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Leland Yee Blackout: CNN Mocks Citizen Who Wants Coverage of Arms Trafficking Scandal
breitbart.com ^ | 3/29/14 | Tony Lee

Posted on 03/30/2014 7:40:08 AM PDT by Texas Eagle

CNN dismissed complaints that the network was not covering last week's shocking arrest of Democrat Leland Yee, the California state senator who was arrested for alleged arms trafficking and bribery, and falsely asserted that it does not give attention to state senators.

That standard did not apply to Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, whom CNN covered relentlessly. This was long before she even considered a gubernatorial run after filibustering a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and make those conducted before then safer.

Viewers and readers on Friday complained that the network, just like Politico, was not reporting or discussing Yee's scandal online, and the official and verified @CNNWriters account tweeted to one critic that ignoring Yee's arrest was standard practice:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; bias; cnn; cultureofcorruption; demagogicparty; fastandfurious; lelandyee; mediabias; meduabias; memebuilding; msm; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; politico; sanfrancisco; spiked; yee
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To: Liz; Texas Eagle

This would be a story worthy of CNN reporting, if Yee had only worked as janitor


21 posted on 03/30/2014 9:04:26 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Liz

But gosh golly yee,I mean gee.
This is just a state issue ,the rest of the country’s not interested in a Democrat state Senator from some little state out west.
Now let’s talk about those lane closures in what’s that sate again ,run buy a Republican Gov’.


22 posted on 03/30/2014 9:05:39 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I never thought I’d say this: Where’s Piers Morgan when you need him?


23 posted on 03/30/2014 9:14:43 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Texas Eagle
CNN's logic has more holes than...
24 posted on 03/30/2014 9:17:45 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Fiji Hill

“One would think that a story about an outspoken gun control advocate arrested for arms trafficking and whose partner in crime is named Shrimp Boy Chow would generate high ratings.”

If he was a Republican it would be front page news for weeks. Dem? Nothing to see, move along.


25 posted on 03/30/2014 9:19:59 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Texas Eagle

I was struck in a similar way. Complaining to CNN about being
too biased would be like complaining to Debbie Wasserman Schultz
that she supports too many Democrat office seekers. CNN doesn’t
have enough viewers anymore to distinguish a viewer/critic
category so perhaps it’s a NRA official playing ‘gotcha’.


26 posted on 03/30/2014 9:40:33 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Texas Eagle
Democrat Leland Yee, the California state senator who was arrested for alleged arms trafficking and bribery

Guns for YEE but not for THEE.

27 posted on 03/30/2014 9:49:23 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Texas Eagle

Bump


28 posted on 03/30/2014 9:49:53 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: nuconvert; peteyd; Texas Eagle; BigIsleGal; Grampa Dave; GOPJ; sickoflibs; TADSLOS; ...
A really nice coincidence that Michelle Obama went to China just before this gun-running story on anarchists in Cali including China-born Scumocrat Leland Yee.

BACKSTORY Mrs O's pricey China trip w/ entourage was "sold" to Americans as a "non-political" visit...just there to chat up education.

MISSION CREEP The final WH explanation was that the China trip and the tripe she was pedaling was "soft diplomacy," to "ease tensions" between the US and China......which are surely at an all-time high thanks to the Chinese Cali gangsters.

I just hope Leland, Shrimp Boy and the Phillipine Muslim gangs recognize that the F/L's China foray into "soft diplomacy" visit was really, really productive.

And I hope there's a good nail salon close by the WH to manicure the inch-long Dragon Lady nails Mrs O's now sporting (cackle).

29 posted on 03/30/2014 10:26:49 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Lizavetta
Guns for YEE but not for THEE.

Also on believing in gun control: "Oh YEE of little faith..."

The next gritty TV Drama: "Sons of AnarchYEE"

The sad reality: "Oh YEE of little ethics"

Observe what happens in the single party state: "The Truth is you get YEE"

What Ed Lee is saying now: "If not for ME you might have YEE"

30 posted on 03/30/2014 10:29:16 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: RandallFlagg

Thanks for the ping...

Given the fact this was a state Senator and what his positions were, this is a huge story. CNN knows it.

It’s why we very seldom will even turn on that network...It’s correagraped, rehearsed garbage...They parrot what they’re told to parrot.


31 posted on 03/30/2014 10:36:34 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evastion are tools of deceit)
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To: Texas Eagle

CNN only reports a story that has to do with a Republican doing something naughty..an all out blackout when a Dem does something bad..why do you think CNN is so focused on covering MH 370 and NO its NOT because they actually care what happened to the plane, its because they want to take the focus off of Obama, Russia, Putin, and all the Dem scandals


32 posted on 03/30/2014 10:39:06 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Liz

It’s called misprision of a felony, a felony itself.


33 posted on 03/30/2014 3:34:24 PM PDT by snowtigger
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To: snowtigger

Thanks.


34 posted on 03/31/2014 3:15:51 AM PDT by Liz
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