Left-wing media figures rushed to threaten violent riots on Friday evening if President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempt to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away earlier in the day.
Reza Aslan, who used to have a show on CNN, responded by writing: &#8220;If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f***ing thing down.&#8221;
https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307127650360623104
Political writer Laura Bassett echoed a similar sentiment, but stopped short of making a threat, writing: &#8220;If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots. &#8230; *more, bigger riots.&#8221;
https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307128905703329793
Australian astrophysicist Dr. Jessie Christiansen tweeted: &#8220;IF THEY RAM THROUGH AN APPOINTMENT IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS I WILL RIOT. This is an actual nightmare.&#8221;
https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307137798848249856
Writer Beau Willimon wrote: “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.”
https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307134179696668673
Political commentator Katie Herzog wrote: &#8220;All we can hope for in times like these is that Mitch McConnell has a stroke from laughing too hard. To clarify: I don’t want him to die. I just want him to be brain dead. I’m not a monster.&#8221;
https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307136680567222275
Another leftist wrote: &#8220;tell me when we’re meeting outside mitch mcconnell’s house.&#8221;
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In August of 2019, protesters appeared outside of Senator McConnell’s home and said someone should “stab the motherfu*cker in the heart.” <a href="https://t.co/317nYnNaUd">https://t.co/317nYnNaUd</a> <a href="https://t.co/JZbxHnHya2">pic.twitter.com/JZbxHnHya2</a>
&mdash; Ben Goldey (@BenGoldey) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenGoldey/status/1307142221758713857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Professor Emmett Macfarlane wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.&#8221;
https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1307134048515567617
This article has been expanded after publication to include additional information.

‘I Can’t Breathe’ Protest Held After Man Dies In Police Custody In Minneapolis

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Following conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, a high school English teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sent out a tweet celebrating the host’s diagnosis, and wishing him a painful death.
Replying to a tweet that reportedly showed support for Limbaugh, Milwaukee High School of the Arts teacher Travis Sarandos reportedly tweeted the following, according to the <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2020/02/05/mps-teacher-leave-after-tweet-calling-limbaughs-cancer-awesome/4670481002/">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>:
<blockquote>Limbaugh absolutely should have to suffer from cancer. It’s awesome that he&#8217;s dying, and hopefully it is as quick as it is painful.</blockquote>
The Sentinel reports that Sarandos has since deleted his Twitter account, and that he has been placed on leave from the school.
The Daily Wire reached out to Milwaukee Public Schools for comment, and Shahree Douglas, director of communications and outreach, responded with the following statement:
<blockquote>We are aware of Mr. Sarandos’ actions and can confirm that he was not speaking on behalf of any students or staff of Milwaukee High School of the Arts or Milwaukee Public Schools. The district is following policy and procedures related to personnel matters. Mr. Sarandos has been placed on leave pending further investigation.</blockquote>
Limbaugh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-tulsi-offer-prayers-well-wishes-for-rush-limbaugh-following-cancer-announcement">announced</a> his diagnosis on February 3 during his radio show. “I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you,” he said. “I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th.”
The following day, Limbaugh attended President Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-awards-rush-limbaugh-medal-of-freedom-during-state-of-the-union">State of the Union</a> speech, and was awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Prior to having Melania Trump place the medal around Limbaugh’s neck, the president said:
<blockquote>Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious illness. Here tonight is a special man, beloved by millions of Americans, who just received a stage four advanced cancer diagnosis. This is not good news, but what is good news is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet.
Rush Limbaugh, thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country. Rush, in recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I will now ask the First Lady of the United States to present you with the honor.</blockquote>
Following the cancer announcement, progressive critics tore into Limbaugh.
Producer and religious scholar Reza Aslan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-host-of-cnns-believer-reza-aslan-asks-if-the-world-is-better-off-without-rush-limbaugh">tweeted</a> the following: “Ask yourself this simple question: Is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?”
After being castigated by some for his question, Aslan said that he wasn’t “celebrating” Limbaugh’s diagnosis, but simply posing a question. He then went on to call Limbaugh a “a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.”
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1. I am not “celebrating” anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question 
2. Rush is not “my adversary” &#8211; he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people. <a href="https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF">https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF</a>
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1224476896227778561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
On Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-limbaugh-doesnt-understand-american-code-of-decency-and-honor-heres-a-look-at-bidens-decency-and-honor">said the following</a> during a town hall in New Hampshire:
<blockquote>Rush Limbaugh spent his entire time on the air dividing people, belittling people, talking about blacks in ways, African Americans in ways, that, anyway … I do feel badly and I mean this sincerely, that he’s suffering from a terminal illness, so he has my empathy and sympathy no matter what his background is, but the idea that he is at the State of the Union, receives a medal that is of the highest honor that can be &#8230; given to a civilian, I find, quite frankly, driven more by trying to maintain your right-wing political credentials than it is anything else. I mean, if you read some of the things that Rush has said about people, their backgrounds, their ethnicity, how he speaks to them – I don’t think he speaks, I don’t think he understands the American code of decency and honor.</blockquote>
CNN’s Jim Acosta <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-claims-rush-limbaugh-has-history-of-racism-his-longtime-producer-asks-for-list">said</a> that Limbaugh “has a history of making derogatory comments about African Americans.”
Limbaugh’s long-time producer James Golden, also known as Bo Snerdley, tweeted at Acosta, asking him to provide examples of his friend’s alleged “history of derogatory comments about African Americans.”
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I just saw the footage from CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta saying Rush has a &#8220;history&#8221; of saying disparaging things about African Americans. I have been in the studio with Rush for 30 years. I would like to formally challenge CNN and <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> to provide the list.
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1224926030697201671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>

