet to call it out when you see it, especially when it comes in the halls of Congress, especially when every Democratic presidential hopeful goes and kisses the ring of Al Sharpton.</span></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lemon:</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I think, listen, sir. CNN does that.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below or at this link.</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: 'Nightmare': Longtime Trump adviser warns Fuentes meeting is 'another reason' people want 'DeSantis to run'</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 11 22</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">ALICE STEWART (COMMENTATOR): This is about political&nbsp;rhetoric that has led to political&nbsp;violence.&nbsp;And that goes on both sides of&nbsp;the aisle.&nbsp;Juliette hinted at the fact&nbsp;that it happens.&nbsp;It does happen on both sides. And I think it's really important for us to remember that. You look at Chuck Schumer in&nbsp;March of this year when there&nbsp;was hints of the Supreme Court&nbsp;overturning Roe v. Wade.&nbsp;He said that that would unleash a&nbsp;whirlwind and he would hate to see&nbsp;what would happen at that point.&nbsp;And who knows what would hit&nbsp;them. 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I clicked on ‘Explore,’ which took me to ‘popular posts across Gab.’ I came in with an open mind and immediately Gab hit me with this post: ‘We are in a wartime but it’s a quiet war perpetrated by the Jew,’ with a picture of Adolf Hitler,</b>” Tapper told CNN viewers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And there was plenty more where that came from. The ‘N-word is super big on Gab. It is a cesspool of hate,” Tapper observed.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And while Gab “takes precautions,” it “doesn’t seem to care about hate speech.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The more speech I saw on Gab this afternoon, was more speech extolling Nazis and more speech engaging in Holocaust denial, and more speech sharing more hideously racist posts than I’ve ever seen in one place in my life,” Tapper said. “I saw less of it but still too much of it on Parler today.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s high time we recognize that the hate on many of these far-right sites is not just an unfortunate result of belief in free speech. The Hate is the whole point.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: Watch: Torba Warns GOP to Not ‘Disavow or Condemn Us’ Because ‘Christian Nationalists Are the Republican Party’</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) calls Gab a “haven for hate and disinformation,” and “an online hub for extremist and conspiratorial content.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Gab quickly became known as a platform used by conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, members of militias and influential figures among the alt-right,” the ADL adds. “Over the last two years, Torba has worked to insert Gab, himself and Christian nationalism into mainstream society and politics, primarily through relationships with elected officials and candidates.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba has promoted the white genocide or “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory and has been called an advisor to Republican state senator Doug Mastriano,</b>&nbsp;a far-right 2020 election-denying Christian nationalist running for governor of Pennsylvania, where Gab is based. (While never condemning Torba, Mastriano denies the relationship, but there are receipts of Gab doing “consulting” work for Mastriano, who has also told Torba, “Thank God for what you have done.”)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Tuesday morning Tapper took to Twitter to share that Torba attacked him after his Monday report aired on CNN.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tapper shared the video of the posts he saw on Gab, which includes the antisemitic one he quoted on-air that had the photo of Adolf Hitler.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Gab’s antisemitic founder is attacking me with the accusation he makes about folks who report factually about his site, that I’m the son of the devil. Totally normal stuff,” Tapper tweeted.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also posted screenshots of Torba’s posts on Gab.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[READ MORE: Mastriano’s Consultant Just Posted Video Declaring ‘We Have Multiple Candidates…Who Are Christian Nationalists’</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Jake Tapper reported on CNN tonight that Gab’s Explore page was filled with Hitler memes and n word posts,” Torba wrote on Gab.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Reality,” he claimed, “pro-life content, Christian content,&nbsp;<b>content from multiple members of Congress</b>, wholesome animal videos, etc.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But he didn’t stop there.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Jake Tapper = John 8:44,” Torba added.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For those unfamiliar with every Bible verse, one version of John 8:44 reads: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch Tapper’s CNN report below, see his tweets above, or at this link.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an raw tom b 10 22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an unsurprisingly contentious interview with Arizona Republican Kari Lake, who is vying to become her state's next governor, CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash was forced to cut her guest off as she ranted about 2020 election fraud -- and then pressed her to present any evidence she has.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With Lake not in the CNN studio and responding remotely, where she was shot in soft-focus, the conversation started off pleasantly until the Arizona election denier started making accusations that led the CNN host to pull her up short and fact-check her multiple times.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I want to move on to another really important issue, particularly when it comes to your critical swing state of Arizona," Bash prompted after a discussion about immigration. "That is what happened in 2020. You called the 2020 election 'corrupt, stolen, rotten and rigged.' There is no evidence of any of that presented in a court of law or anywhere else, that any of those things are true. So why do you keep saying that?"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Well, there's plenty of evidence," Lake countered. "We had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. those ballots shouldn't have been counted."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Where is the evidence of that?" Bash cut in.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Dana, there's plenty of evidence," the GOP candidate parried. "I'm happy to send it to your team. The problem is the media won't cover it."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We've covered this extensively and what you just said has been debunked," the CNN host interrupted.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Only one side of it, Dana," Lake shot back. "The real issue, Dana, is people don't trust our elections -- they haven't since 2000. I'm a reporter, been sitting on your side of the desk for a long time. Since 2000, we have Americans who don't trust our elections. In 2000, in 2004 they didn't trust the elections."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-election-denier/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">at this link</a>:</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/trump-accused-of-extortion-over-attempt-to-force-cnn-sale-to-rupert-murdoch-new-book-2658253590/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/trump-accused-of-extortion-over-attempt-to-force-cnn-sale-to-rupert-murdoch-new-book-2658253590/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;no lnx vid twt</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-air-talent-get-message">https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-air-talent-get-message</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN’s on-air talent get the message</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED 09/07/22</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When Chris Licht took over as CNN chairman earlier this year, the network’s staffers had difficulty discerning his vision for the network</b>. Licht signaled broad shifts, including what The New York Times described as a move toward “dialing back partisanship on the air.” But while ominous signals abounded as to what precisely that meant for the network’s employees – John Malone, a board member of CNN’s new parent company, had suggested in 2021 that CNN should look to Fox News as a model – Licht provided few specifics. There was enough confusion among the network’s rank-and-file that CNN host Erin Burnett, moderating Licht’s first staff town hall in May, channeled her colleagues’ anxiety to ask, “Will there be avenues for us to understand your thinking?”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Licht has provided one such avenue over the past several weeks: He has spoken through the firings of on-air talent perceived as providing insufficient deference to the right.</span> Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter, a harsh critic of Fox and former President Donald Trump’s treatment of the mainstream media, lost his job last month. Veteran White House correspondent John Harwood, who had denounced Trump’s attacks on democracy, was shown the door on Friday. In each case, media reporters stressed that the firings were part of what the Washington Post termed Licht’s “strategy shift,” with the chairman purging journalists that were perceived as critics of Trump and his allies “to present a new, more ideologically neutral CNN.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The message Licht’s firings send to CNN journalists is crystal clear: Too much criticism of the right, which remains united behind Trump and champions the election denial that triggered the January 6 insurrection, may cost you your job</b>. And to inoculate themselves against that critique, some at the network are seemingly going out of their way to channel right-wing attacks against President Joe Biden.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Take Brianna Keilar, co-anchor of CNN’s New Day morning show.</b> After a series of reports that her job was on the line due to her past coverage of Trump and Fox, Keilar grabbed headlines for her multi-day fixation on the optics of Biden standing in front of two U.S. Marines while delivering his Thursday speech on his predecessor’s threat to democracy.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keilar, a CNN veteran who worked her way up from general assignment reporter to her current position, had denounced Fox misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and January 6, among other topics. Such reporting might have earned plaudits under Jeff Zucker’s CNN regime, but it is an apparent black mark for Licht, who reportedly seeks a doomed “truce” with the right-wing propaganda network.&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reporting on the cancellation of Stelter’s show on August 18, the Associated Press included this inauspicious paragraph: “Licht has made it known internally that he’s not interested in conflict between CNN and Fox News on the network. The CNN ‘New Day’ anchor Brianna Keilar had also attracted attention for detailed critical pieces on Fox, but they have stopped since Licht took over.”</font></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The next day, Hollywood Reporter recalled that Licht had promised advertisers in May that he would “reimagine” CNN’s morning show. </b>“Whether that reimagining includes New Day anchors John Berman and Brianna Keilar is unclear for now, but few inside CNN expect them to remain on that show long-term,” according to that report.&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then on August 31, Puck’s Dylan Byers named Keilar as one of the CNN journalists “who built their personal brands by going to war with Trump” and are now on the chopping block. Byers, who initially broke the news of Licht’s selection as CNN chairman, cited his “well-placed sources.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Things looked bleak for Keilar. But the next night, while Biden was speaking at Independence Hall about how “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” Keilar tweeted, “Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that. It’s wrong when Democrats do it. It’s wrong when Republicans do it."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keilar’s tweet drew immediate criticism from Democrats. But under the Licht paradigm at CNN, that is to her credit. She followed up her tweet the next morning with an on-air segment, then authored a lengthy analysis piece for CNN’s website headlined, “Biden’s use of Marines during Philadelphia speech adds to debate over politicization of the military.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CNN anchor’s repeated criticisms of Biden are drawing positive coverage from right-wing outlets, generating purportedly counterintuitive headlines like Democrats melt down after CNN hosts criticize Biden speech (New York Post), CNN Anchor Brianna Keilar Criticizes Biden For Marines In Philadelphia Speech. White House Responds (Daily Caller), and Liberals fume at CNN reporters who mildly criticized military presence at Biden speech: 'This is embarrassing' (FoxNews.com).</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others at CNN, perhaps seeking to avoid an unplanned job search, pushed similarly strained complaints, from Twitter to the White House briefing room to the network’s airwaves.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nor is the trend limited to discussions of Biden’s speech. Also over the weekend, CNN correspondent Sara Sidner drew some attention from the right by tweeting that there are “serious questions that should be asked about” Biden’s adult son Hunter.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether Keilar and her colleagues are making cynical calculations to appeal to the new regime or have just internalized the right-wing spins on events of the past few months, the result is the same: CNN airing commentary that seems to be aimed at bolstering the network’s bona fides with Republicans.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Licht’s goal may be to make CNN more “neutral” and less “partisan.” But it is very difficult for CNN’s reporters worried about losing their jobs to project a nonpartisan mien, particularly given the naked radicalism of the right and the inclination of its propagandists to smear any reporter that doesn’t hew to its own standards. It’s easier, however, for them to simply provide some false balance by leaning into the talking points Republicans use to attack Democrats; fill their panels with conservatives willing to defend the worst excesses of the Trumpian right; and maybe offer some breathless reporting of the speeches of Trump or his successor.&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Licht’s strategy thus has CNN pivoting right back to the brand of programming that paved Trump’s path to the White House back in 2016. There’s one major difference: This time, the network’s leaders know the stakes – and they are busy casting off anyone who might be willing to tell their viewers what those stakes are.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN’s coverage of unions over the Labor Day weekend was woefully inadequate</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">09/09/22&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New CNN chief’s first major hire is retired cop who recently lied about the NYPD spying on Muslims after 9/11</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">09/06/22&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On his last day at CNN, John Harwood called out mainstream media’s false equivalency problem</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">09/02/22&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/new-cnn-chiefs-first-major-hire-retired-cop-who-recently-lied-about-nypd-spying-muslims-after">https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/new-cnn-chiefs-first-major-hire-retired-cop-who-recently-lied-about-nypd-spying-muslims-after</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">new ceo trying to attract gop --></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/are-you-kidding-me-reporters/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/are-you-kidding-me-reporters/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 22</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Veteran CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood abruptly resigned from the network on Friday shortly after he unloaded on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/supercut-hightligts-reaction-biden-speech/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">critics</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/no-democratic-president-in-lifetime/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">President Joe Biden's primetime Thursday night speech</a>&nbsp;in which Biden warned the American people of the existential and imminent dangers that former President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement pose to the United States.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democrats "are standing by the message that President Biden offered. Of course it was a political speech. We're in a midterm reelection year. The issues that he's talking about are inherently political," Harwood said on the air while standing outside of the White House.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"But I think it's also important to say that the core point he made in that political speech about a threat to democracy is true," he continued. "Now that is something that is not easy for us as journalists to say. We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them. But that’s not what we are talking about. These are honest disagreements."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/donald-trump-full-presidential-pardons/" target="self" title="view post: Watch: Donald Trump promises 'full presidential pardons' with 'apologies' to January 6th defendants" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Watch: Donald Trump promises 'full presidential pardons' with 'apologies' to January 6th defendants</a></strong></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harwood then threw down the gauntlet on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/are-you-kidding-me-reporters/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Trump's right-wing cheerleaders</a>:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Republican party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue. Many, many Republicans are rallying behind his lies about the 2020 election and other things as well. And a significant portion, or a sufficient portion of the constituency that they're leading attacked the Capitol on January 6th. Violently.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By offering pardons or suggesting pardons for those people who violently attacked the Capitol, which you've been pointing out numerous times this morning, Donald Trump made Joe Biden's point for him.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Less than two hours later, precisely at noon,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1565731351617277957?s=20&t=SvlLwLNH7GtB4mculLmxpg" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Harwood tweeted that he is leaving CNN</a>:</span></font></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Personal news: today's my last day at CNN proud of the work thanks to my colleagues i've been lucky to serve the best in American media - St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN look forward to figuring out what's next.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/john-harwood-drop-kicks-republicans" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">or at this link</a>.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/sean-hannity-2657922552/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/sean-hannity-2657922552/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Thursday, August 18, CNN announced that it had canceled the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/brian-stelter-cnn-departure-reliable-sources-8c8b4bbd2035fc84c5c6f62807bb4642" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Sunday-morning show “Reliable Sources”</a>&nbsp;and that host Brian Stelter would be leaving the network. Reportedly, CNN’s new CEO and chairman, Chris Licht — who has said that he wants more “straight news reporting” and less commentary at CNN — disliked “Reliable Sources” and viewed Stelter, who spent a lot of time debunking Fox News hosts, as overly opinionated.</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liberal economist Robert Reich, in an&nbsp;<font style=""><span style="transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">op-ed published by The Guardian</span></font>&nbsp;GUK on August 24, is highly critical of CNN’s decision to cancel “Reliable Sources” — and he views it as a glaring example of CNN changing for the worse.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, essentially argues that if “Reliable Sources” had been canceled because it had terrible ratings, that would be one thing. But he implies that Stelter was fired for political reasons and a misguided effort to offer “balanced journalism” at a time when extremists who are threatening U.S. democracy have no interest in balance.</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“For several years,” Reich observes, “Brian Stelter’s Sunday show on CNN, ‘Reliable Sources,’ has been a reliable source of intelligent criticism of Fox News, right-wing media in general, Trumpism, and the increasingly authoritarian lurch of the Republican Party. Last week, CNN abruptly canceled the show and effectively fired Stelter and his staff. Why? The show was commercially successful. Its ratings have suffered somewhat lately, but it was doing better than several of CNN’s prime-time shows.