Posted on 04/09/2018 8:25:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What on earth is going on at CNN, the most anti-Trump TV operation of all? Has the ratings disaster of chronic third-place status in the cable news ratings provoked some introspection? Or, is reality starting to sink in? I am puzzled, but I expect that conspiracy theorists on the left already are devising scenarios to explain uncharacteristic positions by two of its most prominent hosts.
On Friday, Anderson Cooper took on Trump-hating California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, and shut him down when he attempted to weave an election conspiracy theory. Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire caught the moment:
Appearing on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) brought up the messages that were discovered between Trump's longtime friend Roger Stone and WikiLeaks as he suggested that the American public was not being told the truth about what happened.
"The larger issue here is, I do not believe that the Trump team, the family, the candidate, and associates like Stone are not coming clean," Swalwell said. "I am here in Muscatine, Iowa, Anderson, talking to voters and what they are saying to me is, ‘just come clean, just tell us the truth so we can better protect the ballot box when we go to vote this November.’”
Cooper wasn’t buying the allegation that votes were changed:
Not only were no votes changed due to "hacking" in the 2016 election, but, as Cooper pointed out, Swalwell's suggestion that there is more to the story than Americans are being told regarding connections between Stone and WikiLeaks, has no factual basis in reality.
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Maybe this stunt will get them to place 6 in the ratings.
Cooper, accidentally, every now and then, actually does become a journalist, but merely for a couple of minutes..................
Perhaps Cooper knows votes were changed to benefit Dems and wanted to change the subject?
Eric Smallsmell is so repulsive and dishonest, even Anderson Poofter can’t stand him.
If I had to guess, Cooper took umbrage at the implication that there is a story that CNN (and other media) aren't pursuing. So he said "that's not a real story". He was likely not defending Trump at all, just himself and his own network. He could have just said "that's even too fake for us" but that would have been too obvious.
“what [voters] are saying to me is, ‘just come clean, just tell us the truth so we can better protect the ballot box when we go to vote this November.’”
CNN doesn’t want that to happen.
The Left relies heavily on election fraud, and absolutely doesn’t want investigations to reveal the staggering level of fraud on their behalf. Ergo, they have to start talking well of Trump to defuse investigations into voting which, while intended to implicate Trump, would instead implicate the Left and tear down their entire illegal voting scheme.
CNN et al isn’t turning pro-Trump, it’s deterring questions that lead to their own arrest.
My thoughts exactly.
Exactly. Whenever Republicans claim that ballots are being tampered with to the benefit of Democrats, the Media collectively shoves fingers in their ears and mutters, “Nah nah nah nah...” They won’t give up their near-religious contention that vote-rigging does not happen.
Swalwell is a Ken Doll with no brain......and he’s running for President (why else would he be in Iowa this early??)
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