Posted on 12/02/2016 8:48:25 AM PST by tekrat
A CNN crew member joked to reporter Suzanne Malveaux about Donald Trump’s plane crashing as they waited to go live while the president-elect was set to land in Indianapolis on Thursday.
While making final preparations to go on air, an off-camera voice could be heard discussing the estimated arrival time of the Trump plane. The president-elect was traveling to give a speech on the recent decision of Carrier Corp., an air conditioning company, to keep about 1,000 jobs in Indiana that it originally planned to send to Mexico. Carrier made the announcement to keep the jobs in the U.S. after discussions with the incoming Trump administration and the state of Indiana agreeing to give United Technologies, of which Carrier is a part, $7 million in tax breaks.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
“How is this different from when Mr. Reagan joked about bombing Russia in 1984?”
Are you really that stupid? Reagan did not know his mic was on and did not intend to make a public statement.
Thank you, both, for your spot on answer to an inane question.
I’m certainly not the only one by far to have a similar response to your knee-jerk defense of Big Media, yet you chose to only respond to me.....
I was the only one to remark about your previous posts.... interesting.
Where is your head? Oh, don't bother telling me because I know the answer.
Do you? Tell me your answer, I'd be interested in knowing how accurate you are in your crystal-ball gazing.
Oops, looks like I inadvertently generated a troll-response to your post.
Looks like CNN wasn’t “covering all the bases” after all.
CNN Apologizes to Trump After Crew Caught Joking About His Plane Crashing
“We have apologized to the Trump transition team, and the producer has been disciplined.”
HORSECLINTON, if they won’t name the producer.
It very much depends upon whether you (generic you) are a “purist” (not meaning to label anyone, just to provide an illustration) like Mark Levin, or more practical.
In the pure sense, gov’t should not be involved with “picking winners and losers” and interfering with private business. Also, “the gov’t” in a sense is saying “Hey that factory you built in Mexico? Rent it out, burn it down, I don’t care what you do with it”. It is in effect a private condemnation in one sense.
And of course, it sets a kind of precedent, in that the habit of sucking up to government is immutable in all cultures, ours especially. In other words, I am saying, it depends how much of an absolutist you are with your terms. Levin is/was being rather critical of the deal just to be critical of something.
And...it also sets a certain precedent of threatening cos thinking about offshoring with penalties and tariffs.
$7 MM isn’t spit in the overall scheme of things. I am sure the 0bama regime has spent money like that on crony stuff like Solyndra $550 MM (and 20 or so other solar cos) and the 0bamacare website @ $670 MM and duck genital studies, not to mention getting his grandmother a pension @ $161K a year. Governments have certainly blown off money like this to get a film produced in the locale with the promise of “many more” and found themselves snaked. If 1K jobs can be saved for $7MM, I would frankly approve of that type of direct-result spending versus the sort of flaming goofball stuff spent on illegal alien resettlement, for example. I don’t find that a hard decision.
And I take your point that relieving taxes is not a bribe; but it certainly will engender others to ask and lobby for same.
You suffer from Recto-Cranial Inversion.
Google it if you are unfamiliar.
CNN issues statement about Trump’s plane crashing. They have apologized to the Trump transition team and disciplined the producer.
http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2016/12/2/cnn-issues-statement-on-trumps-plane-crashing-joke
What was that you were saying about them “just doing their jobs?”
It is a good thing the snowflakes don’t know what pilots joke about.
Well let be truful there is no true purity
If government exist in any way it does impinge and effect who wins and who loses
governments are constituted to prevent the anarchist mob winning by force... eliminating or restricting the law of the Jungle does pick winners and losers verses what the law of the Jungle would pick as the winners and losers...
If the law of the jungle survival of the fittest is economic Darwinism then government is intelligent design..( if you’ll forgive the irony anything government could be called intelligent design)
The very act of a tax.. any tax affects who wins and losses... the very act of what that tax money goes for does affect who wins and who loses...
I have a funny joke!
THE NYT’s BUILDING COLLAPSES SQUASHING MULTIPLE NY TIMES REPORTERS AFTER LIGHTENING STRIKE
That’s funny!
Haaaaa. Funny. Squashing. Good one.
Hey! Here’s ANOTHER funny one!
I am a reporter at the scene of last night’s blazing inferno in Oakland California where at least 9 people are dead so far at a “Rave” event and “party” at a warehouse that had no sprinkler system.
“Obama’s kid likes RAP music, and I heard she burned to death in the warehouse” ...
PRODUCER IN THE BACKGROYND: “OBAMA’S KID LIKES RAP MUSIC, AND I HEARD THE LITTLE RAPSTER BURNED IN THE WAREHOUSE. IT WAS HER GALAXY 7 THAT STARTED IT”
FUUUUU-knee! Haaaaaaa. Good one.
And CNN’s “apology” is about as sincere as Obama telling us “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” I suspect it was the lawyers talking, to stop-punch any lawsuits and also to have a statement on record to counter any barbs about the event.
Hope you enjoy your echo chamber.
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