In a report on Friday marking America’s Independence Day, CNN reporter Leyla Santiago, reporting from Mount Rushmore, where President Trump spoke, referred to Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson not as two of the greatest presidents in America’s history, but simply as “two slave owners.”
Santiago stated, “Kicking off the Independence Day Weekend, President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that uh, be focusing on the effort to ‘tear down our country’s history.’”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper made no effort to ameliorate the situation, saying simply, “All right. Leyla Santiago, with that report, thank you so much.&#8221;
As Santiago delivered her nasty characterization of Washington and Jefferson, CNN was running a nasty chyron that mocked July 4 by putting ‘Independence” in scare quotes as it stated, “Reexamining ‘Independence’ Day,” with the subheading, “As Americans grapple with racial reckoning, some are uncertain how to celebrate Independence Day.”
The scare quotes are unnecessary, of course: Independence Day is the official name of the holiday, under 5 USC Section 6103.
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CNN: &quot;President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.” <a href="https://t.co/UYjzEiUkU9">pic.twitter.com/UYjzEiUkU9</a>
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Santiago’s hostile perspective vis-à-vis Washington and Jefferson is not unique for CNN; in August 2017, CNN commentator Angela Rye <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/18/cnns_angela_rye_washington_jefferson_statues_need_to_come_down.html?fbclid=IwAR0cZmuavUNs_QmaGRXFwI4vdnPlgeSI2OOXrxwoGqDTX50xTb1T39aVOSc">called for all statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to be removed</a> after The Daily Beast’s editor John Avlon argued Washingon spent his life trying to unite the nation.
Rye stated:
<blockquote>I think that we have to get to the heart of the problem here and the heart of the problem is the way in which many of us were taught American history. American history is not all glorious and even though I love John to death, I couldn&#8217;t disagree more about George Washington. George Washington was a slave owner and we need to call slave owners out for what they are. Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn&#8217;t protecting my freedom. I wasn&#8217;t someone &#8212; my ancestors weren&#8217;t deemed human beings to him. And so to me, I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue or a Robert E. Lee statue, they all need to come down. There is a way that we can recognize&#8230;
I&#8217;m not feeding into white supremacy. I&#8217;m calling out white supremacy for what it is. And sometimes what it is, John, are blind spots. Sometimes what it is, is not acknowledging that this country was built on a very violent past that resulted in death and the rape and the killing of my ancestors. I&#8217;m not going to allow us to say it&#8217;s OK for Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington. We need to call it what it is. And I&#8217;m not saying  that they don&#8217;t deserve to be taught about. We definitely need to learn about it so that we don&#8217;t repeat it because we are close to repeating it right now. But I&#8217;m not giving any deference to George Washington or Robert E. Lee.</blockquote>
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WATCH: CNN Chyron Mocks ‘Independence’ Day, CNN Reporter At Mt. Rushmore Refers To Washington, Jefferson As ‘Slave Owners’

