...as it should be
Posted on 04/04/2017 9:19:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a monologue on his Monday night program, CNN host Don Lemon said the network and host will not cover the story about Susan Rice uncovering, or 'unmasking,' the names of Trump officials and confidants that were swept up in surveillance.
"So let us be very clear about this," Lemon said. "There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump team surveilled or spied on -- was spied on illegally. There is no evidence that backs up the president's original claim."
"And on this program tonight, we will not insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise, nor will we aid and abet the people who were trying to misinform you the American people by creating a diversion. We're not going to do it," Lemon declared.
"President Trump once again sees all of this as vindication for his false wiretap tweets when it doesn't at all vindicate that," Lemon said.
DON LEMON, CNN: But first, a word before we get started. It has been one month since the president of the United States falsely tweeted that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him.
One month later, the White House and the president are still trying to make a lie true. And they're using the president's Twitter account, the White House press briefing podium and right wing media to do it.
Today it's a claim that President Obama's former security adviser Susan Rice unmasked the names of Trump's associates. We will talk about that in detail in just a moment on this very program....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Make it official: CNN is now FNN, Fake News Network.
The comments are priceless, can’t find one supporting CNN.
cnn is a mother faker. :)
[”. . . There is no evidence that backs up the president’s original claim.”]
Don Lemon will accept unsubstantiated rumor about Trump/Russia “collusion” as fact. But he denies Susan Rice’s and Evelyn Farkas’ own words on the electronic targeting of the Trump organization. Lemon and the rest of the establishment press are one big circle jerk of self-induced ignorance.
CNN is learning there is an inconvenient truth.
Didn’t the man behind the curtain say the same thing?
Unmask the Democrats! It’s legal now.
#4thEstate5thColumn
He read the teleprompter: Who wrote it?
NYT Jan 20th: "Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.".
And Trump's tweeted claim in response to the NYT article:
"How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!"
Unless Lemon means some other claim where Trump claimed that the wiretap was illegal, then Trump's claim seems to just restate the NYT headline except he made it more personally about the people in charge (Obama's Justice Department wiretapping phones of Trump's own people). Giving that its just a tweet, I think restating it in a personal context for effect reasonable. What is not reasonable is the media going nuts over this--another example of them not being able to comprehend something obvious (or worse: comprehending but desiring to deceive).
Definitely over the target.
The only time I ever watched Don Lemon was when he was drunk on New Year’s Eve and he got his ear pierced.
Translation, we plead the fifth.
have the MSM ever been so desperate to keep a former regime or a party that lost in the media limelight before Trump? don’t think so. glowing stories about Hillary & Chelsea, Barack & Michelle and the children - it never ends. you would think the Democrats won the election!
the EXTREMEFakeNews BBC is presently obsessed with John Brennan. he’s just given the Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1, tho all attempts to post it on youtube are quickly pulled and the BBC iplayer only works in the UK. but up can watch a delighted Kirsty Wark, interviewing Brennan for Newsnight, nodding in agreement at Brennan’s responses.
ignore the video title - it’s all about Trump being incompetent, tweeting lies, insulting CIA when he visited, etc:
3 April - Youtube: John Brennan: Donald Trump’s travel ban ‘simplistic and misguided’ - BBC Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgIFF9S8Qs
a further taste of the Dimbleby Lecture - note how it’s govts & politicians who spread fake news, not MSM!
4 April - Radio Times UK: Why former CIA director John Brennan and Donald Trump are sworn enemies
The “spy who hates Trump” will be giving this year’s Dimbleby Lecture
by Justin Webb (BBC)
There have been some wonderful Dimbleby Lectures down the ages, and some very august speakers. But never in its history has there been such a perfect matching of man and moment...
To a fastidious career spy like Brennan, the coming of Donald Trump feels like a moment of genuine madness...
When Trump went to the CIA headquarters just after his inauguration, standing in front of the memorial wall for CIA officers who have died in the line of duty to give a rambling address about his own intelliegence and the size of the crowd that had watched him become President, Brennan did not hold back...
In turn, Trump accused Brennan of leaking a dossier allegedly containing evidence of The Donald engaging in weird sex in Russian hotel rooms...
And then there is fake news, and the damage done deliberately by lying governments and lying politicians...
There are real consequences to fake news...
The President of the USA himself tells people things on Twitter that are sometimes simply not true...
Brennan, not long retired, is coming back for one last mission: to tell us how to cope.
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture is on Tuesday 4th April at 10:45pm on BBC1.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-04-04/why-former-cia-director-john-brennan-and-president-trump-are-sworn-enemies
CNN = CPUSA mouthpiece.
Clown News Network
I smell desperation by the LSM.
It’s because of the cover provided by people like Scott Pelly, Charlie Rose, John Dickerson, Chuck Todd et al. that a nutcase like this can get away with ASSertions like that.
How does one insult the intelligence of CNN’s audience when there is so little intelligence there to insult?
...as it should be
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