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/cnn-is-seeking-a-cease-fire-with-fox-news-under-its-new-president-report/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">CNN is seeking a 'cease-fire with Fox News' under its new president: report</a></strong></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reich adds that “there appears to be more to” the cancelation of “Reliable Sources” than Licht’s view of Stelter’s “opinionated style.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Licht has told CNN staff they should stop referring to Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ because the phrase sounds like a Democratic Party talking point,” Reich notes. “Licht also wants more ‘straight news reporting,’ along with more conservative guests. What’s motivating Licht? Follow the money. CNN’s new corporate overseer is Warner <b>Brothers Discovery Inc., which now owns what used to be Time Warner, including CNN. The CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery is David Zaslav. Zaslav has been prodding Licht to reposition CNN to the center,</b> and be a network preferred by ‘everybody.… Republicans, Democrats.’ But CNN is never going to be the network preferred by Republicans. Fox News has that sewn up.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reich continues, “As Republicans move further rightward into the netherworld of authoritarianism, there’s even less possibility that CNN’s news coverage will be able to satisfy them. Nor should CNN even try. If we’ve learned anything from Trump and his lapdogs at Fox News, it’s that facts, data and logic are no longer relevant to the Republican base. Even ‘straight news reporting’ depends on what stories are featured, which facts are highlighted and the context surrounding the news. This necessitates judgment and values.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liberal Washington Post opinion columnist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/pennsylvanias-next-governor-may-be-a-full-blown-insurrectionist-journalist/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Greg Sargent</a>&nbsp;has stressed that when mainstream news outlets are reporting on someone as far to the right as Doug Mastriano, the GOP gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, they shouldn’t normalize extremism in the name of “balance.” And Reich, similarly, argues that “straight news reporting” becomes problematic if it downplays attacks on democracy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/cnn-republican-strategist-both-sides/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>CNN cuts off Republican strategist for blaming 'both sides' for January 6th</strong></a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The anti-democracy movement in America, as elsewhere, is among the biggest issues confronting us today,” Reich warns. “Is reporting on it considered ‘straight news’ or ‘opinion?’ Wouldn’t failing to report on it in a way that sounded alarms be a gross dereliction of duty? Besides, how is it possible to report on (former President Donald) Trump or Rudy Giuliani or any number of today’s Republican leaders and not speak of the Big Lie, or say they’ve broken norms, if not laws? So, what’s motivating Zaslav? Keep following the money.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reich adds, “The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN. Malone describes himself as a ‘libertarian,’ although he travels in right-wing Republican circles.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>In 2005, he held 32 percent of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration. Malone has said he wants CNN to be&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/discovery-media-board-chair-john-malone-lauds-fox-news-before-saying-he-wants-cnn-to-evolve-back-to-actual-journalism/?utm_source=CJR+Daily+News&utm_campaign=357a3c7e89-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_11_06_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9c93f57676-357a3c7e89-174376817&mc_cid=357a3c7e89&mc_eid=fef816934d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">more like Fox News</a>&nbsp;because, in his view, Fox News has ‘actual journalism.’ Malone also wants the ‘news’ portion of CNN to be ‘more centrist.’”</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the final broadcast of “Reliable Sources,” Stelter stressed that it’s “not partisan” to defend “democracy” or “stand up to demagogues” and that “we must make sure we don’t give platforms to those who are lying to our faces” — and Reich applauds that statement.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Sadly, there are still many in America — and not just billionaires like Malone — who believe that holding Trump accountable for what he has done, and continues to do, to this country is a form of partisanship, and that such partisanship has no place in so-called ‘balanced journalism,’” Reich writes. “This view is itself dangerous.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/bannon-cnn/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Steve Bannon lawyer squirms as CNN host backs him into corner over damning leaked recording of his client</strong></a></font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ukraine war may well be inflection pt between getting off FF and 2x down?!</font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</b></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Flynn’s brother, Joseph Flynn,&nbsp;</b>who is<b> currently suing CNN for portraying him as a QAnon supporter after he appeared in a video typing the QAnon oath,</b> also congratulated Diaz on her victory.</span></font></div></div><div style=""><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>National TV networks mention climate change in 32% of segments on global extreme heat</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">07/19/22&nbsp;</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Punishing extreme heat is affecting countries all across the globe this week.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/18/weather/heat-records-outpace-cool-records-globally-climate/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Extreme “red” heat warnings</a>&nbsp;were issued in the United Kingdom for the first time, and Wales&nbsp;<a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-experiences-hottest-day-ever-24521070" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">recorded</a>&nbsp;its highest-ever temperature. At least&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/18/heat-wave-europe-death-toll" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">1,100 people</a>&nbsp;have died in Spain and Portugal due to the extreme heat, which has&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-france-fires-heat-waves-b7c3ecaba66d9851ba0381e68d207784" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">fueled wildfires</a>&nbsp;there and in parts of France. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/18/heatwave-europe-unitedstates-records-uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Midwestern U.S. and Central Asia</a>&nbsp;are suffering from extreme heat as well.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The European heat is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/world/uk-heat-red-warning-record-climate/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">truly exceptional</a>, and its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-18/uk-weather-how-climate-change-impacts-exceptional-heatwaves" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">connections</a>&nbsp;to the climate crisis are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/19/europe-heat-wave-climate-change-uk-france" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">unquestionable</a>. As climate reporter Andrew Freedman recently&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/afreedma/status/1548699726358495235" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">noted</a>&nbsp;on Twitter, “the word ‘unprecedented’ is as overused as the phrase ‘the new normal,’ but the extreme heat event underway in Europe truly is historic. And it would not be as hot without human-caused global warming.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.c2es.org/content/heat-waves-and-climate-change/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">clear links</a>&nbsp;between climate change and extreme heat, corporate broadcast and cable TV news programs failed to consistently connect climate change to these global extreme heat events. Out of 62 combined segments and weather reports discussing the historic heat waves on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, from July 16-18, only 20 (32%) mentioned climate change<b>. The vast majority of extreme heat segments mentioning climate (16) were related to the European heat wave.&nbsp;</b></font></font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">News shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC ran a combined 27 global heat segments – 37% of them mentioned climate change</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From July 16-18, corporate broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC aired 10 mentions of climate change related to extreme heat, and 7 of those mentions were in the context of reporting on the European heat wave.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Climate change was mentioned in 5 of&nbsp;<b>ABC’s 12 extreme heat segments (42%)</b>.</span>&nbsp;<b>Four of those segments were in the context of European heat, and 1 in the context of U.S. heat</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The latter mention was by meteorologist Ginger Zee on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3991123" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the July 18 edition</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">World News Tonight</em>&nbsp;and represented the only climate mention in a weather report on corporate broadcast news.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Meanwhile, NBC aired 9 segments covering the extreme heat, with 3 of them (33%) mentioning climate change – 2 in the context of U.S. heat, and 1 in the context of European heat. CBS aired 6 extreme heat segments, with 2 (33%) mentioning climate change – both came in the context of European heat.</font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The July 18 edition of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">CBS Mornings</em>&nbsp;included a good example of how extreme weather coverage can benefit from interviews with experts in the field who can credibly communicate the science and urgency of action to viewers. CBS correspondent Roxana Saberi interviewed Kirsty McCabe of the U.K.’s Royal Meteorological Society, who stated that “climate change has everything to do with the extreme weather that we're seeing at the moment – and it's human-induced climate change, it’s not a natural variation.” She later stated that “if we don't do something now and take drastic action, we will continue to see these things happening.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid?&nbsp;&nbsp;the July 18, 2022, edition of&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">CBS Mornings</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">broken down by region, the corporate broadcast networks aired 11 news segments on the European heat, 10 segments on U.S. heat, and 6 that combined both European and U.S. heat.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June, these same networks mentioned climate in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/broadcast-and-cable-tv-news-shows-mentioned-climate-change-just-17-extreme" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">just 9% of combined segments</a>&nbsp;on various extreme weather events happening around the globe. Last week, they mentioned&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/corporate-broadcast-and-cable-tv-shows-mention-climate-change-37-segments" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">climate in a combined 38% of segments</a>&nbsp;on the Washburn Fire, which threatened Yosemite National Park and its iconic sequoias.</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Cable TV networks CNN and MSNBC ran a combined 31 segments on global extreme heat – 10 of them, or 32%, mentioned climate change</font></font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">MSNBC aired 10 segments on extreme heat, and 7 of them (70%) mentioned climate change – making them the best-performing network reviewed in this time period.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Four mentions came in segments about European heat, 2 on both European and U.S. heat, and 1 specific to extreme heat in Texas.&nbsp;<b>MSNBC also featured the only mention by cable news of climate change in a weather report, which occurred while reporting on the European heat wave on the July 18 edition of&nbsp;</b></span><b><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Katy Tur Reports</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.&nbsp;</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">CNN ran 21 such segments, and only 3 (14%) mentioned climate change</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;All 3 came in the context of covering European heat. While lacking in climate mentions during its extreme heat coverage, the network featured one segment that did a particularly good job of putting these events within the context of the climate crisis and articulating the high stakes of climate inaction. During the 5 a.m. hour of the July 16 edition of&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">CNN Newsroom</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,<b> the reporter stated that “the extreme heat and drought fuelling what scientists say is a sign of the effects of climate change,” before going to climate scientist Michael Mann to explain further. </b>Later in the segment, the reporter stated, “As the mercury climbs, scientists again warning [that] without addressing the climate crisis, weather events like this will grow more common and more extreme."</span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">broken down by region, these networks aired 19 segments on the European heat, 10 segments that combined both European and U.S. heat, 5 segments on U.S. heat (two of which were specific to Texas), and one segment on the heat wave currently affecting Asia.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June, these networks&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/broadcast-and-cable-tv-news-shows-mentioned-climate-change-just-17-extreme" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mentioned</a>&nbsp;climate in a combined 21% of segments on various extreme weather events. Last week, they&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/corporate-broadcast-and-cable-tv-shows-mention-climate-change-37-segments" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mentioned</a>&nbsp;climate in 37% of segments on the Washburn Fire.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, Fox News ran 4 weather reports on extreme heat, and none of them mentioned climate change. Two were specific to U.S. heat, and 2 combined both U.S. and European heat. We did not include Fox’s numbers in the full dataset due to the network's long history of downplaying the severity of climate change.&nbsp;</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The heat will only worsen this week (especially in parts of Europe), so these networks have an opportunity to better incorporate climate change in their reporting</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Temperatures are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/18/britain-europe-heatwave-record-temperatures/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">expected to remain very high</a>&nbsp;in the U.K. and France through July 19. Numerous record-high temperatures&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/19/heat-wave-warnings-millions-89-fires-rage-us" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">may be set</a>&nbsp;in the Midwestern U.S. as well on this date, giving these networks an opportunity to accurately report on climate change in their extreme heat reporting throughout the rest of the week.</font></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Methodology...</font></h4></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wow d'souza hillary's am shite&nbsp; stank?</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jonah-goldberg-who-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlson-joins-cnn">https://www.thedailybeast.com/jonah-goldberg-who-quit-fox-news-over-tucker-carlson-joins-cnn</a></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meaghan Ellis January 28, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson</b>&nbsp;offered a damning assessment of the network as she explained just how bad its spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation has become.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During an appearance on the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNN</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;segment, "Democracy in Peril," Carlson discussed many aspects of Fox News' critical role in the spread of misinformation and falsehoods. Since former President Donald Trump took office, conspiracy theories have been on the rise and Fox News has become a driving force for it.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Conservative primetime news anchor Tucker Carlson has been at the center of misinformation and the power of his opinion has begun to influence Republican members of Congress.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">“This is the result of fake news,” Carlson said. “You know, we're seeing not only the fallout from fake news during the Trump era, but what happened with the insurrection on January 6th. Now it's moving into other areas. Not just news, now it’s hitting science with vaccines, and now it’s into Cold War politics.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carlson also touched on another significant topic as she shed light on the actions of her<b>&nbsp;former Fox News colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. While they reportedly sent pleas to the White House for the violence to stop on Jan. 6, they still put up a united front on-air and circulated a completely different narrative about the series of events that unfolded.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“I think the bigger story coming out of that is how disingenuous it was to be sending those texts of warning while then going on the air to the American people and doing a complete injustice and disservice by saying something completely opposite,” Carlson said, “and ginning up this whole reaction that it was just fine and patriotic for people to be there on January 6th.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She went on to express concern about the journalistic state of her former network since the rise of Trump. Carlson also noted how conspiracy theories have become a fallacious replacement for opinion.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“Slowly but surely, this has morphed into eradicating any other point of view since the Trump era that is not just opinion,” Carlson said. “It's gone from an opinion, which was fine, to completely devolving into non-fact-based conspiracy theories and outright dangerous rhetoric, in my mind, and I think it’s a complete disservice to our country.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Noting the dangers of biased journalism, Carlson explained how dangerous it is to only get information from one news source. She also stressed how imperative it is for Republican leaders and lawmakers to use their platforms to offer clarity regarding some of the dangerous false narratives perpetuated by Fox News.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“For the safety of the Republican Party and for our democracy, I wish more would, because th<b>is is not going to end well, in my mind,</b>” Carlson said. “It's really hard to change people's opinions because they're only watching what they want to hear, you know? And that's the other problem that we have in society with the media right now, is that we're so siloed into only watching what we agree with. And so every day that thought process just gets reinforced time after time.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Carlson also conceded that conservative media has changed considerably over the last five years as there is no longer a clear line between opinion and conspiracy theory.</span>&nbsp;“Conservative television news is certainly not the conservative news that was out there even just five years ago,” Carlson said, later adding, “There’s a big difference between having a conservative opinion and having one that supports conspiracy theories.”</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an me 621</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives are still pushing wildly bizarre claims about the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to avoid accountability for the deadly encounter. On Friday, June 18, CNN offered a quick rundown of the latest myths about the Capitol riots as hosts Brianna Keilar and John Berman debunked all of the theories.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While rolling footage of the most harrowing moments that captured the mob attacking U.S. Capitol police officers, Berman noted that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-debunks-capitol-riot-lies_n_60cd8b07e4b0dd01742798e3" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"some Republicans and some deranged entertainers keep developing new and provably false ways to say the insurrection did not happen,"</a>&nbsp;according to HuffPost.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the claims suggesting the insurrection was actually nothing more than a normal tourist visit to the U.S. Capitol to Fox News' Tucker Carlson's latest conspiracy theory suggesting members of the (FBI) were co-conspirators in the Capitol insurrection, the myths just continue to grow....</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/cnn-tear-gas-trump/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/cnn-tear-gas-trump/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">donnie ~ quanon coup flynn end times</font></p><div style=""><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donie O'Sullivan is a reporter for CNN</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. His beat appears to be American conspiracy theories. He was on Anderson Cooper's show last night with reporting on a QAnon conference last weekend during which former&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Donald Trump adviser and pardoned traitor Michael Flynn said a Myanmar-style military coup "should happen" in America.</span></font></p><p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">That some people in this country long for purifying violence to "reinstate" Donald Trump to his "rightful place" is not what got my attention, though. What did was Donie O'Sullivan's<strong>&nbsp;</strong>editorial remark at the end of his report. This is&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/donie/status/1399528736463241221?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">what he said</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I spend a lot of time reading these pro-Trump forums, reading these QAnon forums online, and speaking to Trump supporters, and I will say of all the conspiracy theories we hear, this talk from Americans about a coup, cheering a coup, and hoping for a coup, in the United States is one of the most chilling things I hear.</span>