Rush Limbaugh.

High School Teacher On Leave After Reportedly Celebrating Limbaugh’s Cancer Diagnosis In A Tweet: ‘It’s Awesome That He’s Dying’

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When left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was recovering from lung cancer treatment, right-wing media figures as a whole showed compassion by sending her well wishes and prayers, but religious scholar Reza Aslan, formerly of CNN, seems to have a different idea on how to publicly react to another fellow human being&#8217;s cancer diagnosis.
In a tweet, Aslan wondered aloud if the world would, in fact, be a &#8220;better place&#8221; if conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer — a disease he announced to be suffering from during his radio show on Monday.
&#8220;Ask yourself this simple question: Is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?&#8221; Aslan openly pontificated.
Though some of Aslan&#8217;s followers piled on to this grotesque display of impropriety, others were notably enraged by it. Later, Aslan doubled down on his question by openly declaring Limbaugh a &#8220;curse upon this nation&#8221; who has caused &#8220;mass suffering.&#8221;
&#8220;I am not &#8216;celebrating&#8217; anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question,&#8221; said Aslan. &#8220;Rush is not &#8216;my adversary&#8217; — he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.&#8221;
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Aslan is far from alone in his glee over Limbaugh&#8217;s diagnosis. None other than far-left activist Tariq Nasheed <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1224443800791109636?s=20">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Rush Limbaugh has spent decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism. Now he has cancer. &#8230; I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes. &#8230; but #PartyOverHere.&#8221;
In fairness, other left-wing advocates wished Limbaugh a speedy recovery.
&#8220;I wish Rush Limbaugh a safe and rapid recovery; which also includes a secret Empathy Transplant. May his pre-existing condition, and the pre-existing conditions of all the Americans he fights to keep from being covered for pre-existing conditions, never return,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1224453032194134019?s=20">tweeted</a> John Fugelsang.
&#8220;No one should ever have to suffer from cancer. I can only hope Rush Limbaugh makes a speedy recovery and dedicates himself to advocating for cancer research and affordable health care for all people, not just those who can afford it in our current system,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1224428363235938304?s=20">tweeted</a> Charlotte Clymer.
&#8220;As a liberal Democrat, I oppose Rush Limbaugh with every fiber of my being. But as a physician, I don’t wish advanced lung cancer on anybody. We must have compassion and empathy for suffering human beings—even for our political enemies. I wish him the most time with his family,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1224441421156904961?s=20">tweeted</a> Eugene Gu.
While Reza Aslan speaks on the subject of human suffering, it can be noted here that pro-life religious conservatives largely believe abortion to be tantamount to murder. Despite that, however, here&#8217;s what some prominent conservatives said when left-wing, pro-abortion rights Justice Ginsburg underwent treatment after she broke her ribs in a fall:
&#8220;I understand a lot of conservatives don’t like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because of her politics, but her friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia was beautiful. It should serve as an example to our country to stop demonizing those who you disagree with,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1060573798670299136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060573798670299136&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Kassy Dillon.
&#8220;Keeping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in our prayers and wishing her a speedy recovery!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1060536121334087680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060536121334087680&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Students for Trump.
&#8220;Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, breaks ribs in fall. Best wishes for a quick recovery!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1060539340336648192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060539340336648192&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Tom Fitton.
&#8220;I sincerely hope that Justice Ginsburg heals from this fall. And if she must retire from the bench because of it, then I hope Donald Trump can name a 3rd pro-life justice to SCOTUS,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/1060548002409054208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060548002409054208&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Patrick Madrid.

