Posted on 12/09/2017 5:55:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
One late night I landed at Roanoke airport to wait for a pickup of freight. I got a courtesy car from the FBO to go buy a burger and such. The place I stopped at had like four CNN news vans with all the dishes and gizmos. They also sported U.S. GOVERNMENT plates. I asked why? The drivers just chuckled.
I’ve got the in laws visiting. Their first question was ‘What channel is CNN on your dish?’ :(
So I’ve had to endure snippets but have mostly stayed out of the room. I notice that *everything* is BREAKING NEWS. Giant all caps red letters everywhere. The ‘crawl’ and the banners cover up fully half the screen area - a tacit admission that their bogus viewership numbers are based on hapless travelers passively watching in airports and who must rely only on visuals.
Chuck Schumer could be found standing over a dead body with a knife in his hand and CNN would run BREAKING NEWS that a GOP Congressional page had run copies without filling the paper tray.
It’s like bizarre performance art except the po-faced anchors and the drama queen panelists don’t know it’s a pantomime.
I can’t tell of the many times I have tried. One woman asked me, “Where do you get this stuff? I haven’t heard about this?”
She ONLY and exclusively watches MSNBC for “news.”
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Exactly.
The guy I rent from is like that and he considers himself an ‘R’.
If the rent wasn’t so cheap and I didn’t get to tap into HIS cable & wifi(legally) I would probably consider him a RINO at best but if he wasn’t a former Marine(pilot) belonging to the American Legion, I probably would even be talking to him.
One of the best answers he gets from me when he says
‘Where did you hear that?’ then ‘Snopes didn’t verify that’
“Well there is your first problem- paying attention to Snopes or MOST of the ‘news’ that comes across on Yahoo or Facebook or whatever”.
We ‘share’ the TV cable and I tell him I am ‘embarrassed’ when 60 minutes or any of the normal BS they call TV News is either saved or waiting to be taped(YEAH, I know).
And the only one that sees my TV are my cats...
Oh yes, my oldest is preparing for a trip to Rainbow Bridge.
I will not replace him as it gets harder and harder to outlive them....
They’re the gift that keeps on giving.
Then they swaer they are not fake news without a hint of irony.
I didn’t immediately see what was wrong until I took about 3 minutes on Google Maps to spot Czechia labelled as Switzerland. These people are amazingly incompetent.
You get extra points for using “Czechia”.
apparently all east Indians look alike to CNN ...
“Is it coincidence the only thing that these gaff’s have in common is the subject is DJT?”
not really: the ONLY “news” CCN disseminates is anti-Trump, so all gaffs will be related to anti-Trump stories ...
It’s a deliberate tactic. They believe the first thing they read or hear when CNN or the WAPO, NYT, NBC ABC CBS runs it.
They do not read the body of the article. They simply see, hear and obey. Attempting to clarify, correct or dissuade is neigh impossible.”
yep!
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