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before I go on, I should say O'Sullivan appears to be an immigrant. (I think he's Irish, given his accent.) As such, I don't expect him to be as attuned to American political culture as I'd expect a native-born American to be. Indeed, as a non-native, I'd expect him to be&nbsp;<em>more attuned</em>&nbsp;to the American civic religion than native-born Americans generally are, because fealty to the civic religion is so often demanded of immigrants....</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/fox-news-2653092281">https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/fox-news-2653092281</a>/?rs=182</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News possesses an “<a href="https://www.prri.org/buzz/prri-data-shines-light-on-fox-news-republicans/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">outsized influence</a>" on the American public, especially among religious viewers.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That was the conclusion of the nonprofit&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.prri.org/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Public Religion Research Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.prri.org/research/trumpism-after-trump-how-fox-news-structures-republican-attitudes/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a report</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;released just after the 2020 presidential election. It noted that 15% of Americans cited </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News as the most trusted source – around the same as NBC, ABC and CBS combined, and four percentage points above rival network</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> CNN</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The survey of more than&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2,500 American adults also suggested that Fox News viewers trend religious, especially among Republicans watching the show. Just 5% of Republican viewers of the channel identified as being “religiously unaffiliated" – compared to 15% of Republicans who do not watch Fox News and 25% of the wider American public.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To further explore the relationship between different faiths and the TV news they associate with as part of my research on religion data,&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XnbzexUAAAAJ&hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">I analyzed</a>&nbsp;the result of another survey, the&nbsp;<a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910/DVN/E9N6PH" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Cooperative Election Survey</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The annual survey, which was fielded just before the November 2020 election, with the results released in March, polled a total of 61,000 Americans over a number of topics. One question was on their news consumption habits. It asked what television news networks respondents had watched in the prior 24 hours.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Percentage of respondents who saw TV news in past 24 hours</strong></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=314&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=314&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=314&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=394&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=394&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/402143/original/file-20210521-15-7nx644.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=394&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="source" href="https://twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1392100756547854336" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ryan Burge/CES</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some very interesting patterns emerged across religious traditions – and the nonreligious – and the type of media being consumed. For instance, of the the big three legacy news operations – ABC, CBS and NBC – there was no strong base of viewership in any tradition.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In most cases, about a third of people from each religious tradition said that they watched one of those legacy networks in the last 24 hours.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PBS scored very low among every tradition. In most cases fewer than 15% of respondents reported watching PBS in the time frame.</span></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">graf]</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">however, the numbers for the three major cable news networks – CNN, Fox News and MSNBC – were much higher across the board. In eight of the 16 religious and nonreligious traditions categorized in the poll, CNN viewership was at least 50% of the sample. This was led by 71% of Hindus who watched CNN and 63% of Muslims.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The least likely group to watch CNN was clearly white evangelicals, at just 23%.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In comparison, MSNBC scored lower nearly across the board. In fact, in none of the 16 classification groups was viewership of MSNBC greater than it was for CNN.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News viewership was higher than that of MSNBC, but was not as widely dispersed as it is for CNN. It's no surprise, given its reputation as a conservative news outlet, that 61% of white evangelicals say that they watch Fox News – in the last election, around&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/09/exit-polls-show-white-evangelicals-voted-overwhelmingly-for-donald-trump/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">80% of white evangelicals voted for Republican candidate Donald Trump</a>. The other three traditions where viewership was at least 50% are white Catholics, Mormons and members of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It should come as no surprise, as&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ryanburge/status/1394288790047543298?s=19" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">those are three groups</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/10/07/how-did-mormons-become-so-republican/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">consistently vote</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/catholic/party-affiliation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the Republican Party</a>. Just 14% of atheists watched Fox, which is just about in line with the share of white evangelicals who watch MSNBC.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fracturing right-wing media</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But with the fracturing of conservative media sources seeing more competitors vying for viewers among the right, Fox News could see a drop in viewership from the religious right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, Fox News viewership&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-ratings-trump-newsmax-b1798081.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">plunged</a>&nbsp;as many Trump supporters believed that the network was not being loyal to their standard-bearer of the GOP.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given the vast number of news options that people of faith have and the increase in political polarization in the United States, the pressure for networks to deliver the news that people want to hear will only increase as time passes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ryan-burge-1193069" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ryan Burge</a>, Assistant Professor of Political Science,&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/eastern-illinois-university-4998" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Eastern Illinois University</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article is republished from&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The Conversation</a>&nbsp;under a Creative Commons license. 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</b></font></p><p style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">All over the United States — from Georgia to Arizona to Iowa to Texas — Republicans in state legislatures have been pushing voter suppression bills that are designed to make it harder to vote. And CNN has obtained a copy of a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/05/18/heritage-tape-voter-suppression-cuomo-open-cpt-vpx.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">leaked video</a>&nbsp;showing the role that "dark money" in the form of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/us-conservative-group-heritage-action-video-voting-restrictions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Heritage Action for America</a>&nbsp;(the Heritage Foundation's sister organization) has played in crafting these bills, some of which have already been signed into law by Republican governors who include Georgia's Brian Kemp and Florida's Ron DeSantis.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the leaked video aired by CNN and previously reported by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Mother Jones</a>, Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson can be seen bragging about the group's influence on those bills. Anderson, in the video, declares, "We're working with these state legislatures to make sure they have all of the information they need to draft the bills. In some cases, we actually draft them for them. Or, we have a sentinel, on our behalf, give them the model legislation so it has that grass roots, you known, from the bottom up, type of vibe."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN host Chris Cuomo, before airing the video, explained, "We're going to show just how ugly the game has gotten when it comes to the effort to suppress the vote." And he went on to explain why Anderson's use of the word "sentinel" is important.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cuomo, the brother of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;told viewers,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I want you to remember the word sentinel and the phrase, 'You know, they pass it along so it has that&nbsp;<b>grass roots vibe</b>.' This is the game…. Money matters."</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CNN host noted how deceptive Heritage Action's claims are. Heritage, in a statement to CNN, claimed that its intention is to make voting more transparent; Cuomo disagrees.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cuomo said of Heritage, "You want to cheat. You want to limit how many people can vote — for minority groups and big urban areas, and those local officials you want cut out of the process. That's what you want because that is the far-right sale of White fright. These suppression advocates organize and then weaponize, many selling White fright and false notions that the election was stolen by big groups.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mother Jones has published video of Anderson bragging about Heritage Action's voter suppression efforts. 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</b></div><div><b>'Murder the media': Photographers release terrifying video of the mob attack outside the Capitol gates</b></div><div>‘This is horrifying’: Videos show injured officers being evacuated after clashes with Trump supporters</div><div>
</div><div>Aysha Qamar and Daily Kos January 09, 2021</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div>As violent Trump supporters terrorized the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, members of Congress were not the only people they were looking to intimidate. These terrorists also targeted journalists and press under Donald Trump's message of declaring the news and media an "enemy of the people."</div><div>
</div><div><b>"Murder the media," was written on a door of the Capitol while terrorists took over and attacked a group of reporters</b>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In one incident John Minchillo, a photographer of the Associated Press, was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters outside the Capitol building. The violent incident was captured on video and shared by another photographer on Twitter. Local photographers and reporters were present at the break of the horrific violence that took place Wednesday. Footage shared on social media depicts the consequences of words bigots like Trump use to incite violence on communities and spaces.</span></div><div>
</div><div>"Please use this moment to reflect on the importance of journalism as a conduit between us. We tell stories. That's our mission. We have the privilege to shepherd moments over time and space. Please subscribe to your hard working local papers, support their vocation," Minchillo replied to the video of his attack being shared on Twitter.</div><div>
</div><div>(WARNING: This story contains violent video, photos, and language that may not be suitable for all readers.)</div><div>
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</div><div>In a thread of photos posted on Twitter, BuzzFeed News reporter Paul McLeod&nbsp;<b>captured photos of equipment left behind by the Associated press after crowds attacked reporters. According to McLeod, one man yelled "We are the news now, as a crowd damaged the equipment. McLeod also reported that a noose was fashioned from a camera cord and hung from a tree.</b></div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>The Associated Press confirmed that its equipment had been stolen and destroyed and noted that none of its staff members had been injured.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another video posted on Twitter, the terrorists again attempted to target individuals they thought were from CNN. While it is unclear whether the journalist was from CNN, the fact that these journalists were assaulted is not okay.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the violent Trump allies were not the only ones after journalists on Wednesday.<b>&nbsp;Reporters for The Washington Post were shortly detained by police while reporting on Tuesday night, following a pattern of law enforcement officials arresting reporters for doing their work throughout this year.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The reporters arrested were identified as Zoeann Murphy and Whitney Leaming. The two shared on Twitter that they were safe after quickly being released. "I have heard from so many journalist friends/colleagues who were at or around the Capitol today that they are 'fine'. This is a lie," Leaming tweeted. "They are not fine but they push aside their physical safety and mental health to focus on the story at hand [because] one of the most important rules of journalism is that the story is not about you. Just please remember that and maybe not threaten their life, I beg you."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>According to The New York Times, media officials were threatened and surrounded for hours, those inside the Capitol building were forced to find shelter in secure locations to avoid assault</b>. A reporter with The Los Angeles Times recalled her experience hiding in the House gallery during an armed standoff.</div><div>
</div><div>Sarah D. Wire of The Los Angeles Times wrote:</div><div>
</div><div>I heard a ruckus behind me and turned and saw a dozen reporters being ushered into the gallery from press offices. Then police shut and locked the doors. Police interrupted the proceedings to announce that tear gas had been deployed in the rotunda.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A staff member handed me an evacuation hood, a cumbersome plastic bag that filters out tear gas and chemicals. She told me to pass it and others down the row until everyone had one. Reporters were not the only ones in the gallery. Staff members were monitoring the proceedings. More than a dozen lawmakers had also taken seats in the public galleries overlooking the House floor. Now we were locked in the room together.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The rioters driven by Trump's hate clearly had no fear of police involvement. CBS News reporter Chip Reid, who has worn protective gear he last wore while covering conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, noted that<b>&nbsp;a rioter told him law enforcement officials would not protect journalists</b>. "There were no police around us—we were on our own," Reid said. "We high-tailed it out of there."</span></div><div>
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</div><div>Of course, Trump later addressed the crowd in a video statement Wednesday but continued on his claims that the election has been "stolen." The video removed by many social media outlets including Facebook and Twitter is predicted to incite further violence. As Trump continues to target anyone who calls out his lies, his zombies continue to ready for battle.</div><div>
</div><div>"Rioters at the Capitol called for violence against members of the news media, destroyed news equipment and verbally harassed journalists as the 'enemy of the people's—actions that not only pose a dire threat to those working tirelessly to bring information to our communities, but also to the press freedom that is a bedrock value of our nation," Bruce Brown, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"These actions are the direct result of years of this language stoking fear and hate for one of our most vital institutions. Our free press is crucial to democracy, and indeed, one of the pillars that will help keep it standing beyond this moment."</span></div><div>
