Critics blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> anchor Erin Burnett for a soft-touch report on the Hamas terrorists who are still holding approximately 200 hostages in Gaza — after they perpetrated devastating attacks against Israeli civilians, killing more than 1,300, on October 7.
While reporting on the hostages, Burnett&#8217;s report appeared to suggest they were being treated humanely when she took time to note that the Hamas network of tunnels — where the hostages are believed to be held — has ventilation and even air conditioning, among other things.
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CNN&#39;s ERIN BURNETT ON HAMAS HOSTAGES: &quot;We know these tunnels have ventilation. We know that they&#39;ve been known to have air conditioning. There was shampoo. There was antibiotics. [&#8230;] There were medics and paramedics. [&#8230;] They had tampons and things, OK?!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/OaslYkpZRL">pic.twitter.com/OaslYkpZRL</a>
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&#8220;We know these tunnels have ventilation. We know that they&#8217;ve been known to have air conditioning, this has all been reporting that we&#8217;ve heard from the Israelis over the years,&#8221; Burnett said, referencing claims from at least one of the released hostages that her Hamas captors had provided things like food and medicine to hostages.
&#8220;There was shampoo. There was antibiotics. There was a guard per hostage in the experience she had,&#8221;  Burnett continued. &#8220;There were medics and paramedics, and obviously she is elderly, the woman who was released also elderly and had medical needs and that they had the medicine needed and if not something similar to replace it.&#8221;
Burnett went on to note the &#8220;contrast&#8221; with the situation &#8220;above the ground&#8221; in Gaza, where the civilian population was without sufficient water and food and even hospitals were unable to care properly for those who needed it – largely because Hamas controls access to all of those things and had stockpiled them.
Critics pushed back, noting that Burnett appeared to be giving Hamas terrorists credit for treating their hostages better than the civilian population.
&#8220;You misgender someone and you’re blacklisted. Rape a Jewish woman and behead her baby, and CNN will discuss how you provided her with AC,&#8221; Erielle Davidson commented.
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You misgender someone and you’re blacklisted. Rape a Jewish woman and behead her baby, and CNN will discuss how you provided her with AC. <a href="https://t.co/Uv0s5rWb2d">https://t.co/Uv0s5rWb2d</a>
&mdash; Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) <a href="https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1717004646315684219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why, they even got rewards points for their stay,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1717193132323058106" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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&#8220;Paid for with billions of stolen aid dollars meant to better the lot of Palestinian families!!! CNN’s Burnett: &#8216;We know these tunnels have ventilation. We know that they&#8217;ve been known to have air conditioning.&#8217; Is having a head filled with shredded cabbage a prerequisite for being hired as an anchor at CNN ?!!&#8221; Amy Alkon <a href="https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1717016702649790765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>.
&#8220;&#8216;Those lucky hostages were kept in an underground Ritz Carlton&#8217; is quite the take,&#8221; was <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1716913942587662690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one response</a>.
&#8220;Straight up Baghdad Bob Burnett over here,&#8221; another said.
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straight up baghdad bob burnett over here <a href="https://t.co/ygxDaKI419">pic.twitter.com/ygxDaKI419</a>
&mdash; Rick Cantón (@RickCanton) <a href="https://twitter.com/RickCanton/status/1716964162671087895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s ‘Baghdad Bob Burnett’ Blasted For Soft Report On Hamas Hostage-Takers

