On Tuesday, White House advisor Ivanka Trump was confronted by aggressive CNN reporter and avid self-promoter Jim Acosta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Mr. Acosta rushed Ivanka as she was coming down a flight of stairs at the forum. &#8220;Your father’s impeachment trial is today, what are your thoughts?” he questioned the eldest Trump daughter. &#8220;Any comment on your father&#8217;s impeachment trial?&#8221;
Ivanka brushed off Acosta and walked around him. As she continued on her walk, Acosta can be heard repeating his questions concerning impeachment.
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acosta</a> catches up with <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Davos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Davos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF20</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cnn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cnn</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDMM9yIyQm">pic.twitter.com/gDMM9yIyQm</a>
&mdash; Matt Hoye (@mattyhoyeCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyhoyeCNN/status/1219604447619420161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta quickly commented on the interaction via Twitter: &#8220;Ivanka Trump declines to comment to [CNN] on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. #WEF2020.&#8221;
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Ivanka Trump declines to comment to <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4">https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4</a>
&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1219604724883906561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka&#8217;s eldest brother, jumped in to defend his sister and ridicule Acosta.
&#8220;Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington???&#8221; he quote-tweeted Acosta&#8217;s post via Twitter.
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Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington??? <a href="https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P">https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1219637944312639489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta had his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-secret-service-takes-jim-acostas-press-ryan-saavedra">hard press pass temporarily revoked</a> in 2018 after he physically pushed back against a young female White House intern trying to grab the communal mic.
&#8220;I’ve just been denied entrance to the [White House]. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the [White House] grounds for my 8pm hit,” Acosta posted at the time.
Then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement on the matter: “President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration,” she said. “We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.”
&#8220;This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter’s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history,&#8221; added Sanders.
Acosta has sparked issues with President Donald Trump on numerous occasions. Just last week, for example, the president told the reporter to be &#8220;quiet&#8221; after continuous interruptions.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-acosta-interrupts-one-time-too-many-trump-shuts-him-up-with-one-word">reported</a>: &#8220;President Trump spoke to reporters who were asking him about Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who claims Trump was aware of efforts to get information about rival presidential candidates. In the process, CNN’s Jim Acosta, as per his usual style, kept interrupting Trump, at which point Trump looked at him and shut him down, saying sternly, &#8216;Quiet.'&#8221;
After Acosta interrupted Trump at least three times, the president looked directly at the reporter and told him, “Quiet.”
In a post published Monday, Ivanka said she was attending the Davos forum on behalf of the White House.
“Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our #PledgetoAmericasWorkers and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States,” she announced.
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Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PledgetoAmericasWorkers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PledgetoAmericasWorkers</a> and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States.
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1219305872553209860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In December, Ivanka &#8220;touted the administration’s recent success in securing a new federal employee paid leave policy,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">Ivanka Trump Touts Another Victory The Trump Administration Has Achieved</a>

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The Democratic Party is doing a heck of a job making it look like the entire party establishment is out to sabotage Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from clinching the party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination. Between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-even-far-left-samantha-bee-torches-cnn-for-bias-against-bernie-sanders-at-the-debate">CNN&#8217;s bias</a> against him in the debate and now Hillary Clinton publicly scolding him as an unlikable stooge, the game is increasingly beginning to look rather rigged.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hillary Clinton said that she stood by a statement she made severely criticizing Bernie Sanders in the four-part Hulu docuseries &#8220;Hillary.&#8221;
&#8220;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him,&#8221; she said in the series. &#8220;Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.&#8221;
According to Holly Otterbein of Politico, Bernie Sanders has since responded to Hillary&#8217;s statement with a call to unity.
“My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: The impeachment trial of Donald Trump,&#8221; said Bernie in a statement. &#8220;Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”
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Bernie Sanders releases a statement on Hillary Clinton’s comments: “My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”
&mdash; Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1219659489785405440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In response to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bashing, the socialist senator&#8217;s supporters and other prominent media figures took to Twitter to blast the failed presidential candidate as an establishment shill who is still bitter about the 2016 election.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton lost to the dumbest and least qualified candidate of all time. Yet she has the audacity to refer to this election&#8217;s frontrunner as &#8216;unlikable.&#8217; Many PEOPLE — not D.C. politicos — love Bernie because of what he represents: U.S.,&#8221; tweeted Ana Kasparian of <a href="https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian/status/1219631675019350025?s=20">The Young Turks</a>. 
&#8220;Bernie Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a complete pass on the emails when he didn’t need to. When he lost the primary, he endorsed and campaigned for her, too. But how quickly we forget,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1219631712256319490?s=20">tweeted</a> Jon Levine of the New York Post. 
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t condemn Hillary Clinton&#8216;s comments today, I don&#8217;t want to ever hear you talk about unity again,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/1219666598992023552?s=20">tweeted</a> John Laderolla of The Young Turks. &#8220;Willing to bet Hillary Clinton doesn&#8217;t receive 1% the condemnation for refusing to say she&#8217;d support Bernie Sanders than Bernie got for working his ass off to try to get her elected.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a damn shame. [Bernie] did 41 events for Clinton in 2016 and pressed his supporters to get behind her campaign. (I know because I was there.) Being divisive at this point is wrong and only plays into the hands of those we need to defeat in November,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/1219630564376043520?s=20">tweeted</a> James J. Zogby. 
The Democratic Party establishment&#8217;s bias against Bernie Sanders became readily apparent last week during the presidential debate when CNN moderator Abby Phillip asked him to address a recent report alleging that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) back in 2018 that a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillip asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillip then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillip, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.

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Trump legal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and self-described liberal Democrat, fired back at CNN on Monday after the left-wing network accused Dershowitz of making contradictory claims between the impeachment of President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
CNN highlighted an August 1998 interview with Dershowitz on CNN during the summer leading up to Clinton&#8217;s impeachment.
&#8220;It certainly doesn&#8217;t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don&#8217;t need a technical crime,&#8221; Dershowitz said at the time. &#8220;We look at their acts of state. We look at how they conduct the foreign policy. We look at whether they try to subvert the Constitution.&#8221;
CNN <a href="https://outline.com/kHdrFT">reported</a>:
<blockquote>But on Sunday he told CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that in his defense of Trump he would cite former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtis in saying the framers of the Constitution intended for impeachable conduct to mean &#8220;criminal-like conduct.&#8221;
Dershowitz also asserted on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; that both obstruction of Congress and abuse of power do not meet the constitutional criteria for impeachment.</blockquote>
Dershowitz quickly debunked CNN&#8217;s attempt to suggest that he made contradictory statements, telling MSNBC, &#8220;It&#8217;s the same argument. You need criminal-type behavior akin to treason and bribery. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a technical crime because at the time that the framers wrote the constitution there was no criminal code.&#8221;
Dershowitz fired back again on Twitter, writing, &#8220;There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a &#8216;technical&#8217; crime. I have said now there must be &#8216;criminal-like&#8217; conduct, or conduct &#8216;akin to treason and bribery.'&#8221;
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There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a “technical“ crime. I have said now there must be “criminal-like” conduct, or conduct “akin to treason and bribery.”
&mdash; Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1219312502271438848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-professor-alan-dershowitz-democrats-impeachment-greatest-nightmare-founders-had">interview</a> on Sunday, Dershowitz pushed back on former Clinton official George Stephanopolous’ suggestion that the articles against Trump contained crimes.
“The articles of impeachment are two non-criminal actions, namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, and those &#8230; would have to be voted on by the Senate,&#8221; Dershowitz said.
“Let me press that, though,” Stephanopolous said. “Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?”
“That’s right,” Dershowitz responded. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime – let’s assume you have a lot of evidence – but the grand jury simply indicts for something that’s not a crime, and that’s what happened here, you have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.”
“Those are both the kinds of things that led Hamilton and Madison – talk about nightmare – to regard that as the greatest nightmare, number one, giving Congress too much power to allow the president to serve at the will of Congress,” Dershowitz continued. “And number two, as Hamilton put it, the greatest danger is turning impeachment into a question of who has the most votes in which House, and rather than having a consensus and a broad view of impeachable conduct.”