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is how you normalize a madman': Scholars and press watchdogs urge corporate media to treat Trump like the authoritarian threat he is</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Newcomb and Common Dreams September 25, 2020</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Major news outlets failed the American people, critics say, when they chose to bury coverage of President Donald Trump's Wednesday comment that he would not commit to a peaceful transition of power—a statement watchdogs say demanded above-the-fold, front-page headlines that simply did not materialize.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Newsroom leaders made a considered, intentional decision not to panic after Trump was elected," Dan Froomkin, editor of PressWatchers.org, wrote in a scathing rebuke of corporate media's apparent nonchalant attitude towards the president's rhetoric. "This was an epic, obvious mistake, and everything that has happened since was in some sense entirely predictable."</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Froomkin continued, "They should have gone on a war footing—and by that I don't mean a partisan war against Trump, I mean a journalistic war against lies, ignorance, and intolerance."</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics weighed in on the relative non-importance corporate news outlets assigned—in print and online—to Trump's latest suggestion that he may not cede the office of the presidency should he lose in November:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some observers balked when Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, attempted to explain away the Times' decision to bury the news by citing print publication deadlines. One pointed to the late-evening news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last week, which was an above-the-fold feature in the next day's Times print edition.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Broadcast media also drew rebukes for its lack of emphasis on Trump's veiled threat at the democratic process.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Wednesday's network evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC were no better," Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of PressRun wrote. "Not only did none of them lead with Trump's stunning proclamation, none of the broadcasts even reported on Trump's comments. This is how you normalize a madman. (</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CNN and MSNBC did a much better job covering the transfer-of-power story.)"</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At PressWatchers.org, Froomkin explained how the dynamics in&nbsp;<b>corporate newsrooms have led to complacency among journalists tasked with reporting on Trump's</b>&nbsp;presidency:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">One overarching problem is that our major newsrooms have simply gotten so corporate and even-keeled that our top editors value unflappability as a signal virtue. (OK, I admit I take this one a little personally, being a flappable person. A top Washington Post editor once called me "hysterical.")&nbsp;</font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Flappable people don't rise through the ranks. Corporate people do.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Journalism to me is about crusading for the truth. But the notion that a serious, major news organization would pursue a crusade on behalf of its community is considered hippy shit by the people in charge these days. So is consistently standing up to a lawless con man. They've gotten used to printing lies. They barely squawk when Trump calls them the "enemy of the people."&nbsp;<b>They have their algorithms, and they won't give them up no matter what</b>. They just continue to "do the work."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So yeah, their news souls are dead. There, I said it.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawmakers and progressive advocates called out the dangerous threat to democracy uttered by the commander-in-chief—and the corporate media for treating it like any other day in Trump's scandal-laden presidency.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Great (not) to watch journalists reporting Trump's latest direct attacks on the republic as if it's all just a regular press conference," longtime journalist&nbsp;<b>Dan Gillmor&nbsp;</b>tweeted Wednesday. "Historians will see Big Journalism's business as usual in this emergency as one of the proximate causes of the American republic's death."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gave a speech Thursday denouncing Trump's declared refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power, saying: "This is not just an election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. This is an election between Donald Trump and democracy—and democracy must win."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sanders also outlined steps necessary to prepare the American public and lawmakers for chaos of election night and beyond, calling on the news media specifically to "prepare the American people to understand there is no longer a single election day and that it is very possible that we may not know the results on November 3."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Froomkin pointed out that corporate media's opinion pages are more accurately depicting the real danger of Trump's recent rhetoric than front-page headlines.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"But as usual, to capture the real drama of what's going on, you have to go to the opinion writers—and the editorial cartoonists," he wrote, sharing a link to an op-ed by Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"What really matters here is that Trump is making an actual declaration of intent," Sargent wrote, "not just to refuse to respect the outcome, but rather to try to cancel and override it, if he is able to get away with it."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boehlert issued a more dire warning:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Trump isn't running for re-election in the sense he's hoping to accumulate more voter support than Biden. (<b>His campaign keeps taking down ads in swing states.)</b>Trump's running to maintain power.</span>&nbsp;He's signaling that he'll refuse to give it up and will not accept his defeat as being legitimate. He's trying to steal an election. In reality, he doesn't care what the results are—he has no intention of abiding by the nation's will, and thinks he can count on the corrupt support of the GOP, the Department of Justice, and the United States Supreme Court to win his lawless battle in the days and weeks after the election.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Our democracy is at stake," Boehlert concluded. 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outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/im-not-going-to-let-you-do-this-cnn-anchor-shuts-down-republicans-attempt-to-dodge-trumps-lies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;">I’m not going to let you do this’: CNN anchor shuts down Republican’s attempt to dodge Trump’s lies</a></font></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/walter-einenkel/" title="Posts by Walter Einenkel" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Walter Einenkel</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos/" title="Posts by Daily Kos" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daily Kos</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">September 11, 2020</span></font></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you haven’t heard, this Donald Trump guy doesn’t seem to be&nbsp;a particularly good guy. He doesn’t seem to be a particularly competent guy. Frankly, he seems like he’s bad…</font></p></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hmmn aha pattern?&nbsp; spox w/ no evidence appeals to common sense logic to cover guess or conspiracy notion</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/cnn-abruptly-cuts-interview-after-trump-aide-refuses-to-offer-evidence-to-back-up-their-conspiracy-theory/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/cnn-abruptly-cuts-interview-after-trump-aide-refuses-to-offer-evidence-to-back-up-their-conspiracy-theory/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN abruptly cuts interview after Trump aide refuses to offer evidence to back up their conspiracy theory</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Matthew Chapman / Raw Story September 2, 2020</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, CNN anchor John Berman confronted President Donald Trump’s campaign communications strategist Tim Murtaugh about the president’s baseless claim about a plane “loaded with thugs” intent on causing riots.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Tim, what specifically is he talking about there?” asked Berman.</font></p><p style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“I don’t have access to the same information the president has,</b>” said Murtaugh. “But John, let me ask you a question about this. The people we saw harassing folks outside the White House in Washington Thursday night, those people knew the names of regular Americans coming out of the White House—”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m sorry, that’s enough,” cut in Berman. “I’m asking you a question about something the president said twice. The president essentially described an airborne assault, or at least an air transport assault, on a convention, and you, as a senior spokesperson for the campaign, says you have no information on it. How can it be that you have no information on it?”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Someone is organizing these trips,” insisted Murtaugh. “Someone is transporting these people from other states into these other cities.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Tim, can you give me — can you give me one piece of evidence that there was any flight carrying these people that the president is describing?” said Berman over Murtaugh’s repeated interruptions. “I’ll state once again. He’s the commander in chief. He controls the military. When he says something about this, when he presents the idea of, again, this airborne assault, whether it be coming to Washington or leaving Washington, it’s important. And all I want to know if it’s in any way tethered to reality. Did it happen?”</font></p><p style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“How do you suppose they arrived in Washington, John, if not from an airplane?” said Murtaugh. “How do you suppose 102 people arrested in Wisconsin not from the area? 80 percent of the protesters arrested in Minneapolis not from the area. Did they miracle themselves there?”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Tim, Tim, Tim, stop, stop, let me ask a question here,” said Berman. “As you have so far not confirmed any specific flight either coming to or leaving Washington the president mentioned, let me point out to you that this mirrors this <b>conspiracy theory circulating online since June, a police department looked into this idea people are being moved around the country in flights wearing all kinds of black t-shirts. Is it possible the president read this and he’s just regurgitating and getting details wrong? Is that possible?”</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Look, Rand Paul told a similar story and congressional hearings have been called into look into who is funding outrageous riots, by the way, Joe Biden has not identified as left wing riots because that’s what they are,” said Murtaugh. “He’s too weak to stand up to the left wing of his party and denounce these riots for what they are, because he’s absolutely in the control of the anti-police wing of today’s Democrat [sic] Party.</span>”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“None of that addresses — Tim, you’ve got no proof,” said Berman, finally losing patience and ending the interview. “Call us when you have information about these flights that the president has mentioned twice.”</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch below:</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Dale told his colleague, Anderson Cooper: “There is just so much dishonestly and inaccuracy at this convention. It’s hard for me to know where to start. It’s not just big things like this broad revisionism on the response to the pandemic — it’s little inaccuracies, carelessness.”</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Dale noted that Lara Trump, who is married to one of the president’s sons, Eric Trump, use a “fake Abraham Lincoln quote” — adding that “a number of tonight’s false claims came from the&nbsp;<b>vice president, Mike Pence. He repeated one of Trump’s own favorite lies. He said that because of them, we now have Veteran’s Choice. As I’ve said over and over, (President Barack) Obama signed that Choice law in 2014.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Dale explained that while Trump signed a 2018 law that “modified and expanded the Choice program,” he “did not create it.” And Dale went on to point out that “Pence boasted twice that Trump suspended all travel from China. He didn’t; he imposed a partial travel restriction that contained multiple exemptions.”</div><div>
</div><div>Pence, at the 2020 RNC, claimed that former Vice President Joe Biden supports open borders, but Dale noted, “Biden does not support completely unrestricted migration.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Dale slammed Rep. Elise Stefanik, another RNC speaker, for saying that the impeachment of Trump by House Democrats in 2019 was illegal — and told Cooper, “Come on, it’s legal. Impeachment is in the constitution.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And like Trump himself, we had Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claiming that Trump stands by Americans with preexisting conditions. Look, Trump has repeatedly tried to get bills passed to weaken Obamacare’s protections for people with preexisting conditions. And he is currently in court fighting to get the entirety of Obamacare overturned.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">on&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CNN’s&nbsp;</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">State of the Union</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, host Jake Tapper talked to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the Trump administration’s latest favorite talking point: voter fraud. Specifically,<b>&nbsp;voter fraud via&nbsp;voting by mail</b>. In this case, Meadows came out swinging against the notion that states should send ballots to all registered voters.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;In perhaps the most mind-blowing exchange, Tapper (accurately) pointed out that there is no proof of “widespread voter fraud,” and Meadows said, “there’s no evidence that there’s not, either.” Then, Meadows added: “That’s the definition of fraud, Jake.”</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How did we get there? Let’s check out the now-viral clip below.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While already talking about voter fraud, Tapper asked Meadows to get specific, using voting by mail in Florida versus Pennsylvania as examples, as&nbsp;Trump, as well as First Lady Melania Trump,&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/donald-trump-melania-florida-mail-in-ballot/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">requested</a>&nbsp;their absentee ballots to vote in Florida just last week. In fact, Trump even&nbsp;<a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/7/1935366/-Trump-says-voting-by-mail-is-corrupt-and-horrible-but-he-did-it-in-Florida-I-m-allowed-to" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">voted absentee</a>&nbsp;for Florida’s March primary.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Can you tell me the difference between voting by mail in Florida and, say, voting by mail in Pennsylvania?” The CNN host&nbsp;asked Meadows on Sunday morning. “What’s the difference?"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">meadows sidestepped the question, saying he wasn’t familiar with Pennsylvania’s system, but claimed he and Trump don’t have problems with what he described as “no-excuse absentee” voting. He went on to say that he does have a problem with “sending millions of ballots across the country to sometimes empty mailboxes,” noting that he doesn’t want his vote to be “disenfranchised.” Obviously, the word “disenfranchised” coming from the mouth of any Republican is a bold move given the systemic&nbsp;</span><a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/28/1855828/-Embracing-Jim-Crow-era-rules-Florida-GOP-enacts-poll-tax-that-could-ban-up-to-1-million-from-voting" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">disenfranchisement</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">&nbsp;of Black and brown voters across the nation, but the back and forth didn’t jump on that particular word choice.</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meadows further suggested the “problem” is that people are&nbsp;“looking at just sending out ballots,” using California as an example. Tapper cut in there and argued that California has already done that for the majority of its population, at about 75%, as well as Oregon, Utah, and Washington state, without problems.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Now there are four states that are adding to the sending out ballots to every registered voter. I understand that that’s a concern that you’re claiming,” Tapper stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meadows countered this by asking Tapper, “Isn’t it a concern to you?” He continued by claiming that voter rolls are “inaccurate” with “people just moving around” and, in his words, “the people that die off.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tapper again cut off this argument, this time simply saying:&nbsp;“But there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To which Meadows offered up the response that has now gone viral for its absolutely head-scratching, empty wordplay: “There’s no evidence that there’s not either. That’s the definition of fraud, Jake.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is that clip....[trump nevada rant]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/cnns-jake-tapper-busts-trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-live-on-air-for-lying-about-disabling-usps-sorting-machines/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/cnns-jake-tapper-busts-trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-live-on-air-for-lying-about-disabling-usps-sorting-machines/</a></font></p><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trumps-testing-czar-is-running-a-coverup-for-presidents-abysmal-failure-cnns-sanjay-gupta">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trumps-testing-czar-is-running-a-coverup-for-presidents-abysmal-failure-cnns-sanjay-gupta</a></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is accusing</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trumps-covid-19-testing-czar-got-brutal-performance-review-at-his-old-job-and-was-told-to-resign-or-be-fired/" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">President Donald Trump’s testing czar</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of running a “cover up” of the president’s incompetent</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-lies-that-it-is-biden-not-him-who-has-ignored-science-about-19/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><b>response</b>&nbsp;to the novel coronavirus pandemic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During an interview Friday, Gupta reacted to defensive statements made by&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brett Giroir, the federal official tapped by Trump to oversee efforts to increase COVID-19 testing capacity,&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who has bee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n insisting that there is nothing wrong with the United States’ ability to quickly test for the disease.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think on this he’s wrong, he is just wrong,” Gupta said. “I’m surprised by this. I think this is trying to cover up what is unquestionably an abysmal failure when it comes to testing in this country.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gupta then elaborated on why he thinks America’s testing situation is in such dire shape.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We have known that since the middle of February that 40 percent of people out there are completely asymptomatic,” he said. “They don’t have symptoms, they will never develop symptoms and yet, they can still spread the virus. That completely changes everything<b>. Admiral Giroir is still focused on let’s just test symptomatic people.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Until testing can be scaled up, Gupta said, it’s unlikely that the United States will get control of the disease.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’re still not doing enough testing, and frankly now we’re coming up with excuses for why we haven’t done enough testing,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Watch the video below</span>.</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">=</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">
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</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Thursday showed how President Donald Trump’s campaign has been blatantly manipulating photos of former Vice President Joe Biden to make it look like he has spent the last year sitting in his basement.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">While appearing on “New Day,” Dale dissected images of Biden in Trump’s new ad and showed how the campaign used Photoshop to put the photos in a completely different context.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">“[The ad] uses three misleading images, one of which is egregiously altered,” Dale said. “That first image shows Joe Biden speaking at a town hall in Iowa outdoors at a nature preserve… what the ad does is remove the microphone from his hand and remove the trees, replacing it with a wall to make him seem like he’s alone and not talking to anyone.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">Dale also said that Trump campaign manipulated a photo of Biden praying at a church to make him look weak.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">“A third misleading use of an image in that ad, they also show Biden sort of looking down, hands clasped, looking defeated,” he said. “Well, he was actually praying at an African-American church in Delaware after the death of George Floyd. This wasn’t him looking downcast because he’s being beaten by Donald Trump, it was a solemn moment used to make him look bad.”[vid]</p></span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"></span></font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nb womAN reporter, at least no attacked.

President Donald Trump abruptly ended his press briefing on Tuesday when CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins pressed him on his promotion of a quack doctor’s dangerous claims about COVID-19.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Monday night, Trump shared a video of the doctor who falsely claimed hydroxychloroquine is a “cure” for COVID-19 and that it obviated the need to wear masks or undertake other mitigation measures during the pandemic. Some of her claims were clearly wrong on their face — it’s important to reduce the risk of catching diseases even if we have a cure for them — and&

>top experts argue that the evidence continues&nbsp;to give little indication that hydroxychloroquine is effective against the virus. The video Trump shared was so dangerously wrong that social media platforms began removing it.

Subsequent reporting revealed that the doctor in the video is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine?ref=author" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a complete quack</a>&nbsp;— she has previously promoted claims about alien DNA and demon sperm.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The woman that you said is a ‘great doctor’ in that video that you retweeted last night said that masks don’t work and there’s a cure for COVID-19, both of which experts say is not true,” Collins told Trump during the evening briefing. “She’s also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens and that they’re trying to make a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious. So, what’s the logic in retweeting that?”

