CNN’s Baldwin Misleads Viewers, Tees Up Dean to Trash Kavanaugh

Newsbusters.org ^ | September 4, 2018 | Curtis Houk

[Kaslin]

Pulling away from the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing to spend two segments hyperventilating over Bob Woodward’s upcoming book on the Trump White House, CNN Newsroom afternoon host Brooke Baldwin gave CNN contributor and anti-Trumper John Dean the floor to slam Kavanaugh. 

In addition, Baldwin misled viewers by not only just footnoting that Dean will testify later this week at Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, but did not mention how he would be doing it as a witness on behalf of Senate Democrats to thwart Kavanaugh’s chances of reaching the Supreme Court.

CNN’s Baldwin Tees Up Dean to Trash Kavanaugh, Mislead Viewers

 

Baldwin interjected at the 2:45 p.m. Eastern mark to leave “the contentious hearing” because Kavanaugh is “just half of a massive news day” with “explosive new details about the President and his White House in a new book by Bob Woodward.”

She then teed up Dean by singing his praises and failing to immediately come clean with viewers about Dean’s partisan ties to the hearing:

I’ve had the pleasure you have sitting next to John Dean listening your sort of running commentary through some of that. Even just jogging back to Senator Blumenthal and then the chairman of the committee chuck Grassley back and forth, because he obviously had made a motion to adjourn as had several other Senators. What do you make of this?

Dean replied that “[i]t’s a little bit of pandemonium, but there's also clearly an effort to get to the core problem the Democrats face is the lack of documentation and a thorough vetting of this candidate and I think they're right to push for this.”

“This is being jammed through, trying to get it through before the election. President – no one can be sure what's going to happen in November. They think they have the votes now. They’re not so sure they will have them after November. So they're pushing,” he added. 

Baldwin noted that Democrats “had been hoping to have — what was it — some 100,000 documents had been — I know they wanted many more than and then some 42,000 had just been delivered to them” and then agreed that the same Senators who have already said they wouldn’t vote for Kavanaugh “didn’t have enough time at all to review them.”

It was only then going to a commercial break that Baldwin snuck in the fact that Dean’s “testifying as a witness Friday.” But to reemphasize this point, Baldwin left out the detail of Dean appearing to aide Democrats and try to sink Kavanaugh. 

After throwing in his virulent disdain for all things involving the Trump administration, he’s not exactly an expert who’s calling things as they see it.

To see the relevant transcript from September 4's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, click “expand.”

CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin September 4, 2018 2:45 p.m. Eastern

BROOKE BALDWIN: You're watching CNN, I'm Brooke Baldwin, you have been listening to the contentious confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. He is just half of a massive news day. Also happening explosive new details about the President and his White House in a new book by Bob Woodward. We have the scoop on that. We’ll get to that in just a moment, but first let's talk about what we've been listening to for the last little bit. I’ve had the pleasure you have sitting next to John Dean listening your sort of running commentary through some of that. Even just jogging back to Senator Blumenthal and then the chairman of the committee chuck Grassley back and forth, because he obviously had made a motion to adjourn as had several other Senators. What do you make of this?

JOHN DEAN: It's a little bit of pandemonium.

BALDWIN: Yeah.

DEAN: But there's also clearly an effort to get to the core problem the Democrats face is the lack of documentation and a thorough vetting of this candidate and I think they're right to push for this. This is being jammed through, trying to get it through before the election. President – no one can be sure what's going to happen in November. They think they have the votes now. They’re not so sure they will have them after November. So they're pushing.

BALDWIN: They had been hoping to have — what was it — some 100,000 documents had been — I know they wanted many more than and then some 42,000 had just been delivered to them from his time at the Bush 43 White House and they obviously didn't have enough time at all to review them. I know you're testifying as a witness Friday.

DEAN: Friday.

BALDWIN: Friday.

DEAN: Maybe.

BALDWIN: Depending on how this goes.

DEAN: Exactly.

BALDWIN: And the tic-toc of the whole thing.

[goldstategop]

Fake news.

They gotta slam Kavanaugh... well because!

No entertainment value here.

[Mark17]

CNN always misleads viewers. It’s what they do.

[Boomer]

I think the left needs a new supply of sippy cups. The toddlers seem to have run out.

[goldstategop]

They need a win and even a rectal suppository won’t give them one.

Democrats are so cucked.

[fhayek]

Baldwin noted that Democrats “had been hoping to have — what was it — some 100,000 documents had been — I know they wanted many more than and then some 42,000 had just been delivered to them” and then agreed that the same Senators who have already said they wouldn’t vote for Kavanaugh “didn’t have enough time at all to review them.”

To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi - you have to confirm him to find out what's in these documents...

[goldstategop]

Which none of them has bothered to read.

[Republican Wildcat]

CNN misleads viewers? Oh, surely they wouldn’t do that...

[bigbob]

Noise.
Vote.
Kavanaugh is on Scotus for decades.
CNN is still screwed.

[MAGAthon]

4 Sept: Breitbart: Dick Durbin Admits: Democrats Plotted to Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearing
by Joel B. Pollak
Durbin was responding to a question by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who cited an NBC News tweet from earlier in the morning that reported that Senate Democrats had planned over the Labor Day weekend to use protests and interruptions...
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/04/dick-durbin-admits-democrats-plotted-to-disrupt-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-hearing/

[21twelve]

It’s not enough that Dean brought down one great President with his lies and deceit?

[fhayek]

If they got the 100,000, they would ask for another 250,000. They would demand to see his fingerpaintings from when he attended Miss Hannimann's kindergarten class. And when they didn't get them, they would claim OBSTRUCTION!

Look, a lawyer to a president should be allowed to offer unfettered advice without worrying that some day, his advice could be used against him. Maybe he offered alternative courses of action. Maybe he mused how one could skirt the law. Kavanaugh has over 300 judicial decisions that can be reviewed. The Democrats are just delaying this in the hopes that someone will come forward and say he groped them.

[fieldmarshaldj]

CNN is ISIS.

[Trump20162020]

"They’re not so sure they will have them after November. "

The betting markets currently predict a 54-46 GOP majority in the Senate after this year's midterm election. I really wonder what their spin will be if that happens and Ginsburg dies this December. "We should let the American voters dec... oops. Well, that doesn't count, look at our House gains!"

[Newtoidaho]

This bimbo needs to just give it up already and get her porn career started.

[Mears]

Brooke Baldwin is just plain dumb.

Remember her “term limits” gaffe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o89y0Dyo510

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[katana]

Wail away Liberals, appeal to the ignorentsia you depend on for votes, pi$$ into the wind. THEIR AND YOUR OPINIONS DO NOT MATTER SQUAT IN THE APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES. Only a President who nominates and a Senate that, especially when they’re of the same party, confirms matter.

[Rennes Templar]

“Noise.
Vote.
Kavanaugh is on Scotus for decades.”

Got that right! It’s so predictable. I’m glad football has started and baseball playoffs before too long.

[BatGuano]

Dean should have been “offed” years ago.
He was too high profile to be killed though he deserved to be slain in a public place. Be sure that this was discussed.

[BatGuano]

The Democrats grope themselves. Masturbation is not illegal, just a poor substitute for the real grope. Sick bastards, all of them.