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Former Host Of CNN’s ‘Believer’ Reza Aslan Asks If The World Is Better Off Without Rush Limbaugh

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It&#8217;s official: CNN&#8217;s ratings are now in PANIC territory.
One of our many labors of love here at The Daily Wire has been the faithful chronicling of the self-inflicted <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18088/death-spiral-along-its-credibility-cnn-ratings-john-nolte">collapse of CNN</a>. In perhaps its worst month in a string of very bad months, over the last few weeks CNN managed to light what&#8217;s left of its credibility on fire over Russiagate by <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18027/real-reason-cnn-retracted-russia-story-comes-out-%E2%80%94-james-barrett">retracting</a> yet another story based on a single, anonymous source; force three of its formerly respected journalists <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17972/three-cnn-journalists-resign-over-retracted-james-barrett">to resign</a> to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18027/real-reason-cnn-retracted-russia-story-comes-out-%E2%80%94-james-barrett">cover its chronic failures</a>; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18033/hate-network-cnns-acosta-asks-if-trumps-white-john-nolte">hyperventilate</a> over having cameras at the White House press briefing; humiliate itself with a have-to-read-it-to-believe-it story on <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18085/breaking-cnn-obamas-jeans-game-gets-stronger-john-nolte">Obama&#8217;s jeans</a>; and hysterically and hypocritically <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18205/cnn-tries-get-trump-kicked-twitter-twitter-john-nolte">accuse Trump</a> of supposedly &#8220;promoting violence&#8221; despite a year of blowing the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13245/assassination-dogwhistles-media-ramps-dangerous-john-nolte">assassination dog whistle</a> and having employed the likes of <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17936/retractions-ratings-and-rape-catastrophic-month-john-nolte">Kathy Griffin and Reza Aslan</a>. 
Though CNN is prone to lying, the numbers never do. So how is CNN faring in the ratings? The following numbers for Tuesday, June 27 from <a href="http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-tuesday-june-27/333768">TV Newser</a> paint a very grim picture of CNN&#8217;s rapidly shrinking viewership:
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That&#8217;s right, CNN was unable to hit 900,000 viewers in any of its primetime timeslots on Tuesday. The closest it got was 886,000 during the 7 p.m. hour, and it spent nearly half the evening under 800,000. 
The comparisons between CNN&#8217;s viewership and that of Fox News and MSNBC are truly eye-opening. Fox News tripled CNN&#8217;s viewership in nearly all of the primetime slots. Fellow left-wing network MSNBC dominated CNN in all primetime hours as well, doubling its viewership by average for most of the evening. 
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And these numbers are not outliers; CNN has been increasingly coming in last to Fox and MSNBC and often struggles to reach the million-viewer mark during its primetime programming. As Daily Wire&#8216;s John Nolte puts it, the network is in a full-blown ratings &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18088/death-spiral-along-its-credibility-cnn-ratings-john-nolte">death spiral</a>&#8221; prompted by its credibility crisis:
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Over the entire second quarter of 2017, looking at total viewers, only one CNN program placed in the top 20 of all cable news shows, and that was Anderson Cooper&#8217;s 360, which landed with a thud <a href="http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-top-cable-news-programs-in-q2-2017-were/333623">at number 20</a>. For perspective, a repeat of Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Fox New hour attracted more viewers than any show on CNN.
Furthermore, throughout this same quarter, CNN lost to MSNBC in total and primetime demo viewers. This is the first time <a href="http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q2-2017-ratings-rachel-maddow-has-the-no-1-cable-news-show-among-adults-25-54/333372">since 2014 that CNN</a> has lost that demo crown to its leftwing rival. In total viewers last quarter, among all cable news channels, Fox News placed first, MSNBC third, and CNN is all alone in tenth place, just barely ahead of Investigative Discovery, a second-tier offshoot of the Discovery Network.
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Below are the numbers via TV Newser for the overall viewership of Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and HLN for Monday through Thursday, followed by the numbers for the key demo:
MONDAY (6/26/2017):
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TUESDAY (6/27/2017):
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<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt height="487" src="https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2019/09/cable_news_ratings_demo_6.27.2017_0.jpg" width="780" /></div>
WEDNESDAY (6/28/2017):
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THURSDAY (6/29/2017): 
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Just How Badly Is CNN Collapsing? Look At These Stunning Numbers.

