Posted on 08/09/2012 1:51:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
or the second straight day, CNN blew the whistle on a nasty and misleading Obama super PAC ad that ABC, CBS, and NBC entirely ignored as of Wednesday night. CNN hammered the ad, which links Mitt Romney to a woman's death from cancer, each hour from 6 p.m. through 10 p.m. and twice grilled the man responsible for the ad, Bill Burton of Priorities USA.
"I think it is deliberately mendacious," stated CNN's Piers Morgan on Wednesday. "It is a deliberate attempt to lie and smear about Mitt Romney. And I find it contemptible. I mean I'm really appalled." The three networks showed no such disdain for the ad which will air in battleground states, because they failed to even mention it on Tuesday and Wednesday. [Video coming soon.]
Bill Burton was President Obama's national press secretary during the 2008 campaign, a connection that CNN reported and which makes his super PAC's ad all the more relevant during an election season where the media should be policing false and misleading ads.
"The President cannot hide behind a Super PAC on an ad as nasty as this one when that Super PAC is run by a friend and longtime deputy," stated Erin Burnett. "Bill Burton knows the President's ethics very well and it is fair to hold him up to this standard."
"The facts on this ad don't even add up," reported Burnett. Anderson Cooper called it "a factually bogus ad from the leading pro-Obama super PAC." Correspondent Brianna Keilar, whose critical fact-checking first aired on Tuesday evening, stood by her reporting on Wednesday.
"So it just seemed like there was very much an incomplete picture in this ad," she said, adding "I think it's inaccurate" and "there are a number of factors that aren't mentioned in the ad."
"When you do an ad that seems to leave the impression that he [Romney] was at least indirectly responsible for a woman dying from cancer, that is so powerful, that is so tough, that goes beyond what you guys should be doing," host Wolf Blitzer lectured Burton.
Overall, CNN devoted over a half-hour of coverage to criticizing the ad on Wednesday from 6 p.m. through 9 p.m, although some of that airtime went to scrutinizing the Romney campaign's campaign ad that CNN had whacked for dishonesty.
The Situation Room gave 17 minutes to the super PAC ad during the 6 p.m. hour. Erin Burnett gave it over six minutes on her 7 p.m. show OutFront, and Anderson Cooper devoted over 11 minutes to the ad but focused some of that time to Romney's ad. Piers Morgan attacked both Obama and Romney during his 9 p.m. show Piers Morgan Tonight.
Random acts of journalism on CNN’s part?
I’m impressed. A half hour of CNN negative coverage will reach ten times as many undecided voters as the same time on FOX, which is preaching to the choir.
CNN? Piers Morgan?
They ARE desperate for viewers!
Popcorn! I need POPCORN NOW!
Maybe CNN finally decided that they wanted to be noticed or watched I suppose.
“A half hour of CNN negative coverage will reach ten times as many undecided voters as the same time on FOX, which is preaching to the choir.”
While in an airport last week, I was ready to tear my hair out as CNN was the only “news” station playing on all TVs. Now I’m glad that travelers were a captive audience for this particular segment. Many people will hear the truth whom otherwise would not.
“Bill Burton knows the President’s ethics very well and it is fair to hold him up to this standard.”
As pleasantly surprising as CNN’s criticism of the hit piece was, it was no surprise that Burnett still had to get in a little kneepadding. Burton knows Obama’s ethics very well, which is exactly why that ad was run.
Clinton news Network grabbing at some low hanging fruit to build up phony credibilty as “unbiased”s.
Bingo!
CNN is trying to raise their ratings. Maybe they think that actually reporting the truth and reporting news that doesn’t always favor BO will help—after all, they are desparate.
Look out for CNN. Some say they will track right towards the middle to compete with Fox. As a far left news outlet CNN risks going out of business. Hopefully there is some truth to this.
Or maybe Piers Morgan auditioning to get a job with another network when the enemedia’s credibility is totally flushed away . . .
It's probably going to get nastier...so buckle up
I’m impressed. A half hour of CNN negative coverage will reach ten times as many undecided voters as the same time on FOX, which is preaching to the choir.”I’m impressed. A half hour of CNN negative coverage will reach ten times as many undecided voters as the same time on FOX, which is preaching to the choir.”
My wife decided to see “what the other side was doing” last evening and put on CNN just as Morgan was having at it with some turd from the NYT. Now everything is ruined, because she thinks that CNN is rational!
Where is the ad running? If it’s on affiliates of the networks, particularly those not independently owned, their “news” operations have a moral and ethical duty to challenge the false content in the public interest.
CNN definitely leans liberal, but at least tries to hide it in a veneer of balance.
They are not like MSNBC, the New York Times, Time or Newsweek - which are absolute advocates and cheerleaders for the left.
Compared to that lot, CNN gets a C+ for its attempt at journalism.
Are they actually trying to pull themselves back from the pit of irrelevance?
CNN can see the handwriting on the wall.They’re just trying to get back some of their lost audience!It’s all VERY CYNICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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