CNN's 'Baghdad Bob Burnett' Blasted For Soft Report On Hamas Hostage-Takers

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On Monday, as President Trump highlighted in his coronavirus press briefing the way media coverage of his administration has been biased, the network decided to mock Trump consistently by running chyrons at the bottom of the screen full of scorn and vitriol.
Trump used part of the briefing to air a video showing how the media had unfairly criticized him.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-trump-chyron-leftist-state-media">Fox News</a> noted, “CNN host John King quickly called it ‘propaganda,’ which became the phrase du jour for the network during a series of events that one former network employee said proved it has officially become ‘Leftist State Media.’ … Brian Stelter called it ‘nothing short of disgraceful,’ Jim Acosta accused Trump of having a ‘total meltdown’ and Don Lemon said Trump’s briefing was ‘the height of narcissism.’”
CNN cut away from the briefing, but when they returned, here are some examples of the snarky comments they made:
<blockquote>“Trump melts down in angry response to reports he ignored virus warnings.”
“Trump refuses to acknowledge any mistakes.”
“Trump uses task force briefing to try and rewrite history on coronavirus response.”
“Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Four banners on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> over the last five minutes &#8230; <a href="https://t.co/UBxpCcY2vl">pic.twitter.com/UBxpCcY2vl</a>
&mdash; Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateBennett_DC/status/1249827745938505730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Members of the Left were delighted:
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Chyron on point today CNN. <a href="https://t.co/P5t6l1anjH">pic.twitter.com/P5t6l1anjH</a>
&mdash; Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1249824547181862912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Comedian W. Kamau Bell, who once <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/14/w-kamau-bell-boston-trump/">described</a> President Trump as “an orange wolf at the door with tiny paws”:
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CNN Chyron person has had enough. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 <a href="https://t.co/EXq98tIkIl">pic.twitter.com/EXq98tIkIl</a>
&mdash; W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) <a href="https://twitter.com/wkamaubell/status/1249826278921752576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A writer who has been associated with Politico, The Hollywood Reporter and <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1247913784380882944">insulted</a> Ivanka Trump after she issued a tweet celebrating Passover:
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A CNN chyron for the ages <a href="https://t.co/TlMlZlc4je">pic.twitter.com/TlMlZlc4je</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1249826590265139203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A self-described NY Times contributing op-ed writer and CNN contributor:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> Chyron writers, I salute you, colleagues. I salute you.
&mdash; Wajahat &quot;Social Distance Yourself&quot; Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href="https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1249846978260983809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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But CNN was slammed by others, including former CNN anchor Soledad O&#8217;Brien, who wrote, “Honestly, these chyrons are a mess. They’re inappropriate. It’s not Trump vs CNN and they’re playing it that way. If you’re running the chyrons AND the presser, you’re failing. It’s pretty clear it’s about exploiting a trainwreck—the opposite of good journalism.”
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Honestly, these chyrons are a mess. They’re inappropriate. It’s not Trump vs CNN and they’re playing it that way. If you’re running the chyrons AND the presser, you’re failing. It’s pretty clear it’s about exploiting a trainwreck—the opposite of good journalism . <a href="https://t.co/bfQOwNYFJP">https://t.co/bfQOwNYFJP</a>
&mdash; Soledad O&#39;Brien (@soledadobrien) <a href="https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1250061223820959745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News, “The CNN chyrons during yesterday&#8217;s presser were clearly designed to take a sledgehammer editorial approach to Trump&#8217;s comments. Viewers watching these live COVID-19 briefings have enough sense to figure out for themselves what is going on, without producers trying to push opinion while the events are in progress. Such brief and politically charged chyrons leave little room for context and perspective, which a story like the pandemic crisis should demand.”
Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson: &#8220;CNN&#8217;s argumentative chyrons demonstrate that news and opinion have completely merged at CNN, feeding into Trump&#8217;s claims that CNN is &#8216;fake news.&#8217; What&#8217;s worse, CNN is quite proud its chyrons, reflecting that CNN is oblivious to how deeply its reputation has been damaged by the games it plays with its news operation.”
<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/04/14/cnn-unhinged-trump-and-conservative-media-created-mess">Newsbusters</a> noted what happened on CNN when they cut away from the briefing and instead aired a panel discussion ripping the president. CNN’s Erin Burnett commented:
<blockquote>That was President Trump giving the latest update on the pandemic. The President was very angry; if you were watching that. Over the past hour and a half or so trying to rewrite history regarding his response to coronavirus. Coronavirus, as of today, has killed more than 23,000 Americans. I want to get straight to our panel who has been standing by, as we all have been watching this. John King, let me start with you. The President was extremely angry and lashing out, frankly, multiple times at various reporters.</blockquote>
Host John King chimed in: “Erin, the briefing was breathtaking from beginning to when we dropped out. And at times bordered on dangerous.”

