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Gag Reflex: Two More Conservative Commentators 'Benched' at CNN
Newsbusters ^ | August 17, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/18/2019 7:39:05 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Two more conservative commentators at CNN appear to have joined the growing club of suppressed conservative pundits, according to a report in Friday's Hollywood Reporter.  The ones who were muzzled, this time by sidelining, are Steve Cortes and Ben Ferguson. And the reason for the sidelining appears to have been due to pressure from the left.

Liberals can't stand a serious opposing view. They can only stomach never-Trump Republicans that sound like Democrats, like Max Boot. See Stephen Colbert complaining to Anderson Cooper about Ken Cuccinelli's spots on CNN. "There are a few panelists that I've got to skip over," he complained. "Was there anything you ever asked him that you thought, 'I'm going to get an honest answer?'"

Jeremy Barr told the sorry tale in "CNN Appears to Have Benched Two Pro-Trump Contributors."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; benferguson; clintonnonnews; cnn; conservatives; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stevecortes
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You can be "conservative" at CNN but not blatantly pro-Trump.
1 posted on 08/18/2019 7:39:05 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

they can hire George Won’t.


2 posted on 08/18/2019 7:40:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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“There are a few panelists that I’ve got to skip over,” he complained. “Was there anything you ever asked him that you thought, ‘I’m going to get an honest answer?’” Says the unfunny, spinning, parsing, lying late night political pundit.


3 posted on 08/18/2019 7:47:51 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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The ones who were muzzled, this time by sidelining, are Steve Cortes and Ben Ferguson.
I guess you would have to watch CNN to know who they are.
4 posted on 08/18/2019 7:51:46 AM PDT by lewislynn (The Democrats are all Koch heads, hooked on Koch.)
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To: dp0622

Bill Kristol, Ann Coulter, the Mooch...more will surely be revealing themselves. Take them all, CNN, try to convince yout non-audience that they represent how conservatives think.


5 posted on 08/18/2019 7:55:43 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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I’m out of touch. Who’s the Mooch?

As for Ann, she BACKED Christie at one point, and fervently.

He was NOT conservative.

We settle up north at the governor and senate and mayoral levels as conservatives and will vote for someone who is at least SOMEWHAT to the right of center, or at least center.

But for POTUS?? What was she smoking?


6 posted on 08/18/2019 8:04:51 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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Depending on context

Scaramucci in this instance

...or Michael Obama


7 posted on 08/18/2019 8:08:20 AM PDT by Eddie01
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Maybe Cortes got booted for being on Gorka’s show the other day?


8 posted on 08/18/2019 8:13:20 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Sure, name a “Conservative” remaining at CNN......


9 posted on 08/18/2019 8:15:55 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Eddie01

I HEAR SO MUCH about Scaramucci but I haven’t watched television in years.

Not because I’m pretentious and think i’m above it :)

I just like streaming movies. Everyone third B movie is a good one :)

I get my news here.

As for Fox, too much yelling!!! I could talk to my wife if i wanted that :)


10 posted on 08/18/2019 8:20:18 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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Yeah - I seek the opinion of a klown whose claim to fame was pretending to be someone that he clearly was not.


11 posted on 08/18/2019 8:20:48 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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Ben hosted Mark Levin’s radio show on Friday.

He told his story in broadcasting, getting DOXed, he and his family threatened, attacked by Media Matters, defending himself in baseless law suit ...

Getting booted for being on Gorka’s show is like the stuff he experiences.


12 posted on 08/18/2019 8:26:58 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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Scaramucci is a marginalized non entity exactly in the cut of Bill Kristol. Both are scum only Scaramucci has been granted airtime only recently to take swings at Trump.

He want’s a tweet. So pathetic.

Anyway, I get all my news here as well.

I like knowing what’s happening a few hours before, a day before or in some cases even days before the rest of the world.

Right about B movies too. I’ve run into a couple that were real keepers.

Take Sharknado for example.


13 posted on 08/18/2019 8:27:33 AM PDT by Eddie01
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Sharknado :)

An instant classic!


14 posted on 08/18/2019 8:30:53 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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I guess you're referring to George Will. I used to like the guy, until the Trump era exposed him as a fake conservative. He was there all those years pretending to be the loyal opposition, when all along he was one of them off camera.

Nowadays, I call him the Bow Tie Buffoon.
15 posted on 08/18/2019 8:31:22 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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The left is no longer concerned about revealing that when they’re in charge they won’t tolerate opposing viewpoints. Any free exchange of ideas is absolute heresy.


16 posted on 08/18/2019 8:31:50 AM PDT by Spok ( W)
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He is a bow tie buffoon.

What a FRAUD.

But hey, we had a lot of frauds here too that HATED Trump so much they abandoned the site or were kicked off.

I can’t even BELIEVE some of the things I read.

Like “if hillary had won republicans in congress would be trying harder!”

SMH


17 posted on 08/18/2019 8:36:45 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

So, I hope that’s like getting a hold star.


18 posted on 08/18/2019 8:37:02 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: dp0622

Can he do the fandango ?


19 posted on 08/18/2019 8:38:21 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Being conservative and pro-Trump at cnn is like Holy Water is to a vampire. It burns white (nationalism) hot.


20 posted on 08/18/2019 9:06:56 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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