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CNN staff revolts over Corey Lewandowski hire
Page Six ^ | June 24, 2016 | By Emily Smith and Ian Mohr

Posted on 06/25/2016 6:40:12 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Ivanka Trump isn’t the only one who doesn’t want Corey Lewandowski around.

Sources told Page Six on Friday that CNN’s “facing a near internal revolt” over Jeff Zucker’s hiring of Lewandowski as an exclusive commentator for the news network days after he was fired as Donald Trump’s campaign manager.

“CNN is facing a near internal revolt over the Corey hiring,” said a TV insider, who described many in the newsroom as “livid.” “Female reporters and producers especially .?.?. They are organizing and considering publicly demanding” that Lewandowski be let go.

The Post reported on Monday that the Donald’s daughter Ivanka gave her dad an ultimatum to cut Corey loose after she was distressed by news he’d grabbed reporter Michelle Fields by the arm at a Florida event, and by a Page Six report that he recently got into a shouting match on a Midtown street with campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks. Modal Trigger Jeff ZuckerPhoto: WireImage

At CNN, the hiring of the former Trump campaign manager on Thursday didn’t only alienate women on staff. A source further said that “Latinos and others in the newsroom feel betrayed by an homage to Trump,” so “they may do a public letter” objecting to the move

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandacarpenter; benshapiro; cnn; coreylewandowski; demagogicparty; discreditedmedia; hopehicks; jeffzucker; memebuilding; michellefields; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tds; trump
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To: gattaca

That would make a great tagline!


41 posted on 06/25/2016 7:39:10 AM PDT by glock rocks (Political Correctness is fascism disguised as manners. -- George Carlin)
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42 posted on 06/25/2016 7:41:24 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Politics has become the primary obsession for the media. They see their job solely as promoting or bashing one agenda or another, and reporting the news is an after thought, if they think about it at all.


43 posted on 06/25/2016 7:49:41 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: glock rocks

There’s a great video on YouTube of his about PC.


44 posted on 06/25/2016 7:53:41 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: COUNTrecount

Was there this amount of self-righteous rage over the hiring of Stephanopoulos at ABC? No, I did not think so.


45 posted on 06/25/2016 7:54:04 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: gattaca

Wow. That was great. Thanks.


46 posted on 06/25/2016 8:08:05 AM PDT by glock rocks (Political Correctness is fascism disguised as manners. -- George Carlin)
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To: COUNTrecount

Sorry I’m not buying Ivanka being upset with Lewandowski over the Fields incident. I think the kids just wanted to dump him because they needed to move forward with Manafort in charge.


47 posted on 06/25/2016 8:33:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Blazing Saddles...


48 posted on 06/25/2016 8:48:48 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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To: COUNTrecount

I wonder if they react that way when a DEMOCRAT is hired?


49 posted on 06/25/2016 8:58:05 AM PDT by BobL
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To: null and void

Oh

“he said the sheriff is near!”

CC


50 posted on 06/25/2016 9:11:23 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: COUNTrecount

So Megyn Kelly may get the CNN job after all. I bet she is all giggly after hearing this news.


51 posted on 06/25/2016 10:25:27 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: COUNTrecount

Leftists one and all. They want not a bit of conservative to touch their fragile leftist world.


52 posted on 06/25/2016 11:43:31 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: COUNTrecount

I thought the democrats believed in diversity?......
Not of thought !


53 posted on 06/25/2016 12:26:43 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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