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On Thursday morning, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) shot down a CNN reporter asking for comment on the upcoming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
McSally sparked a firestorm from offended journalists online by refusing to answer CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju, instead calling him a &#8220;liberal hack.&#8221;
“Senator McSally, should the Senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trail?” Raju asked, according to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/16/sen-martha-mcsally-blasts-cnn-reporter-on-camera-youre-a-liberal-hack/">The Federalist</a>.
“Manu, you’re a liberal hack, I’m not talking to you,” the Republican senator responded .
Raju pressed, “You’re not going to comment about this?”
“You’re a liberal hack, buddy,&#8221; McSally told the reporter.
Raju quickly took to Twitter to complain that McSally &#8220;lashed out&#8221; at him.
&#8220;Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican facing a difficult election race, lashed out when I asked if she would consider new evidence as part of the Senate trial,&#8221; he posted. &#8220;&#8216;You’re a liberal hack — I’m not talking to you. You’re a liberal hack.&#8217; She then walked into a hearing room.&#8221;
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Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican facing a difficult election race, lashed out when I asked if she would consider new evidence as part of the Senate trial. “You’re a liberal hack &#8211; I’m not talking to you. You’re a liberal hack.” She then walked into a hearing room.
&mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1217822020848771074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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McSally was unapologetic over the encounter. The senator posted the video of the interaction to Twitter in response to Raju and doubled down on her assertion that he is a &#8220;liberal hack.&#8221;
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A) you are. B) here’s the video. <a href="https://t.co/zVgk9pBhdf">https://t.co/zVgk9pBhdf</a> <a href="https://t.co/cfFdotLjFK">pic.twitter.com/cfFdotLjFK</a>
&mdash; Martha McSally (@SenMcSallyAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMcSallyAZ/status/1217829609808547841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The interaction dominated social media Thursday morning.
According to CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper, the family of the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was asked about McSally&#8217;s actions.
&#8220;Given that McSally was appointed to serve our the remainder of Sen John McCain’s term, I asked a member of the family for thoughts on McSally’s comments today. The response was &#8216;There’s no love lost between our family and her,'&#8221; Tapper reported.
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Given that McSally was appointed to serve our the remainder of Sen John McCain’s term, I asked a member of the family for thoughts on McSally’s comments today. 
The response was “There’s no love lost between our family and her.” <a href="https://t.co/PvbWFdATCM">https://t.co/PvbWFdATCM</a>
&mdash; Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1217863420873269248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I love McSally now,&#8221; popular right-wing Twitter account Comfortably Smug posted.
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Wtf I love McSally now <a href="https://t.co/1LHMSmGHmB">https://t.co/1LHMSmGHmB</a>
&mdash; Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1217824190591651841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Thoughts and prayers,&#8221; the Washington Examiner&#8217;s Seth Mandel mockingly tweeted.
Mandel, however, also offered some support for Raju: &#8220;I will say this about Manu: He&#8217;s deserving of far more credit than McSally gives him here,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I think ppl are overreacting about &#8216;being attacked&#8217; or whatever, but Manu is one of the very rare journos who confronts Ilhan Omar, on camera, on the record — far more spine than most.&#8221;
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I will say this about Manu: He&#39;s deserving of far more credit than McSally gives him here. I think ppl are overreacting about &#39;being attacked&#39; or whatever, but Manu is one of the very rare journos who confronts Ilhan Omar, on camera, on the record&#8211;far more spine than most.
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1217841287984025601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I agree it&#8217;s inappropriate to talk to a reporter this way. But in 2017 Raju ran an unverified and untrue report, likely coming from Schiff&#8217;s aides, smearing [Donald Trump Jr.],&#8221; Senior writer at RealClear Investigations Mark Hemingway noted. &#8220;CNN did nothing to discipline anyone involved in the story.&#8221;
&#8220;Why should GOP trust Raju and CNN?&#8221; he asked.
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I agree it&#39;s inappropriate to talk to a reporter this way. 
But in 2017 Raju ran an unverified and untrue report, likely coming from Schiff&#39;s aides, smearing @realdonaldtrumpjr. CNN did nothing to discipline anyone involved in the story. 
Why should GOP trust Raju and CNN? <a href="https://t.co/ttrSIjUZoD">https://t.co/ttrSIjUZoD</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1217826842293547011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As reported by The Daily Wire on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smiled as she signed the Democrats’ partisan articles of impeachment against Trump.
The smile was noteworthy, since Pelosi has repeatedly called impeachment a &#8220;sad&#8221; and &#8220;somber&#8221; affair.
“So sad, so tragic for our country that the actions taken by the president undermined our national security, to violate his oath of office, and to jeopardize the security of our elections, the integrity of our elections, has taken us to this place,” Pelosi had previously said. “So, today we will make history when the managers walk down the hallway, we will cross a threshold in history, delivering articles of impeachment against the President of the United States for abuse of power and obstruction of the House.”
“Yes, it is a fact: When someone is impeached, they are always impeached. It cannot be erased,&#8221; the leading Democrat boasted. &#8220;So I stand by that comment, although I know you don’t like hearing it.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sad-pelosi-grins-while-signing-impeachment-articles-internet-explodes-over-her-golden-pens">‘Sad’ Pelosi Grins While Signing Impeachment Articles. Internet Explodes Over Her Golden Pens.</a>

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‘LIBERAL HACK’: Sen. McSally Shuts Down CNN Reporter On Video

&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski did not mince words in her frustration and confusion over CNN&#8217;s bias in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential debate on Tuesday night.
&#8220;I&#8217;m completely confused  as to why it turned from Bernie Sanders saying, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t say it,&#8217; to Elizabeth Warren being asked, &#8216;what did you think when he said it?&#8217; He says he didn&#8217;t say it. So you turn to Elizabeth Warren and say, &#8216;did he say it?&#8217; That&#8217;s the issue. I mean, it&#8217;s bizarre,&#8221; Brzezinski told the panel.
&#8220;It was,&#8221; responded a fellow panelist.
Brzezinski was referring to the moment when CNN’s Abby Phillips asked Bernie Sanders to clarify the veracity of the bombshell report this week alleging that he told Warren in 2018 a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillips asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillips then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillips, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.
“I disagreed,” Warren replied. “Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But, look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it’s time for us to attack it head-on.”
Brzezinski could not believe CNN framed the question that way and got away with it.
&#8220;What the heck happened there? Are they listening?&#8221; Brzezinski asked out loud. &#8220;Because you&#8217;ve got to listen when you do a debate and then take the question to the next candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a miss,&#8221; said another panelist.
Mika Brzezinski went on to say that the conversation between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren could easily have been manipulated in her benefit, arguing that it deserved some level of scrutiny by CNN.
&#8220;By the way, I&#8217;ve had conversations, private conversations taken to the press and totally manipulated for the benefit of the person that was sharing the story,&#8221; said Brzezinski. &#8220;This happens all the time. It&#8217;s clear there is a misunderstanding and Elizabeth Warren is focused on something that was said in Bernie Sanders is not going to be someone that says I don&#8217;t think a woman can win. That&#8217;s just stupid.&#8221;
&#8220;Right. It would not be smart,&#8221; responded a panelist.
&#8220;Also, Bernie went to her in 2015 and said I think you can win. I think you should run for president. This is such a small ball,&#8221; added Joe Scarborough.
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As reported by The Daily Wire&#8217;s James Barrett, the hashtag #NeverWarren has since been trending in response to CNN&#8217;s blatant media malpractice, with some Bernie fans alleging that another fix is in.
“Lie or mischaracterize your ‘friend’s’ comments, double down, refuse to shake his hand,” <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1217301852389367808" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted Kyle Kulinski,</a> a prominent liberal and YouTube host.
“Are you watching America?” <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1217279450116775937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> liberal activist and Sanders supporter Shaun King. “When [Bernie Sanders] beat a Republican to win his congressional seat 29 years ago, Elizabeth Warren was still a Republican. One reason she never lost to a Republican is that she was a Republican for the first 47 years of her life.”

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WATCH: MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski Trashes CNN For Biased Question Against Bernie During The Debate: &#8216;What The Heck Happened?&#8217;

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On Tuesday night, following the seventh Democratic presidential primary debate, far-left CNN commentator Van Jones hit Democrats with some tough news about their candidates and the looming 2020 election against President Donald Trump: There is not a single candidate who looks like they have what it takes to beat the president.
“I want to say that tonight for me was dispiriting,&#8221; Jones said on CNN post-debate, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478325-cnns-van-jones-democratic-debate-was-dispiriting-no-evidence-party-can">The Hill</a>. &#8220;Democrats will have to do better than we saw tonight.&#8221;
&#8220;There was nothing I saw tonight to suggest we’ll be able to take Donald Trump out and I want to see a Democrat in the White House as soon as possible,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There was nothing tonight, if you’re looking at this thing, to say any of these people are prepared for what Donald Trump will do to us. And to see further divisions tonight is very dispiriting.”
Jones also hit Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their &#8220;dispiriting&#8221; dispute.
“As a progressive to see those two have that level of vitriol was dispiriting,” he said.
The far-left candidates were asked about a dubious CNN report regarding Sanders allegedly telling Warren a woman could never be elected president, which the Vermont senator vehemently denied. Moderator Abby Phillips of CNN, however, openly took Warren&#8217;s side during the exchange. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-malpractice-cnn-blasted-for-question-siding-with-warren-over-bernie">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>CNN’s Abby Phillips asked Sanders: “So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here; you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?”
“That is correct,” Sanders responded.
Phillips then turned to Warren and asked, “Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”</blockquote>
Jones is vocal Trump critic who infamously called the Republican&#8217;s election to the White House in 2016 a &#8220;white lash.&#8221;
“People talk about a miracle, I’m hearing about a nightmare,” Jones <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glorious-van-jones-live-tv-meltdown-calls-trump-chase-stephens">said</a> on-air. “It’s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids, ‘Don’t be a bully.’ You tell your kids, ‘Don’t be a bigot.’ You tell your kids, ‘Do your homework and be prepared.’ Then you have this outcome, and you have people putting children to bed tonight and they’re afraid of breakfast.&#8221;
“They’re afraid of, ‘How do I explain this to my children?’ I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight saying, ‘Should I leave the country?’ I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;This was a white lash against a changing country,” Jones charged. “It was a white lash against a black president in part. And that’s the part where the pain comes. And Donald Trump has a responsibility tonight to come out and assure people that he is going to be the president of all the people he insulted and offended and brushed aside.&#8221;
“Yeah, when you say you want to take your country back, you got a lot of people who feel that we’re not represented well, either. But we don’t want to feel that someone has been elected by throwing away some of us to appeal more deeply to others,&#8221; the CNN commentator concluded.
In December of 2018, Jones slightly changed his tune on Trump, praising the president for taking the lead on criminal justice reform.
&#8220;To his credit — and I don’t do this often, nobody’s tougher on Donald Trump when he’s wrong — Trump moved from talking about law and order and &#8216;lock &#8217;em up&#8217; to saying, listen, everybody deserves a second chance. Let’s take some proven programs … and do it at the federal level,&#8221; Jones said, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/422025-van-jones-praises-trump-backed-criminal-justice-reform-bill-a-christmas">The Hill</a>.
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“He became, to the shock of everybody, the biggest, loudest champion on criminal justice,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I got 99 conflicts with the Trump administration, prisons are not one.”
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Van Jones