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It sounds funny to say, but the media may have just hit a new low. Angela Rye, appearing on Chris Cuomo&#8217;s show, compared wearing a MAGA hat to donning a KKK hood. Why does the media constantly promote these radical left notions? Michael Knowles breaks it down on Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s very triggering for her (Angela Rye), she thinks of the MAGA hat as the KKK hood,&#8221; said Knowles. &#8220;She says, &#8216;As long as that&#8217;s the case, we&#8217;re gonna have problems.&#8217; Right, there is a problem, but that&#8217;s your problem. That&#8217;s an Angela Rye problem. That&#8217;s a Left problem, it&#8217;s not my problem that Angela Rye lives in a fantasy world. That&#8217;s not my problem. Angela Rye&#8217;s feelings are not my problem.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;The fact is, a MAGA hat is not a KKK hood in part because the MAGA hat represents the Republican Party and the KKK hood represents the Democrat Party. There&#8217;s nothing racist about making America great again. It&#8217;s been a Republican slogan now for 40 years. Nixon used it. Reagan famously used it. She says that she can&#8217;t be friends in this interview, she can&#8217;t be friends with certain conservatives. If people wear the hat, she can&#8217;t be friends with them. That&#8217;s your problem. Sorry, darling, okay? I mean, grow up. I can&#8217;t make you grow up. I can&#8217;t resolve your daddy issues. That&#8217;s not up to me.&#8221;
&#8220;Not only am I unwilling to do it, I actually can&#8217;t do it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;People will order themselves toward virtue, they will order themselves toward discipline. They will order themselves toward recognizing a moral standard, or, those standards will be imposed from above by the government or by some giant oppressive force. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s gonna happen. I can&#8217;t argue with Angela Rye&#8217;s feelings, they&#8217;re her feelings. I can just point to reality, and when you look at the reality of that video, those 16-year-old Catholic school kids were not the KKK. They&#8217;re not. I&#8217;m sorry. Maybe Angela Rye needs to talk it over with her therapist or something. I&#8217;m not a therapist. I just talk about politics. I just try to advance a conservative agenda which is based in reality. It&#8217;s based in objective reality, not subjective fantasy.&#8221;
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What they&#8217;re (Democrats) trying to do to excuse their awful behavior is push a tyranny of relativism to say, &#8220;Well, who can really say what happened? Who knows? I mean, yeah, look okay&#8230; so there are two hours of video footage showing that the Covington kids behaved admirably and with great maturity, and showing that Nathan Phillips is a lying lunatic and showing that the Black Israelites are horrible racists screaming at these white kids, okay, there&#8217;s video &#8211; that&#8217;s one perspective. But I don&#8217;t want that to be true.&#8221;
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Some of these columns they posted, they said, &#8220;Look okay, the video shows one thing, but we know what we saw.&#8221; No, you didn&#8217;t. Look, I know what they saw too. What they saw was what they wanted to see. But they didn&#8217;t see the truth. It&#8217;s this tyranny of relativism. This hysteria and this primacy of feelings, emotivism rather than looking at objective reality. Nowhere is this clearer than on CNN, on Chris Cuomo&#8217;s show, he had a CNN contributor, Angela Rye, come on to compare the MAGA hats to the KKK hood.
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Angela Rye: This &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look at as a KKK hood. Like, that is the type of hatred that his policies represent. And until we can have common ground and understand that it&#8217;s that triggering, we&#8217;re gonna continue to have problems.&#8221;
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It&#8217;s very triggering for her, she thinks of the MAGA hat as the KKK hood. She says, &#8220;As long as that&#8217;s the case, we&#8217;re gonna have problems.&#8221; Right, there is a problem, but that&#8217;s your problem. That&#8217;s an Angela Rye problem. That&#8217;s a Left problem, it&#8217;s not my problem that Angela Rye lives in a fantasy world. That&#8217;s not my problem. Angela Rye&#8217;s feelings are not my problem. The fact is, a MAGA hat is not a KKK hood in part because the MAGA hat represents the Republican party and the KKK hood represents the Democrat party. There&#8217;s nothing racist about making America great again. It&#8217;s been a Republican slogan now for 40 years. Nixon used it. Reagan famously used it. She says that she can&#8217;t be friends in this interview, she can&#8217;t be friends with certain conservatives. If people wear the hat, she can&#8217;t be friends with them. That&#8217;s your problem. Sorry, darling, okay? I mean, grow up. I can&#8217;t make you grow up. I can&#8217;t resolve your daddy issues. That&#8217;s not up to me.
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Not only am I unwilling to do it, I actually can&#8217;t do it. People will order themselves toward virtue, they will order themselves toward discipline. They will order themselves toward recognizing a moral standard, or, those standards will be imposed from above by the government or by some giant oppressive force. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s gonna happen. All of the Founding Fathers wrote about this, especially John Adams and Hamilton and a lot of the Federalists. They wrote about how, if the people lose its maturity, its sense of discipline, its virtue, its moral understanding, its religiosity, its humility. If the people loses that, it&#8217;s all sunk. We&#8217;re all sunk. We just end up with this. I can&#8217;t argue with Angela Rye&#8217;s feelings, they&#8217;re her feelings. I can just point to reality, and when you look at the reality of that video, those 16-year-old Catholic school kids were not the KKK. They&#8217;re not. I&#8217;m sorry. Maybe Angela Rye needs to talk it over with her therapist or something. I&#8217;m not a therapist. I just talk about politics. I just try to advance a conservative agenda which is based in reality. It&#8217;s based in objective reality, not subjective fantasy.
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CNN political commentator Angela Rye came unglued this week during a segment discussing border separations for families who illegally enter the United States, comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to slave traders.
Rye became combative and hostile while appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Cuomo Prime Time&#8221; with host Chris Cuomo and former Trump campaign chief spokesman Jason Miller.
&#8220;What I don&#8217;t want to enforce is your president&#8217;s nonsense,&#8221; Rye said, repeatedly referring to Trump as &#8220;your president.&#8221;
&#8220;If you just take yourselves out of it for just a moment, take off the lenses of bigotry for just a moment,&#8221; Rye continued.
&#8220;Okay, so now we&#8217;re getting into the name calling?&#8221; Miller responded.
&#8220;Um, yes, we are,&#8221; Rye admitted.
Back and forth arguing continued between the two until Rye falsely compared ICE agents to slave traders.
&#8220;I wish I could tell you where from Africa my ancestors came from, at least part of them, but I wouldn&#8217;t know because the same bigots who are sending people back away from their children are the ones who brought my ancestors here on a slave ship,&#8221; Rye said.
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CNN&#8217;s Angela Rye compares ICE to slave traders: &#8220;I wish I could tell you where from Africa my ancestors came from&#8230;but I wouldn&#8217;t know because the same bigots who are sending people back away from their children are the ones who brought my ancestors here on a slave ship.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wY2gyjxu0p">pic.twitter.com/wY2gyjxu0p</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1025930964973707265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: CNN Commentator Explodes, Compares ICE To Slave Traders

