Posted on 08/27/2014 5:21:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CNN has been transformed from a sober and respected news network into a shrill and biased mouthpiece for liberals, according to actor, author and economist Ben Stein.
Stein, a speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said the dramatic change is particularly noticeable in CNN's coverage of the racial strife in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer.
"They've flipped out. I don't know what happened to CNN because CNN used to really be great and I can remember when it was great," Stein said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
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"It wasn't that long ago that they just flipped out in a leftward direction and in a provocative direction and [are] always endlessly, endlessly, endlessly whipping up grievances….
"They just assume the police are wrong, white people are wrong, any Republican is wrong, any businessman is wrong. They just will always play on that nerve."
The cable network has assumed it is "standard procedure" for white policemen to kill unarmed teenagers, Stein said of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson following an altercation....
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Ben just now figured that out?
Ahhhhh ... geeeee ... when did Ben notice this ... *cough* *cough* ... sudden lurch to the Left that CNN has apparently made?
CNN and Al Sharpton’s PMSNBC are in a battle for 2nd place in the cable news ratings. Being 2nd is like kissing your sister. LOL! Go at it boys!
CNN used to be great? Not so Ben, they have always bent to the left.
I think his actor's ego gets in the way of full-time clarity.
CNN, leaning left? Who knew? BTT
CNN staffers admitted to suppressing news accounts of torture and abuse under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad bureau in Iraq.
We’ve since been told that the media has held their tongue on the actions by Hamas in the current missile volley against Israel because Hamas requires such censorship.
Time-Lies, boycott Time-Warner-CNN-HBO.
Odd duck, indeed. He recently said he would donate to Al Franken’s campaign. He loves Al Franken.
He DID donate to Al Franken in 2008.
Franken’s got him again for 2014
Someone said weeks ago, with “The MH370 Show, starring Don Lemon”(brought to you by Progressive Insurance)CNN started to gain back some moonbats it lost to it’s leftist cable competitors over the last few years, BSNBC & Jon Leibowitz. So now it’s blls-to-the-wall with the race-card, gender-card, homo-card, alien-card, anti-gun-card....whatever joker they can pull from the drek.
Has Stein been in a coma since CNN delivered its first newscast?
Remember his justification in ‘08?
Show business people need to support each other.
Pitiful.
thirty some-odd years late to the party...
Some people are so clueless. It is almost like I am embarrassed for them.
His casually brushing off of his alma mater rushing to get the Taliban "student" before Harvard could sticks in my mind more.
CNN used to be great? Not so Ben, they have always bent to the left.
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Perhaps. However, CNN was the very best during the Gulf War; providing live coverage of the air attacks at night, tank battles and devastation of Saddam’s tanks and vehicles along their attempted escape routes. CNN was the first channel to click on upon arriving home from work back then.
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