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CNN Mocks Trump Briefing With Snarky Chyrons. Former CNN Anchor: ‘Opposite of Good Journalism’

Donald Trump

John King (CNN)

Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley gave an interesting definition of the word &#8220;socialism&#8221; on Wednesday following President Donald Trump&#8217;s attack on the far-left ideology during his State of the Union address.
In an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Erin Burnett OutFront,&#8221; Merkley defined socialism as &#8220;a society coming together to increase the standard of living of our seniors,&#8221; according to a segment flagged by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/merkley-socialism-is-society-coming-together-to-increase-the-standard-of-living-of-our-seniors/">The Free Beacon</a>.
&#8220;Do you agree, Senator Merkley, at the bottom line, America should never be a socialist country?&#8221;
Merkley danced around the question, attacking Trump&#8217;s speech and bringing up former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Burnett again pressed Merkley on how he defined socialism.
&#8220;Well, it is a society coming together to increase the standard of living of our seniors,&#8221; Merkley said. &#8220;And that is pretty much the definition and the president&#8217;s attacking it.&#8221;
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BURNETT: The president last night also called out some of the more liberal members of your party and this will be very important Senator, given what we&#8217;ve seen so far in this pre-pre-primary season. Let me replay what he said.
TRUMP: We are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and Independence and not government coercion, domination, and control. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.
BURNETT: Do you agree, Senator Merkley, at the bottom line: America should never be a socialist country?
MERKLEY: You know, the president started out by saying it was going to be bipartisan, wanted to bring people together. But he just couldn&#8217;t restrain himself from going into campaign mode. And certainly, we heard Paul Ryan when he was speaker say, &#8216;hey, now that we&#8217;ve won this big tax give away to the richest Americans, we have to dismantle these social programs. We have to dismantle Medicare or tone it down. We have to diminish Social Security.&#8217; What they refer to as entitlements. I call them programs earned and very smart programs for our seniors and I support those and the president wants to tear those apart. I think he is making a big mistakes take for quality of life in America.
BURNETT: But you don&#8217;t, but you don&#8217;t see that as socialism, right? In terms of the word, obviously, it&#8217;s a word of significance.
MERKLEY:Well, it is a society coming together to increase the standard of living of our seniors. And that is pretty much the definition and the president&#8217;s attacking it.
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WATCH: Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley Tries To Define ‘Socialism’

