TDS Suffering CNN Guest Accuses Network of ‘Helping Trump’ By Showing Biden’s Disastrous Debate Performance

Disswire.com ^ | 1 July 2024 | Bradley Greer

[Sam77]

Historian Allan Lichtman suffered a meltdown on CNN, accusing them and other media outlets of helping former President Donald Trump’ by showing Joe Biden‘s disastrous debate performance.

Biden trailed off several times during the debate while mumbling incoherently, leading to concerns from top Democrats over his fitness for another presidential term.

However, Lichtman claimed that networks broadcasting highlights from the debate are playing a role “in Donald Trump gaslighting his way to the presidency and threatening our democracy.”

[montag813]

I had this guy as a professor decades ago. Useless. Learned absolutely nothing.

[Red Badger]

The Split-Screen did him in..................🙄

[FlingWingFlyer]

Lichtman is a nut. He’s been around for two long.

[V_TWIN]

I just knew this was gonna be The Babylon Bee but nope....

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

the only gaslighting that occurred here was gaslighting by the left to hide the fact that Joe has dementia

[theyreallthesame]

Yet another Hack that is more interested in hiding the truth and maintaining power at any cost. Truth be damned. America last.... They know what’s best for us.

[rktman]

Trumpophobia is real and dangerous causing irrational behavior.

[Billthedrill]

...threatening our democracy...

Drink!

[Political Junkie Too]

‘Helping Trump’ By Showing Biden’s Disastrous Debate Performance

I think there were several moving parts that came together:

1. CNN has been struggling to break away from their past image of being a Democrat mouthpiece since firing CEO Chris Licht, including a minor revolt from the network talent. This debate was going to be a showcase for the new and improved "This... is CNN."

2. Having CNN host Kasie Hunt kick Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt off the air three days before the debate because she brought up prior quotes of the CNN moderators left a stunning mark on the brand that was trying to rehabilitate itself with the debate.

3. CNN, in my opinion, gave away exclusive rights to broadcast the debate (meaning ratings) by allowing ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Scripps News, Telemundo, Univision, BET, CNN en Español, HLN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation and PBS to simulcast the debate. It was important to them that the maximum number of viewers got to see the new CNN product.

That last point may have actually been Biden's undoing. By conjoining CNN's need to be seen by the widest audience possible in order to showcase their new commitment to being "fair and balanced" with Biden's need to be seen as better than President Trump, both greatly miscalculated the impacts of their needs and resulting decisions.

CNN succeeded in meeting theirs, Biden failed at meeting his.

The Biden team failed to realize how CNN was going to use the Trump-Biden debate as a marketing tool to maximize total global viewership of the new and improved CNN product. What they got was a maximized total global viewership of the degraded and lied-about Democrat/Biden brand product.

The irony is that if CNN had kept exclusive rights to be the sole broadcaster of the debate, not as many people would have seen it directly and the LAAP-dog media might have been better able to contain the imagery and "cheap fake" the clips that do get shown to keep the illusion of a vibrant and "in-charge" Biden going.

-PJ

[Sequoyah101]

At some point this will become entertaining.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“He said he would seek retribution. Why wasn’t that the headline? Why wasn’t that the greatest concern from the debate rather than all the focus on Joe Biden?” he continued.

LOL. Poor Allan really is having a meltdown. His argument is that it doesn't matter how poorly Biden does, Trump is just plain evil and that should always be the story.

[chiller]

Dana Perino questioned Biden’s peeps for not demanding the Biden closeups in split screen be eliminated.

I also read, Biden’s peeps requested those split screens.

hmmm...a soft coup ?

[MtnClimber]

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

[Dr. Sivana]

Biden’s people PICKED the network!

[dead]

The split screen on Biden while Trump was talking was devastating. Dead eyes, open mouthed, he looked like he had brain damage and didn’t understand what was going on around him. I said at the time, “I can’t believe CNN keeps showing him like that.” Not that they shouldn’t have shown him, but that I thought they’d do a better job at covering up how feeble he is.

[MinorityRepublican]

“Soft coup attempt” by Obama?

[Magnum44]

[Political Junkie Too]

The funny thing is that Biden won the coin toss and thought that picking the podium in an empty auditorium was more important than choosing who went first and last to speak.

So Biden even effed up the coin toss advantage.

-PJ

[MDLION]

“Biden closeups”

Don’t care much for Jon Stewart but he or someone who writes for him put in his mouth that during the debate Biden had “resting 25th Amendment face”.