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Triggered by CNN host Reza Aslan&#8217;s incendiary rhetoric regarding President Trump, one example including him calling Trump a &#8220;piece of s***,&#8221; CNN has decided to <a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cnn-reza-aslan-donald-trump-1202460352/">drop his non-fiction show</a>, Believer with Reza Aslan.
CNN released a statement, saying, &#8220;CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series &#8216;Believer.&#8217; We wish Reza and his production team all the best.&#8221;
Aslan had responded to this tweet from Trump about his &#8220;travel ban.&#8221; 
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We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871143765473406976">June 3, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Aslan first tweeted this, which he later deleted:
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CNN should have known better, as John Nolte of The Daily Wire has <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17153/flashback-cnns-reza-aslan-wished-republican-john-nolte">pointed out</a>, noting this deleted tweet from 2012:
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As Brent Bozell and Tim Graham have <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17285/bozell-graham-cnn-scholar-throwing-excrement-l-brent-bozell-iii?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=062316-news&amp;utm_campaign=dwbrand">noted</a>:
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He called Trump a &#8220;POS&#8221; &#8212; how polite to abbreviate it &#8212; on May 17 in response to a Huffington Post article, saying, &#8220;This is precisely the bull&#8212;- that led a record 81% of WHITE evangelicals to vote for a greedy lecherous racist pathological lying POS.&#8221; On May 9, he called Trump a &#8220;lying conniving scumbag narcissistic sociopath piece of s&#8212; fake president.&#8221;
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And more: &#8220;He reviewed President Trump&#8217;s first trip abroad, saying, &#8216;But on the plus side he didn&#8217;t s&#8212; himself in public.'&#8221;
And more: &#8220;While responding to a tweet by author and Barack Obama critic Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, he fired off: &#8216;Hey Dinesh. I&#8217;ll say this as politely as I can: Go f&#8212; yourself, you adulterous piece of sh&#8211; felon.'&#8221;
Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy.

