Posted on 08/27/2014 5:21:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CNN has been transformed from a sober and respected news network into a shrill and biased mouthpiece for liberals, according to actor, author and economist Ben Stein.
Stein, a speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said the dramatic change is particularly noticeable in CNN's coverage of the racial strife in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer.
"They've flipped out. I don't know what happened to CNN because CNN used to really be great and I can remember when it was great," Stein said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
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"It wasn't that long ago that they just flipped out in a leftward direction and in a provocative direction and [are] always endlessly, endlessly, endlessly whipping up grievances….
"They just assume the police are wrong, white people are wrong, any Republican is wrong, any businessman is wrong. They just will always play on that nerve."
The cable network has assumed it is "standard procedure" for white policemen to kill unarmed teenagers, Stein said of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson following an altercation....
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20 year old news.
That transformation occurred early in the morning on Day 1.
They had ‘flipped out in a leftward direction’ at least since the first Clinton administration!
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