Think about what’s going on here.
These so-called journalists, members of the Forth Estate, are upset that their organization hired someone from a legitimate NATIONAL level campaign, because the hate they presumptive GOP candidate?
Just how many democrat ex-campaign and ex-administration officials get hired by these same networks? They make up at LEAST half of each news network.
Oh yeah, Trump, that awful hater of women and Mexicans. Because in today’s world, legitimate criticism of a group of people is hate, and far worse than murder, torture, theft, graft, bribery, or disclosing national secrets! If you don’t KISS their asses, you be a hater of the worse kind (rich, Anglo white man).
Well BS!!! Trump as a hater is the biggest damn lie coming right from these supposed neutral reporters mouths and keyboards.
Why didn’t these same women protest when ex-Bill Clinton staffers are hired? Didn’t he rape and sexually assault women?
Oh, but that’s OK.
Well, it’s not. It’s actually far worse.
Suppose this whole Lewandowski exit (Lexist, haha) and infiltration of CNN was orchestrated by the Trump Campaign for the purpose of getting an agent on the inside of the MSM? (Fantasy intrigue).
... during the term of your service and at all times thereafter, you hereby promise and agree not to demean or disparage publicly the company Mr. Trump, any Trump company, any family member or any family member company. Did you sign something like that? That said no disparaging?
So, what Burnett expects is that "demeaning" and "disparagement" be used. That "demeaning" and "disparagement" are legitimate approaches for public commentators.
There may be substantial overlap between "disparage" and "critical," I'm sure one man's criticism is another's disparagement (see ThinkProgress: CNN's Newest Paid Commentator Legally Prohibited From Criticizing Donald Trump which equates "criticism" with "disparaging"). But in my mind, demeaning and disparagement are a sort of "sour grapes" thing. CNN is simply pissed that Lewandowski does not harbor ill will toward the Trump campaign or his dismissal.
Separately, I wonder if similar "anti-disparagement" clauses exist in agreements signed by CNN employees, Clinton campaign employees, etc. Are CNN employees allowed to disparage and demean CNN?
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