Posted on 07/31/2019 3:43:33 PM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: You know, you can tell CNN knows that last night was a disaster. You know how I know that? They’re not saying a word about it. They are doing nothing but promoting tonight’s version of the debate with the A-Team. You got Kamala Harris, you’ve got Plugs. Who else we got up there? We got, uh, we got, uh, well, I say the A-Team. It actually isn’t. You got Plugs, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, de Blasio. This is not the A-Team. I’m sorry. There isn’t an A-Team! Last night wasn’t the A-Team either! There isn’t an A-Team. But they’re not saying a word about last night! Not even to promote tonight!
You would think that if last night was great, they’d be saying, “And they’ve got their work cut out for ’em tonight, folks, because such-and-such was so on fire last night that Biden’s gonna have –” But they’re not saying a word about last night. Well, Kamala and Biden could go at it. Biden has promised everybody he’s not gonna be nice this time. Not only is he gonna be carrying that torch, he’s gonna be torching people with the torch.
Now, Jeff Zucker — you ready for this? — Jeff Zucker, who runs CNN, is an official Kamala Harris supporter! He’s done a fundraiser for her! CNN puts a guy on as a moderator who actually asked a former secretary of transportation if the missing Malaysian airliner could have been swallowed up by a black hole. You know, that’s not just a talking point joke, although it is.
Don Lemon in CNN’s endless coverage over — it was pre-Trump, of course — endless coverage over what happened to missing Malaysian airliner, he literally asked if it was possible it could have been swallowed up by a black hole or something. And this guy’s moderating the debate. And Jeff Zucker has done fundraisers for Kamala Harris, and he’s running the network that’s doing this debate tonight!
Now, that story hit yesterday. So Zucker has to do some deflecting. So you know what he’s doing? Jeff Zucker has blamed Trump and Fox News for hurting the image CNN has among Republicans. “Washington Post media reporter Sarah Ellison filed a story on CNN boss Jeff Zucker after following him around on July 24, Mueller Hearing Day. She apparently asked what happened to CNN among Republicans.” It was a question about bad ratings.
CNN’s in the toilet. MSNBC has gone from number 1 to number 5 in some day parts. They’ve lost everything. They’re still above CNN. So she’s asking, what happened to CNN? You guys used to own the whole genre of cable news. And Jeff Zucker blamed Trump. He blamed Trump. He didn’t give any credence to the fact that CNN’s content might be a factor.
“At a recent Trump rally in Greenville, N.C., a teenage rock band played its rendition of a frequent rally slogan, ‘CNN Sucks.’” Can you believe a rock band actually sang a song called, “CNN sucks.” Zucker said, “I think Trump has hurt our perception among Republicans to some degree. I think it’s incredibly unfortunate. You can’t have the most powerful man in the world with his megaphone slamming the network every day and not have it have an effect.”
Mr. Zucker, let me tell you something. This is what you’re missing. You don’t have a bond with anybody in your audience. If I can make this personal, just to illustrate the point, for over 25 years various elements of the left-wing media have been attacking me equally as bad, if not worse, than what Trump has done with CNN.
Trump has been attacking CNN for two or three years. There have been people going after this show on the left for 25 years, and it has not resulted in any loss of audience. Now, it is preventing people that don’t listen from taking a chance. I’m not denying they haven’t hurt, but it’s not the case that Trump is keeping CNN’s numbers down.
CNN is responsible for CNN’s numbers. CNN’s content is a direct result of CNN editorial and management choice. CNN is choosing to oppose Donald Trump and everybody that voted for him. CNN is giving nobody who voted for Trump a reason to watch them. It’s the exact opposite. And this is what Zucker doesn’t get.
It’s really low ball and it’s lazy to blame the president for why you don’t have an audience. They could overcome that tonight. CNN could triple their audience in a week with just a couple of tweaks to their programming. But they’ll never do it. They won’t do it because they would catch hell from the social justice warriors on the left.
I mean, if I were Zucker, I would be embarrassed over this. To start whining and moaning about how — how come all of Trump’s rants didn’t hurt MSNBC, Jeff? Trump’s beating up MSNBC the last two and a half years same as he’s beating up on you, and they were doing okay. They were all-in on the Russian hoax. They were promising people Trump was going to jail, but Trump was not able to drive their audience away. Robert Mueller did that.
This is really lazy. When I see media people start blaming people that have nothing to do with their programming for their problems, it’s lazy. It’s childish. It’s defensive. But that’s Zucker’s story and he’s sticking with it.
Maybe Lemon has his job because he is a black gay who prefers white homosexuals?
CNN veteran anchor Don Lemon, 51, leaves SNL after party holding hands with rumored boyfriend.
Why does Don Lemon only have homosexual relations with white men...? Seems very racist!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10-1-2017 Posted on 10/1/2017, 12:40:08 PM by boycott
More winning, please!!!
JoMa
Losers blame others for their failures.
Trump’s fault? I knew the MSM was garbage 25 years ago.
Zucker, get a clue. If so many believed like you and your employees about Trump, they would be tuned in to your station but apparently, they are more turned off. Don’t blame Trump, blame your anchors and programming!
No different from Kathy Griffin. His own actions, his own decisions have nothing to do with the situation in which they find themselves.
They should get together for a pity party.
Trump absolutely saved the NY Times, but they lie with more style.
BUZZ! Wrong answer. Obama spent a lot of time bashing Fox, and it had no negative effect to their ratings. Typical of a lefty, blaming his personal failures on other people.
Zucker cannot be truly this stoopid.
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The clown even looks ignorant.
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,
Look in the mirror ya putz.
Your network is simply full of liars telling lies.
Folks have seen through you and your B.S. Pal.
Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,
Look in the mirror ya putz.
Your network is simply full of liars telling lies.
Folks have seen through you and your B.S. Pal.
Bunster, make a favorites for your channels you only want to watch. MSNBC and CNN are gone. No reason to watch crap even if I’m paying for it.
Zucker had been in various roles at NBC for years, but became President of NBC in February 2007. In May 2007, the Apprentice was left off the upcoming NBC schedule.
Trump said he was moving on to other television projects. A week later, NBC said the Apprentice might return. After negotiations, the Apprentice came back.
I've often wondered how much of a raise and other perks Trump got for that, as Trump later said he made $214 million from the fourteen seasons it was on.
Wouldn't surprise me if Zucker was a little miffed over how the earlier contract negotiations went. We all know how Trump negotiates.
CNN
Clinton news network
Communist news network
That was really a good article!
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