Van Jones Says What Every Democrat Fears About 2020

On Tuesday night, Democratic presidential contenders battled it out in the seventh Democratic primary debate, hosted by CNN and The Des Moines Register.
As noted by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/us/politics/democratic-debate-live.html">The New York Times</a>, the &#8220;sparks didn’t really fly&#8221; during the dull and lengthy debate, though there was a &#8220;tense moment&#8221; between Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). The far-left candidates were asked about a dubious CNN report regarding Sanders allegedly telling Warren a woman could never be elected president, which the Vermont senator vehemently denied.
Lucky for Warren, however, the moderator from CNN took her side during the exchange, completely ignoring Sanders&#8217; denial. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-malpractice-cnn-blasted-for-question-siding-with-warren-over-bernie">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>CNN’s Abby Phillips asked Sanders: “So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here; you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?”
“That is correct,” Sanders responded.
Phillips then turned to Warren and asked, “Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”</blockquote>
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CNN: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?&quot; SANDERS: &quot;That is correct.&quot; CNN: “Sen. Warren, what did you think when senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BZ1NajmQE9">pic.twitter.com/BZ1NajmQE9</a>
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Greg Gutfeld, a co-host on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Five,&#8221; noted the moment in a tweet concerning his &#8220;take home notes&#8221; of the night:
<blockquote>Take home notes:
-I&#8217;m no Sanders fan, but CNN totally knifed him, again. 
-the real thinkers were missing on that stage 
-the moderators were amateurs 
-the candidates were bored by their own words 
-trump will eat any of these alive.</blockquote>
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take home notes: -I&#39;m no Sanders fan, but CNN totally knifed him, again. -the real thinkers were missing on that stage -the moderators were amateurs -the candidates were bored by their own words -trump will eat any of these alive.
&mdash; GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) <a href="https://twitter.com/greggutfeld/status/1217282318202822662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The &#8220;real thinkers&#8221; referenced by Gutfeld are presumably Democratic candidate Andrew Yang, a former tech executive, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). The two candidates fell short of qualifying for the debate stage, making Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primary debate lacking racial diversity, something Democrats routinely tout.
And as far as Gutfeld&#8217;s prediction that Trump will &#8220;eat any of these&#8221; candidates &#8220;alive&#8221; in a general election, CNN and MSNBC moderators are seemingly in agreement. Post-debate left-wing analysts worried over which contender could beat Trump.
For example, CNN&#8217;s Van Jones called the debate &#8220;dispiriting.&#8221;
“I want to say that tonight for me was dispiriting,&#8221; Jones said on CNN, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/478325-cnns-van-jones-democratic-debate-was-dispiriting-no-evidence-party-can">The Hill</a>. &#8220;Democrats will have to do better than we saw tonight. There was nothing I saw tonight to suggest we’ll be able to take Donald Trump out and I want to see a Democrat in the White House as soon as possible.&#8221;
&#8220;There was nothing tonight, if you’re looking at this thing, to say any of these people are prepared for what Donald Trump will do to us. And to see further divisions tonight is very dispiriting,&#8221; he added.
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As noted by Gutfeld, the &#8220;amateur&#8221; moderators were not well received. The hashtag <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/01/15/hahaha-after-the-debate-bernie-fans-get-warrenisasnake-neverwarren-and-cnnistrash-trending/">#CNNIsTrash</a> trended following the debate due to the questions and actions from CNN, particularly CNN&#8217;s Abby Phillips openly taking Warren&#8217;s side in the Bernie-Warren dispute.
&#8220;CNN has long been viewed as anti-Sanders, but this is incredible,&#8221; posted constitutional law professor and impeachment witness Jonathan Turley. &#8220;After asking Sanders to repeat his denial, Abby Phillips asserted that Sanders was lying: &#8216;Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?'&#8221;
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CNN has long been viewed as anti-Sanders, but this is incredible. After asking Sanders to repeat his denial, Abby Phillips asserted that Sanders was lying: “Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1217290048984338432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Greg Gutfeld

Greg Gutfeld Summarizes Democrat Debate In One Viral Tweet

According to one prominent MSNBC host, anyone who would dare to defend President Donald Trump is a liar.
Lawrence O’Donnell, host of “The Last Word” on the network, recently appeared on former Sen. Al Franken’s podcast. Franken (who was forced to resign from the senate because of how he treated women in comedy bits a decade ago) said CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration amounted to “playing it down the middle, except we hate Trump,” O’Donnell interjected, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-lawrence-odonnell-accuses-cnn-of-helping-trump-spread-lies">reported</a> The Daily Beast.
“No, they don’t,” O’Donnell said. “One third of the people on their payroll love Trump. So, you’re guaranteed on any hour of CNN to, minimum one third of the programming will be supportive of Trump—someone on their payroll saying, ‘Here’s why Trump’s right.’”
“That’s one of the reasons why Trump kind of wants you to watch CNN instead of MSNBC,” O’Donnell said, according to the Beast. “Because he knows on MSNBC there will be no one defending him. Because we don’t bring on liars. I don’t bring on a liar. I won’t do that.”
Franken then asked O’Donnell the obvious question: “Are you saying that to defend Trump you have to lie?”
O’Donnell gave the predictable response.
“Yes, absolutely you do,” O’Donnell said. “How else do you defend a liar—a pathological liar who lies about everything? You have to lie.”
“So CNN has people on the payroll who they pay to tell their lies to the CNN audience in the middle of a CNN hour for some number of minutes,” O’Donnell continued “And so Trump knows that if you watch CNN ‘at least you’ll hear someone lying in my favor.’”
The Beast gently pushed back against O’Donnell’s “one third” comment, saying it “may be somewhat of an exaggeration,” but went on to knock CNN for “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-urban-why-is-cnn-paying-a-trump-campaign-adviser">paying Trump-defending pundits</a> who <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-cnn-hired-ex-trump-aides-bound-by-ndas-thats-journalistic-malpractice-experts-say">in some cases cannot even publicly criticize him</a> without violating non-disclosure agreements.”
The network also had a habit of paying Obama-defending pundits who didn’t even need a non-disclosure agreement to keep them from publicly criticizing their messiah. CNN also has a habit of paying people who actively tried to bring down Trump, such as former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (who is paid by the network despite being found to have lied to federal investigators). Naturally, these points didn’t make it into the Beast article.
The outlet had previously spoken to two of O’Donnel’s NBC colleagues – “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd and Chris Hayes. Todd told the Beast in early 2019 that he would keep bringing on people to present Trump’s side of the argument, like White House advisor Kellyanne Conway (whom the Beast said had a “proven propensity to mislead,” as if no left-leaning guests ever mislead viewers) because he didn’t “have a hard and fast rule about who I put on and who I don’t.”
“I don’t think you ban anybody. She works for the president of the United States. If she is relevant to a story we’re doing, I do think it’s important for the country to hear from a senior aide to the president,” Todd said.
Hayes said he was more concerned with “good faith” versus “bad faith” arguments.
“To me, the distinction between good faith and bad faith is an elemental one, and I just can’t deal with bad faith hackish spinning,” he told the outlet in September. “I hate running around in circles with people who are just gaslighting you, like Corey Lewandowski. Life’s too short to argue with Corey Lewandowski.”

Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell

MSNBC Host Claims No One Defends Trump On His Network Because ‘We Don’t Bring On Liars’

