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CNN Under Fire For Overtly Hostile Treatment Of Sanders In Iowa Debate
jonathanturley.org ^ | 1-15-20 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 01/15/2020 7:27:23 AM PST by dynachrome

CNN has long been criticized for what many view as overtly hostile coverage of Sen. Bernie Sanders that goes back to the 2016 election where the CNN openly seemed to favor Hillary Clinton in her bid for the nomination. Yet, even for the most hardened critics of the network, yesterday’s debate in Des Moines was breathtaking in its unrelentingly negative questions of Sanders followed up relative softballs to others like Sen. Amy Klobuchar. However the lowest moment of this or any debate this year occurred when CNN reporter Abby Phillips made Sanders repeat his outright denial of the allegation by Elizabeth Warren that he told her that no woman could be president and then immediately stated that Sanders did make the comment in her next question to Warren. In watching with a room filled with people who are not affiliated with Sanders, Phillips’ statement led to loud gasps and Sanders himself seemed dumbfounded on stage by the bias shown by the CNN reporter. Later, Warren appeared to refuse to shake the hand of Sanders.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: 2020election; abbyphillips; amyklobuchar; berniesanders; clintonnonnews; cnn; desmoines; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; hillaryclinton; iowa; jonathanturley; marxists; massachusetts; mediawingofthednc; minnesota; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; sanders; slingingbull; smearmachine; vermont; warren
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To: dowcaet

The deep state media actually promoted D.J. Trump, at least initially, because they thought he would be the easiest GOP candidate to beat. He made (in their view) the most outrageous and least PC statements. The base (much to their chagrin) loved it and separated him from the pack.


21 posted on 01/15/2020 7:50:57 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: dynachrome

I didn’t see it....Did anyone?


22 posted on 01/15/2020 7:54:18 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: dynachrome

My takeaway was a bit different.

It was obvious that the question would be asked, because it had been in the press, and a rat-fight was something that might spice up a dull debate.

But what I was amazed at was how thin-skinned Warren was. She said, “The only person who has beaten an incumbent Republican any time in the last 30 years is me,” Bernie responded that he defeated an incumbent Republican in 1990... which is 30 years ago. BFD... but she got all snitty about it.

I thought Bernie handled himself very well on this, pointing out that he stood down in 2016 when it looked like she would enter the race, entering only after she declined to.

She looked thin-skinned and petty.


23 posted on 01/15/2020 7:55:02 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dynachrome

Bernie is ok with that.

The Berniebots will kidnap the CNN types and drag them into the streets and set them on fire.


24 posted on 01/15/2020 7:55:05 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: dynachrome
the 2016 election where the CNN openly seemed to favor Hillary Clinton

You mean like giving her the questions in advance?

25 posted on 01/15/2020 7:55:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Williams
Every single CNN commentator was depressed saying that this performance did not demonstrate any candidate who can take on Donald Trump

For once I agree with them, they were gawd awful, about as inspiring as cow dung and as predictable as the sun rise.

26 posted on 01/15/2020 7:57:33 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Williams

And if you watched President Trump’s rally last night, you saw where the enthusiasm is.


27 posted on 01/15/2020 8:00:04 AM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: dynachrome

The democrat party is the party of old white men.

Then again, if plugs showed up in blackface and announced he was identifying as African American (and a clean, articulate one at that) CNN would tow the line.

“Joe Biden has always been black,” they’d say.

And anyone disagreeing would be labeled a racist.


28 posted on 01/15/2020 8:04:09 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Warren beat an incumbent Republican—in wacky left-wing Massachusetts that has an all Democratic congressional delegation.

She never mentions the state!

(The Democrats would win MA even if they nominated the North Korean dictator.)


29 posted on 01/15/2020 8:10:03 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: dynachrome

CNN has always been the direct propaganda arm of the Democrat party establishment.

It appears they intend to thwart Bernie again.


30 posted on 01/15/2020 8:12:38 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Warren is the middle school teacher that everyone mocked by imitating her crazy pointing and annoying voice.


31 posted on 01/15/2020 8:14:10 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SMARTY
".... Sanders got the rug yanked out from under him once already. You think he’d know what to do ... or at least what to expect...."

Sanders doesn't want to win the democRAT primary. Even if he did win the nomination, Trump would destroy him in the general. He knows that.

What Bernie wants is the same free stuff he promises his voters. He wants another house on the lake, wads of cash, esteem. He has a fear of winning. He's been a worthless, hippie loser his whole life.

He's just waiting for his big payoff from the DNC and some of Biden's windfall from his Ukraine corruption, to go away.

Bernie is a talker not a doer. He talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.

32 posted on 01/15/2020 8:20:59 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: uranium penguin

Democrats don’t trust their voters... they’ll take Bernie down if they have to suicide him...


33 posted on 01/15/2020 8:21:53 AM PST by GOPJ (Glacier National Park removed signs warning glaciers will be gone by 2020 (ten year old sign))
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To: uranium penguin

Lest we forget Bernie on the status of women——

Several sources but here is one from Mother Jones (trying to explain it away....
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So what did Bernie Sanders write and what did he say about rape?
The essay by the Vermont senator isn’t long — only a page. Warning: The bit about rape comes at the very beginning, as does some not-totally-safe-for-work language:
“A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.
“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.

“Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like ‘Girl 12 raped by 14 men’ sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?”


34 posted on 01/15/2020 8:23:52 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: dynachrome

Bkmrk


35 posted on 01/15/2020 8:28:25 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Cowboy Bob
"Name a woman who could bear Donald Trump in 2020."

Here's one who bore him in 1946.

Perhaps she beat him, too, from time to time, so as not to spoil him.

36 posted on 01/15/2020 8:29:13 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: cgbg
cgbg: "Womyn’s Power!
The squaw is on the warpath!

The lieing squaw is on the warpath
based on a convenient contrived conversation.
It's time for the "Womyn’s Power" based on sexual preference,
rather than on ability, prior experience, or honesty.
This year it's the "Womens March" gone political,
.. didn't you follow the Klintoon political policy of 2016 ?
It's the year of the Womyn's !!

37 posted on 01/15/2020 8:35:47 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: carriage_hill
They’re all low-hanging fruit.

Bloomberg wasn't there, to his benefit. He makes me nervous. Two hundred billion (yes, with a 'B') at the ready.

38 posted on 01/15/2020 8:49:22 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: HotHunt

“What Bernie wants is the same free stuff he promises his voters.”

I wholly agree.

It’s all any of these nominations ‘wannabee’s’ are doing in the race.

No one in the gaggle of laughably unqualified personalities who were thrown in our faces had one iota of a chance.

It was just another way for some dishonorable people to work the process... and stuff their pockets.

It was also more of the ‘look at me!... look at me!’ kind of BS that the MSM thrives on. THEIR personalities pathologically crave attention.


39 posted on 01/15/2020 8:49:23 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: gloryblaze

I think it’s more likely around $60 Billion, but that’s still formidable.


40 posted on 01/15/2020 8:59:47 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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