Posted on 03/11/2026 8:45:09 PM PDT by Milagros
Greg: All right, so this week CNN once again left the realm of news coverage for the magical land of make-believe. This time waving their wands over a terror attack, shouts of “Allahu Akbar,” and two suspects who said they did it to impress the goat-bangers at ISIS.
Enough details for the story of the year, you would think, but not for Cincinnati. They decided the terror and mayhem wasn't the real story, and this was their tweet:
“Two PA teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could have been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather, but their lives were drastically changed as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Mamdani's home.”
That's not satire. That's CNN describing activism like the opening scene of a John Hughes movie. Ibrahim's Day Off. l
CNN was right. Little did they know their lives were about to change because they brought nail bombs. Thank God they didn't go off. Otherwise a lot more lives would have changed, and CNN would be at the hospital asking victims, “Hey, how about this weather?”
But notice the framing—the instinct that says before we tell the public what happened, we have to shape how they feel about it. Like the terrorism just happened to the terrorists. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, accidentally wandering into a protest, and as luck would have it they just happened to be carrying homemade IEDs. What a coincidence.
Maybe they are the real victims.
It's not just CNN's BS tweets; it's their BS anchors too.
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's Mayor Mamdani, and the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.
Greg: An attack on Mamdani? Abby later apologized, saying her wording was inaccurate and she didn't catch it ahead of time. But I get it—she's so busy creating news she doesn't have time to follow it.
But it makes you wonder: who exactly is CNN's audience? It can't be hard for them to figure it out. It's like 31 people.
But it's not the bystanders who dodged the Boston Marathon bombing or innocent New Yorkers who'd rather not get blown to bits—and not this guy who vaulted the protest barriers and chased down one of these mutts after he tossed a bomb at him.
Because somebody in that newsroom decided the story needed a rewrite to help the bomb throwers, making it like an episode of Friends, you know—the one where the new Muslim boyfriend plays a prank by hiding a pipe bomb in Central Perk.
If 9/11 happened today, CNN would describe it as a gorgeous September day ruined by raining pieces of skyscraper.
But journalists don't do this by accident. So who did they think would buy this? The activists on Bluesky who think terror is just a lifestyle choice? The deputy mayor, Brad Lander, who blamed Islamophobia? Maybe the New York mayor who put the whole thing down to white supremacy—and then safely enjoyed dinner with a Hamas booster club.
And this after defending people chucking snowballs at cops.
Following backlash, it deleted the tweet, saying it breached editorial standards. But CNN saying they have editorial standards is like the Waffle House saying it has a dress code.
So here's the bigger story: the old media ecosystem is collapsing like a presidential palace in Tehran.
When CNN was the gatekeeper, no one could challenge the narrative. They wrote the story, Anderson put on his apron, and served it to the public. But now we're quickly blowing holes in it like Bud Light cans stacked in Kid Rock's backyard.
And you can thank Musk for buying Twitter.
Remember the old line: a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots.
Now the lie barely gets out of bed before we put a boot up its ass.
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People trapped in airports, with a generous helping of people from Rio Linda.
They’re trying so hard to gin up sympathy for the terrorists by presenting them as innocent bystanders who a bad deal happened to, instead of blood thirsty, demon possessed, murdering islamists.
Rio Linda was funny when Rush said it, but he at least lived in Sacramento at the time, and the KFBK towers are just a few miles from there. Rio Linda was settled by Okies who migrated during the dust bowl. Think Grapes of Wrath. There were several other Okie towns which started as camps in the 1920s and 1930s. I drive through there every once in a while, and except for the Sikh temple, they are mostly white people who are also Americans. i don’t think many of them watch CNN.
Never heard of j hughes - very obscure reference,
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