Al Franken

CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett declared this week that anti-American protesters in Iran who chant &#8220;death to America&#8221; were very friendly people, which comes just days after Iran fired missiles at U.S. troops in Iraq.
Burnett made the remark on her show &#8220;Erin Burnett OutFront&#8221; during an interview with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) about the recent provocations from Iran.
&#8220;Even on your network we&#8217;ve seen the video of the prior attack that&#8217;s happened on the Baghdad embassy,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;We all watched the flames and smoke boiling out of the embassy in Baghdad as a result of the attack that occurred there.”
&#8220;So, I don&#8217;t think reporting or even speculating on what Iran has been threatened – I mean, you know, Iran itself continues to have even its entire parliament chant &#8216;death to America,'&#8221; Turner continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not as if it&#8217;s a surprise that Iran has been coordinating and targeting American interests throughout the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I will say, I was in Tehran when they were chanting &#8216;death to America&#8217; once,&#8221; Burnett continued. &#8220;I was at a rally, the people couldn&#8217;t have been more friendly to me personally as an American. It sort of felt like a thing and a trope as opposed to anything that was actually seriously meant and considered. I understand your point but my experience was different.&#8221;
Turner responded, &#8220;Erin, your entire life, Iran – pretty much your entire life, just by a few years, has chanted death to America and they have taken actions against Americans and American interests and in ways that are lethal killings of Americans, given weaponry to people who do kill Americans.&#8221;
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After hearing Iranians chanting &quot;DEATH to America&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/ErinBurnett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ErinBurnett</a> says they were &quot;friendly&quot; and didn&#39;t mean it. 
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<blockquote>REP. MIKE TURNER (R-OH): Erin, good to see you.
CNN&#8217;S ERIN BURNETT: So, is this news to you that there were attacks planned on embassies or earlier today, he said specifically the embassy in Baghdad?
TURNER: Well, as you know, I serve on the Intelligence Committee, and I can&#8217;t confirm or deny the information we received. I received an extensive briefing on what information that the president had reviewed, what the intelligence community had put together about what threats we were facing from Soleimani and what they were planning.
I can tell you it was incredibly extensive. There was no one on the Intelligence Committee upon the presentation that was not deeply impressed with the threat both to our men and women in uniform and our men and women who are serving.
The president has the luxury to being able to declassify information as he goes, so he&#8217;ll decide what to reveal and when he reveals it. But I think it was very clear.
So, if you look at what&#8217;s been happening with Iran, both before this administration exited the JCPOA and after, their malign activities throughout the region have been increasing, have been more destabilizing. Their support for the terrorist organization, Hezbollah, Hamas, what&#8217;s happening in Yemen throughout the area, and their attack directly on Saudi Arabia has certainly placed I think the entire area in a significant amount of disarray.
And the president taking this response, obviously to turn that corner, try to have that impact and have some deterrence effect on Iran&#8217;s actions in the future.
BURNETT: I just want to be clear though, because you&#8217;re being very precise, as you always are and you&#8217;re not revealing classified information, which means that while he has the ability to do so, the president of the United States is doing at a rally, correct?
TURNER: Well, I mean, that&#8217;s what you reported. I don&#8217;t know in what other manner he has made those statements. But it is within his purview to determine what remains classified and what does not remain classified.
BURNETT: Yes.
TURNER: I can tell you that there are different levels of briefings that happen on Capitol Hill, the Big Eight, which you reported before &#8212;
BURNETT: Right.
TURNER: &#8212; which are the chairmen and ranking members, and, then, of course, the Intelligence Committee gets a briefing and then there&#8217;s the full congressional group that gets a briefing. I know, on the Senate side, there were some dissatisfied with what they received &#8212;
BURNETT: To say the least for sure, right?
TURNER: On the House side, the briefing was full and complete. On the Intelligence Committee, I can tell you that there was in-depth reporting and in-depth information. The Intelligence Committee was very confident of the information they had and the rising threat to the United States and Soleimanis&#8217; direct actions.
BURNETT: Do you think there&#8217;s any possible negative or risk that comes from him revealing information that obviously is classified about these embassy planned attacks? Do you think in any way that it is inappropriate for him doing so?
TURNER: I don&#8217;t really have a concern. Even on your network we&#8217;ve seen the video of the prior attack that&#8217;s happened on the Baghdad embassy. We all watched the flames and smoke boiling out of the embassy in Baghdad as a result of the attack that occurred there.
So, I don&#8217;t think reporting or even speculating on what Iran has been threatened &#8212; I mean, you know, Iran itself continues to have even its entire parliament chant &#8220;death to America&#8221;. It&#8217;s not as if it&#8217;s a surprise &#8212;
BURNETT: Yes.
TURNER: &#8212; that Iran has been coordinating and targeting American interests throughout the Middle East.
BURNETT: Well, I will say &#8212; I will say, I was in Tehran when they were chanting &#8220;death to America&#8221; once. I was at a rally, the people couldn&#8217;t have been more friendly to me personally as an American. It sort of felt like a thing and a trope as opposed to anything that was actually seriously meant and considered. I understand your point but my experience was different.
TURNER: Erin, your entire life, Iran &#8212; pretty much your entire life, just by a few years, has chanted death to America and they have taken actions against Americans and American interests and in ways that are lethal killings of Americans, given weaponry to people who do kill Americans.
So, it&#8217;s not just a slogan. This obviously is something that Iran has systematically continued to do, it&#8217;s part of their &#8212;
BURNETT: Yes.
TURNER: &#8212; seeking weapons of mass destruction and their claim to want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. These are real threats from the leadership of Iran, even though and I&#8217;m glad you had a safe and warm response, the people on the street may be different than those who are controlling their military.
BURNETT: And that is true.
TURNER: And the ones who are controlling their military mean it.
BURNETT: And on that point, you along with your Republican colleagues and Democratic colleagues said that General Soleimani was doing horrible things.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, there&#8217;s no question Soleimani was a vicious terrorist. Chuck Schumer, no one should shed a tear over his death. Pelosi, no illusions about Soleimani. He was a terrible person who did bad things. Menendez, Soleimani was a terrorist.
Those are your Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate.
Your Republican colleague, Doug Collins, top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, though, said this about Nancy Pelosi and her decision to hold a vote today on the president&#8217;s right to strike Soleimani.
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COLLINS: Nancy Pelosi does it again and her Democrats fall right in line. One, they&#8217;re in love with terrorists. We see that.
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BURNETT: Would you have ever said that?
TURNER: Well, what I would say is &#8212; thank you for couching it in that way, Erin, that&#8217;s very polite in your raising the issue, is &#8212; what I would say is that I think there have been some irresponsible statements on the Democrat side. Jackie Speier was just on your network, just several hours ago, claiming that Donald Trump would be responsible if the Iranians had with &#8212; their military rockets downed their own the departing Ukrainian civilian aircraft.
So, I think there are irresponsible things. I think the resolution today was misplaced. We could have done a resolution that calls for Iran to become a peaceful, active force in the Middle East. Instead we took a resolution to try to restrict &#8212;
BURNETT: Right, but you have an issue with Democrat comments, but what about Collins&#8217; comments?
TURNER: I believe that Doug Collins needs to obviously respond to you as to your criticism of his comments. We see troubling comments on the Democrat side that I think really have caused people to pause and say, you know, are we all on the same team here, understanding that Iran is a threat to our country, the United States, and our men and women in the uniform.
BURNETT: All right. Well, hopefully, everyone can agree calling Democrats terrorists from the other side or loving terrorists is not productive.
Thanks very much. I appreciate your time as always, Congressman.
TURNER: Thank you, Erin.</blockquote>

Iranian hardline students burn a US flag

CNN’s Erin Burnett: Iranians Chanting ‘Death To America’ Are Very Friendly People

Iran

In the modern era, it is difficult to come up with an administration that has spent as much energy trying to sabotage its successor in office. Obama administration officials have worked tirelessly to embed themselves into media outlets as supposedly objective voices.
After President Donald Trump oversaw the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and as missiles fell from the night sky into Iraq from Iran, those voices took to the airwaves to push the Obama line against Trump. In the American media, with help from former Obama staffers, Trump was the bad guy and Iran was the good guy. Iran deescalated tensions. Trump made things worse.
On CNN, Jim Sciutto of the Obama administration sat as an objective news anchor. CNN also now has Valerie Jarrett&#8217;s daughter, Laura, in an anchor chair, too. They tossed a co-anchor for their early morning news show to make room for the daughter of one of Barack Obama&#8217;s most ardent defenders. But we are supposed to pretend there is no bias.
They have been joined by a bevy of other Obama surrogates who now pretend to be objective analysts. Watching James Clapper, also of the Obama administration, pretend to be an unbiased national security analyst for CNN makes me long for the days of &#8220;Baghdad Bob,&#8221; Saddam Hussein&#8217;s spokesman who claimed the Americans had been defeated as American tanks rolled into Baghdad.
Newsweek reported last week that, &#8220;James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence, has urged Americans to be skeptical of President Donald Trump&#8217;s justification for the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.&#8221; Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that CIA Director Gina Haspel, whose nomination Clapper supported, &#8220;had advised Mr. Trump that the threat the Iranian general presented was greater than the threat of Iran&#8217;s response if he was killed, according to current and former American officials. Indeed, Haspel had predicted the most likely response would be a missile strike from Iran to bases where American troops were deployed, the very situation that appeared to be playing out on Tuesday afternoon.&#8221;
Who do we believe? The CIA director or the people ideologically dedicated to protecting Obama&#8217;s precious Iran deal? When watching the Obama team — whether they are anchoring CNN coverage or mouthing off on MSNBC — it is striking just how invested they are in denying reality.
After Iran launched its functionally impotent attack against American positions in Iraq, Trump rightly pointed out the Obama administration helped Iran launch those missiles. The pushback from media fact checkers and Obama surrogates was fast and furious — and also more dedicated to protecting Obama than the truth.
The truth is that the United States did not give Iran money from American taxpayers. We gave them billions of dollars worth of their own money. After the Iranian revolutionaries overthrew the Shah, global powers froze Iran&#8217;s bank accounts. But Obama decided, I suspect, that Israel and Saudi Arabia were getting too big for their britches. Instead of aiming for peace in the Middle East, he decided he would prop up Iran.
In 2015, in defense of the deal, Obama&#8217;s Secretary of State John Kerry told CNBC some of Iran&#8217;s money would go to terrorist groups. &#8220;I think that some of it will end up in the hands of the (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists &#8230; You know, to some degree, I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you that every component of that can be prevented,&#8221; Kerry said. Soleimani and the Iranians used the money Obama sent them to fund terrorists, militias, missiles and improvised explosive devices used to kill American soldiers.
Obama officials now guard what news you can and cannot hear. They anchor news desks and serve as purportedly objective analysts. When the Obama loyalist as news anchor asks the Obama loyalist as news analyst what happened, we can be sure they will blame Trump and protect Obama&#8217;s legacy. A media that continues to lecture Trump voters about truth increasingly does not know what truth is.
To find out more about Erick Erickson and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Barack Obama.

ERICKSON: The Obama Administration&#8217;s Guerrilla War

Barack Obama

Qasem Soleimani

The Democrats frequently criticize President Donald Trump for getting ideas about policy from watching Fox News, but it seems at least one key Democrat, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), also gets direction from 24-hour cable news networks.
According to an extensive profile of the House Democrats&#8217; leader in Time Magazine, Pelosi got the idea to withhold the House Democrats&#8217; articles of impeachment from the Senate until Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agreed to allow witnesses to testify at the Senate impeachment trial from CNN legal expert John Dean.
Dean, who pleaded guilty to participating in a breaking at the Watergate hotel &#8212; an incident which eventually lead to President Richard Nixon&#8217;s resignation &#8212; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/12/19/john-dean-pelosi-leverage-trump-impeachment-articles-passed-ctn-vpx.cnn">told CNN back in December</a> that Pelosi had &#8220;leverage&#8221; over McConnell, and that she could refuse to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate until McConnell caved to Democrats&#8217; demands.
&#8220;She doesn’t have to send articles of impeachment to the Senate,&#8221; Dean told CNN host Don Lemon. &#8220;What happens, Don, after there’s a vote on the articles, they adopt a resolution where they select managers, and then they decide when they’re going to send the managers over to the Senate. So there’s a flexibility in the process where she could say, &#8216;listen, let’s just hold these articles here until the Senate gets its act together,&#8217; and that could last right through the campaign as far as her powers.&#8221;
There are &#8220;no rules&#8221; Dean added in a second appearance on the network, that specify that Pelosi absolutely has to give McConnell a copy of the House&#8217;s impeachment materials.
There was some key information missing from Dean&#8217;s assessment, however &#8212; specifically that the Senate does not have to hold a hearing on the president&#8217;s impeachment without having the House&#8217;s articles in hand, and that McConnell has such good control over his caucus that Pelosi&#8217;s partner in crime, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who saw the strategy as a clever &#8220;wedge&#8221; between conservative and moderate Republicans, wouldn&#8217;t be able to split off enough &#8220;moderate&#8221; members of the GOP to force Republicans to the bargaining table.
It&#8217;s also not clear that Trump would be considered truly &#8220;impeached&#8221; until the Senate held its hearing. Constitutional experts, including one the testified during the House impeachment inquiry, are split on the issue.
But Pelosi was adamant, reportedly, that Dean was correct.
“Somebody said to me today that he may not even take up what we send. [But] then [Trump] will never be vindicated,” Pelosi, according to an aide that spoke to TIME. “He will be impeached forever. Forever. No matter what the Senate does.”
&#8220;In the committee meeting&#8221; where the aide heard Pelosi first mention the idea of withholding the articles, &#8220;she added that she believed McConnell would be motivated to move,&#8221; according to TIME.
The tactic didn&#8217;t quite work. Although it stalled Senate Republicans for several weeks while McConnell marshaled his caucus, just this week McConnell announced that he had the votes to move forward with the Senate trial as soon as Pelosi was willing to transmit the articles without any concessions on witnesses. In response, Senate Democrats told media on Thursday that they believe Pelosi should simply give in to McConnell and get the Senate trial moving.
Those same Democrats eventually withdrew their criticism of the Speaker, but the damage was already done.
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Report: Nancy Pelosi Got The Idea To Withhold Impeachment Articles From CNN

