CNN Host Phil Mattingly's Pauline Kael Moment

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as saying, "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” The actual quote might actually have been a bit different, but the point remains: liberal elitists live in an echo chamber of their own ideas.

On Monday, Phil Mattingly (recently named Kaitlin Collins' permanent replacement as a co-host of CNN This Morning) seemed to have his own Pauline Kael moment.

Mattingly was commenting on a recent column by CNN analyst Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic entitled "Why Biden Just Can't Shake Trump in the Polls." Said Mattingly:

"Ron, I think that the value of this piece, and I say this often about your analysis, is you listen to Donna Brazile, you listen to people talk, and it's just this constant how, why, why does this keep happening? Even after seven years of it always happening to some degree."

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

This CNN host apparently never speaks with any of the tens of millions of Americans who continue to support Trump avidly.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.

[servo1969]

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2023/09/04/cnn-host-phil-mattinglys-pauline-kael-moment

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, servo: I messed up my link!

[Fido969]

They live on the bubble, and Trump voices are censored or balkanized in the media, so they are never exposed to conservative ideas, nor are their liberal ideas challenged.

[GOPJ]

This is what I get when I click on your link:

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[nickcarraway]

He saved the country by creating the vaccine.

[Thommas]

"He" didn't create the vaccine. He did rely on the Communist shill Fauci to promote a 'vacccine' that 'science' purported to be safe.

..but you knew that, right?

[Jim Noble]

In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as saying

December 1972.

[servo1969]

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Sure thing!

[nwrep]

So uninformed is the etiolated conservative media that it cannot even get basic facts right.

[iamgalt]

“So uninformed is the etiolated conservative media that it cannot even get basic facts right.“

Well then, have achieved parody with the army of leftist propagandists that masquerade as journalists

[SunkenCiv]

The media shills regurg' the DNC talking points, generating what Chomsky called (and endorsed) 'manufactured consent'. Even the Murdoch larvae's planned implosion of Faux News is part of this.

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks for the correction!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Here’s the correct link:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2023/09/04/cnn-host-phil-mattinglys-pauline-kael-moment

[Jim Noble]

The quote was wrong, also, but I didn’t have time to post the right one.

[nwrep]

Yes, and this is also what happens when one becomes strongly anti-intellectual, as the right has become over the past decade or so.

[GOPJ]

Thanks. Enjoyed the site statement too... we're all getting on the same page:

As leftist policies drive our country toward third-world status with open borders, bare shelves, caviar-priced gas, and out-of-control inflation, the media sell a fantasy of rainbow skies and rivers made of chocolate. It’s called propaganda. And when the media aren’t spinning lies, they ignore news that doesn't fit the leftist narrative.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The article acknowledges that the famous quote is probably not correct, and links to the correct quote:

https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/the-actual-pauline-kael-quote%E2%80%94not-as-bad-and-worse/

[x]

That’s a misquotation. She wasn’t surprised. She knew she lived in a very different world from most Americans and was commenting on that.