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CNN Shuts Down a Trump Rep

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 25, 2024
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Reporting on the Mirror – CNN

  • Accurate descriptions of archived reports have become an "attack."

On CNN, Kasie Hunt welcomed on-air Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for the Donald Trump campaign. Kasie also managed to dismiss Karoline. After a brief introduction and preamble, things unraveled quickly. 

Leavitt committed what Ms. Hunt declares to be an unacceptable sin; she brought up comments from the past made by Jake Tapper, moderator for Thursday's presidential debate. After a brief segment involving the ladies engaged in crosstalk, Kasie had Karoline's microphone shut off and then thanked her for appearing on the program.

The amusement in this is that while the hostess behaved as if some affrontery had transpired, it is easily provable that Leavitt was 100% accurate in her descriptions of Tapper's past covering Donald Trump.

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If you have the time and the desire to further dogpile on Jake and Kasie, here is a nice thread of video evidence to augment the record.

Democratic Custodial Services – CNN

  • So, Dana, you admit to not wanting to report on factual information?

On the subject of biased debate hosts, the second moderator for Thursday's debate will be Dana Bash. To get a sense of how slanted that show may become, Ms. Bash is displaying favoritism in the other direction. Getting in on the calling out of "cheap fake" videos that is all the rage in the press, Ms. Bash declared that she must do her part not to share accuracy with her audience:

Here are videos that are being put out on social media and then amplified on conservative media that in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading of President Biden… So, it's the question that I started this conversation with is how much to talk about it versus how much to just kind of ignore it and we're trying to do both here.

This is a supposed journalist – and upcoming debate moderator – who is declaring she will sidestep actual news. 

A prime example: Amid all the push to "discredit" the clutch of videos exposing Biden's decline, you see no effort made to explain when Biden displayed this very condition Tuesday. That is because there is no way to blame Republicans and consider the imagery to be faked, when Biden showed his buffering problem on a feed that was a LIVE broadcast, on CNN.

News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • We are just a step away from hearing this is "mostly peaceful antisemitism."

It is revealing and disturbing how the press has taken a notably hands-off approach to the issue of antisemitic behavior in this country. Look back at the times that Donald Trump was accused of Nazi-like thinking for using one word that Hitler once used. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis was accused of fostering antisemitism when eight idiots LARPing as Nazis tried to protest. Today, we can see far more than eight cities across the country at any given time experiencing mass anti-Israel protests.

This weekend, there were two instances of direct violence targeting Jewish gatherings. A graduation in New York saw a pro-Palestinin group attacking select celebrants in the street. In Los Angeles, another pro-Palestinian group gathered outside of a synagogue and prevented members from entering or leaving, before more violence against the Jews broke out. Police seemed to be there to guard the protesters. 

This takes place while Joe Biden's DOJ just sent a 75-year-old woman to prison for impeding the entranceway at an abortion clinic, where she was praying. Biden, and the press, treated her actions as far worse, despite the hate crimes and violence against Jews.

Anti-Social Media – DAILY MAIL

Following the arrest of Justin Timberlake for a DWI in Sag Harbor, The Daily Mail dug deep into the story – in order to go after the arresting officer. The outlet saw a need to "unmask" the cop who dared do his job.

In this era of Joe Biden insisting "No one is above the law," we get told that the residents of that berg are somewhat resentful of this young law enforcement officer for…enforcing the law in their city.

Pre-Written Field Reports – CNN

  • It is rather unfair when conservative guests come on the show and are prepared.

Abby Phillip had on one of the names short-listed as one of Donald Trump's possible running mates, Dr. Ben Carson. Their discussion veered into the topic of Louisiana passing a law to bring the Ten Commandments into classrooms, something Trump recently endorsed during a speaking stop. 

Phillip thought she had the perfect "gotcha" question for Dr. Carson, asking why Trump does not have such a display at his businesses. Carson fended off her accusatory query in such a way he left the hostess stammering, as she appeared unable to counter with anything beyond her talking point.

DNC PR Firm – BLOOMBERG

Select members of the press continue to trot out the false statistic that crime has plummeted during the Biden years. There is never any policy, agenda, or coordinated push from the White House cited as a cause for this great news, but that is because this is not the accurate approach.

As we will continue to counter, the reason is that this is a drop in crime reporting. When you have major cities not providing their crime stats – lo and behold! – national crime numbers have been lowered!