On Tuesday, news reports broke that CNN shelled out a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?itm_source=parsely-api">settlement</a> to Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann after the teen filed a $275 million suit against the network for smearing him last year.
On Wednesday, Fox News co-host Juan Williams speculated that CNN settled with Sandmann to avoid &#8220;discovery,&#8221; where the network&#8217;s internal communications and emails would become public.
&#8220;I think a lot of people who don&#8217;t like CNN are quick to rush and say, &#8216;Oh this means CNN admitted that they did wrong.&#8217; I think — I know lawyers — the lawyers are like, &#8216;Oh, if we have to go through discovery then that means emails and discussions are gonna be revealed. We may not want that out,'&#8221; Williams <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/the-five">explained</a>.
Shannon Bream, fill-in host for &#8220;The Five&#8221; on Wednesday, piggybacked off Williams&#8217; explanation.
&#8220;Juan, like you said, when you go into discovery — I used to have clients who you talk to them and say, &#8216;Listen, this is how much it&#8217;s gonna cost you to go to trial, this is what they want in settlement, what do you wanna do?&#8217; And some people would say yeah, we don&#8217;t want all that stuff out there, we&#8217;ll pay,&#8221; Bream explained.
&#8220;I&#8217;d have other clients who would say, we will not pay a dime because what we&#8217;re worried about is if we pay this person, the next one is gonna want it and the next one and the next one,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So, CNN had to make a lot of calculations here just beyond the legal issues.&#8221;
The details of the CNN settlement with Sandmann have remained undisclosed.
Sandmann and other teens from Covington Catholic were smeared by multiple news outlets after an out-of-context video clip of a “standoff” between the teens and a Native American activist Nathan Phillips went viral last year. However, further video footage debunked the media&#8217;s narrative that Sandmann and company were &#8220;blocking&#8221; and &#8220;harassing&#8221; Phillips. Instead, it was shown that the teens were victims of harassment themselves and Sandmann was trying to deescalate the confrontation after Phillips approached the teens.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, the teen has also filed suits against The Washington Post and NBC Universal for $250 million or more each and is reportedly seeking to “sue Gannett, owners of The Enquirer.”
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” Sandmann attorney Lin Wood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-be-sued-250-million-over-vicious-ryan-saavedra">told</a> Fox News last year. “CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”
“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false,” the famous attorney explained. “Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?itm_source=parsely-api">Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Gets Settlement From CNN After $275 Million Lawsuit</a>

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Juan Williams Explains Why CNN Likely Settled Covington Suit

Covington Catholic High School

Nick Sandmann

On Tuesday, CNN International and PBS host Christiane Amanpour conducted two interviews, one with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and another with Iranian VP for women and family affairs Massoumeh Ebtekar, and the contrast in Amanpour’s attitude toward the interviewees could not have been more stark, as she targeted Esper while lobbing softballs at Ebtekar.
As Curtis Houck of Newsbusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/01/08/cnn-pbs-host-amanpour-shows-more-deference-iranian-vp-sec-esper">pointed out</a> in a comprehensive report, Amanpour started her interview with Esper by suggesting that the threat that the Trump administration cited for its airstrike killing Iranian general Qassem Doleimani was based on evidence that was “razor thin and the chatter was nothing out of the ordinary.” She challenged Esper to look at “the world down the barrel of this camera straight in the eye and say that there was a ticking time bomb evidence.”
Esper fired back that the evidence was “more than razor thin, and it&#8217;s persuasive,” that  Solemani aimed “to synchronize and plan additional attacks on American forces, diplomats or facilities.”
Amanpour segued to claiming that in Iran there was “not just an outpouring of grief from the people there and rallying around a regime that had been unpopular, but that it&#8217;s also a message” of revenge. As Houck noted, Amanpour posited that allies of the U.S. were calling on the U.S. to deescalate, and thus, &#8220;You are being put in the same boat as Iran. I don&#8217;t recall this ever happening before, where the United States and a nation like Iran, are both being put in the same boat, both being asked to de-escalate. How does that make you feel?”
Esper answered, “Well, I guess I disagree with your premise, Christiane. I will tell you — and I&#8217;ve talked to all these allies and partners — the ones in the region are fully, 100 percent supportive of what we&#8217;ve done and what we&#8217;re prepared to do. They see the removal of Soleimani, this known terrorist and head of a terrorist organization, his removal from the battlefield as a great victory and they know what it means — and it&#8217;s a game changer for the region.”
Amanpour then launched into a tirade attacking the decision to target Soleimani, saing:
<blockquote>&#8230; senior Americans have told me that intelligence officials in — you know, your own intelligence officials — predicted precisely this kind of Iranian escalation after the maximum pressure campaign that followed the withdrawal from the nuclear deal. They predicted attacks on shipping in the Gulf — it happened. They predicted attacks on Saudi Arabia — it happened. They suggested it might happen against U.S. bases, U.S. targets — it did happen. You talk about Soleimani, but what is the strategy here? I mean, you knew that this was possibly going to happen. Was it wise — you talk about Soleimani — nobody is claiming that he was a good guy, no — none of your allies are — and everybody knows what his role in the region was, but by the same token, previous U.S. administrations, when they could, did not take him out. Israel, when it could, did not take him out, for fear of the consequences. I guess I want to ask you, do you regret putting that extreme option on the table for the President? Wouldn&#8217;t some of the other options have sufficed in this period to send a very strong message of deterrence?</blockquote>
Esper replied, “Well, Christiane, I would say many experts, going back a few years now, predicted and were proven true, that in the wake of the JCPOA, which did not cover ballistic missiles, which did not cover Iran&#8217;s hostage-taking, which did not cover Iran&#8217;s malign behavior, that such activities would pick up — particularly when we opened up the economic spigots and we returned to them tens of billions of dollars — we saw this activity pick up across the region, again, spanning from Africa, through the Middle East to Afghanistan and what&#8217;s happened in the last few years, in Iraq in particular, in the last 12 months, is just a manifestation of an Iranian regime that is bent on exporting its revolutionary beliefs.”
In 1979, Ebtekar, who was 18 and a spokeswoman for the Iranian hostage-takers who seized 52 Americans, was <a href="https://twitter.com/HanifJazayeri/status/1214667445694275584">asked</a> about the American hostages if she could “personally lift up a gun and put it to the head of one of these people and kill him” if there were an attack on the U.S. embassy to save the hostages. As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/28/world/top-woman-in-iran-s-government-once-spoke-for-hostage-takers.html">The New York Times</a> reported, she answered, “Yes. When I&#8217;ve seen an American gun being lifted up and killing my brothers and sisters in the streets, of course.&#8221; Here are some samplings of how Amanpour, who did not mention Ebtekar’s 1979 role, treated Ebtekar:
When Amanpour asked whether Iran would “respond” to American “call[s] for descalation,” Ebtekar cited “millions who are marching in support and in commemoration of&#8230;the Commander of the Hearts” against the Americans having “taken a terrorist action” in killing Soleimani. Amanpour stated she found it “interesting” that Ebtekar called the reaction in Iran to Soleimani’s death a “revival of the Islamic revolution.”
Ebtekar delightedly suggested there was a “wave of awakening” in the U.S. on social media “understand[ing] very well what has happened and the terrible actions of the American government.”
Amanpour concluded by insinuating that the Iranian leadership was moderate and “took a gamble negotiating with the United States, saying:
<blockquote>I have heard that message coming out of Iran from the days since this targeted killing, that the final response should be from your perspective to remove American forces, but what I want to ask you is this because you were and are a committed revolutionary. You were very prominent during the early days of the Islamic revolution, but you became more of a reformist as well, and you supported the negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal, and diplomacy to, you know, settle some issues.
My question to you now is, is that completely out of the window? Are people like you and Foreign Minister Zarif, even President Rouhani, who took a gamble negotiating with the United States, are they sidelined? Is it now those who believe that America can never be discussed with, for want of a better word, hard-liners, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? Are they more in the ascendancy? Is there any hope for any negotiations, very briefly, if you wouldn&#8217;t mind?</blockquote>
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WATCH: CNN’s Amanpour Targets Def Sec Esper, Goes Soft On Iranian VP Who Once Said She&#8217;d Shoot U.S. Hostages In The Head

