Posted on 06/28/2017 5:53:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
CNN war with Trump gets personal © Getty Images
President Trump’s war with CNN took an even more personal turn on Tuesday after the White House used its press briefing to tout a hidden camera video calling the cable news network’s coverage of the Russia controversy “bullshit.”
The undercover video from conservative sting artist James O’Keefe showed a CNN producer questioning the network’s coverage and suggesting important stories had been buried to keep the focus on Trump and Russia.
At Tuesday’s press briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders encouraged viewers to watch the O’Keefe video, calling it “a disgrace to all of media, all of journalism.”
She also took a dig at CNN President Jeff Zucker, saying the sensationalism and disregard for facts was “coming directly from the top.”
CNN is standing by the producer, John Bonifield, who covers health and medicine from the network’s headquarters in Atlanta. In a statement, the network said “diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong.”
“We welcome it and embrace it,” a spokesperson told The Hill.
A CNN source told The Hill that the tempest over the video will pass, saying it was recorded after an undercover conservative operative approached Bonifield claiming to have had a history of personal hardships and asking to be taken in to a mentoring program.
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Yeah, even though CNN and the rest of the MSM has been going after DJT and members of his immediate family by name, for months, it didn’t “get personal” until he turned it back on his nastiest adversaries and go after their jobs.
I can’t remember the last time I watched anything on CNN
Give Zucker a Putzer Prize for running a Fiction Factory.
CNN —> Completely Naughty Nonsense
It’s not Trump’s war on CNN. It’s CNN”s war on Trump and America.
Creators of Nothing News
“A CNN source told The Hill that the tempest over the video will pass”
That just means that they’re about to push a narrative. Or at least try.
The second video is supposed to come out today at noon. And there are still more videos to come.
“I can’t remember the last time I watched anything on CNN”
I thought their coverage of the 2016 Republican primaries was downright superior.
It was obvious they didn’t cared who won.
Oh you absolutely MUST watch Don Lemon during any kind of natural disaster. It’s the funniest television ever! He is a complete idiot but it is comedy gold.
The truth is personal. Who knew?
““diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong.”
“We welcome it and embrace it,” a spokesperson told The Hill.”
OK! but that has nothing to do with and no place in accurately reporting news. Pick another line of work or stop calling yourself a news source.
“Oh you absolutely MUST watch Don Lemon during any kind of natural disaster. It’s the funniest television ever! He is a complete idiot but it is comedy gold.”
Well he funny when he played for the Globe Trotters. I thought he died.
The video Sarah recommended watching is true whereas the story CNN ran and retracted was not. Why shouldn’t Sarah recommend it? Doesn’t truth matter anymore?
I have CNN blocked. Along with ESPN, MSNBC, and many others.
I canceled my cable. I watch Hannity on You Tube.
CNN should be declared to be a propaganda network and banned from the WH Press Room. Then The Prez should declare that ‘Ala Cart’ progamming will be edicted if the others don’t straighten up. I think that’ll change the ways of some of them.
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