We have detailed here and here some of the tactics used by CNN to propagate the Democratic agenda and perpetuate a hatred of the President. But there is another tool in their toolbox that is as absurd. Here’s how it works and an interesting recent problem they faced:
CNN won’t show this side of crime
If a story is about immigration, CNN brings on guests who are illegal immigration success stories. If a story is about Trump rebuilding the nuclear arsenal, CNN brings on the author of a book about nuclear holocaust. The tactic is simple, CNN chooses an “expert” with a slanted point of view,
But when CNN reported a story about the Attorney General cracking down on crime, they faced a problem maintaining their stance as the opposition. An audience would find it ridiculous if CNN sided with the criminals. So what did they do? They found the 1 in 10,000 peddlers of poison, who turned his life around, and interviewed him. They are shameless.
UPDATE 05/15/2017: CNN is playing the race angle. Increases in law enforcement or criminal justice is racist, it disproportionately affects blacks.
In connection with the Trump-Russia con-job on the American people, CNN may have lost its mind. Leaving all sanity behind, a CNN reporter proclaims that Russian diplomats conversing with Americans and then reporting back to Russia (AKA their job) is “Spying.”
CNN, Hillary, the DNC and the entire band of usual suspects loved that fact. And how could anyone with any sense argue the fact? CNN laughed off Trump supporters who disputed the fact.
Uncovering a politician telling a lie is no great feat. So if the esteemed seventeen agencies were actually just the big three, so what. I mean, this was just an exaggeration and not an earth-shattering lie. Anyway, it wasn’t like Trump said it, so no biggie.
But how is it that not one reporter investigating this all-important Russia story noticed that fourteen of the seventeen agencies that concluded their investigation had absolutely zero information, comments or statements on the subject. The claim could have been dis-proven by asking one question of the hundreds (or thousands) of people at the fourteen “other” agencies. You would think there’d be a question, maybe even two for those agencies, especially considering how often this fact wasquotedon CNN and MSNBC.
In an age where reverence of network news is at an all-time low, the level of introspection at these networks is even lower.
Recently; Vox, an even more left leaning outlet than CNN, ridiculed some aspects of how CNN covers news. Vox made some valid points about how CNN dramatizes the news in a manner which seemingly mimics sports coverage, (albeit a behavior true of all news networks.) And then they went on to criticize CNN, I kid you not, for inviting people who support Trump onto their network to speak. (Video below) You see, in their warped mindset, the liberal-anti-Trump perspective is so very right and the Trump perspective is so very wrong on each and every issue, that CNN permitting someone on air to expound on the wrong side of the debate is downright televisiontreason.
Video courtesy of Vox
Vox would prefer to hear just one side of a debate, their side. It is worth noting that an overwhelming majority of the anchors, correspondents, and paid analysts on CNN are anti-Trump. A typical panel, as seen in this website’s last post, is outrageously one-sided.
Putting the left in left wing
The ironic reality that Vox couldn’t comprehend is that CNN brings lone Trump supporters on air to serve as punching bags for gangs of folks supporting the liberal Trump-hating side of every story. The daily routine CNN employs, entails lining up full panels of pundits, along with anchors serving as ringleaders, to laugh at the solitary Trump supporters and cheer their like-minded compadres who mock and deride anything these Trump whipping boys and girls say. If we distill the Vox vs CNN conflict down to the core, it’s two divergent philosophical positions on how best to manipulate an audience. Does the network show the audience only their favored side of the story, or does the network systematically rip apart the other side of the story with sheer numbers of one-sided punditry and good old-fashioned bullying? Thomas Jefferson would be proud either way.
Now for the saddest part. Whose criticism will CNN listen to? The entire right side of the American public begging for fair coverage or the minuscule fringe left, like Vox, that is too liberal for even CNN? I’ll give you a hint, throw reason and logic out the door.