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CNN Cancels Host’s Show After He Calls Trump ‘Piece Of S***’

<div>In reaction to the May ratings report showing MSNBC as number one in weeknight prime-time viewership in the prized 25-to-54 age demographic, CNN sent out a spokeswoman to separate itself from the competition. CNN should be viewed as &#8220;the one nonpartisan cable news network,&#8221; presumably unlike MSNBC, and certainly unlike Fox News. </div>
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This statement was issued after CNN personality Kathy Griffin did a stunt holding up a replica of President Trump&#8217;s bloody severed head. It&#8217;s doubly shameless that it also came after CNN host Reza Aslan raged at the president on Twitter, calling him &#8220;this piece of s&#8212;.&#8221; CNN responded to the Griffin horror by canceling her annual New Year&#8217;s Eve appearance. Aslan, on the other hand, didn&#8217;t seem to bother that much; CNN lamely sent out a flack saying, &#8220;Reza Aslan is not a CNN employee&#8221; &#8212; as if this were to mean anything. 
Aslan &#8220;apologized&#8221; by insisting &#8220;that&#8217;s not like me&#8221; to respond in such a &#8220;derogatory fashion.&#8221; That is untrue. The Twitchy site and other Twitter searchers quickly found a long list of examples of Raunchy Reza. He called Trump a &#8220;POS&#8221; &#8212; how polite to abbreviate it &#8212; on May 17 in response to a Huffington Post article, saying, &#8220;This is precisely the bull&#8212;- that led a record 81% of WHITE evangelicals to vote for a greedy lecherous racist pathological lying POS.&#8221; On May 9, he called Trump a &#8220;lying conniving scumbag narcissistic sociopath piece of s&#8212; fake president.&#8221;
Who is Reza Aslan? Go to CNN&#8217;s website. You&#8217;ll learn he hosts &#8220;Believer With Reza Aslan,&#8221; a &#8220;spiritual adventure series.&#8221; You&#8217;ll be told Aslan is a &#8220;renowned author and religious scholar.&#8221; What you won&#8217;t be told is that Aslan is a Muslim leftist activist who wrote an insulting book about Jesus Christ called &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/ZEALOT-Life-Times-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/140006922X">Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth</a>.&#8221; He recently gave a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania titled &#8220;Fear Inc.: Confronting Islamophobia in America.&#8221; What you also don&#8217;t see is how vile this &#8220;religious scholar&#8221; can be on social media. 
He reviewed President Trump&#8217;s first trip abroad, saying, &#8220;But on the plus side he didn&#8217;t s&#8212; himself in public.&#8221;
After Greg Gianforte won a House seat after allegedly assaulting a liberal reporter, Aslan mocked Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s congratulatory tweet by saying, &#8220;And Jesus said, &#8216;if someone tries to ask you a question, beat the s&#8212; out of them.'&#8221;
He responded to a Happy Mother&#8217;s Day tweet by House Speaker Paul Ryan that said, &#8220;Happy #MothersDay to my mom &amp; all moms who do whatever it takes,&#8221; by screeching, &#8220;Except of course Syrian moms fleeing war, famine, and genocide with their starving children. F&#8212; those moms.&#8221;
While responding to a tweet by author and Barack Obama critic Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, he fired off: &#8220;Hey Dinesh. I&#8217;ll say this as politely as I can: Go f&#8212; yourself, you adulterous piece of sh&#8211; felon.&#8221;
That was similar to a tweet he issued imagining what Gold Star Father Khizr Khan&#8217;s wife would say to Trump if they were to speak after he criticized her at the Democratic National Convention. &#8220;She&#8217;d probably tell you to go f&#8212; yourself,&#8221; he said.
He really doesn&#8217;t like conservative Republicans. He said in August 2012: &#8220;Just to be clear I was indeed wishing someone would rape congressman Todd Akin. I&#8217;d hate to be misunderstood.&#8221;
After uncorking these vicious and profane tirades, CNN cannot plausibly keep this man on the payroll and say it&#8217;s &#8220;the one nonpartisan cable news network,&#8221; or a haven for civilized discourse.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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BOZELL & GRAHAM:  The CNN ‘Scholar’ Throwing Excrement

