Last night's CNN town hall special, designed for former president Donald John Beavis Trump, was exactly as bad as you'd think. Moderator Kaitlan Collins has been raked over the coals for not doing enough to rein in the Oldest Baby in America and put his feet to the fire over his persistent lying about, well, everything.
On the 2020 election:
No, it wasn't, Collins reminded, but Trump refused to admit he's wrong, because, well, of course not. The audience in New Hampshire was entirely made up of Republicans and on-the-fence undecided voters who sympathized with Citizen Pampers.
On E. Jean Carroll, and the fact that Trump is on the hook for $5 million for sexually abusing Carroll in a NYC department store and then lying about it, defaming her.
As noted, there are pictures that say otherwise. The Granite State partisans lapped it up like water. How could they be so ignorant of the facts?
CNN is getting trashed for going ahead and letting this garbage hour go on as planned. Why? Because Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav, realizing Trump is, according to some polls, the GOP front runner for next year, wanted the ratings. There were some people calling for CNN executive Chris Licht to be let go after this debacle, but a sensible network executive would've said, screw the ratings, this guy (Trump) is toxic, we can't put him on after all. Keep in mind that Zaslav was programming this directly opposite one of his own sister networks (AEW Dynamite on TBS) AND former Trump press shill Kaylame McEnany on Fox No News. We knew about Zaslav's true colors a while ago, and it's pretty obvious he wants to position CNN to dethrone Fox No News as the #1 news channel in primetime. I wonder, though, if he was able to get his dog & pony show sponsored by Depends, Evenflo, Phillips Milk of Magnesia (now part of Bayer), Gerber, Dannon yogurt, and Trump's favorite drink, Diet Coke.
That being said, Zaslav & Trump get the Weasel ears this week.
The reason for CNN's Chump clownshow is simple: CNN's ratings are in the toilet and it's current owner the right-wingut billionaire John Malone and it's current president Chris Lischt (sp?), a not-so-secret MAGA moron, think that transforming CNN into Fox News Too will give them a piece of it's audience. CNN was a dumpster fire before it was taken over by right-wing billionaires, and trying to appeal to MAGA trash won't win them any independent voters.
ReplyDeleteIt's still part of Warner Bros. Discovery, hence referencing David Zaslav, that other right wing idiot. Licht got his share of heat, and who in the blue hizell is this Malone guy?
ReplyDeleteJohn Malone is one of the shareholders for the company, Zaslav's mentor and also another billionaire RWNJ.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, he was part of the Discovery Networks group.
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