Posted on 12/07/2016 3:19:35 PM PST by Altura Ct.
They never learn.
The grand journalism pooh-bahs at CNN were humiliated this election cycle when WikiLeaks revealed that former CNN contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile had shared a question with the Hillary Clinton campaign in advance of a March Democratic primary town hall debate. According to CNN, “activist anchor” Roland Martin and his production team at CNN’s debate partner and identity politics network TV One were responsible for the leak. CNN host Jake Tapper called the episode “very, very troubling” and condemned the breach:
“Journalistically, it’s horrifying,” he told WMAL radio.
CNN president Jeff Zucker declared after an internal investigation that the network “would not partner ever again” with TV One.
But instead of weeding out left-wing partisans masquerading as mainstream political analysts from their lineup, CNN is doubling down. This week, the network debuted a news special called “The Messy Truth” hosted by “political commentator” Van Jones.
Yeah, that guy.
Before he was pontificating on CNN airwaves, he was a top environmental official of the Obama administration. The special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality held a special place in Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett’s heart. The Chicago power broker took full credit at a fringe Daily Kos blogger conference for recruiting him and closely following his career.
“You guys know Van Jones?” she asked to roaring applause.
“Ooh. Van Jones, all right!” she cooed. “So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.”
One of Jones’s more “creative ideas” was signing a petition in 2004 calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York attorney general into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”
That’s right. Valerie Jarrett took credit for recruiting a 9/11 truther who endorsed a petition peddling the crackpot theory that President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”
Under fire, Jones disavowed the statement he had attached his name to — and decried those who dared to hold him responsible for his “creative ideas.” It was conservative bloggers, not “real journalists,” who exposed Jones’s long record of radicalism to the public — leading to his resignation in September 2009.
Van Jones did not just accidentally slip through the cracks of the Obama vetters. They knew what he espoused before they installed him. So did his bosses at CNN who hired him in 2013.
It wasn’t his expertise in political science, political history, electoral trends or journalism that got him the job. It was his social justice resume. He rose to public prominence as a race-baiting agitator at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, funded by the George Soros-supported Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the liberal Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He became a public fixture in the Bay Area after crusading to free convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal for a Marxist organization and lambasting moderate civil rights leaders for objecting to politicizing the classrooms.
In 2011, the late great Andrew Breitbart pulled no punches in describing Jones as a “commie punk” and a “cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak.” Jones had employed classic, radical Saul Alinsky-inspired campaign tactics to have Breitbart banned from a website he helped create — the left-wing Huffington Post — simply for writing articles providing alternative views of the tea party and for reporting on the Obama administration’s transparency-stifling measures.
Bending to the censorious mob, HuffPo assailed Breitbart’s “ad hominem” attack on Jones, which violated “the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched.”
The progressives had nothing to say, of course, about Van Jones’s own ad hominem attacks when he obscenely and publicly assailed Republicans as “a—holes” — and when he financed, produced and participated in cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s rap album, which railed against “imperialist” America and white “mother———s” as the “true terrorists.”
Now, Jones — who most recently race-baited Donald Trump supporters by blaming them for a “whitelash” — has reinvented himself as a roving correspondent traveling the nation to analyze the election results and to lecture others to “be passionate. But be compassionate, too” with fellow citizens who hold different political viewpoints.
This is CNN: Enabling a lifelong, extremist demagogue — who has actively stifled and smeared conservatives, law enforcement and honorable public servants — to pose as a reasonable news personality Van-splainin’ the world.
This goes beyond the sin of “fake news.” It’s gross media malpractice of the highest order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ_FxzMOb3o
OK, doubt it, but at least it is something right.
CNN thinks that they can become ‘THE OPPOSITION CHANNEL’ to the Trump Administration and replace Fox in doing so. The delusion status built into this assumption probably means the increased use of conscience-altering substances.
I love Malkin but cannot bring myself to sign on to her new network which also features Bullet Head Mark Levin.
Please put up links on everything she does.
I watched part of “The Messy Truth”, where Van brought in Rick Santorum, for use as the punching bag and dupe, for Van and his sidekick, Ana Navarro, to interrupt, overtalk and condemn in front of a heavily concentrated commie audience. Only a quiet smattering of support occasionally heard for Santorum.
The purpose, of course, was to blame, incriminate, slander and accuse TRUMP of inspiring everything gone wrong, and for every hang nail and subterfuge issue of human discontent since the Middle Ages, which is now raging through a sizable proportion of the communist leaning American population, who has been stopped cold, by DONALD TRUMP.
It occurred to me that Ana Navarro is so unhinged in her top floor, that she may need to be put firmly on a watch list. What a hate filled loon with a mouth to match.
As for Santorum, he surely needed a shower after that tortue experience, but deserved every bit of it, for appearing on the spectacle.
Why do “R’s” habitually and continually flaunt their stupidity and their low IQ by showing up? What arrogance to think they can treat these jackals as if they even use silver ware? As if they had any dignity or human reason. They do not.
This cat should just disappear and live off the royalties from "The Hustle".
Al Sharpton faded into obscurity when Giuliani was mayor of NYC; nobody gave him a bully pulpit from which to rant. Why Santorum (or any self-respecting person) would appear on a program to help this leftie race-baiter is a mystery to me; we’ve been ignored for 8 years, now they should endure the same.
I stopped watching FoxNews years ago, when Al Sharpton was a guest (and referred to as “reverend”). These media outlets, including Fox, are all in cahoots. It is just theater for low-information people; I’m glad they ALL failed to derail Trump...
As long as they're up front with it, it's no big deal. This is no different than BOR or Hannity on FOX. Same concept. The problem I have is when so-called reporters are deliberately slanting the news and shilling for the Democrat. Reporters should be held to a higher standard.
Commie don’t play that!
Ditto!
Truly, they are all in cahoots!
I was disgusted when Fox hired Juan Williams; apparently they have to give a voice to this leftist blacktivist malcontent while MSNBCNN can present exclusively far-left points of view.
CNN is upset that Brazile was caught; they were OK with openly supporting Hillary otherwise. Look up the clip where Jake Tapper TWICE says “these are states we have to win...Hillary has to win”...
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