Jeff Merkley

CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett and Joan Walsh lost their minds on Monday night after President Donald Trump made a &#8220;salad&#8221; joke while the Clemson Tigers&#8217; football team visited the White House where they ate food personally paid for by the president.
&#8220;So I had a choice,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Do we have no food for you? Because we have a shutdown, or do we give you some little quick salads that the first lady will make, along with &#8212; along with the second lady, they&#8217;ll make some salads.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s appalling,&#8221; Walsh responded. &#8220;It seems to me like the president will not be happy until there is not one single female Republican voter in the country. It&#8217;s incredibly sexist.&#8221;
Walsh also falsely suggested that Trump was talking about his daughter Ivanka Trump and not Karen Pence when he said &#8220;the second lady,&#8221; despite the fact that Trump motioned to Vice President Mike Pence when he said it.
Scott Jennings called out the absurdity of Burnett&#8217;s and Walsh&#8217;s comments, suggesting that they were &#8220;over-reading this one.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not over-reading it,&#8221; Burnett fired back. &#8220;He made a joke that was sexist about women.&#8221;
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During the Clemson Tigers&#8217; visit to the White House after their College Football National Championship win, President Donald Trump joked about personally buying hamburgers for the players instead of having his wife, Melania Trump, make them salads. <a href="https://t.co/NkHYR8F9oB">https://t.co/NkHYR8F9oB</a> <a href="https://t.co/6ToibgeabA">pic.twitter.com/6ToibgeabA</a>
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Trump made the joke while feeding the Tigers&#8217; national championship, a dinner that he paid for since the government is shut down.
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Earlier this evening, President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> treated the Clemson Tigers football team to dinner in the State Dining Room! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ALLIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ALLIN</a> <a href="https://t.co/P5JAo6yzfR">pic.twitter.com/P5JAo6yzfR</a>
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&#8220;Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House,&#8221; Trump tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamburgers etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!&#8221;
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Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamburgers etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1085207864224960519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Full transcript provided via <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/14/ebo.01.html">CNN</a>:
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I&#8217;ve got to play something that just happened about the shutdown for both of you. This is the president &#8212; he did go ahead with some meetings today despite the shutdown, including one with the Clemson Tigers for their championship meeting and here&#8217;s what he said.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: So I had a choice. Do we have no food for you? Because we have a shutdown, or do we give you some little quick salads that the first lady will make, along with &#8212; along with the second lady, they&#8217;ll make some salads.
[19:35:06] And I said, you guys aren&#8217;t into salads, or do I go out, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, do I go out and send out for about 1,000 hamburgers? Big Macs. So we actually did that.
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WALSH: That&#8217;s appalling. It seems to me like the president will not be happy until there is not one single female Republican voter in the country. It&#8217;s incredibly sexist. It also &#8212; I mean, I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m stuck on this, but Ivanka is not the second lady. She is actually &#8212; I don&#8217;t think she deserves this position. She&#8217;s actually a senior adviser to the president.
So, the idea that he would demean her specifically in that way, he shouldn&#8217;t talk about the first lady that way. We aren&#8217;t all here to make salads for men. It&#8217;s disgusting.
BURNETT: I&#8217;m presuming he was talking about Karen Pence when he said &#8220;second lady.&#8221;
WALSH: Oh, God, I&#8217;m sorry. But she shouldn&#8217;t be doing it either. BURNETT: I mean, Scott, look &#8212;
WALSH: That&#8217;s crazier.
BURNETT: &#8212; sometimes what people say when they&#8217;re being funny exposes exactly who they are and what they think. Not that there was any question, but this is pretty clear.
JENNINGS: I certainly didn&#8217;t take his comments to be sexist. I think that if somebody took them that way, you know, that&#8217;s fine &#8212;
BURNETT: So Mike Pence maybe could have made the salads &#8212;
BURNETT: Scott, can I just ask you, how in the world can you not see that as sexist, to make the assumption that his wife will go make salads for a bunch of football players? What is she, the cook?
JENNINGS: I didn&#8217;t hear it that way. We make salads almost every night.
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BURNETT: Do you expect your wife to make them all for you? Maybe she does! Fine.
JENNINGS: I make some and she makes some.
BURNETT: OK, but that&#8217;s not what he said!
JENNINGS: I didn&#8217;t take it that way, if somebody took it that way, that&#8217;s fine. It didn&#8217;t strike me that way. I think he was trying to make a joke about feeding hamburgers to football players. I think you might be over-reading this one.
BURNETT: I&#8217;m not over-reading it. He made a joke that was sexist about woman. I guess maybe what we&#8217;re disagreeing with is whether it&#8217;s funny and whether humor is something that&#8217;s serious.
WALSH: I think Scott&#8217;s disagreeing that it&#8217;s sexist, which he&#8217;s entitled to his opinion. It&#8217;s not going to be a popular one, but &#8212;
JENNINGS: I didn&#8217;t &#8212; it didn&#8217;t strike me that way. And I&#8217;m not &#8212; I &#8212; I&#8217;m surprised, I&#8217;m surprised that you all are taking it that way, but that&#8217;s fine.
WALSH: Wow. OK.
BURNETT: I&#8217;m going to leave it there. Yeah, no, I have to say, I&#8217;m open about when I have an opinion on things, I feel pretty strongly it&#8217;s a sexist thing to say.
All right, thank you both.
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WATCH: Trump Makes ‘Salad’ Joke At White House. CNN Freaks Out.