CNN confirmed Tuesday that it has settled for an undisclosed amount with Nick Sandmann, one of the Covington Catholic High School students smeared by multiple news outlets after a video of a &#8220;standoff&#8221; between the teens and a Native American activist went viral. Following initial reports on the settlement, Sandmann&#8217;s lawyers have each issued brief public statements making clear their work on the young man&#8217;s behalf isn&#8217;t done.
After multiple news outlets and media figures smeared him and his peers for allegedly &#8220;blocking&#8221; and &#8220;harassing&#8221; a Native American activist Nathan Phillips, whose account of the confrontation was quickly discredited by additional footage of the situation, Sandmann sued CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC Universal for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Sandmann, who is represented by high-powered attorneys Todd McMurtry and Lin Wood, was seeking $275 million from CNN. Fox 19 <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/">reported</a> that CNN agreed Tuesday to settle the lawsuit against Sandmann. &#8220;The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington,&#8221; Fox reported.
On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2020/01/07/cnn-confirms-settlement-has-been-reached-nick-sandmann/2835761001/">Cincinnati Enquirer</a> reported that CNN had confirmed that they had indeed reached a settlement with Sandmann. &#8220;A CNN spokesperson confirmed Tuesday with The Enquirer that a settlement was reached,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;The network would not comment on the details of the settlement.&#8221;
Sandmann&#8217;s lawyers have issued statements following reports on the settlement, and both made a point of stressing that they are far from done in seeking justice for their client.
&#8220;I want to thank everyone for the many good wishes received today,&#8221; McMurtry <a href="https://twitter.com/ToddMcMurtry/status/1214665513084837889">tweeted</a> Tuesday. &#8220;Now, [Lin Wood] and I turn our attention to [NBC News], [The Washington Post] and additional defendants to be named soon.&#8221;
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I want to thank everyone for the many good wishes received today. Now, <a href="https://twitter.com/LLinWood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LLinWood</a> and I turn our attention to <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> and additional defendants to be named soon. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NickSandmann?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NickSandmann</a> <a href="https://t.co/HeJ0TrwJ8q">https://t.co/HeJ0TrwJ8q</a>
&mdash; Todd V. McMurtry (@ToddMcMurtry) <a href="https://twitter.com/ToddMcMurtry/status/1214665513084837889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit">The Daily Wire</a> reported, in an interview with Fox News last year, Wood pointed to CNN as having launched the most &#8220;vicious&#8221; and unfair series of attacks on Sandmann.
&#8220;CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,&#8221; Wood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-be-sued-250-million-over-vicious-ryan-saavedra">told</a> Fox News’ Mark Levin. &#8220;CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.&#8221;
&#8220;They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false,&#8221; Wood continued. &#8220;Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room.&#8221;
In February 2019, Sandmann’s lawyers released the following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-sandmanns-lawyer-sends-letters-these-54-ryan-saavedra">list</a> of 54 individuals and news organizations to which they sent letters instructing them to preserve evidence for potential defamation lawsuits:
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<li>The Washington Post</li>
<li>The New York Times</li>
<li>Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN)</li>
<li>The Guardian</li>
<li>National Public Radio</li>
<li>TMZ</li>
<li>Atlantic Media Inc.</li>
<li>Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.</li>
<li>Diocese of Covington</li>
<li>Diocese of Lexington</li>
<li>Archdiocese of Louisville</li>
<li>Diocese of Baltimore</li>
<li>Ana Cabrera (CNN)</li>
<li>Sara Sidner (CNN)</li>
<li>Erin Burnett (CNN)</li>
<li>S.E. Cupp (CNN)</li>
<li>Elliot C. McLaughlin (CNN)</li>
<li>Amanda Watts (CNN)</li>
<li>Emanuella Grinberg (CNN)</li>
<li>Michelle Boorstein (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Antonio Olivo (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Joe Heim (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Michael E. Miller (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Eli Rosenberg (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Kristine Phillips (Washington Post)</li>
<li>Sarah Mervosh (New York Times)</li>
<li>Emily S. Rueb (New York Times)</li>
<li>Maggie Haberman (New York Times)</li>
<li>David Brooks (New York Times)</li>
<li>Shannon Doyne</li>
<li>Kurt Eichenwald</li>
<li>Andrea Mitchell (NBC/MSNBC)</li>
<li>Savannah Guthrie (NBC)</li>
<li>Joy Reid (MSNBC)</li>
<li>Chuck Todd (NBC)</li>
<li>Noah Berlatsky</li>
<li>Elisha Fieldstadt (NBC)</li>
<li>Eun Kyung Kim</li>
<li>HBO</li>
<li>Bill Maher</li>
<li>Warner Media</li>
<li>Conde Nast</li>
<li>GQ</li>
<li>Heavy.com</li>
<li>The Hill</li>
<li>The Atlantic</li>
<li>Bustle.com</li>
<li>Ilhan Omar</li>
<li>Elizabeth Warren</li>
<li>Kathy Griffin</li>
<li>Alyssa Milano</li>
<li>Jim Carrey</li>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-enraged-over-nick-sandmann-defeating-cnn-conservatives-celebrate">Leftists Enraged Over Nick Sandmann Defeating CNN. Conservatives Celebrate.</a>
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Nick Sandmann’s Lawyers Respond To CNN Settling After $275 Million Lawsuit; CNN Confirms Settlement

On Tuesday night, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham rebuffed CNN for promoting an apparently false report concerning an address from President Donald Trump in the pursuit &#8220;to be first to break news.&#8221;
CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, citing CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny, posted Tuesday:
<blockquote>&#8220;Aides are making urgent preparations at this hour for Trump to address the nation, per [Jeff Zeleny]. The specific timing [to be determined] &amp; could be delayed given we are still learning info but two officials say a speech is being prepared and plans are being made for Oval address.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Aides are making urgent preparations at this hour for Trump to address the nation, per <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffzeleny</a>. The specific timing TBD &amp; could be delayed given we are still learning info but two officials say a speech is being prepared and plans are being made for Oval address.
&mdash; Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1214712237518184448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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However, according to Grisham, CNN failed to even attempt to confirm the report.
&#8220;This is not true &#8211; was never true &#8211; &amp; no one even attempted to confirm with the press office before tweeting,&#8221; scolded the press secretary. 
&#8220;In a race to be first to break news, the public once again falls victim to irresponsible &#8216;reporting&#8217; by [CNN, Jeff Zeleny ,and Kaitlan Collins],&#8221; Grisham blasted.
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This is not true &#8211; was never true &#8211; &amp; no one even attempted to confirm with the press office before tweeting. In a race to be first to break news, the public once again falls victim to irresponsible “reporting” by <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffzeleny</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> <a href="https://t.co/7NdGlevoCO">https://t.co/7NdGlevoCO</a>
&mdash; Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1214729586342281217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s apparently false reporting didn&#8217;t just end up on Twitter, but on the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/us-iran-soleimani-tensions-intl-01-07-20?sr=twCNN010720undefined0742PMStory">network airwaves and news site</a>.&#8221;The White House is making plans for President Trump to address the nation tonight,&#8221; a report authored by Zeleny was headlined.
&#8220;As President Trump confers with his top advisers tonight at the White House, aides are making urgent preparations at this hour for him to address the nation after Iran fired missiles at US forces in Iraq,&#8221; the reporter posted.
&#8220;The specific timing of the address is still to be determined — and could be delayed, as information is being gathered — but two officials tell CNN that a speech is being prepared and plans are being made for Trump to speak tonight from the Oval Office,&#8221; Zeleny added.
CNN responded to Grisham&#8217;s post by claiming the press secretary was &#8220;completely out of the loop&#8221; with her own team and that their reporting was correct:
&#8220;The most shocking thing about this statement is that the [press secretary] is completely out of the loop in her own shop. CNN&#8217;s reporting that preparations were being made for an address was 100 percent accurate, and was confirmed by multiple [White House] officials,&#8221; CNN Communications replied. &#8220;Nice try.&#8221;
Notably, CNN reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?itm_source=parsely-api">settled</a> with Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann on Tuesday in a $275 million lawsuit over the network&#8217;s smearing of the teen last year. “CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann,” <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/">reported</a> Fox 19, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> noted. “The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington.”
The <a href="https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2052103/dod-statement-on-iranian-ballistic-missile-attacks-in-iraq/source/GovDelivery/">Pentagon</a> confirmed Tuesday night that more than a dozen ballistic missiles were launched against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq from inside Iran, hitting at least two Iraqi military bases at Al-Assad and Irbil, which host U.S. military and coalition personnel.
Tuesday night’s hit from Iran comes in response to a Trump-ordered killing of terrorist and Iranian general Qassem Soleimani on Friday via an airstrike near Baghdad International Airport. Soleimani was the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans.
“Soleimani was the head of the Iranian and Iranian-backed forces carrying out those operations killing American troops” during the Iraq War, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-iranian-general-killed-in-u-s-strike-responsible-for-17-of-american-deaths-in-iraq?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">Fox News</a> reported. “According to the State Department, 17% of all deaths of U.S. personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 were orchestrated by Soleimani.”
Additionally, Soleimani was in the process of “coordinating” attacks on U.S. personnel, according to a statement from the State Department: “We can confirm that in the past several days, General Soleimani had been traveling in the Middle East coordinating further imminent large-scale attacks against U.S. diplomats and service members. These threats were highly credible and the intelligence is sound.&#8221;
In a statement released on Tuesday night, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Jonathan Hoffman confirmed the strikes from Iran and noted that &#8220;initial battle damage assessments&#8221; are still ongoing.
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“In recent days and in response to Iranian threats and actions, the Department of Defense has taken all appropriate measures to safeguard our personnel and partners. These bases have been on high alert due to indications that the Iranian regime planned to attack our forces and interests in the region,” the statement from Hoffman continued.
&#8220;As we evaluate the situation and our response, we will take all necessary measures to protect and defend U.S. personnel, partners, and allies in the region,” he added. “Due to the dynamic nature of the situation, we will continue to provide updates as they become available.”
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‘IRRESPONSIBLE’: White House Calls Out CNN Over Alleged False Report During Iranian Attacks On American Troops; CNN Responds