Trump shook his head and looked down.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I can tell you this,” he said. “She was on air with many other doctors. They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine. And I thought she was very impressive in the sense that where she came — I don’t know what country she comes from — but she’s said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. And I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump tried to move on to another reporter, but Collins had a follow-up. As she tried to cut in, he clearly grew annoyed. He decided to give up on getting a question from another reporter, said only, ‘Thank you very much, everybody,” and quickly left the room.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch the exchange below:</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 520</font></p><table class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><table class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b0355cd52d0a08bcc1a34ab645a6a6ed67ea9c4fb9c0fb04a4ff876892889bb9092ee8755c37a93d59aa71338b4e0a7abaa6" title="After months away, pro-Trump commentators return to CNN" style="">After months away, pro-Trump commentators return to CNN</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; min-width: 100%;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv9384385642stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv9384385642camarker-inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, CNN went several weeks without many appearances from pro-Trump pundits on its airwaves. According to Media Matters’ internal database, between March 9 and May 15, there was only one appearance by one of the network’s pro-Trump pundits on weekday CNN programming: Rick Santorum appeared on&nbsp;<i>Inside Politics</i>&nbsp;on April 13.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that came to an end this week. CNN permitted both&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Rick Santorum</b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>James Schultz</b>&nbsp;to appear on the network, and as soon as the pro-Trump pundits returned, so&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c1574bd7ad59b035965359dd1f6b7a36eef5f05ec4b5b58e0f5f36f2021a86c0d8b1ea4bd3d7b9f673839ebba9ec112b77cf2b9b7063749e" title="id misinformation and right-wing conspiracy theories" style="">did the misinformation and right-wing conspiracy theories</a>.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/after-months-away-pro-trump-commentators-return-cnn">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/after-months-away-pro-trump-commentators-return-cnn</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no vid]</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, many things changed, big and small. One small thing that changed is that CNN’s cadre of pro-Trump commentators virtually disappeared from the airwaves.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since early March, CNN has rarely featured its pro-Trump pundits David Urban, Alice Stewart, Scott Jennings, Rob Astorino, James Schultz, Rick Santorum, and Sean Duffy. According to Media Matters’ internal database, between March 9 and May 15, there was only one appearance by one of these pundits on weekday CNN programming: Rick Santorum appeared on&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Inside Politics</em>&nbsp;on April 13.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That brief time of rationality is at an end, sadly, as the network hosted James Schultz and Rick Santorum on Monday, May 18.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Schultz was on&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">CNN Newsroom</em>&nbsp;to discuss Trump's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/state-dept-ig-trump-fired-was-investigating-saudi-arms-sale.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">abrupt&nbsp;firing</a>&nbsp;of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.</b> (Trump admitted later in the day that he fired Linick at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.) <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schultz, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/11/27/trump-white-house-ethics-lawyer-exits-260542" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">former ethics lawyer</a>&nbsp;in Trump’s White House, used the opportunity to deny the notion that Congress needs to be notified when an acting inspector general is fired.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">may 18 vid]<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3872871" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Click here for transcript</a>)</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Later in the day, the network hosted Santorum to discuss the remarks from Attorney General Bill Barr on former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden.</b> Santorum also used the opportunity to push misinformation, suggesting that parts of the right-wing “Obamagate” nonsense might actually be legitimate. No one pushed back on his claim.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">c<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3872876" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lick here for transcript</a>)</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The other pro-Trump commentators have not been seen on weekday CNN programming in over two months now: Scott Jennings last appeared on March 6; Alice Stewart on March 4; David Urban on March 2; Sean Duffy on January 22; and Rob Astorino on December 2.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-reaching-breaking-point-pro-trump-commentator-steve-cortes" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">has repeatedly cycled</a>&nbsp;through&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-pro-trump-pundits_n_5991eacce4b09071f69bb6d1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pro-Trump commentators</a></b>. Current Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-2015/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">remade herself</a>&nbsp;as a pro-Trump commentator after initially criticizing candidate Trump in 2015. Corey Lewandowski, Jeffrey Lord, Paris Dennard, Ed Martin, Jason Miller, Stephen Moore, Ken Cuccinelli, Jack Kingston, Matt Whitaker, Steve Cortes, and Ben Ferguson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnn-bemoans-lack-civility-after-spending-years-hiring-pro-trump-commentators" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">are a few others</a>&nbsp;who have played the role.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN doesn’t have to platform so many pundits, and the network certainly doesn’t have to platform so many outright lies and distortions.</font></p></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">beware anec schadenfreude strW&nbsp; grasp AN 420</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-cuts-off-gop-lawmaker-with-brutal-fact-check-after-he-claims-no-one-took-trumps-lysol-claim-seriously/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-cuts-off-gop-lawmaker-with-brutal-fact-check-after-he-claims-no-one-took-trumps-lysol-claim-seriously/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/nancy-pelosi-tells-cnns-jake-tapper-to-just-calm-down-after-host-asks-house-speaker-if-she-made-a-tactical-mistake-in-covid-19-relief-fight/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/nancy-pelosi-tells-cnns-jake-tapper-to-just-calm-down-after-host-asks-house-speaker-if-she-made-a-tactical-mistake-in-covid-19-relief-fight/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-grills-louisiana-pastor-for-asking-poor-parishioners-to-hand-over-their-stimulus-money-in-fiery-interview/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-grills-louisiana-pastor-for-asking-poor-parishioners-to-hand-over-their-stimulus-money-in-fiery-interview/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">spell blackwell tony</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LA NO hard hit early covis, many poor POC</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">l<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/louisiana-pastor-who-held-packed-services-during-pandemic-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-protester-with-church-bus/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">ouisiana pastor who held packed services during pandemic arrested for allegedly threatening protester with church bus</a></font></p><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/marissa-higgins/" title="Posts by Marissa Higgins" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Marissa Higgins</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos/" title="Posts by Daily Kos" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daily Kos</a></span></font></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pastor Tony Spell has previously been&nbsp;arrested&nbsp;on misdemeanor charges&nbsp;for&nbsp;holding crowded church services&nbsp;in spite of Louisiana’s stay-at-home&nbsp;orders.</font></p></div><p class="print-title" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">c<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-reporter-flat-out-contradicts-trump-to-his-face-when-he-claims-king-like-authority/" rel="bookmark" title="CNN reporter flat-out contradicts Trump to his face when he claims king-like authority" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important">N reporter flat-out contradicts Trump to his face when he claims king-like authority</a>&nbsp;an 420</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">desantis covid fail</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/gop-governor-is-more-worried-about-pleasing-trump-than-protecting-the-health-of-his-state-cnn-reporter/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/gop-governor-is-more-worried-about-pleasing-trump-than-protecting-the-health-of-his-state-cnn-reporter/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>GOP governor is more worried about pleasing Trump than protecting the health of his state: CNN reporter</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Henderson April 10, 2020</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politically, far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been under a great deal of pressure in recent weeks. DeSantis, on one hand, has been vehemently criticized by Democrats as well as Never Trump conservatives for being so slow to encourage social distancing in his state — and on the other hand, he is under pressure from Trumpistas to avoid disagreeing with anything that President Donald Trump has to say. Journalist Chris Cillizza, in an April 10 article for CNN’s website, examines the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic is affecting DeSantis politically. And he concludes that DeSantis is not doing his job well.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Unfortunately for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,” Cillizza asserts, “the fight against coronavirus has exposed the fact that he may simply not be up to this moment in history. The latest evidence of that came Thursday, when DeSantis sought to explain his thinking about potentially re-opening schools in the state.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Cillizza notes how embarrassing DeSantis’ statements on April 9 were. The governor asserted, “This particular pandemic is one where, I don’t think nationwide, there’s been a single fatality under 25. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t seem to threaten, you know, kids.”</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Cillizza points out, such claims are “wrong.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to the CDC,” Cillizza writes, “four people between the ages of 15 and 24 and one person between the ages of one and four have died. CNN has also reported that a newborn died in Connecticut on April 1, and a baby in Illinois who passed away in March whose death is being looked into as the possible result of the coronavirus.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chris Cillizza</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@CillizzaCNN</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This particular pandemic is one where, I don't think nationwide there's been a single fatality under 25." -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[narrator] That's wrong https://cnn.it/2XqA7in&nbsp;</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What the governor of Florida doesn't know about the coronavirus is a lot</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Being the governor of Florida is, well, a big job. That's true anytime -- Florida is the third most populous state in the country with more than 21 million residents -- but especially so in the midst...</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moreover, Cillizza adds, DeSantis glossed over the fact that someone can spread coronavirus while being totally asymptomatic.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>DeSantis appears to not know that the reason that schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic is not because the virus is killing kids in big numbers but rather, that children are demonstrated carriers and vectors of the illness to adults</b>. A kid might get coronavirus and have mild — or no — symptoms at all. But they could pass it to a teacher, a parent or another adult who gets much, much sicker. And that adult could then pass coronavirus to more people. And on and on we go.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">After hesitating to issue a stay-at-home order in Florida, Cillizza notes, DeSantis finally issued one on April 1 — after, it seems, deciding that doing so would not offend Trump.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Moments like this one are clarifying,” Cillizza asserts. “When a fearful and anxious public turns to its government for guidance and leadership, there’s nowhere for people like the governor of a state to hide from the massive responsibility. You either step up to meet the moments — Govs. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky), to name two — or you shrink in the face of them. DeSantis is a glaring example of the latter.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN host spars with Trump economist Navarro for touting ‘social scientist’ credentials in hydroxychloroquine fight: ‘Why should we listen to you?’</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via Screengrab.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Henderson April 6, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Axios’ Jonathan Swan has reported that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Navarro (policy coordinator for the Trump White House’s trade policy) had a heated argument in the White House’s Situation Room over the benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a way to possibly treat coronavirus. Navarro, like President Donald Trump, has been pushing chloroquine aggressively&nbsp; — while Fauci has strong reservations. And the merits of hydroxychloroquine (which has been used to treat malaria) in relation to coronavirus were hotly debated on Monday morning, April 6 when Navarro appeared on CNN’s “New Day” and was aggressively grilled by host John Berman.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman emphasized that Navarro lacks Fauci’s medical expertise, asking why someone would believe Navarro over a well-respected “infectious disease doctor” like Fauci. When Navarro described himself as a “social scientist,” Berman responded that being a “social scientist” is not the same as having medical expertise.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m sorry, that doesn’t qualify you to treat patients,” Berman said. “You know it doesn’t qualify to you treat patients.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why should we listen to you and not Dr. Anthony Fauci?,” Berman maintained. The CNN host demanded to know, “Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lead infectious disease doctor in this country, wrong about this?”...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/jared-kushner-creating-confusion-by-coordinating-covid-19-response-with-trumps-corporate-allies-wapo-reporter">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/jared-kushner-creating-confusion-by-coordinating-covid-19-response-with-trumps-corporate-allies-wapo-reporter</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jared Kushner creating ‘confusion’ by coordinating COVID-19 response with Trump’s ‘corporate allies’: WaPo reporter</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Travis Gettys / Raw Story April 6, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporter Robert Costa revealed that Jared Kushner has been coordinating the distribution of medical supplies with Republican donors.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Post national political reporter said President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has sparked confusion in those efforts by placing himself in the chain of command, and both Kushner and trade adviser Peter Navarro were contradicting advice from White House medical experts.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When you ask about the inner circle, it is clear to me,” Costa told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “based on my reporting, that Peter Navarro, more than anyone now, whether it’s on urging the president to take a position that’s different than Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, or when it comes to the Defense Production Act, nudging corporations, sometimes pushing corporations to do what the White House wants, that Navarro is at the center.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Jared Kushner is there and he’s really being a liaison to different donors, to different corporate allies of this administration, which has created confusion about the chain of command, about whether corporations should work through Jared, whether they should work through Vice President [Mike] Pence and the task force,” he added.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Na<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">varro and other Trump advisers, including Rudy Giuliani, have been overriding medical experts on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, and Costa said the president’s confidence in that unproven drug was not matched by science.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That scene at the [Centers for Disease Control] from weeks ago, where the president says he is quite familiar with medicine, even though he is not a medical professional, is a statement that you often hear inside of the White House,” Costa said. “Top officials say the president has confidence that’s not backed up by experience or data. This is an alarming situation for not only people in the White House but many governors. They say if the president keeps talking about hydroxychloroquine in a way that is encouraging people to go seek it out, you’re going to have a medical, chaotic situation in this country, where people are trying to get a drug that’s not truly proven as efficacious for treating coronavirus and COVID-19.”