We have known for, what, a couple of years now that when it comes to journalistic standards, CNN has none. This finally hit home for me as I watched in real-time as Jake Tapper sold his soul in the middle of a Ferguson street, <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-goes-off-on-police-reaction-in-ferguson-this-doesnt-make-any-sense/">doing everything in his power to reignite a race riot</a> &#8212; a race riot, incidentally, where only struggling black people and struggling black property owners would pay the price. 
In the months since, CNN has worked tirelessly to gin up even more race riots, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13245/assassination-dogwhistles-media-ramps-dangerous-john-nolte">have Donald Trump assassinated</a>, and intentionally pushed more fake news than any other news outlet in history. And then, just this last week&#8230;
One of CNN&#8217;s biggest stars beheaded Trump (and was fired only after <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17150/credibility-crisis-after-beheading-piece-sht-trump-john-nolte">advertisers threatened to flee</a>), the left-wing network&#8217;s international branch was caught <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17141/fakenews-cnn-caught-arranging-muslims-backdrop-robert-kraychik#exit-modal">stage-managing a politically correct protest</a>, and Reza Aslan, the network&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4296404/CNN-presenter-Reza-Aslan-eats-HUMAN-BRAIN.html">resident cannibal</a>, took to Twitter to declare President Trump a &#8220;piece of sh*t.&#8221; He later apologized with the lie that this kind of behavior is uncharacteristic of him when a cursory look at his Twitter feed proves that hurling vulgar profanities at Republicans is <a href="http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/06/04/reza-aslan-apologizes-saying-its-not-like-me-to-use-profanity-hes-lying-and-these-tweets-to-prove-it/">exactly like him</a>.
Moreover, this CNN host and star wants his political enemies to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17153/flashback-cnns-reza-aslan-wished-republican-john-nolte">get raped</a>.
Yes, you read that correctly&#8230;
A CNN star wants people to get raped, literally <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17153/flashback-cnns-reza-aslan-wished-republican-john-nolte">raped</a>, publicly calls for people to get raped, and 
He.
Still.
Has.
A.
Show.
On.
CNN.
For its part, CNN claims &#8220;Reza Aslan is not a CNN employee.&#8221; I am not joking, CNN actually claimed that &#8220;<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/336255-cnn-host-calls-president-trump-a-piece-of-s">Reza Aslan is not a CNN employee</a>.&#8221; He does star in his own show on CNN, he does have a page at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/shows/believer">CNN.com</a>, but apparently he is a volunteer who works for free and who cannot be let go, even though he wants people to get raped. 
And Aslan does not just have a show on CNN, he has a show on the exact same CNN that spent weeks successfully <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17021/cnn-got-rodeo-clown-fired-cnn-still-employs-kathy-john-nolte">destroying the life and career of a nobody rodeo clown</a> who dared to wear an Obama mask.
This is CNN, y&#8217;all.
Or maybe we should say it like&#8230;
Th isis CNN.
Get it? Get what I&#8217;m doing there? <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/03/cnn-is-isis-trends-on-twitter-as-trump-supporters-heckle-network/">Get it</a>?
And then there is Chris Cuomo.. Good ole&#8217; Fredo&#8230; Now, before anyone gets mad, this isn&#8217;t a race thing. I don&#8217;t call him Fredo because he&#8217;s Italian. I call him Fredo because he&#8217;s stupid, the stupid brother, the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/06/cnns-chris-cuomo-doesnt-understand-the-constitution/">Chaplisnky sibling</a> who with a different last name would only be wearing a microphone and asking people questions at the Wendy&#8217;s drive-thru.
Anyway, Fredo is still employed at CNN, even though Fredo thinks <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13805/cuomo-tolerance-12-year-old-girls-see-penises-robert-kraychik">there is something wrong</a> with a parent who wants to protect his 12-year-old daughter from seeing a male penis against her will. (Hey, remember the good old days when &#8220;male penis&#8221; was redundant?)
So in summation, if you wear an Obama mask to the rodeo, CNN will destroy your life. But if you want to force 12-year-old girls to look at a penis or publicly call on people to be raped, CNN will give you your own show.
I wonder if these shows have sponsors? I wonder what the sponsors would think of sponsoring anchors who want people raped and 12-year-old girls forced to look at naked men against their will?
Maybe someone should look into this?

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Rodeo Clown Values: CNN Anchors Want People Raped & 12-Year-Old Girls Exposed To Naked Men

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