After CNN reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit">settled for an undisclosed amount</a> in the defamation lawsuit from Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, leftists on Twitter have expressed outrage, using the moment to bash Trump supporters and Nicholas Sandmann alike.
&#8220;The same Trump cultists celebrating Nick Sandmann’s victory against the corporate media outlets who smeared him with false accusations from social media mob bullying that generated fake clickbait news articles are strangely silent about all the liberals they falsely accused too,&#8221; tweeted Dr. Eugene Gu. 
&#8220;The same people who promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, which the FBI says is now a domestic terror threat, the Obama Birther conspiracy, the &#8216;Replacement Theory&#8217; don&#8217;t have much high ground to gloat about the Nick Sandmann settlement but when you are without shame&#8230;&#8221; tweeted CNN contributor Wajahat &#8220;Abu Khadija&#8221; Ali. &#8220;Nick Sandmann: future Republican congressman,&#8221; he continued.
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The same Trump cultists celebrating Nick Sandmann’s victory against the corporate media outlets who smeared him with false accusations from social media mob bullying that generated fake clickbait news articles are strangely silent about all the liberals they falsely accused too.
&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1214665525285908480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The same people who promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, which the FBI says is now a domestic terror threat, the Obama Birther conspiracy, the &quot;Replacement Theory&quot; don&#39;t have much high ground to gloat about the Nick Sandmann settlement but when you are without shame&#8230;
&mdash; Wajahat &quot;Abu Khadija&quot; Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1214670577241337857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Nick Sandmann: future Republican Congressman.
&mdash; Wajahat &quot;Abu Khadija&quot; Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1214670146331193344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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One Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/r2kmoon2/status/1214670827452542976?s=20">even referred</a> to Nick Sandmann, a minor, as a &#8220;cockroach&#8221; that CNN dealt with: &#8220;Conservative news outlets and reporters are eating up this Nick Sandmann settlement like it&#8217;s a big win. CNN shrugged their shoulders and said &#8216;Let the little cockroach have this money. We&#8217;re good for it.'&#8221;
&#8220;In the Trump era, you can profit off publicly ridiculing Native Americas like Nick Sandmann or start your own clothing line after killing a child like Eddie Gallagher. Or murder journalists like Mohammad bin Salman &amp; you will have the full support of the POTUS. #TrumpIsADisgrace,&#8221; tweeted Twitter user &#8220;Bleeding Heart Liberal Marine.&#8221;
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In the Trump era, you can profit off publicly ridiculing Native Americas like Nick Sandmann or start your own clothing line after killing a child like Eddie Gallagher. Or murder journalists like Mohammad bin Salman &amp; you will have the full support of the POTUS. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpIsADisgrace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpIsADisgrace</a>
&mdash; Bleeding Heart Liberal Marine (@zaharako) <a href="https://twitter.com/zaharako/status/1214656771232415744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives on Twitter have been roundly celebrating the news, calling it a triumph of justice.
&#8220;This is the greatest news story of the year so far. Suleimani ain&#8217;t got nothin&#8217; on this,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1214660298440732672?s=20">tweeted</a> The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles.
&#8220;Congrats to [CNN] for finally getting at least some of what they deserve for being the enemy of the people,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1214671197880717312?s=20">tweeted</a> actor Nick Searcy.
&#8220;Major victory against fake news,&#8221; tweeted Tim Pool.
&#8220;JUSTICE: CNN has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against them by Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann They brutally smeared him &amp; tried to destroy his life Will the Media cover this admission of guilt as extensively as they covered the lies about Sandmann?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1214637829768146944?s=20">tweeted</a> TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. 
&#8220;Revenge is a dish best served cold,&#8221; tweeted Sebastian Gorka.
Sandmann was thrust into the national spotlight earlier in 2019 when mainstream news outlets like The Washington Post and CNN reported that he and several of his fellow students harassed a Native American man named Nathan Phillips while attending the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Phillips testified that the “Make America Great Again” hat-wearing boys blocked his path and taunted him with racial slurs, which appeared somewhat credible at first when viral video revealed the boys standing around Phillips, cheering as he banged a drum in front of Sandmann’s face. However, the narrative took a dramatic turn when other videos showed that Phillips approached the boys, who were at the time being taunted with racial slurs by the fringe black nationalist group Black Hebrew Israelites.
Without fully investigating the matter, news outlets largely ran with Phillips’ account of what happened, smearing the boys as racists. Sandmann arguably bore the brunt of the smears due to his face being featured so prominently in the video. In fact, media figures, such as CNN contributor Reza Aslan, <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/01/20/reza-aslan-who-cried-at-the-gillette-commercial-thinks-covington-catholic-hs-student-has-a-punchable-face/">suggested</a> he’d like to punch the 16-year-old in the face. “Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” Aslan tweeted at the time.
In response, Sandmann’s family sued several news outlets for defamation, targeting The Washington Post first for $250 million and accusing the outlet of “using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles … to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the president.”

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Leftists Enraged Over Nick Sandmann Defeating CNN. Conservatives Celebrate.

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The Babylon Bee, a wildly successful satirical website, has caused reporters to freak out once again.
The latest hullaballoo started on January 5, when former CIA analyst and cyber disinformation researcher Cindy Otis pointed out that a recent satirical article from the satirical website (which says satire in the website tagline, in case it wasn’t obvious enough) received – gasp – 500,000 shares on social media. Otis claimed some of her family members called her to say their Republican friends were sharing the article “like it’s legit.”
“A post from a satirical website has been shared more than 500k times saying the DNC called for the flag to be at half-mast because of Soleimani. Some family members just called bc their Republican friends on FB are circulating it like it&#8217;s legit. We have a lot of work to do, all,” Otis tweeted.
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A post from a satirical website has been shared more than 500k times saying the DNC called for the flag to be at half-mast because of Soleimani. Some family members just called bc their Republican friends on FB are circulating it like it&#8217;s legit. We have a lot of work to do, all.
— Cindy Otis (Pre-order TRUE OR FALSE now!) (@CindyOtis_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CindyOtis_/status/1213933144803545090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan then added on to Otis’ tweet by adding “perspective.”
“To put this in perspective, this is the same number of engagements the top NY Times and CNN stories on Facebook had over the past week,” he tweeted. “A lot of people sharing this ‘satirical’ story on Facebook don&#8217;t know it is satire.”
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To put this in perspective, this is the same number of engagements the top NY Times and CNN stories on Facebook had over the past week.
A lot of people sharing this &#8220;satirical&#8221; story on Facebook don&#8217;t know it is satire. <a href="https://t.co/HnDjuqw2si">https://t.co/HnDjuqw2si</a>
— Donie O&#8217;Sullivan (@donie) <a href="https://twitter.com/donie/status/1213953640198819847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Maybe it’s hard to tell this was satire because Democrats have spent the past few days bemoaning the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and apologizing to Iran. Actress/activist Rose McGowan, for example, tweeted that the “USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people.”
“We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani,” she added, referring to President Donald Trump’s administration.
On Monday, Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford responded to the latest “controversy” regarding his website.
“A CNN reporter is taking shots at the Bee because our articles get shared a lot and some people think they&#8217;re real (which will always happen with satire),” Ford tweeted. “After thinking ‘how adorable,’ I thought, ‘well surely this guy has chirped at the Onion for the same thing&#8230;’&#8221;
“There are websites dedicated to chronicling reactions from people who think Onion stories are real. Foreign leaders have famously been fooled by Onion articles. And this guy&#8217;s bio says he ‘covers disinformation’ for CNN. Surely he has taken the Onion to task as well, yes?” Ford continued.
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There are websites dedicated to chronicling reactions from people who think Onion stories are real. Foreign leaders have famously been fooled by Onion articles. And this guy&#8217;s bio says he &#8220;covers disinformation&#8221; for CNN. Surely he has taken the Onion to task as well, yes? 2/3
— Adam Ford (@Adam4d) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1214202609709539328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ford then provided multiple screenshots of O’Sullivan sharing articles from The Onion. As Ford noted, O’Sullivan appears to be “quite the fan” of the opposing satirical website.
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oh whoops — I missed a bunch! 😂 <a href="https://t.co/pg0DzRFXRh">https://t.co/pg0DzRFXRh</a> <a href="https://t.co/WYxqYwR4o6">pic.twitter.com/WYxqYwR4o6</a>
— Adam Ford (@Adam4d) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1214231013695664129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Unlike the Onion, the Babylon Bee is routinely targeted by Leftist outlets and reporters. Alleged fact-checking website Snopes has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snopes-fact-checks-satire-website-babylon-bee-yet-ashe-schow">written multiple articles</a> “debunking” Babylon Bee satire. These same outlets and reporters just love the Onion, which doesn’t even have “satire” in its tagline.
For good measure, the Bee also shared a two-year-old article titled “<a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-launch-real-news-spinoff-site">CNN To Launch Real News Spinoff Site</a>.”
The main issue with the Bee, apparently, is the fact that it skewers Democrats on the regular, something the Onion doesn’t necessarily do. The Bee is also a Christian website, but it routinely picks on Christians (all in good fun).