</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/tom-boggioni/" title="Posts by Tom Boggioni" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tom Boggioni</a><span style="text-align: right;">&nbsp;</span><span style="text-align: right;">/</span><span style="text-align: right;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/raw-story/" title="Posts by Raw Story" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Raw&nbsp;</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 220</font></p><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/cnn-host-michael-smerconish-slammed-for-comparing-sanders-surge-to-spread-of-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">cNN host Michael Smerconish slammed for comparing Sanders surge to spread of coronavirus</a></font></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/jon-queally/" title="Posts by Jon Queally" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jon Queally</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/common-dreams/" title="Posts by Common Dreams" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Common Dreams</a></span></font></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Radio personality and&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;weekend host Michael Smerconish came under fire Saturday morning.</font></p></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 220?</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stone continued to use Infowars to attack his critics</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the February 8 edition of his show, Stone complained about “leftist retards” talking about his upcoming trial. On February 12, he mentioned<b>&nbsp;CNN commentator Ana Navarro,</b>&nbsp;asking, “What qualifies her other than her ethnicity to comment on anything?” and saying, “Let’s see if she celebrates my acquittal,” before calling her “porquita.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” During the broadcast, he also highlighted the role of Infowars in his legal defense, saying, “I’ve told you about the vital role that Infowars plays in the strategy for my defense. If I can’t come here, if I can’t come on The Alex Jones Show, if I can’t come on the morning show with David Knight, if I can’t come on the War Room, then there’s no forum where I can really go to tell people the complete story about what’s going on.”...</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><table style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" margin="margin" auto="auto" width="550"><tbody><tr><td width="410" valign="top"><p class="yiv9464876765headline3" style="font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/mnnsdzpmpkwlwdvvltypplpvvtlvmnbjskpwycztcyyb_bjclpzbzypgbldgqzlp.html?a=&b=3766&c=21989&d=2" style="">CNN anchor corners Trump trade advisor as he rattles off several lies about the economy</a></font></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" color="color" rgb="rgb" margin="margin" padding="padding"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump’s Trade Advisor Peter Navarro had to take…</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/pence-chief-of-staff-rants-wildly-about-anti-trump-conspiracy-at-doj-gets-promptly-shut-down-on-cnn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Pence chief of staff rants wildly about anti-Trump conspiracy at DOJ — gets promptly shut down on CNN</a></font></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/tom-boggioni/" title="Posts by Tom Boggioni" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tom Boggioni</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/raw-story/" title="Posts by Raw Story" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Raw Story</a></span></font></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” with fill-in host Dana Bash, the chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence argued the Justice Department is rife with officials who are biased against Donald Trump.</font></p></div><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/cnn-exposes-controversial-trump-associates-reportedly-buying-rally-attendance-and-votes-for-cash">https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/cnn-exposes-controversial-trump-associates-reportedly-buying-rally-attendance-and-votes-for-cash</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN exposes controversial Trump associates reportedly buying rally attendance and votes for cash</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story February 16, 2020</font></p><p style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Sunday morning, CNN took a deep dive into reports that groups allied with President Donald Trump are funneling cash to potential voters in the hopes that they will turn out in November in what is expected to be a close presidential election.</font></p><p style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report centers on Darrell Scott, a pastor from Cleveland who is a prominent ally of the president and has been running a possibly illegal program designed to win over black voters for the president that literally involves handing them envelopes stuffed with cash at mini-rallies.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“At the center of the controversy is a new charity called the Urban Revitalization Coalition led by Ohio Pastor Darrell Scott,</span>” the report states which has, “Raised red flags saying the cash events may violate tax laws that bar nonprofits from engaging in political campaign activities and could jeopardize the group’s tax-exempt status. In an interview, Scott said he’s careful to follow the law., but groups like the NAACP accuse him of trying to buy support for President Trump.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN shared clips from the rallies where the envelopes were handed out and, in one, a rally organizer can be seen exhorting attendees to attend the next rally by saying, “Come back in February when we give you $50,000.”</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can watch the video below:</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?468104-6/author-discussion-president-media" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Author Discussion on the President and the Media</a></span><span class="abstract" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Author and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams; Los Angeles Times…</span><span class="abstract" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/cnn-moderators-slammed-for-ignoring-price-tag-of-endless-war-but-expressing-alarm-over-cost-of-medicare-for-all/mma NN fails to disclose former Bush official talking about Iran works for defense contractor &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;01/07/20 11:58 PM EST CNN has yet another GOP problemEric Boehlert&nbsp;/&nbsp;Daily KosDecember 9, 2019Last winter, CNN for weeks stood by its extraordinary and&nbsp;inexplicable decision&nbsp;to hire Sarah Isgur Flores, a career Republican Party&nbsp;operative with absolutely no journalism experience, to be the network’s political editor.…CNN has yet another GOP problemEric Boehlert&nbsp;/&nbsp;Daily KosDecember 9, 2019Last winter, CNN for weeks stood by its extraordinary and&nbsp;inexplicable decision&nbsp;to hire Sarah Isgur Flores, a career Republican Party&nbsp;operative with absolutely no journalism experience, to be the network’s political editor.… no lnx CNN has yet another GOP problemWritten by Eric Boehlert / Daily Kos December 9, 2019 Last winter, CNN for weeks stood by its extraordinary and inexplicable decision to hire Sarah Isgur Flores, a career Republican Party operative with absolutely no journalism experience, to be the network’s political editor. A hardcore partisan, Isgur spent her career spinning for Republicans such as Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, and Carly Fiorina. Until last year, Isgur worked as a spokesperson for then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice. CNN staffers were reportedly demoralized by the Isgur move—and for good reason, since CNN political editors should be journalists, period. If CNN wants to hire conservatives like Isgur to go on camera and bolster Trump talking points, that’s the network’s choice. But to hire someone with Isgur’s resume to work behind the scenes and oversee campaign coverage remains a baffling decision to this day.&nbsp;“Her Twitter includes fact-free invectives against liberals and repeatedly rails against the ‘abortion industry,’” The Daily Beast noted at the time. By March, CNN acknowledged the controversy and announced that Isgur “is no longer taking a job as a political editor in the Washington bureau. Instead Isgur will be a political analyst at the network, sharing her insights through television segments like many other commentators do.” But now, more questions are being raised about why CNN ever even considered hiring an openly partisan operative for a key campaign coverage position. The questions come as CNN continues to struggle with trying to balance its desire to employ conservative voices for political balance while also maintaining common-sense standards at the network. We now know that while working for Trump’s DOJ, Isgur played a central role in the GOP’s public smearing of a longtime FBI official, Lisa Page, who had been part of a 2016 team investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as examining suspicions that Donald Trump’s campaign was working with Russian forces. The GOP, led by Trump, declared war on Page after it was discovered she had been texting about the election with FBI agent Peter Strzok, with whom Page was having an affair. Seizing upon the idea that the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign as part of the nonsensical “Deep State” effort to deny him the White House, Republicans soon turned Page and Strzok into villains,&nbsp;while gleefully leaning into their affair. Just two months ago, “The president called out her name as he acted out an orgasm in front of thousands of people at a Minneapolis rally,” The Daily Beast noted. Now, with a DOJ inspector general’s report set to be released which reportedly confirms there was no rogue effort by the FBI to spy on Trump, the whole Page/Strzok smear campaign looks especially cruel and heartless. And it turns out it was Isgur who was essentially feeding what Republicans thought were incriminating texts to reporters back in 2017, as the controversy raged. The night before then-deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein was set to testify before Congress, “the Justice Department spokesperson, Sarah [Isgur] Flores, calls the beat reporters into the Justice Department,” Page told The Daily Beast. “This is late at night on a weekday. Calls them in to provide a cherry-picked selection of my text messages to review and report on in advance of Rod Rosenstein going to the Hill the next morning.” Why were the texts released? “You’d have to ask Sarah [Isgur] Flores,” Page said.&nbsp;“I can tell you that the reporters there that night were told that they weren’t allowed to source them to the Justice Department, and that they weren’t allowed to copy or remove them, just take notes. That’s what I know.” She added, “Those texts were selected for their political impact. They lack a lot of context. Many of them aren’t even about him or me.” This is just egregious behavior, to have a DOJ spokesperson work in tandem with the GOP to try to effectively ruin the life and reputation of an FBI official for purely partisan reasons,&nbsp;and to do it in such a personal and unseemly way. And that’s who CNN earlier this year wanted to hire as a political editor overseeing campaign coverage? It’s kind of breathtaking. Again, no reasonable person thinks CNN should not hire conservatives in order to present a wide spectrum of political opinions. Clearly CNN markets itself as occupying the political middle in this country and wants to present itself as a forum for both sides, and that makes sense from a programming perspective. What does not make sense is abandoning newsroom guidelines and principles in order to make room for conservatives with dubious pasts or, in the case of Isgur, someone who acted in such an unethical manner while dealing with journalists. Keep in mind that CNN reached out to a toxic GOP partisan operative at the same time Trump had declared war on the network. Last year, the White House lashed out at CNN by pulling reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass.&nbsp;Trump routinely defames the network on Twitter. Recently, Trump’s personal attorney sent a ridiculous letter to CNN, threatening to sue the network for its “biased” coverage of Trump. Yet CNN continually responds by aggressively trying to curry favor with conservatives and Trump defenders. In October the network hired Sean Duffy as a commentator.&nbsp;The former Republican congressman quickly created problems for the network by constantly fabricating facts and spreading reckless and dangerous conspiracy theories.&nbsp;During his CNN debut week, Duffy lied about the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords. He lied about Joe Biden trying to fire a Ukraine prosecutor in order to protect his son. And Duffy helped spread the preposterous lie about the Democratic National Committee’s email servers from 2016 somehow ending up in a foreign country. Duffy then questioned the patriotism of Purple Heart recipient and National Security Council official Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, after it was reported Vindman was telling House investigators damaging information about Trump’s open collusion with Ukraine and his attempt to get a foreign power to dig up dirt on the Republican’s political opponents. CNN anchors went on the air and directly denounced Duffy’s comments as a “smear” and an ugly form of “bigotry.” CNN should welcome conservatives onto their televised debates and discussions. But they shouldn’t make exceptions for conservatives who are unqualified for the job. Eric Boehlert is a veteran progressive writer and media analyst, formerly with Media Matters and Salon. He is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush and Bloggers on the Bus. You can follow him on Twitter @EricBoehlert. This post was written and reported through our Daily Kos freelance program.=1219 an "that is not true’: Manic Republican Mark Meadows shut down by CNN host for repeating lies about UkraineTom Boggioni&nbsp;/&nbsp;Raw StoryA fifteen-minute CNN interview with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) wound down to an abrupt end on Sunday morning. =CNN's Rick Santorum: “The president cared a lot about the corruption in Ukraine”= https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/former-republican-lawmaker-rips-thin-skinned-weakling-devin-nunes-for-threatening-critics-with-yet-another-lawsuit/ an 1119former Republican lawmaker rips ‘thin-skinned weakling’ Devin Nunes for threatening critics with yet another lawsuitTom Boggioni&nbsp;/&nbsp;Raw StoryAppearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) scorched former colleague Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) for threatening another lawsuit. no lnx Former Republican lawmaker rips ‘thin-skinned weakling’ Devin Nunes for threatening critics with yet another lawsuit Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story November 24, 2019 Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) scorched former colleague&nbsp;Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) for threatening another lawsuit, this time against CNN and the Daily Beast for reporting that an&nbsp;indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani claims the California Republican met with former chief Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin in Vienna in 2018 looking for dirt on political opponents. With the Washington Times reporting on Saturday that Nunes has threatened yet anther lawsuit, Jolly said the combative defender of Donald Trump needs to step up and come clean and stop being so “thin-skinned.” Host Gura noted that Nunes may be facing a Congressional ethics inquiry if the claims made by Lev Parnas attorney Joseph A. Bondy are true,&nbsp; leading Jolly to first turn to Nunes’ initial response. “Look, I would first say Devin Nunes wants to sue the media over this,” he began. “What a bunch of thin-skinned weaklings Republicans have become wanting to sue the media over a legitimate report.” “Lev Parnas said he met with the prosecutor, that’s it. Stop trying to sue the media and sue the cow and all that other stuff” he continued noting another infamous lawsuit filed by the lawmaker against a Twitter critic posing as one of his cows. “The House Ethics Committee gives a lot of deference to members. Without a direct tie to some type of campaign contribution that he benefited from or an actual bribe, which clearly there is no reporting of, the question is did he bring ill-repute upon the House by not disclosing to the Intelligence Committee or his colleagues going into the series of hearings that in fact, he had a conflict or additional information.” Watch below:mma 1119no lnx &nbsp;Duffy, a former Republican member of Congress, is the latest shill for President Donald Trump to join CNN and immediately disgrace the network. That’s by design, the result of a deliberate policy mandated by the network’s top executives to hire and feature Trump supporters, knowing all the while that they will inevitably lie to CNN's audience. On Tuesday morning, Duffy was brought on to discuss Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s pending congressional testimony before the House committees that are currently pursuing an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s abuse of power regarding Ukraine. Vindman, the top official handling Ukraine on the National Security Council, will testify that he was on the July phone call in which Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe former Vice President Joe Biden, and that he viewed the call as improper and reported his concerns to the NSC’s top lawyer. Vindman earned a Purple Heart while deployed in Iraq in 2003. He came to the United States as a Jewish refugee from Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) when he was 3 years old. That latter point was the focus of Duffy’s criticism, as the newly minted CNN contributor and The Real World: Boston alumnus insinuated that the decorated active duty Army officer had turned on the president because he is a “former Ukrainian” who “wants to make sure that taxpayer money goes in military aid to the Ukraine.” Anchor John Berman spent the next several minutes pushing back on and teasing out the implications of the smear, as his colleague repeatedly suggested that Vindman had prioritized his “homeland” of Ukraine over the United States. He later reaired the comments as an example of efforts by the president’s allies to “discredit” Vindman, referring to them as “a pretty shocking statement.” Duffy’s smear has continued to drive CNN’s coverage of the impending Vindman testimony.&nbsp; Editor at large Chris Cillizza included Duffy’s comments, along with similar remarks from Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham, in a piece denouncing the Vindman smear as “Awful. Appalling. Asinine.”