Trump Administration

Trigger warning: The following article contains potentially painful details about a supposedly committed member of the media elite committing an act of &#8220;violence&#8221; against her network&#8217;s dwindling audience.
On Thursday, President Trump sent shockwaves through the White House press corps by announcing that he has agreed to meet with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un &#8220;by May&#8221; and that the dictator has committed to calling off all nuclear arms testing until then. In other words, Trump dropped the bomb on the establishment media that he is about to do something <a href="http://time.com/5192579/trump-meets-kim-jong-un-north-korea/">no other sitting president</a> has ever been able to pull off: personally meet with a North Korean leader.
<a href="https://apnews.com/668eb8373d27494e87a8cd25c5a1739a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP">AP</a> has been feverishly covering the story with a series of updates. A few of the more significant developments (formatting adjusted):
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The White House says President Donald Trump&#8217;s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be held &#8220;at a place and time to be determined.&#8221; White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement after a South Korean official broke the stunning news. Sanders says Trump &#8220;will accept the invitation to meet with&#8221; Kim. &#8230;
President Donald Trump says &#8220;Great progress&#8221; is being made, but sanctions on North Korea will remain in place as he prepares for what would be the first-ever meeting between the two countries&#8217; leaders. &#8230; Trump says Kim &#8220;talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze.&#8221; He also says North Korea has agreed to stop testing missiles.
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In her coverage of the widely-celebrated announcement, CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett admitted with slight hesitation something that Trump&#8217;s critics weren&#8217;t thrilled to hear: the &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; development would have a major impact on Trump&#8217;s legacy.
&#8220;Just an extraordinary evening, and, of course, opening the door to the big question: If President Trump can truly solve this problem, ah, that would be going down as a great president,&#8221; said Burnett, adding, &#8220;And there&#8217;s no way around that. That&#8217;s the reality here.&#8221;
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CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett: If Trump solves the North Korea problem he &#8220;would be going down as a great president, and there&#8217;s no way around that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/xPTP0dF0fm">pic.twitter.com/xPTP0dF0fm</a>
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As <a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/03/08/uh-oh-cnns-erin-burnett-triggers-resistance-meltdown-with-possible-trump-nk-legacy-video/">Twitchy</a> highlights, the response online was nearly nuclear. A few examples:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ErinBurnett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ErinBurnett</a> Stupid comment. He will never be great. Not ever. <a href="https://t.co/A3f5nILpcC">https://t.co/A3f5nILpcC</a>
&#8212; LiberalPhenom (WakandaWoman) (@LiberalPhenom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LiberalPhenom/status/971944034808758273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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God, what&#8217;s wrong with her&#8230;Putin&#8217;s puppet will never be a great President.
&#8212; Dee M (@DeniseM52134343) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeniseM52134343/status/971949283015454721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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This is not true. I am more concerned with the Russian attacks on our Elections. N Korea is a manufactured crisis by Russia to distract from what Russia did.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ErinBurnett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ErinBurnett</a> &#8211; Are you freakin&#8217; serious? This unhinged lunatic has caused the suffering and mental anguish of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DACA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DACA</a> recipients. His defense of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#racist</a> ideology is well-documented, 19 women accused him of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SexualAssault?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SexualAssault</a>, yet you have the gall to even utter these words? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SMH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SMH</a> <a href="https://t.co/BvEup5mxiU">https://t.co/BvEup5mxiU</a>
&#8212; kenny&#65039; (@kennybuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/kennybuck/status/971955678389686274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And, of course, there was lots of trolling fun from pro-Trumpers and anti-CNNers:
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Bububububut 
Trumpuh,uh,uh,uh&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/60sDLbNzLP">pic.twitter.com/60sDLbNzLP</a>
&#8212; Ronald W Sm&#299;cZ (@The_Tyromancer) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Tyromancer/status/971965811769225216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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She may be fired
&#8212; MoreWhees (@MoreWhees) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoreWhees/status/971979713693429760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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CNN regular viewers hardest hit.
&#8212; Jeremy (@The_Smirker) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Smirker/status/971978832507891712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I wonder how many shots of tequila she had after that segment just to get the taste of the words out of her mouth?
&#8212; FemMilVet (@femmilvet) <a href="https://twitter.com/femmilvet/status/971980030371753984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trigger Warning: CNN Host Says Trump May Go Down As ‘Great President.’ Internet Goes Nuclear.

