Posted on 12/11/2017 1:19:16 PM PST by x1stcav
WINNING
CNN keeps trying to float a locomotive down the river on I-beams.
Lemon is a disgrace to journalists.
Lemon is a disgrace to journalists.
I am in dialysis three days a week...recently they installed television sets hanging from the ceiling over each bed. Not being a television fan, I usually start up some music on my phone, plug in the ear buds, and fall asleep for the entire four hours.
I haven’t watch CNN since the Gulf War, but the guy in the bed next to mine watches it all the time. If I happen to look in that direction, and even though I can’t hear the TV, there’s always a “crawler” at the bottom of the screen that tells their current subject, and it always...ALWAYS...has the name “Trump” in it.
From this casual observation, with no sound, you can tell they are obsessed with Trump. Every story seems to be about him.
I think if we had another “Gulf War”, CNN would ignore it for the sake of trying to bring down Trump.
You know what the rules are for crazy people; they can’t change the subject, and they won’t change their minds.
Those people are certified.
Okay, that made me laugh out loud.
Wait til AT&T sells CNN to Rupert Murdock who will get to decide which parts to merge with Fox News and which to just shut down because they’re worthless.
Redundancies will be high!
Anyone watch Acosta going off during the WH press briefing this morning? Why does this asshat still have press credentials there?
Skip to the comments on the article.
30-40 comments in, begins a very entertaining comparison of keyboards to assault rifles. haha
Maybe Sarah likes smacking him down.
Because, good or bad, it draws attention to the WH, where Trump gets to beat him like a piñata.
Glad you pointed that out. Some very humorous comments.
‘Who needs a keyboard with a hundred keys?’
My favorite was (to the effect of):
I’m from PA. We’re allowed repeating keys.
1111111111111111. Suckas.
um...so, don’t bully the gay guy ? who has been hammerin you ?
I would like to have seen the white house leaker when Gen. Kelly USMC confronted the slime-ball.
Its interesting how fast and coordinated the media can be.
This morning, Trump tweeted at 6:17 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (according to the time stamp on the tweet) that he has called Don Lemon the “dumbest man on television.”
CNN provided a statement to the Washington Examiner, before 1:06 p.m.:
“In a world where bullies torment kids on social media to devastating effect on a regular basis with insults and name calling, it is sad to see our president engaging in the very same behavior himself. Leaders should lead by example,” a CNN spokesperson told the Washington Examiner in a statement.
. . . to which someone commented:
“CNN just compared themselves to a crying kid in a car and they think that’s the high road.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 11, 2017
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Now, I thought that was funny in two ways, because he was referring to a story I had seen on the local Fox news affiliate on the very same morning (7:30 a.m.), which they claimed was going viral, about some crying kid complaining about bullies, and how “celebrities and politicians” were sending him messages of support.
“What an odd story,” I had thought, reaching for the channel-changer. There seemed nothing very unusual about the kid’s experience, and he was hard to understand anyway what with all the blubbering. It seemed an unusual video clip to be going “viral,” lacking as it did any of the elements usually associated with the term.
On the ABC affiliate that I turned the channel to, they were just introducing the very same clip.
If, out of all the possible videos in the world, different networks independently happen to choose to show the same clip on the very same morning, are they justified in calling it by the self-fulfilling title “viral”?
Of course it was merely a coincidence that it was run on different networks on the very morning they could be certain (because of Trump’s earlier Tweet) that there would be a statement by an anti-Trump representative about the horrors of elementary-school bullying.
Call me skeptical.
I will bet that — because it is not exactly difficult to predict what behaviors Trump will either speak about or be accused of — the anti-Trump coalition has pre-packaged “human interest features” on the same topics all ready to roll, to first lay the emotional groundwork by encouraging a reaction to the topic on the morning news, before releasing news about a Trump “controversy” later in the day.
All under the theory, probably justified, that people will feel outraged, and think they always felt that way, but won’t know exactly why.
Keep an eye out for odd “human interest” pieces that tug at your heart, and impel you to say “things shouldn’t be that way,” followed on the same day by stories (whether true or false — it doesn’t matter if they’re later proven false) of Trump doing something on the wrong side of that exact same issue.
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