&nbsp; Contributor Jeffrey Toobin added during a discussion of the comments on the following hour of CNN’s programming that “with all due respect to our new contributor,” Duffy’s smear amounted to “insanity and, frankly, anti-immigrant bigotry.”&nbsp; But Berman’s co-anchor Alisyn Camerota offered a different take. “I appreciate Sean Duffy's candor,” she replied to Toobin, “of how he sees all of this because we are hearing it on Fox TV and elsewhere and we’re going to be hearing it all day.” That’s been CNN’s official line since the 2016 campaign, when the network responded to Trump’s political rise by hiring a stable of pro-Trump contributors to populate its omnipresent panel segments. Top network executive Jeff Zucker followed that path knowing that these hires would inevitably seek to mislead CNN’s audience. “Some of these folks are not very good with the facts,” he explained during an interview last year. “But that’s O.K. in the sense that it’s our job then to call them out.”&nbsp; The result of this policy has been twofold: nonstop misinformation that consistently sidetracks the network’s discussions, and a seemingly endless string of controversies, as Trumpists engage in bigoted commentary, become radioactive, lose their jobs, and are replaced&nbsp; with new faces. Duffy is already following that well-trod path, as the Vindman smear marks his second major controversy in two weeks. Duffy drew widespread criticism, including from his new colleagues, after he used his first two appearances as a CNN contributor last week to push the nonsensical claim that Ukraine is in possession of the Democratic National Committee server that Russian operatives hacked during the 2016 election.&nbsp; CNN can only expect more of the same going forward, as the former congressman has a long record of promoting conspiracy theories. But that’s what he’s there to do. The conspiracy theories and lies of CNN’s latest hire, Sean Duffy10/22/19 5:10 PM EDTCNN hired Sean Duffy, who immediately pushed conspiracy theories that CNN had already debunked10/21/19 11:33 AM EDTCNN pays Sean Duffy to make a ridiculous remark -- and then calls his statement “shockinghttps://www.alternet.org/2019/11/were-done-with-this-conversation-cnn-host-cuts-off-interview-with-trump-defender-spewing-conspiracy-theoriesno lnx ‘We’re done with this conversation’: CNN host cuts off interview with Trump defender spewing conspiracy theoriesC-SPAN screenshotWritten by Matthew Chapman / Raw Story November 2, 2019On CNN Saturday, former Lt. Gov. André Bauer (R-SC) tried to deflect from President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal by changing the subject to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton — only for host Victor Blackwell to shut him down. “Let’s start here with what we’re getting from the Washington Post. Senators now willing to acknowledge, yeah, it was a quid pro quo,” said Blackwell. “You think that’s — one, are you willing to acknowledge what acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged, and do you think it’s right for Republicans to do so too?” “I don’t think it’s a quid pro quo … Trump to me said it in a jovial manner, look, you all ought to investigate this guy, his son’s making $50,000 a month,” said Bauer. “Jovial manner?” repeated Blackwell. “How did you get jovial out of a written partial transcript?” “Again, he let the transcript out,” said Bauer. “You can argue them any way you want, but, again, the real quid pro quo should be somebody says you’re not getting money, we’re going to hold it, I told him, and he says it in a video interview and his son is making $50,000 from the company that’s being investigated.” “Okay. We should also say that what you’re suggesting is that the Bidens did something wrong,” said Blackwell. “There’s no evidence to suggest that they did something wrong or that it’s illegal … André, if this was such a perfect call and you didn’t see anything wrong with it, Lt. Col. Vindman testified this week — and he’s the top Ukraine expert — he testified he was told by the White House lawyer John Eisenberg not to discuss the president’s call. Then Eisenberg and other National Security Council lawyers put it in this higher security server. If it was such a perfect call, why was there so much energy inside the White House exerted to limit access, to keep people from talking about it, potential criminal referrals? if everything was okay, why were there so many career diplomats concerned about what the president said?” “I don’t know that they are,” said Bauer. “You can find anybody to take anything out of context you want … again, we’re investigating something that’s not nearly as quid pro quo that [Biden] on camera says, I withheld the money, and said—” “Okay, can we please stop with this?” said fellow guest Tara Setmayer. “I know you don’t want to talk about it,” said Bauer. “Let’s talk specifically about it,” said Blackwell. “Most of the Western world wanted the Ukrainian general prosecutor Viktor Shokin removed because they felt he was not doing enough to investigate corruption, the European allies wanted him out. Christine Lagarde of the IMF was so disappointed with the work he did, that she was going to hold back billions of dollars. so you’re trying to change and shift what actually was happening in 2016.” “It’s like investigating Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton when you want to talk about Russian collusion,” said Bauer. “Okay. We’re done with this conversation,” said Blackwell. “I thought this was going to be a talk about strategy from the Republicans who are now acknowledging quid pro quo. We hoped to get to the polling that shows that although we’ve seen three weeks of revelations, that 49 percent, just like they were three weeks ago, support the removal of the president after impeachment. Instead we had to go down this road of debunked conspiracies and fact-check for four and a half minutes.” Watch below: ==gOP lawmaker implodes after CNN host corners him on lies about Joe BidenBrad Reed&nbsp;/&nbsp;Raw StoryRep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) had a full blown meltdown during a CNN interview on Friday in which he was caught red-handed peddling falsehoods about former Vice President Joe Biden.https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/cnn-hired-a-habitual-liar-as-the-republicans-strategy-to-work-the-refs-pays-off/no lnx CNN hired a habitual liar as the Republicans’ strategy to ‘work the refs’ pays offWritten by Eric Boehlert / Daily Kos October 23, 2019Former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, recently hired by CNN to be a paid political commentator, can’t stop fabricating facts when he goes on the air. Since making his CNN debut on Sunday, Duffy has lied about the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords. He’s lied about Joe Biden trying to fire a Ukraine prosecutor in order to protect his son. And Duffy’s helped spread the preposterous lie about the Democratic National Committee’s email servers from 2016 somehow ending up in a foreign country. Sean Duffy, who staked his congressional reputation in recent years on being an undying Trump loyalist, is not a serious person.&nbsp;And Sean Duffy appears to be a habitual liar.&nbsp;(He once claimed George Soros was rigging voting machines, and that Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.)&nbsp;You would think those unfortunate traits would represent two large check marks against someone who wanted to be in the business of commenting on the news. And yet, here we are. CNN executives, having surveyed the political landscape in search of new voices to add to its discussions, decided to hire Duffy, which says a lot more about CNN than it does Duffy. What’s newsworthy about Duffy’s hiring is the timing. It just seems odd since much of the press, including CNN, has moved to toughen up Trump coverage in recent weeks and temporarily abandon the hallmark timidity that has defined so much of the reporting and commentary over the last two-plus years. “The mainstream media seems to have quietly removed its Trump-normalizing gloves in the past few weeks,” wrote Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. CNN anchors and commentators have often been part of that change. They have been out front since the Ukraine collusion scandal broke last month, emphasizing that Trump’s pronouncements and denials are almost always wrapped in lies and deceptions. That’s a good thing. So why now, of all times, would CNN decide to shift into reverse and hire another Trump loyalist who cannot be trusted to be honest or state anything factual each time he appears on air? Why would CNN want to go back to playing the silly and time-consuming game of blocking off lots of airtime so conservative contributors can make stuff up, which CNN anchors then have to point out is, y’know, made up? What does CNN hope to accomplish with this? It’s all just a colossal waste of time, and CNN already tried to pull off that losing strategy for two years. Looking to capture the cable news “middle” between Fox News and MSNBC, CNN often obsesses over its Both Sides presentation. And on paper, there’s nothing wrong with that. (Think: Crossfire format.) The problem is trying to find honest conservatives these days and, specifically, the nearly impossible task of finding honest conservatives who are also Trump loyalists, since that’s the Both Sides debate CNN often wants to present. CNN has hired many such Trump loyalists who have chewed up the cable news scenery, spreading lie after preposterous lie. That includes people like Jason Miller, Jack Kingston, Ed Martin, Jeffrey Lord, and Corey Lewandowski, among others. None of them, to be generous, covered the network in glory. Following the 2018 school massacre at Parkland High School in Florida, Kingston claimed on the air that students who rallied against gun violence were being taken advantage of by “left-wing gun control activists” led by billionaire George Soros. It all badly muddies the waters, because by allowing—and paying—people like Duffy to disseminate nonsense like he’s already spewed about DNC servers, CNN is legitimizing that lie, even when it’s fact-checked.&nbsp;“First of all, what you are stating is completely inaccurate and factually wrong,” CNN contributor Jen Psaki told Duffy when he started in with the server conspiracy. “It’s a conspiracy theory on the right-wing blogs.” And frankly, that’s where that garbage should stay. By hiring someone like Duffy at this juncture, it appears CNN has learned very little since 2017, and specifically very little about how to cover a liar like Trump. It’s not up to CNN and other media players to hire bad actors simply because the conservative movement is filled with bad actors. All news outlets ought to have easily identifiable standards, and if would-be paid contributors can’t meet those standards, they should not be hired. Keep in mind that CNN remains under constant bullying attacks from Trump and the entire conservative movement.&nbsp;Last year, the White House lashed out at CNN by pulling reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass. Trump routinely defames the network on Twitter. And just last week, Trump’s personal attorney sent a ridiculous threat to CNN, threatening to sue the network for its “biased” coverage of Trump. (“Never in the history of this country has a President been the subject of such a sustained barrage of unfair, unfounded, unethical and unlawful attacks by so-called ‘mainstream’ news, as the current situation,” etc.) Lawyers everywhere mocked the move as deeply unserious, but the cumulative effect adds up. And that makes Duffy’s hiring even more distressing. It certainly seems to send a signal that “working the refs” is an effective strategy, and that if Republicans complain loudly and long enough, the cable news channel will bend, in small ways, to the GOP’s will. Recall that back in January, CNN seemed to make a similar and equally misguided concession to Trump when it hired a hyper-partisan Republican flack with no experience in journalism to oversee the network’s campaign news coverage. After a public outcry, CNN changed the Republican’s job duties. Note to CNN: It’s not too late to do the same with Duffy. Eric Boehlert is a veteran progressive writer and media analyst, formerly with Media Matters and Salon. He is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush and Bloggers on the Bus. You can follow him on Twitter @EricBoehlert.=1019press secretary whines after CNN’s Anderson Cooper ridiculed her outrageous lies Walter Einenkel&nbsp;/&nbsp;Daily Kos =Fox News’ Chris Wallace shreds acting defense secretary for ‘abandoning the Kurds’ to be slaughtered by TurkeyDavid Edwards&nbsp;/&nbsp;Raw StoryFox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday grilled acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. troops to abandon Kurds in Syria.https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/jim-jordan-and-gop-battered-by-cnn-panel-for-blatant-lying-about-damning-state-department-texts/919CNN panel explodes in anger as Rick Santorum defends assault weapons after latest shootingTom Boggioni&nbsp;/&nbsp;Raw StoryA CNN panel discussion on yet another mass shooting exploded into anger and yelling after former Sen. Rick Santorum refused to even consider stopping the sale of assault rifles after a massacre in Texas.amazing news about corruption of lapierre had no effect; must be that guns are fundamental to base? tho big %even of NRA rank and file ok w/ bkgd checks? CNN’s Anderson Cooper rips Trump for cowering in fear of the NRA — after he slammed Republicans for doing exactly that Cody FenwickPresident Donald Trump is backing down from his support of bulked-up firearm background check legislation, clearly fearful of backlash from the National Rifle Association. And according to The Atlantic, Trump…2nd dem debate proprietary, more entertainment? bernie predicted correctly run anti- pro corp medicare for all adhttps://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/07/26/cnn-s-ethics-mess-employee-again-used-network-job-promote-his-lobbying-client-s-cause/224331no lnx vidCNN political commentator and megalobbyist David Urban again used his network job to push for the passage of a trade agreement favored by President Donald Trump. Urban’s lobbying firm is being paid by a Trump-aligned group to lobby for the passage of the agreement, a blatant financial conflict of interest that CNN (again) didn’t disclose to viewers.&nbsp;Trump has been trying to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since he signed the deal during November’s G-20 summit. In February, Axios reported that&nbsp;Republicans formed the 501(c)(4) group Trade Works for America with the specific purpose of pressuring members of Congress, especially Democrats, to support the USMCA.&nbsp;&nbsp;On April 1, Trade Works for America retained Urban and his firm American Continental Group to lobby for the USMCA. The group has paid Urban's firm $90,000 so far, according to a lobbying report filed by the firm last week.&nbsp;As Media Matters reported earlier this month, Urban used his CNN job to -- unprompted -- push for the agreement’s passage just three days after he was retained to lobby for it.&nbsp;On the April 4 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper, Urban said that the USMCA has been “getting some momentum, some traction with Democrats in the House” and Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border would “kind of blow that up” and be “a tragedy.” Media Matters asked CNN why the network didn’t disclose Urban’s financial conflict of interest during that segment but received no response.&nbsp; Urban again appeared on CNN and urged the passage of the USMCA, this time on the July 24 edition of Anderson Cooper 360. Urban brought up the USMCA essentially unprompted and said that “people want to see legislators legislate” and that “the path of success for Democrats” is to pass things like the USMCA.&nbsp;DAVID URBAN: So I would say what David [Axelrod] was talking about in the 2018 midterms, people want to see legislators legislate. They want to see things happen. I think the path to success --&nbsp;you just saw debt ceiling raised, people -- every side kind of got half a loaf. Republicans took it on the chin, I think, in terms of, you know, incredible runaway spending, you know, which is very interesting.ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): It is extraordinary for the Republicans.&nbsp;URBAN: Very extraordinary, right? And so USMCA is coming up on the table here. There's going to be a move to -- whether they're going to pass -- the House is going to do something there. I think the path of success for Democrats is legislatively forward, pass some things, look like the body -- we can work. We're functional, not just somebody who keeps throwing bricks through the window.DAVID&nbsp;AXELROD&nbsp;(CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR): They would say that they've passed -- they say that they passed a ton of things and they've died in the Senate.URBAN: But, you can -- but, David, my point is pass things that get signed into law -- COOPER: All right. URBAN: -- that's legislative. Neither CNN, Cooper, nor Urban disclosed that he’s a lobbyist for the passage of the USMCA.&nbsp; Basic ethics failures have become standard operating procedure for CNN in its handling of Urban. CNN has not disclosed Urban’s lobbying conflicts of interest on other topics such as military issues, environmental protections, and tax policy. Urban is scheduled to appear on the July 28 edition of CNN's State of the Union. The network did not respond to a request for comment.&nbsp; Posted InEthicsNetwork/OutletCNNPersonDavid UrbanShow/PublicationAnderson Cooper 360=mma 719 Inspired by a&nbsp;Fox & Friends&nbsp;segment attacking&nbsp;Baltimore congressional Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and likening conditions in the city to the southern border, President Trump&nbsp;lashed out&nbsp;on Saturday, calling Baltimore a "rodent infested mess." On Sunday, Fox&nbsp;rushed to defend Trump. This racist mess followed Fox News&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;(and then&nbsp;defending) Trump's racist statements towards Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar. &nbsp;Shortly after Trump's twitter rant, CNN host Victor Blackwell&nbsp;gave an emotional response on air, pointing out that Trump only used this type of "infestation" language when attacking minorities.