Posted on 11/07/2019 7:45:54 AM PST by rktman
By her excitement and choice of words, one could easily think failing-CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was promoting a pay-per-view boxing or pro-wrestling match during Wednesday’s newscast. But no, she was hyping the televised impeachment hearings that would start next week. In addition to that, NBC Nightly News chided Republicans were wanted the public to know the identity of the infamous anti-Trump whistleblower who helped to start the investigation.
“Tonight, lights, cameras, testimony. The stage is set for the first televised hearings of the impeachment inquiry,” O’Donnell excitedly proclaimed during the program’s opening tease. “We now know when they will happen and who may be the Democrats’ star witness.”
Once they were finished with the teases, O’Donnell could barely contain her glee as she sprinted to call them “historic,” adding, “televised impeachment hearings begin a week from today, and it promises to be must-see TV.”
“It promises to be must-see TV,” really?! She was acting more like a fight promoter for a UFC match than a journalist. She even touted the combatants for the Democrats:
The Democrats plan the start with their star witness: a west point grad with 50 years of public service, acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor will testify Wednesday alongside Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent. Then on Friday, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will testify.
Later in the segment, chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes pooh-poohed House Republicans for insisting the public listen to the special envoy to Ukraine, Ambassador Kurt Volker, who says there was no “quid-pro-quo.”
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WWE for liberals...
This is a throwdown fight, for some kind of massive belt to be worn by the victor.
Trump has already been pictured as the “heavy”, and it is the tendency for this crowd to boo him. But in the end, it is all kabuki theater anyway, and CBS has little interest in the actual outcome, they just want to troll the crowd.
Talk radio rules. 3 hours. No visuals
Well, that’s what it is! Just a circus act.
Reminds me of the hoopla when the first Hunger Games came out.
norahs ratings are in the toilet!
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