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As a major national scandal continued to unfold on Tuesday night, CNN was busy shaming the leader of a Christian organization for supporting President Donald Trump by airing the Hollywood Access Tapes from 2005 in which then-private citizen Donald Trump made the infamous &#8220;grab &#8217;em by the p***y&#8221; remark.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dropped a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26265/bombshell-informant-tells-congress-there-really-hank-berrien">bombshell</a> on Fox News on Tuesday when he said that Congress may have access to an informant who claims that the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26202/breaking-new-texts-anti-trump-fbi-agents-talk-ryan-saavedra">secret society</a>&#8221; mentioned in anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok&#8217;s text messages did exist.
Instead of covering this new FBI bombshell, CNN trotted out Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, to ask him how Christians &#8212; whose entire religion is based on love and forgiveness &#8212; could forgive and support President Donald Trump over lewd remarks he made 13 years ago and for his past alleged behavior.
As Perkins answered host Erin Burnett&#8217;s loaded questions, Burnett appeared to be annoyed, looking down for a significant amount of time.
This is CNN.
WATCH:
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Christian leader Tony Perkins: Trump gets a &#8220;mulligan&#8221; on alleged affair because it was 10 years ago and &#8220;evangelicals understand what a second chance means&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/57AZQHdAEU">https://t.co/57AZQHdAEU</a>
&#8212; OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/OutFrontCNN/status/955967877160476672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: As Massive FBI Corruption Scandal Unfolds, CNN Airs Trump ‘P***y’ Tape, Shames Christians

&#8220;All people coming into this country have merit, they shouldn&#8217;t be subjected to a points system,&#8221; said CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta on Wednesday, continuing his de facto advocacy for a standards-free policy in determining which foreigners are permitted to enter the homeland.
Acosta joined CNN colleagues Erin Burnett and John Avlon to reflect on his <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19279/watch-stephen-miller-eats-cnns-jim-acosta-robert-kraychik">earlier exchange</a> with White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller regarding President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposed reforms to immigration policy.
Acosta drew on the &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; slogan to continue his opposition to a meritocratic immigration system:
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An unskilled person who doesn&#8217;t speak English coming into America might give birth to a Nobel laureate, or an astrophysicist, or a neurosurgeon. That is what has always been great about America.
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Offering up a historical analysis, Acosta simplistically framed America&#8217;s historical immigration trends as &#8220;always [taking in] all kinds of people&#8221;:
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The American experience has always been, and the Statue of Liberty is, I think, an example of that, which is why I raised it, that we&#8217;ve always welcomed all kinds of people from all walks of life into this country.
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Acosta described Stephen Miller as belligerent, an analysis Burnett agreed with.
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I do think when they&#8217;re attacking the news media &#8230; they&#8217;re losing the argument. And I think what you saw today in the briefing room was the top policy officer berating reporters. &#8230;
I was just essentially trying to test Stephen Miller on a couple of those points, and I think what you saw unfold in the briefing room is that he really just couldn&#8217;t take that kind of heat and exploded before our eyes.
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Watch Acosta&#8217;s comments below.