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Baltimore Sun&nbsp;published a powerful editorial&nbsp;titled "Better to have a few rats than to be one."There is one thing that the media must cover in relation to Trump's twitter rant. Jared Kushner operates as a slumlord in Baltimore. As ProPublica&nbsp;has reported:&nbsp;"Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the president’s son-in-law"=https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/new-report-details-failure-of-cable-and-network-outlets-to-accurately-describe-climate-emergency-call-it-a-crisis/ no lnx twt Name and shame. That’s the dual directive from a new report that calls on news organizations to use appropriate language when discussing the climate crisis—even as the report calls them out for inaction. The report—titled “‘Call It a Crisis’: The Role of U.S. Network News in Communicating the Urency of Climate Change” (pdf)—analyzed the coverage of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to determine just how much urgency the influential outlets bring to their reporting. https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/public-citizen-call-it-a-crisis-report-april-29-2019.pdf According to David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, the specific words that journalists and news anchors use—or choose not to use—matters. “The words we use to characterize an issue make a difference in how it is perceived and prioritized politically,” said Arkush. When outlets with massive nightly audiences like the ones the report studied “consistently fail to use language that conveys that climate change is a crisis or emergency,” Arkush added, “they unwittingly put a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of complacency and inaction.” &nbsp;Fox News was the worst offender,&nbsp;with the use of “climate crisis” coming in for only five mentions during the coverage period—all of which, as Public Citizen noted, were efforts to “minimize the issue with false logic, mockery or misinformation.” But other news networks weren’t much better than the conservative channel. The only network to use the term in double digits was CNN,&nbsp;and only 16 of the 26 mentions were by a host. Van Jones, whose eponymous show ran every other Sunday during the survey period, accounted for six of those mentions. Public Citizen?@Public_Citizen&nbsp;NEW REPORT: In 2018, only 50 of 1,429 national TV news segments used the word “crisis” or “emergency" when discussing climate change. That's a measly 3.5 percent. Here's how the networks stack up: MSNBC: 7%NBC: 6%CNN: 3%CBS: 3%ABC: 2%Fox: 2% http://pubc.it/2XTXQEE&nbsp; 5512:23 PM - Apr 29, 201950 people are talking about thisTwitter Ads info and privacy Networks should name the problem clearly to avoid confusion, said Allison Fisher, outreach director for Public Citizen’s Energy Program. “Climate coverage on broadcast and cable television news is still at best spotty and at worst riddled with misinformation,” Fisher said. “Calling it a crisis indicates that the stakes are high and that the issue is urgent. Most of all it signals to viewers that the time to act on climate is now.” How to report on the climate crisis has long been an issue for news organizations. In July 2018, MSNBC host Chris Hayes said on Twitter that while he was personally invested in the story, the topic was “a palpable ratings killer.” “So the incentives are not great,” said Hayes. Chris Hayes?@chrislhayesReplying to @elongreenalmost without exception. every single time we've covered it's been a palpable ratings killer. so the incentives are not great. 5267:08 AM - Jul 24, 2018Twitter&nbsp; =https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/extremely-demoralizing-cnn-reportedly-baffles-staffers-after-hiring-an-ex-trump-administration-flack-to-run-politics-coverage/According&nbsp;to The Daily Beast, CNN staffers are angry and disheartened by the news that Republican strategist Sarah Isgur was hired as political editor for the network’s coverage ahead of the 2020 presidential election:The hiring was met with a negative internal reaction, especially because many CNN staffers have been largely left in the dark on the controversial decision. While other marquee hires are often announced internally, as of Tuesday afternoon the company has not circulated any guidance to staff about Isgur’s new role, leading employees to wonder how much of a role she will have in day-to-day political reporting.“It’s extremely demoralizing for everyone here,” one network editorial staffer told The Daily Beast.“People are generally confused,” another editorial employee said, adding that the decision to hire a partisan operative for an editorial position comes off as “very bizarre.”Isgur has previously&nbsp;advised&nbsp;several right-wing campaigns and organizations, including a Ted Cruz Senate run and Carly Fiorina’s 2016 presidential campaign. She most recently served as a spokeswoman for the Justice Department under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a job for which the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;reported&nbsp;she pledged her loyalty to the Trump agenda to get.One key thing missing from her résumé, however, is any experience in journalism.She has also been a consistently reliable right-wing partisan. Vox reported that on&nbsp;Twitter, she has called President Barack Obama “the new Nixon,” compared abortion to gun violence, spread conspiracy theories about Planned Parenthood, lied that “92 percent of jobs lost in Obama’s first term belonged to women,” scoffed at the idea that climate change is a national security threat, and attacked the media for pointing out that President Donald Trump pushed Birther conspiracy theories. She has also repeatedly attacked CNN itself, calling it the “Clinton News Network” and attacking them for correctly reporting that an event hosted by a&nbsp;right-wing hate group&nbsp;is “anti-gay” and “anti-abortion.”CNN is, of course, no stranger to hiring controversial far-right personalities. The network hired Jeffrey Lord, a Trump surrogate who they had to dismiss after he&nbsp;tweeted a Nazi slogan, and Kayleigh McEnany, who has&nbsp;claimed&nbsp;transgender civil rights empower sexual predators.But the difference is, these people were hired as commentators, to give their own opinions&nbsp;— for better or worse&nbsp;— in overtly political debate segments. It is&nbsp;extremely rare, The Daily Beast noted, for a news network to hire a political operative with no background in journalism as an editor. (CNN disputes the idea that she will steer editorial decisions,&nbsp;telling&nbsp;Vox’s Aaron Rupar that Isgur “is not leading, overseeing, or running political coverage” and will simply be “helping to coordinate coverage across TV and Digital.”)The dissatisfaction by CNN staffers is a sign that the hire threatens to embarrass the network&nbsp;and undermine its credibility.=https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/gop-lawmaker-faceplants-on-live-tv-after-being-asked-if-climate-change-could-be-considered-a-national-emergency/ Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on Friday appeared to short circuit after CNN’s John Berman asked him if a Democrat president could in the future use the precedent being set by President Donald Trump to unilaterally declare climate change a “national emergency.”During a discussion about Trump potentially bypassing Congress to order the construction of his border wall by declaring a “national emergency,” Berman asked Brooks what he would think of a future Democratic president using the same tactics to address climate change.“I’m sorry, you’d have to… that was kind of convoluted, the way I heard it, could you please restate it?” Brooks said in response.“What I’m saying is, if the president can make the claim that national security money, emergency money is needed for a wall, could a president at one point say it’s needed to fight climate change?” he asked.At this point, Brooks’ eyes darted about and there was an uncomfortable pause before he responded.“I would have to look at the specific statutes to see what you can and cannot do,” he said. “This is so far out there…”“Why?” Berman interjected. “If it’s a matter of national security and the president deems it so, why is it outside the purview of the law?”“I don’t see how that example that you gave affects the national security of the United States,” he replied.“The Pentagon and the intelligence services often talk about the affects of climate change,” Berman shot back.Watch the video below.santorum paid pundit:...Amid all that, news programs like Chuck Todd's Meet The Press—offerings that putatively exist to inform the public about the world around them—are still playing host to people who are paid to spread false information about the world. Todd is not alone:&nbsp;CNN hosted Rick Santorum on Sunday. Like NBC News, which employs Pletka as a contributor, they pay Rick directly to spread nonsense. ...this Week talked about the climate report for two minutes with Sen. Amy Klobuchar and noted that the administration tried to bury it. The report did not, from what I can tell, come up on the rest of the hour-long show...[vid] whitehouse sen Here's&nbsp;paid CNN commentator Rick Santorum&nbsp;praising the Trump administration for trying to bury the climate report, arguing that climate change is made up by scientists trying to make some money&nbsp;pic.twitter.com/lBpLMexgt9... This festering boil on the body politic highlights another in-vogue conservative argument: that the scientists who've devoted their lives to studying the climate are really just in it for those juicy government grants to continue studying it. It's all about the money! As usual in this era, this is a case of accusing the opposition of something you're already up to.=see acosta ban, fake video=CNN's New York City offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night due to a bomb threat, forcing the network to switch to pre-filmed programming."We were evacuated in the middle of my live show," reported CNN host&nbsp;Don Lemon. "Bomb threat. We’re running taped programming. NYPD is investigating.&nbsp; Stay tuned."Host Brian Stelter&nbsp;said: "The NYPD is investigating a bomb threat near CNN NYC's office at Columbus Circle. Due to the threat, the office has been evacuated."Many observers&nbsp;pointed out that, not before the threat has been made public, President Donald Trump had posted a barrage&nbsp;of frantic&nbsp;tweets&nbsp;including one context-less attack on the press: "FAKE NEWS - THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" Initial reports conflicted&nbsp;about the precise time of the bomb threat itself, raising questions about whether Trump's tweet might have instigated the attack. The&nbsp;NYPD&nbsp;posted on Twitter that the threat came in at 10:35 p.m., but then later amended that to 10:07. Trump's tweet was posted at 10:08. Earlier in the night,&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;had lambasted the "fake news media" on Twitter as well, falsely claiming that reporters don't mention the Republican midterm gains in the Senate.Less than two months ago, the country experienced a wave of&nbsp;mail bombings, though none of the devices were activated. All the bombs targeted people Trump sees as enemies, and CNN itself received a bomb. The suspect, now in custody, was a man who was clearly enthralled by the president and his attacks on the media and others.Though the police report suggests its unlikely Trump's tweet at 10:08 p.m. was the&nbsp;cause&nbsp;of the threat, the close timing of the two events highlighted the danger the president is courting with his unrelenting and malicious hostility toward the press. After the mail bombings, the president can't pretend&nbsp;to be unaware of the risks he's taking by inciting such hatred — he just doesn't care."A reminder that these threats are a(nother) attack on our free press, a fundamental pillar of our democracy, and prevent the American public from being informed," said&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;analyst Asha Rangappa. "Enough is enough."This story has been updated with new information about the precise time of the threat.https://www.alternet.org/cnn-exposes-trumps-nationalism-its-pathetic-disfiguration-american-legacyKevin Liptak&nbsp;and Kaitlyn Collins have put together&nbsp;A chilling snapshot&nbsp;of where the current administration has taken the United States of America on the world stage.As a reminder of how far our country has fallen from moral legitimacy, this article describes to us&nbsp;a president who is distant, disinterested, and&nbsp;dangerous, unsettlingly&nbsp;too willing to put his egomania above&nbsp;every single citizen of&nbsp;our nation. Morever, it&nbsp;reminds us of a president who is a clear and present&nbsp;danger to&nbsp;our nation, not&nbsp;to mention our&nbsp;entire world.And when&nbsp;the world looks at&nbsp;America, they are less&nbsp;impressed than ever.&nbsp;20% of Americans may&nbsp;think that we are being made great again, but 98% of the rest of the world disagrees, as described by Liptak and Collins:The imagery may have been rooted in logistics, but as France and its European partners fret about the alliance forged with the United States in bloody conflict a century ago, it mattered. Trump has shown little appetite for strengthening the relationships that have underpinned transatlantic relations since the end of World War I, instead lambasting traditional US partners on trade and the cost of security.He's shown more affinity for strongmen leaders who have eroded democracy in their countries, like Putin, with whom he spoke at a lunch on Sunday, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who sat alongside him at dinner on Saturday.That's left leaders, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Macron, who put forth well-publicized displays of unity this weekend, to urgently warn of backsliding into history's darkest momentsThere was a time &nbsp;when America provided&nbsp;moral, ethical, political, and economic leadership in this world. But it is clear that this time is slipping &nbsp;between our fingers.&nbsp;We must find our voice, and we must become evangelists for the truth that is stronger than the fears of those who elect people like Donald Trump. The world is on&nbsp;a razors edge. It is up&nbsp;to the citizenry of the United States take action. If we can’t stop the fascist forces&nbsp;currently seeking to control our nation, the losses in life, freedom, and democratic ideals will be beyond all of our reckoning. This CNN article&nbsp;is more than just an eloquently written snapshot into current events. &nbsp;It is a call to restore out very collective humanity.Let us all respond, in whatever way we are able. But in the&nbsp;meantime here is what&nbsp;President Macron&nbsp;from France had to say:Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.&nbsp;By saying 'our interests first; who cares about the others?', we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great, and what makes it essential — its moral values… The old demons (have resurfaced).&nbsp;Giving into the fascination for withdrawal, isolationism, violence and domination would be a grave error.==https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_LemonDon Lemon&nbsp;(born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He is a&nbsp;news anchor&nbsp;for&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;based in&nbsp;New York City, and hosts&nbsp;CNN Tonight. 1Early life2Career3Personal life4Honors and awards5Controversies6Published works7See also8References9External linksEarly lifeLemon was born in&nbsp;Baton Rouge,&nbsp;Louisiana. He was educated at&nbsp;Baker High School, a public high school in the town of&nbsp;Baker&nbsp;in&nbsp;East Baton Rouge Parish. He majored in&nbsp;broadcast journalism&nbsp;at&nbsp;Brooklyn College&nbsp;in&nbsp;Brooklyn, New York, and attended&nbsp;Louisiana State University.[2][3]&nbsp;While in college, Lemon worked as a news assistant at&nbsp;WNYWin New York City.CareerEarly in his career, Lemon reported as a weekend&nbsp;anchor&nbsp;for&nbsp;WBRC&nbsp;in&nbsp;Birmingham,&nbsp;Alabama, and&nbsp;WCAU&nbsp;in&nbsp;Philadelphia,&nbsp;Pennsylvania&nbsp;as well as an anchor and&nbsp;investigative reporter&nbsp;for&nbsp;KTVI&nbsp;St. Louis.[2]Lemon reported for&nbsp;NBC News' New York City operations, including working as a correspondent for&nbsp;Today&nbsp;and&nbsp;NBC Nightly News&nbsp;and an anchor on&nbsp;Weekend Today&nbsp;and&nbsp;MSNBC. In 2003, he began at NBC&nbsp;owned-and-operated station&nbsp;WMAQ-TV&nbsp;(5 in Chicago), and was a reporter as well as local news co-anchor.[2]Lemon joined&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;in September 2006.[2]&nbsp;He has been outspoken in his work at CNN, criticizing the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly.[4]&nbsp;He has also voiced strong opinions on ways that the&nbsp;African-American&nbsp;community can improve themselves, which has caused some controversy.[5]&nbsp;Since 2014, he has hosted CNN's&nbsp;New Year's Eve special&nbsp;from&nbsp;New Orleans.In a much-reported broadcast in January 2018, Lemon introduced his broadcast with, “This is CNN Tonight, I’m Don Lemon. The&nbsp;President of the United States&nbsp;is racist.”[6]Personal lifeDuring an on-air interview with members of Bishop&nbsp;Eddie Long's congregation in September 2010, Lemon said that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, and that it was not until he was thirty years old that he told his mother about it.[7]In his memoir,&nbsp;Transparent, Lemon came out as&nbsp;gay[8]&nbsp;and discusses&nbsp;colorism&nbsp;in the black community, and the&nbsp;sexual abuse&nbsp;he suffered as a child.[9]&nbsp;He has&nbsp;Creole&nbsp;ancestry (his great-grandfather was of&nbsp;Frenchdescent) in addition to&nbsp;Nigerian,&nbsp;Cameroonian, and&nbsp;Congolese&nbsp;ancestry.[10][11]</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, over 30,000 people signed a petition demanding that Lemon be fired from CNN following a controversial remark he made regarding police behavior.[12]On January 31, 2018, Lemon's sister, L'Tanya "Leisa" Lemon Grimes, died at the age of 58; police concluded that her death was an accidental drowning in a pond while fishing.[13]&nbsp;After being absent for approximately a week, he opened the show on February 6 by thanking everyone who wished him "prayers and words of encouragement". He said that conservatives, like&nbsp;Sean Hannity, were among the first to call, which illustrated how they actually respect each other and have good relations, even though they disagree on the issues.[14]Lemon owns an apartment in&nbsp;Harlem&nbsp;and a second home in&nbsp;Sag Harbor&nbsp;NY, an area of&nbsp;Long Island.[15]Honors and awardsLemon won an&nbsp;Emmy Award&nbsp;for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago.[16]&nbsp;He received an&nbsp;Edward R. Murrow Award&nbsp;for his coverage of the capture of the&nbsp;D.C. area sniper,[17]&nbsp;and a number of other awards for reports on&nbsp;Hurricane Katrina, and the&nbsp;AIDS epidemic in Africa.Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African-Americans by&nbsp;Ebony&nbsp;magazine in 2009.[18]</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">In 2014, however, Lemon's work was named in a list of worst journalism of the year by the&nbsp;Columbia Journalism Review, for his questions about&nbsp;Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, spanking children, and US Army POW&nbsp;Bowe Bergdahl. He suggested to an alleged&nbsp;Bill Cosby&nbsp;rape victim that she could have resisted oral sex by biting him, despite claiming in his book to be a victim of sexual abuse himself.[19][20]ControversiesIn 2018 Lemon described&nbsp;Kanye West's appearance at the&nbsp;White House&nbsp;with President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;as "embarrassing" and a "Minstrel Show" whilst allowing his panel members to describe West as a "TokenNegro".[21]&nbsp;In October 2018, Lemon stated on-air: "So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right. And we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on — they had the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban. So, what do we do about that?"[22]Published works</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">

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