CNN Slams Republicans 'Avoiding Uncomfortable Facts' on Impeachment by Watching Fox News

newsbusters.org ^ | 1/27/2020 | Kristine Marsh

[rktman]

CNN is grasping at straws to explain away Americans' waning interest in the impeachment trial. On Reliable Sources Sunday, host Brian Stelter and his CNN colleagues Oliver Darcy and John Avlon blamed it on the “Fox [News] firewall” which apparently keeps the right ignorant of Democrat arguments. Besides dismissing conservatives as indoctrinated, the liberal panel also attacked the Trump administration was “flabby snowflakes” who were used to preferential media treatment.

That last statement was in reference to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly a “liar,” last week. The panel also brought up CNN reporter Manu Raju being called a liberal hack by Sen. Martha McSally as evidence that Republicans can’t take criticism from the media because they are so used to being coddled by Fox News.

As CNN’s senior political analyst John Avlon seethed, "They get frustrated they're asked to explain the President's incoherent behavior. That doesn't mean you can simply lie and evade. Part of it is the Fox effect. It's made them flabby, snowflakes. Used to softball interviews and expect them and when they get somebody asking clear, fair minded questions they are offended and unnerved and lash out and lie."

[rollo tomasi]

[catnipman]

so basically, CNN labels people who don’t watch them as ignorant rubes, BUT don’t understand that people don’t want to watch a channel that labels them as ignorant rubes ...

[catnipman]

“How in the world can someone say something like this and keep from busting out laughing???”

because CNN’s propagandists get paid enormous sums specifically so they can state outlandish lies and bullshit all day long while maintaining an earnest face, and all without ever bursting out in laughter ...

[rktman]

Guess I'm a YUGE ignorube then.😁