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Acosta pinned the <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/892918858998304768">following tweet</a> to his Twitter profile:
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Acosta presents himself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media figure. CNN similarly presents itself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media outlet, marketing itself as &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News.&#8221;

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BAHAHA: After Getting Destroyed By Stephen Miller, CNN’s Acosta Insists He Won

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Left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media outlets are framing alleged White House improprieties as resembling the 1970&#8217;s Watergate scandal. Subsidiary and complementary narratives include framing President Donald Trump&#8217;s conduct &#8212; particularly his termination of James Comey from the FBI&#8217;s directorship &#8212; as &#8220;Nixonian,&#8221; accusing him of obstructing justice, and casting 2016&#8217;s presidential election as having been compromised by &#8220;election hacking&#8221; or generalized interference directed by the Russian state.
Above is a montage of television news media figures repeating keywords such as &#8220;Nixon&#8221; and &#8220;Watergate&#8221; in order to shape a basis for impeachment in the minds of Americans, drawing on the impeachment and resignation of former President Richard Nixon.
View a montage of news media figures at CNN and MSNBC priming Democrat guests to make the case for impeaching Trump <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-montage-media-cant-stop-asking-democratic-guests-if-theyre-r">here</a>, via Grabien.
Allegations of the Obama administration&#8217;s surveillance of Trump and his political teams have been either ignored or dismissed by news media outlets as CNN. MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
The aforementioned news media outlets, as well as ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNBC all present themselves as politically objective and non-partisan.

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WATCH: Nixon Narrative Media Montage

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and left-wing fellow travelers were arrested on Monday following refusal to vacate a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Chicago, Ill. 
CNN <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/congressman-luis-gutierrez-handcuffed-cnntv/">described</a> the Gutierrez&#8217;s entourage of left-wing agitators as a &#8220;delegation of advocates.&#8221; 
Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett, Gutierrez called on Americans to &#8220;stand up&#8221; and &#8220;confront our government.&#8221; 
&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s transgender kids, whether it&#8217;s a woman&#8217;s right to choose, whether it&#8217;s fifteen dollars an hour, whether it&#8217;s our environment, whether it&#8217;s a Muslim ban,&#8221; said Gutierrez, listing a litany of left-wing and Democrat grievances. &#8220;Part of being an American,&#8221; he continued, was &#8220;standing up &#8230; to unfairness and injustice.&#8221;
The &#8220;criminalizing&#8221; of foreigners illegally in the homeland, said Gutierrez, was immoral. The &#8220;immigrant community,&#8221; he added, &#8220;[is] vulnerable and fearful &#8230; and they cannot defend themselves.&#8221;

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CHICAGO, IL &#8211; MARCH 13: Francisca Lino listens as Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) speaks to the press after leaving the office of Immigration Services where he was briefly handcuffed and detained after refusing to leave a meeting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on March 13, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Gutierrez and several others activists were at the ICE office advocating on behalf of specific individuals facing deportation and about the general policies of ICE under the administration of President Donald Trump. Lino, who has lived in the U.S. for about 20 years and whose husband and four of her six children are U.S. citizens faces deportation in July. Her deportation was one of the cases Gutierrez was hoping to stop. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Burnett offered no challenge to any of Gutierrez&#8217;s assertions of narratives. She presents herself as an objective and non-partisan news media figure.
Gutierrez took to Twitter to thank Burnett for her political assistance:
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Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/ErinBurnett">@ErinBurnett</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNOutFont">@CNNOutFont</a> for reporting on ICE deportations and the Lino family <a href="https://t.co/TFkfZJ2rvn">https://t.co/TFkfZJ2rvn</a> <a href="https://t.co/a6RXT4XOHN">pic.twitter.com/a6RXT4XOHN</a>
&#8212; Luis V. Gutierrez (@RepGutierrez) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGutierrez/status/841436254214459392">March 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Across all its platforms, CNN describes foreigners illegally living in America as &#8220;undocumented immigrants.&#8221; 
CNN presents itself as an objective and non-partisan news media outlet, branding itself &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News.&#8221;
Watch a segment of the interview below.

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