Posted on 09/14/2016 5:50:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
The CNN screen graphic at 6 p.m. on Sept. 12 was blunt: "PENCE REFUSED TO CALL DAVID DUKE 'DEPLORABLE.'" Donald Trump running mate Mike Pence had granted Wolf Blitzer a 30-minute interview, and what he received in return was a reckless leftist smear.
Let's be clear about this interview. Blitzer offered 39 hostile questions or interjections about Trump's tax returns, medical records and charities, and made offensive remarks before asking a single question about policy. In the middle of this contentious exchange, Blitzer arrived at Hillary Clinton's recent gaffe of calling Trump backers a "basket of deplorables." Blitzer obnoxiously underlined that some Trump backers were truly deplorable: "David Duke, for example, (and) some other white nationalists, (would) fit into that category of deplorables. Right?"
Pence protested: "I'm not really sure why the media keeps dropping David Duke's name. Donald Trump has denounced David Duke repeatedly. We don't want his support, and we don't want the support of people who think like him." Blitzer pushed back: "So you call him a deplorable. You would call him deplorable." Pence replied, "I'm not in the name-calling business, Wolf."
CNN ignored that denouncement of Duke and his backers. It was spiked in favor of a cheap National Enquirer-style "Pence Won't Deplore Duke" headline.
It's the kind of "gotcha" journalism that has the public disgusted with the press. Whatever Pence answered would have been deemed wrong and exploited by the media. Had he uncorked the easy answer and called Duke deplorable, Blitzer and everyone else would have had their headlines read, "Pence Admits Hillary Was Right." Pence chose not to give them that luxury, so he gets "Pence Won't Deplore Duke."
Do you imagine, in your wildest imagination, Blitzer posing any of these questions to Clinton running mate Tim Kaine?
--"The Communist Party USA endorsed you. Is it deplorable?"
--"You've been endorsed by Planned Parenthood, an organization that harvests baby parts for sale. Is it deplorable?"
--"You are supported by Seddique Mateen, the anti-American father of Omar Mateen, who murdered 49 gay people in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub. Isn't he deplorable?"
In an interview on Aug. 28, Blitzer's colleague, Jake Tapper, asked Pence about Duke's support for the umpteenth time. Tapper at least offered a "that must really bother you" expression. For his part, Pence blasted it over the fence, explicitly making a comparison between Duke and Seddique Mateen, saying, "The fact that...a contemptable individual like that supports my running mate is no more relevant than the fact that the father of a man who killed 49 people in Orlando, Florida, was cheering Hillary Clinton at one of her rallies."
CNN could grill Kaine about a sympathetic September 2 story in The New York Times about the Democratic vice presidential nominee seeking out communist priests as his mentors in El Salvador and Nicaragua. He "walked miles" to meet Rev. James Carney, who even the Times reported took "an extreme view of liberation theology that supported the taking up of arms against military oppressors." Kaine's mentor, Rev. Jack Warner, believed "the gospel is an extremely communist document." Were these priests "deplorables"? Did Kaine's hunger for their Marxist mumbo-jumbo make him deplorable?
Here's another question CNN will never ask:
"Hillary Clinton's husband has been exposed as a serial philanderer. He was impeached. He committed perjury, and was disbarred. There is also the accusation by Juanita Broaddrick that he raped her. Is Bill Clinton deplorable?"
Instead, Blitzer & Co. unloads smears designed to help Hillary Clinton because they know she is in trouble. And CNN is all too willing to do Clinton's dirty work. Media credibility continues to erode in the polls because there is nothing the press won't undertake to slander conservatives.
No Republican should appear on Wolf Blitzer’s dishonest show. The only bright spot in this kerfuffle is that no one watches CNN.
When will HRC call BLM Deplorable? As I see it, the KKK is a non player in the race hatred game these days. Its the BLM type groups that are doing more harm and causing more deaths than the KKK today and yet they are the noblest of Gods Creatures. When Will Shaky Hilary disavow them?
Clinton News Network
Fox did the same thing - Bret Baier’s show. Nothing to watch anymore at 6pm. Chopped gets repetitious.
NEVER watch CNN. I haven’t for years.
Was there spittle flying out of Wolfs mouth as he attacked?
Are you guys trying to lose or what?
Don’t forget - Ted Kaczynski was (is?) a big fan of al-Gore.
Matter of opinion but are we going to line item every supporter from each side? If not STFU.
It was a trap - if Pence used the term “deplorable” he would be letting the Dems define the agenda. Damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.
He clearly denounced Duke, and CNN is a liar for suggesting he wouldn’t.
Pence should hit back hard - but as an old-style politician and can’t respond until he has a staff meeting, polls and a focus group.
It was a trap - if Pence used the term “deplorable” he would be letting the Dems define the agenda. Damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.
He clearly denounced Duke, and CNN is a liar for suggesting he wouldn’t.
Pence should hit back hard - but as an old-style politician and can’t respond until he has a staff meeting, polls and a focus group.
Lmao! The media is losing their minds. They don’t know whether to shit or go sideways. Their insanity will increase right along with Trump’ s lead in the polls.
Priceless. GO TRUMP GO! (so much winning)
I believe by going on Wolf Blitzer's show, Mike Pence showed his strength
It’s not called the Clinton News Network for no reason...
David Duke isn’t “deplorable”. Despicable, Nasty, Bigoted and vile, OK.
But “DEPLORABLE” belongs to US now! LOL!
Definitely a trip into enemy territory. The press will spin any reply, it makes absolutely no difference what the reply is, into a negative.
CNN - Blitzer/Pence Interview - Spetember 12, 2016 - 5 pm
BLITZER: But Governor, with all due respect, like me, you're not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. Shouldn't the American people speak directly to his physicians and get that kind of information? Because he certainly does look healthy. He's got a lot of energy. Don't we deserve to know a lot more?
Pence gave good answers to a score of "gotcha" questions. Out of all the material in that interview, CNN found "Pence refuses to call David Duk 'deplorable'" to be the most important takeaway. Read the whoile interview, and decide what you will about CNN's judgment.
Very few people take CNN seriously. It is nothing but a collection of partisan hacks.
Well, I’m sure at a stand still at 5 pm and 6 pm...can’t stand female voices on either FOX or CNN so I settle for the internet...Listening to The Five with Gilfoyle’s voice is like nails on a blackboard and then Briana whatever on CNN is as bad or worse. CNN also has a blonde I’ve just recently been seeing and that one makes me dive for the remote also.
I really wish there was something like a lie detector to measure the decibels/pitch in these women’s nasaly, stuffy, whiney voices and relegate them to the unemployment line or way, way back in the studio somewhere to be UNheard. Anywhere but on TV...
I have a strong problem with women’s voices in media and politics. American women don’t care at all about how they sound. They have no idea of the impact on others they make.
Or the Communist News Network
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