Posted on 11/07/2017 9:51:07 AM PST by drewh
During last night’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson said that he’d been told by “highly informed sources” that CNN management had given orders to its on-air talent to trash former interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile. As Tucker stated, “anchors and producers were vocally offended by her attacks on their friends, the Clintons.” Thus, as Carlson reported it, they made efforts to undermine Brazile’s credibility.
After Carlson’s segment, the man Tucker replaced in the 8 PM slot took to Twitter to amplify Tucker’s report:
This morning, CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed back against those claims, stating that he has not been given orders from CNN management on how to cover Brazile.
In Carlson’s segment, he pointed to two instances in which he felt CNN anchors were “trashing” Brazile as the proof behind his report. In those segments, Anderson Cooper labeled Brazile’s giving a debate question to Hillary Clinton “totally unethical” and Brooke Baldwin said Brazile “lied about that CNN debate.” Carlson claimed that “in retrospect, they are so obviously talking points.”
It should be noted, however, that Tapper — one of the top politics anchors on the network — has featured panels on The Lead and State of the Union discussing the Brazile revelations without offering any negative words on Brazile. What’s more, it was during a segment on The Lead that news was made when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that the Democratic presidential primary was rigged for Hillary Clinton during an interview discussing Brazile’s claims.
Watch Carlson’s original segment above, via Fox News.
“...host Tucker Carlson said that he’d been told by “highly informed sources” that CNN management had given orders to its on-air talent to trash former interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile.”
Patently false statement.
CNN has no on-air talent.
Oh, so it’s true, then.
Didn’t they not like Hillary in 2008? I know MSNBC didn’t.
Parse this in Lib-Speak.
The key word in his denial is "orders".
Were they given suggestions, advice, encouragement or any number of other ways a message can be sent?
Was it by a representative of management rather than management themselves?
Libs are very skilled liars. It's the Clinton way.
So it’s totally unethical to give the questions in advance but it’s ok to use that information in a debate.
Wasn’t it CNN that gave the questions to Brazile in the first place? How ethical is that?
Exactly. It may not come down as “THIS IS AN ORDER” but the so-called “talent” (sic) knows when they had better follow the preferred talking points.
True, and they kind of forget that Don A Braziere was one of them before taking over the DNC.
Tapper living up to his name “Fake Jake”.
I totally believe Tapper. CNN is a team of highly trained political assassins. No orders are necessary for them to spring into action to defend their goddess against heresies.
there. fixed it.
Clinton News Network will obey
How much are the weekly Fusion GPS checks made out for, Jake?
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