Posted on 07/02/2017 4:59:53 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Jake Tapper's show displayed the fake cover on Friday during a news report
The origins of the cover aren't known but it had been shared on Twitter
Came five days after CNN fired three journalists for a retracted news story
That story only had one source and claimed a Trump-Russia connection
Tapper had been covering ongoing feud between Trump and Morning Joe hosts
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say White House tried to blackmail them
Trump and White House insiders say that claim is nonsense
Just five days after CNN laid off three journalists amid a 'fake news' scandal, the channel reportedly made another slip-up on Jake Tapper's show.
On Friday Tapper reported on claims that the White House had told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to apologize for his negative coverage or suffer a National Enquirer 'expose' on their lives.
Unfortunately, the National Enquirer cover that was picked to illustrate the magazine's often salacious content was completely fake, Page Six reported.
The cover - which may have been created as clickbait according to Page Six - promises a 'Presidential shocker!'
Dated April 16, 2016, it has the cover line 'Heidi Cruz betrayed by cheating husband!' and claims 'sensational photo proof' of a 'sordid threesome' and 'sleazy love letters.'
It also claimed that Ted Cruz was 'named in madam's black book' and promises 'the most explosive tell-all interview ever.'
Unfortunately for Tapper, the cover is literally fake news: It was never an actual cover of the newspaper, according to insiders at the National Enquirer.
It's not known where it originated, but it was shared to Ted Cruz's Twitter feed by 'DeplorableTrumpEagle' in April 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
CNN is sold based on true news. If it is all faked then is this not consumer fraud for false advertising?
Subscribers pay for something and “bait and switched” to a lesser product.
CNN tells its audience what they want to hear. I know well educated professionals who are rabid far-left liberals who don’t question a single thing CNN puts on. They take it completely at face value because they want to believe it. Many of them are atheists and liberalism is their state religion and CNN is one of their clergy. It is comical to see these extremely bright, successful people completely turn off their minds when they are gorging on CNN’s lies. It is like a drug for them. They don’t care that it is lies, they just care that it makes them feel like good compassionate, caring, tolerant, generous liberals. Of course, they are as intolerant and closed minded as you can get.
,,,,,,, my Mom used to say ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, “ YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR “,,,,,,,,, I’m sure most Americans by now know what kind of product that CNN is pushing and that’s probably why only the complete indoctrinated liberal viewers are consuming it and why the ratings are the lowest across the board .
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