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An all-female CNN segment on Wednesday laughed, gloated, and even screamed in mockery at the news that a female African-American member of the Trump administration lost her job.
CNN political commentator Angela Rye gloated and screamed at the news that Omarosa Manigault-Newman, director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, was let go from her position.
CNN host Brooke Baldwin, CNN political analyst April Ryan, and regular CNN guest Symone Sanders all joined in what was a public display of complete classlessness as the group all laughed.
&#8220;Brooke, I&#8217;m going to do what you can&#8217;t do, and what April and Symone are too good of people to do and that&#8217;s just be petty for a minute,&#8221; Rye said, as reported by the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-commentator-gloats-omarosa-leaving-white-house/">WFB</a>. Rye then proceeded to scream, and said, &#8220;Bye girl. Bye. We did it already on the podcast, April. Bye, honey, you have never represented the community. You are skin folk. We don&#8217;t own you like Zora. Goodbye. Good riddance. Goodbye. Deuces.&#8221;
After a few moments, Ryan said she did not &#8220;delight in anyone&#8217;s demise.&#8221;
This is CNN.
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&#8220;Bye, girl, bye.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/angela_rye?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@angela_rye</a> (with <a href="https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AprilDRyan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SymoneDSanders</a>) on Omarosa&#8217;s exit: <a href="https://t.co/b8Kw51iRlM">https://t.co/b8Kw51iRlM</a>
&#8212; Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrookeBCNN/status/941037232806383616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: CNN Gloats, Screams, And Laughs At Black Woman Who Lost Her Job In Trump Administration

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CNN&#8217;s Angela Rye refused to refer to President Donald Trump as her president during a Monday discussion segment with network colleague Jack Kingston.
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RYE: There are a lot of things that your president has done that defy logic. Let&#8217;s at least acknowledge that.

KINGSTON: Your president, too, Angela.

RYE: He&#8217;s your president.
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Rye <a href="https://cbcinstitute.org/team/angela-rye1">formerly worked</a> with the Congressional Black Caucus as its executive director and general counsel. She regularly advances racial agitation narratives framing blacks and assorted &#8220;people of color&#8221; as oppressed by whites; hyping terms such as &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221;

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WATCH: CNN Contributor Says Trump Is Not Her President

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CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar deployed lawyerly language to offer plausible deniability that she and her employed are engaged in a smearing of President Donald Trump as anti-Semitic during a Tuesday discussion segment.

Keilar offered her lawyerly response to protestations from <a href="http://twitter.com/Harlan">Harlan Hill</a> of &#8220;slanderous&#8221; accusations against Trump coming from her and fellow CNN colleague Angela Rye, stating that she was not &#8220;necessarily&#8221; accusing Trump of being an anti-Semite: &#8220;No, that is not what we are doing. We are talking about his language condemning anti-Semitism. That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean we are accusing him of being anti-Semitic.&#8221;

&#8220;This is slanderous!&#8221; proclaimed Hill in defense of Trump against innuendo-laden descriptions of the president as anti-Semitic from Keilar and Rye.

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/living/jcc-bomb-threats-anti-semitism/">CNN reported</a> that 48 Jewish community centers in 28 states received nearly 60 bomb threats in the month of January, framing this as a function of Trump&#8217;s presidency. Its headline cast Trump as tardy in his response: &#8220;11 more bomb threats target Jewish community. Trump finally responds.&#8221;

Keilar introduced the segment with a characterization of Trump as insufficiently opposed to anti-Semitism, describing a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-antisemitism-idUSKBN1601QY">recent statement from Trump</a> as &#8220;the first time&#8221; he addressed the aforementioned series of anti-Semitic threats.
 
&#8220;Why do you think Donald Trump spoke out now, and why do you think it took him so long to do so?&#8221; asked Keilar. She later pointed to <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319954-trump-clashes-with-jewish-reporter-over-anti-semitism-question">Trump&#8217;s derision of an observant Jewish reporter</a> following a question about anti-Semitism at a press conference last week as further evidence of her innuendo-laden narrative of the president as a hater of Jews. She also described some of Trump&#8217;s conduct as &#8220;questionable&#8221; with respect to anti-Semitism.

Hill &#8211; apparently a former supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217;s (D-VT) presidential campaign and now a supporter of Trump&#8217;s &#8211; sought to shift the segment&#8217;s innuendo-driven focus towards connections between Hillary Clinton and Islamist governments.

Rye accused Trump of being sympathetic to anti-black racism and inciting violence against &#8220;black [and] brown people:&#8221;

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&#8220;We know there&#8217;s been a rise in hate incidents since this man took office We know that Donald Trump refused throughout the campaign to condemn hateful rhetoric against black people, against brown people, in fact he used terms to incite violence against these communities.&#8221;
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Keilar offered no challenge to any of Rye&#8217;s accusations, instead opting to only challenge Hill. She presents herself as an objective and non-partisan news anchor.
CNN brands and markets itself as &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News.&#8221;

H/T Alex Griswold at <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-is-slanderous-cnn-panel-clashes-over-donald-trumps-rhetoric-on-anti-semitism/">Mediaite</a>

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