Posted on 08/26/2017 3:19:19 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Washington (CNN)As the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the US in more than a decade took aim at Texas, President Donald Trump's White House engaged in an age-old Washington tradition: the Friday news dump.
Transgender individuals? Banned from joining the military. Convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Officially pardoned. Controversial White House adviser Sebastian Gorka? Out of a white House job.
All three headlines popped after 6 p.m. Friday as TV news broadcasts and websites turned their attention to Texas, where Hurricane Harvey was preparing to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane -- the most powerful to hit the US since 2004.
The hurricane provided cover, ensuring that the controversial storylines wouldn't dominate TV news broadcasts, websites or front pages of the next morning's newspapers. The storylines even got overshadowed in Twitter feeds dominated by the cataclysmic predictions about damage the storm is expected to wreak.
The coordinated effort drew quick notice from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, who slammed the news dump as "so sad, so weak."
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2 out of 3 of those headlines strengthen the president’s position with his base. Why would he not want them disseminated far and wide?
CNN is ISIS.
CNN write an article about their articles..... CNN clickbait, circle jerks. CNN makes themselves the news again.
Cuck News Network
You mean the Chicken Noodle Network has a problem with a Friday evening news dump? I cannot believe it.
Ha! Go ahead and get rid of Bob Mueller and his Democrat operatives. That will clean up part of the swamp. The MSM won’t know which story to spin as “worst disaster ever”.
Trump tweeted out his pardon. No effort to hide. What percentage of the population has a clue who Gorka is? Is there any need to try to hide the transgender ruling?
CNN's Hurricane Harvey Insanity Off The Charts Crazy! Youtube 6:00
Silly CNN. We don’t miss a thing.
Yeah, the people that CNN is hoping to gin up with those negative stories are people who don’t even know the names of Gorka and Arpaio.
#fail
This is really vile on CNN’s part. People enduring real suffering due to Harvey and they engage in self-aggrandizing.
CNN = the Chartered Nonsense Network
The CNN’s real complaint about the hurricane? It’s an important factual event to be reported, taking time from CNN’s 24/7/365 political opinion delivery agenda.
Gorka is not really an issue.
Pardon and transgender are.
Both, though, were ripe. Everyone knew both were being worked on and would soon be released.
Since you people constantly post all this leftist garbage, do you think it would be a good idea for FR to start providing links on its homepage at, “Resource links” to all the leftist media sites so there is no need to fill up the side bar and forum with leftist fake news stories?
Harvey is no pusssy cat but it is not as bad as they thought.
That reporter was assigned to cover Trump’s campaign along with Acosta. His Twitter made clear his feelings. CNN is a DNC media arm at this point.
Is adding an alert (i.e. Barf alert) new? I like them. :)
Yeah, I like them too:D I only started using them recently but I’ve seen others do it for a while.
Unless of course, it is on CNN.
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