Posted on 07/05/2019 2:00:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
Well, that was something. Over the course of about 28 minutes of airtime (including commercials) following the President’s Fourth of July event A Salute to America, CNN’s The Situation Room put on one of the most disgraceful displays of liberal media bias, Trump hatred, and slights at America you’ll ever see.
Attacking the President like bitter preschoolers, a cast of CNN personalities bashed the Trump speech as a “rudimentary” “eighth grade history” report ripping off of Schoolhouse Rock and Wikipedia to create a work of “jingoism and militaristic virtue.”
Here’s the Worst Moments from CNN’s Deranged Assault on Trump’s Fourth of July Speech (Pt. 1)
Unfortunately, things were bad during the speech when, at the 7:06 p.m. Eastern mark, fill-in host Brianna Keilar interjected at the end of the President’s tribute to the Air Force for a commercial break and thus skipped portions of the Navy section. When she returned, the Trump-bashing began.
Keilar first gloated that “when you compare [the military] to say his approval ratings, which, I mean, there is a huge chasm between the two” and was followed up by former Obama administration official and retired Rear Admiral John Kirby.
Kirby blasted Trump’s harmless speech as “fairly eighth grade history” that “appropriat[ed]...military virtue for his own personal gain, so he’s wrapping himself around the flag and around these troops and these aircraft.”
CNN aired the rest of the speech, but afterward, the floodgates of stupid shattered into a million pieces. Kirby led by asserting that he’s “troubled about the militaristic tone of the whole thing” that was “fairly sepia toned, and saccharine in its depth and context” lacking anything “about where the country should be going, what we should be working on.”
The TDS sufferer then added that he could have “watch[ed] Schoolhouse Rock” instead of Trump because “it's just, again, not who we are as a country.”
With an assist from Keilar bashing it as “rudimentary,” CNN political analyst Ryan Lizza took cheapshots at Trump’s speechwriters as putrid copiers from Wikipedia (click “expand”):
I mean, I think it's important to point out what he didn't say, right? He, you know, he read the speech from the teleprompter which he rarely does and he didn't go off into a lot of traditional Trumpian bizarre frankly tangents, you know, didn't do as much sort of attacking his enemies, just sort of normal stream of conscious Trump rants. I mean, that's what he does at rallies and speeches. It didn't happen this time. It, you know, reminds me of a couple of other speeches where he read the whole thing and didn't — and didn’t do that. State of the Union, maybe the D-Day speech and when he does stick to a speech, you know, maybe just as a writer I'm a little bit more alert to this, it reminds you that his speechwriters are not the best in the business. Other presidential speech writing teams have been a whole better. George W. Bush had a great speech writing team if you read the speeches. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, these speeches are sort of — a little low. They’re very basic. Sometimes it seems he is reading Wikipedia page about historical events, you know, on this date this happened. A lot of jokes on Twitter and elsewhere seems like a school — Schoolhouse Rock version of history or, you know, seventh or 8th grade research reports, but, you know a little bit of credit for not — for not going off on a lot of sort of lunatic tangents which, frankly, has happened quite a bit when he talks.
White House reporter Kate Bennett jumped into pathetically bash the chants of U-S-A as “symbolic of a rally” and expressed disappoint that Trump celebrated how far we’ve come as a country.
After The Washington Post’s David Swerdlick fretted that Trump wasn’t on par with Beyonce at the Super Bowl or Lin-Manuel Miranda with the Obamas at the White House, he tag-teamted with Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr to lament that the President was celebrating the Fourth of July this way while there are homeless veterans, grieving Gold Star families, and vets battling PTSD.
Yes, really.
“I feel this way as a reporter covering the military about so much of it of what we see here is that service in the United States military over the decades, over the hundreds of years is not a reality TV show....You know, you got to make the military realistic to young people today, not a reality TV show and not a computer game,” Starr stated.
More at the link? Naw. That sample of their swill was more than plenty.
CNN link? no thanks. They can keep their hate filled drivel
So one is aware of what the other side is thinking/saying/doing.
CNN. I wonder if they have some serious discussions going on in their executive officers making program and coverage that is not so biased.
In not such a long time CNN will just be a contemptible communist memory. Hateful speech, hateful people. No wonder their viewership is dropping like a rock. Begone, hate mongers!
I have no problem with that.
He’s over the target.
CNN’s response is invigorating.
Hey Noob...
1) This site posts everything from both sides so that we can see what is going on in the world not just self congratulate each other. It’s called educating yourself.
2) That kind of language is not appreciated here.
It’s a good example of how ridiculous, petty, and biased CNN has become. They should be ashamed of themselves.
A 4th of July parade should be an innocuous event that celebrates the nation. Only CNN could turn it into a partisan drive-by shooting of a President that they hate. There was nothing political about Trump’s remarks or the event itself, but to the opposition any celebration of America is verboten and any appearance by Trump must be criticized.
If you needed any proof that these people hate the success of our nation look no further. These people are truly sick.
CNN viewership is many times lower then Fox and only a small percentage when you add in Rush hannity etc on talk shows.
Every time we publish them we amplify their reach and let them set the agenda with it.
We should still read it to know what they’re doing but we should start setting the agenda after we read it
Color me surprised: Communist News Network disses President Trump’s speech!
bump
This has been known for years.
So what?
Those who can do. Those who are of no use continue to teach after the lesson has become common knowledge.
Apparently CNN’s ratings these days are unbelievably pathetic. More people are watching the Shopping Channel.
Hey guy who finds his vanity in how long he’s been registered on a web site,
What the original poster posted is more obscene, don’t you agreed?
I don’t need more proof. Do you? Do you think anyone on the side of liberty needs more proof.
It’s all BS to excuse inaction.
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