Posted on 08/27/2019 4:41:41 AM PDT by simpson96
Jeff “Mother” Zucker, head of CNN, showed his fearless leadership style by hiring deep-state flameout Andrew McCabe. But the move also cast him in a new role as heir to the infamous Captain Motoharu Okamura of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Zucker once proudly proclaimed: “I think it’s the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something’s not working to have the guts to reverse it . . . The worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.”
The Pillsbury Doughboy of cable news had to be channeling Captain Okamura, who, in an analogous situation to CNN’s current nosedive in the ratings war, stoically said, “I firmly believe that the only way to swing the war in our favor is to resort to crash-dive attacks . . . ”
What Okamura had in mind was the suicidal kamikaze, “The Divine Wind.”
In the case of the inept Zucker, it was probably mistranslated to him as “The Breaking Wind,” given how his earlier reign at NBC turned that network into a malodorous laughingstock referred to by critics as Nothing But Crap.
Zucker “left” when Comcast took over, blown out of 30 Rock with all the grace of a supersonic, low-level, rocket seat ejection into a hail storm, only to land at CNN where, true to form, he’s changed the once-proud meaning of CNN into Crappy Non News.
Now, just like Okamura, Zucker’s been casting about for “volunteers” to make, as it were, the ultimate sacrifice.
Don’t expect Chris “Fredo” Cuomo or Don “The Unfire-able” Lemon to qualify. Recent manly malfunctions by both involving out-of-studio incidents have caused Zucker to seek talent elsewhere. And who should he find but Andrew (Freaking) McCabe.
Zucker is a genius!
What better candidate for a fiery, disastrous and epic ending than a cashiered FBI agent with an alleged lack of candor and the distinct likelihood of criminal indictment, who looks like Alfred E. Newman?
CNN tried this same tactic in 2010, with Eliot “Client No. 9” Spitzer, the disgraced ex-governor of New York with an interest high-priced hookers, who, like Wile E. Coyote, promptly nosedived and blew up on his own carrier deck.
So now the hachimaki headband with its prestigious bright red meatball will be passed to the “candor-less,” former G-Man Andrew McCabe. I can hear the boys in talk-radio around the country gleefully sniggering and rubbing their palms together each time Kamikaze McCabe comes on the air: “General Quarters! General Quarters! Pilots man your planes!”
Meanwhile, does anyone doubt Zucker will enjoy the same outcome as Captain Okamura, who survived war after sending all his people and his organization into oblivion?
CNN’s slogan used to be “The Most Trusted Name in News.” Now it’s, “Banzai Mother Zucker!”
What’s really left of CNN after the November 2020 election? They will have burnt every bridge down after crossing, and lost all public respect.
Yet…they’re still there?
Anybody respects CNN?
I spent July in Europe. CNN and BBC were the English language networks everywhere I went. Maybe that’s what’s keeping it afloat.
The other day I referenced a personality on Fox Business and the guy I was talking to immediately launched into how “his kids” (he’s a teacher) fact-checked Fox and said they had an accuracy rating of 17%. I found that assertion so laughable I in fact laughed and told him I don’t really trust any of the networks anyway and watch One America News, where journalism still lives on. Of course, he had no idea what that is.
CNN does have a audience. They’re trapped at airports.
Sounds a bit like Romney honestly. Every one Romney touches their career goes bye bye.
Possibly Jeff’s Mom?
CNN has had Brennan and Clapper doing this for years already.
And hotel lobbies. A restaurant I go to used to play CNN until me and a few pals “yelped” them.
I’ve been to airports in February before that fall of 2005. I don’t see them much. Love flying but hate the process.
During the first gulf war they were big and they were there and on at any hour you cared to watch. Didn’t take them long to turn victory into defeat.
CNN used to be on everywhere. I now rarely see it at hotel lobbies. Fox News is much more popular.
I hope it comes true.
But CNN gets most of its money from cable revenues as a bundled product no-one watches.
They, as structured, are immune to ratings.
I hope that changes.
CNN does have a audience. They’re trapped at airports.
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CNN is in airports to make the indignities of the TSA screening seem pleasant in comparison.
Like the Japanese leadership that ordered the suicide attacks, they didn’t do the attacks themselves. Young people were sold on the idea.
I have noticed lately that some Airports have switched to TBS - just showing Conaan and other regular shows - no news. Hopefully it is a trend.
Curious because I don’t fly much nowadays but what do they do when there has been a plane crash? Do they just shut it off or what? One would think the last thing you want to see at an airport terminal is coverage of a plane crash if one is nervous about flying.
Also at my local airport here in Toronto Canada I don’t recall seeing any news channels in public areas. Maybe in some of the bars or lounges. The only thing on public screens here is arrival and departure info.
Almost every single person on cnn is NUTS.
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