CNN Reporter Gets Upset That Babylon Bee Story Went Viral, Bee Responds

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On Friday, CNN, a news organization that purports to report serious news, breathlessly reported that when the news broke of the U.S. airstrike killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, President Trump was eating ice cream.
Really.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-trump-ice-cream-lampooned-report-dessert">Fox News</a> noted, “CNN’s Kaitlan Collins <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/baghdad-airport-strike-live-intl-hnk/h_65f1c6b6a688cd0f05cdb51b82de9dd8?utm_term=image&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twCNNp&amp;utm_content=2020-01-03T18%3A50%3A02">penned a blog post headlined</a>, ‘President Trump dined on ice cream as news of the airstrike broke,’ in which Collins wrote, “As meatloaf and ice cream were served, the Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. was behind the strikes, the only statement from the administration throughout the night.”
Collins then offered this comparison:
<blockquote>Putting this airstrike in perspective: The scene Friday was similar to the one after Trump gave the order for American forces to carry out the missile strike on a Syrian airfield in the spring 2017. After that strike, Trump went into great detail about the chocolate cake he had with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was there for a summit, when he informed him about the series of tomahawk missiles.</blockquote>
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President Trump dined on ice cream as news of the airstrike broke <a href="https://t.co/iP5fbnSfDH">https://t.co/iP5fbnSfDH</a> <a href="https://t.co/SmrqI6zN0Y">pic.twitter.com/SmrqI6zN0Y</a>
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White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1213213799521628161">tweeted</a>, &#8220;This should be a story about Soleimani planning imminent attacks on diplomats &amp; how American lives were saved because of @realDonald Trump decisive actions.”
Fox News noted, “A current CNN employee told Fox News, ‘There are plenty of valid reasons to argue against targeting a high-ranking foreign government official. But our newsroom is so jaded and anti-Trump that it posted this tweet which lacked any journalistic merit.’”
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/01/03/pointless-info-cnn-informs-us-trump-had-meatloaf-ice-cream-when">commented</a>,“Of course, it’s important to add ‘color’ to a story and if, say, there was a meeting and a reporter described who sat where to provide important context, that’s actually helpful. But this? It’s a stretch,”
CNN does seem obsessed with Trump’s ice cream intake; Jill Filipovic wrote a 2018 <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/opinions/trumps-blue-apron-type-plan-is-crumbs-to-the-poor-filipovic/index.html?sr=twCNN021318trumps-blue-apron-type-plan-is-crumbs-to-the-poor-filipovic0243PMVODtop">CNN op-ed</a> in which she noted Trump “reportedly enjoys treating himself to an extra scoop of ice cream after dinner every night.” In May 2017, <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/05/14/watch-cnn-devotes-two-segments-trump-executive-privilege-eating-two-scoops-ice-cream/">CNN</a> covered a Time magazine report revealing the horrifying news that Trump got two scoops of ice cream when eating dinner with reporters. Fox News noted, “CNN’s often-sarcastic chyron even called the extra scoop of ice cream an ‘executive privilege.’”
In January 2019, CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza mocked Trump after he hosted the Clemson football team to the White House after they won the national championship and served them fast food. Trump paid for the massive meal out of his own pocket because of the government shutdown. Cillizza <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/donald-trump-fast-food-clemson-tigers/index.html">wrote</a>:
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">I&#8217;ve written before about the oddity of Trump&#8217;s appeal to the average Joe &#8212; a very wealthy man who has lived in New York City his entire life and whose taste trends toward gold (or at least gold-plated). It seems like a very, very weird fit. Most people don&#8217;t live and work in a building they own. Or have silk draperies. And wine with their name on it. And, yes, steaks with their name on them.</div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph">Part of the answer lies in fast food. Trump loves it. Revels in his love for it. And uses it &#8212; as he did Monday night &#8212; as some sort of stand-in for patriotism or America First-ism or, well, something.</div>
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CNN Gets Serious: Reports Trump Was Eating Ice Cream When News Of Airstrike Broke

It wasn&#8217;t hard to predict who would finish the year the winner of the cable news ratings race, but predicting just how hard CNN would faceplant is another matter.
The increasingly openly left-leaning network, which has suffered a loss in viewership in recent years, saw another 9% decline in total viewers, according to Live+7 Nielsen ratings for 2019. Its primary left-leaning competitor, MSNBC, also saw a decline in total viewers, but at a third of the rate of CNN. MSNBC&#8217;s total viewers nearly doubled that of CNN.
Meanwhile, Fox News notched a new record high in total viewers and average primetime viewers.
Nielsen&#8217;s full-year ratings for 2019 found Fox News, ESPN, and MSNBC atop the cable news networks, in that order, while CNN finished far below, at 22nd overall.
&#8220;Fox News averaged 2.5 million viewers per night in 2019, the most in its 23-year history, making the network the most-watched channel on basic cable,&#8221; <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/476220-fox-news-hits-record-high-viewership-in-networks-23-year-history">The Hill</a> reports. &#8220;According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News beat out ESPN, with its 1.78 million viewers, and third-place MSNBC, which drew an average of 1.75 million viewers in prime time.&#8221;
Fox&#8217;s dominant performance in 2019 makes four years in a row that the right-leaning network has beat out the cable competition.
Fox&#8217;s highest rated primetime show was &#8220;Hannity,&#8221; drawing 3.3 million viewers by average. &#8220;Hannity&#8221; has now been Fox&#8217;s highest performing show for three years running, <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/">Deadline</a> notes.
&#8220;Hannity&#8221; also topped the list of the most-watched shows in cable, helping Fox secure four of the top five spots: 1) &#8220;Hannity&#8221; (3.3 million), 2) &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; (3.1 million), 3) &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; (2.78 million), the lone non-Fox show, 4) &#8220;Ingraham Angle&#8221; (2.57 million), and 5) &#8220;The Five&#8221; (2.55 million).
As noted by The Hill, Carlson and Maddow &#8220;switched places&#8221; this year, as Maddow&#8217;s MSNBC show earned second place, edging out Carlson at third, in 2018.
None of CNN&#8217;s shows made the top five list. In fact, it&#8217;s top-rated show, &#8220;Cuomo Prime Time,&#8221; brought in about a third of the viewers Fox&#8217;s top show drew and less than half that of MSNBC&#8217;s most-watched show. &#8220;Cuomo&#8221; averaged just 1.13 million total viewers, and pulled in about 290,000 in the target news demo, adults 25-54.
In total viewers for 2019, CNN was down in 22nd place, averaging just 972,000 viewers per night &#8212; only a little better than half that of MSNBC and a third of Fox&#8217;s average viewership.
According to Nielsen&#8217;s data, CNN is down 9 percent over the previous year. MSNBC also lost viewers, but at a much lower percentage, its total viewership dropping 3 percent over 2018. Fox News, on the other hand, increased its total viewers by 3 percent.
Deadline tries to highlight some positives for both MSNBC and CNN amid the grim overall numbers, but ends up acknowledging that Trump&#8217;s preferred network still beats out both in head-to-head competition:
<blockquote>Even as they were far behind Fox News in total viewers, MSNBC and CNN talked up program highlights. MSNBC’s Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace topped the 4 PM time slot in total viewers, while The 11th Hour with Brian Williams ranked first in that category for a third year in a row. Morning Joe, a frequent President Donald Trump target, averaged 1.1 million total viewers for what the network said was a record for the fourth year in a row, albeit it still trails Fox News’ Fox &amp; Friends.</blockquote>
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On Tuesday night, CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper said live on-air, &#8220;Who&#8217;s got the biggest c*** in Hollywood,&#8221; while recalling a comment made by his late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Standing alongside Bravo&#8217;s Andy Cohen, shot-sipping Cooper detailed a conversation he had with his mother right before she was interviewed on &#8220;Watch What Happens Live,&#8221; a show hosted by Cohen.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not going to ask me who&#8217;s got the biggest bleep &#8230; of anyone I&#8217;ve ever been with,&#8221; Cohen recalled Vanderbilt asking her son, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7842065/Anderson-Cooper-recalls-line-male-Hollywood-stars-live-Times-Square-New-Years-Eve.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
Cooper, for some reason, took it a step further and used the word &#8220;c***&#8221; during his retelling of the story.
&#8220;She turns to me out of the blue and goes, &#8216;He&#8217;s not going to ask me who&#8217;s got the biggest c*** in Hollywood, is he?&#8217; That&#8217;s what she said,&#8221; the CNN anchor said.
&#8220;Anderson just said it, okay,&#8221; the shocked Bravo host responded.
Oddly enough, a shot-taking Cooper discussed his mother&#8217;s sex life last year during his New Year&#8217;s coverage for the news network. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-cooper-gets-drunk-air-talks-about-moms-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>Later in the night, while talking with [actress Faye] Dunaway about famous men she’d worked with, Cooper brought up his mother’s sex life, claiming that she “hooked up with” Marlon Brando.
“She and Carol Matthau both watched the movie and both made a deal they were going to ‘meet up,&#8217;” Cooper said. “Carol got it first and then set it up for my mom. It was a ‘one night date.&#8217;”</blockquote>
CNN is widely-knows for their raunchy New Year&#8217;s Eve coverage, wherein serious anchors get drunk on-air, or even get their ears pierced, during their coverage.
Two years ago, for instance, the news network openly promoted drugs. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnn-promotes-using-drugs-live-tv-during-new-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>Reporting from Colorado, CNN featured Kaye in two separate segments, once on a party bus that showed people using marijuana, and another at a “puff, pass and paint party” where she was seen holding a joint, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-guest-smokes-gas-mask-bong-nye-telecast-1070889">The Hollywood Reported</a> noted.
Kaye held up the joint to the camera at the “puff, pass and paint party” and said “this is for Andy,” referring to Anderson Cooper’s new co-host, Andy Cohen.
Though she demonstrated for the audience how to use a bong and gas mask, even helping light one for one partier, and made a show of holding a joint, she did not appear to partake on camera.</blockquote>
In 2016, CNN had comedian Kathy Griffin help out with hosting their New Year&#8217;s coverage. This, too, was, uh, bizarre. Ms. Griffin stripped down to her bra and flaunted herself to the New York City crowd, which included children.
&#8220;Griffin asks Cooper to hold her mic and proceeds to take off her coat to expose herself in a bra to Cooper’s horror,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted at the time. After Griffin stripped, Cooper pointed out her actions were &#8220;not appropriate&#8221; and let the comedian know &#8220;there’s kids here.&#8221;
&#8220;Get some clothes on,&#8221; one lady from the crowd shouted.
Griffin, however, did not put her coat back on, despite requests from Cooper, too. She showed off her bra and plugged her content to the crowd, instead.
WATCH:
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Of course Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are talking about &quot;who has the biggest cock in Hollywood&quot; live on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNNYE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNNYE</a> <a href="https://t.co/7cwaMGBQ3W">pic.twitter.com/7cwaMGBQ3W</a>
&mdash; Mark Dice (@MarkDice) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1212211629573586944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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