Posted on 11/28/2017 1:23:31 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump has made CNN one of his favorite punching bags on Twitter, calling the network "fake news," "garbage journalism" and "the worst."
But Trump's most recent attack on CNN seems to have especially aggravated the network, prompting what appeared to be an organized response from some of its most prominent journalists, including Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Christiane Amanpour and Brooke Baldwin.
And on Monday, the network dedicated significant airtime to rebuking Trump.
"We have thick skin here at CNN," host Anderson Cooper said Monday. "We can handle criticism but we'll damn sure call it out when it's a lie."
"His assault against a free press, a free press that stands up to him, will not stop us or any other legitimate news organization," Cooper said. "It won't stop my colleagues around the world who put their lives on the line to do their work, to report."
Wolf Blitzer introduced a nearly five-minute montage of clips showing CNN correspondents covering war and strife in places like Afghanistan, Syria, Niger, Libya and the Philippines.
"The relentless pursuit of the truth and the outright rejection of any attack against it is something we still hold sacred, always will," Blitzer said. "No matter how many insults or blatant assaults on the press and its freedom, this pursuit is something for which we will never bend nor break. Even the loudest critics can't silence the facts."
In another segment moderated by host Brooke Baldwin, Wedeman and fellow senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward spoke of the threats presented by Trump's tweet.
Beyond being "disheartening," Trump's assault "emboldens" people in foreign countries who may already show hostility toward western journalists, Ward said. What may come across as a joke in the U.S. could be life-threatening to reporters in the field, she said.
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This idiot journalist used the word aggravate when he meant antagonize or anger.
He he he, I do that, too, while my waffle’s cooking. I also put all conservative talk stations on the rental car’s presets.
“The relentless pursuit of OUR AGENDA and the outright rejection of any attack against it is something we still hold sacred, always will,
I leave mine on XM 7. I didn’t think about the car.
The TV thing at the hotel is funny because nobody has the guts to change it and I don’t have to listen to liberal babble crap.
Back at ya, Coop...........................
Their intellects are in inverse proportion to their opinions of themselves.
——Free Press——
Being free is to be liable to get the very crap beat out of fake news purveyors
I’m getting bored with the “putting their lives on the line” trope.....
You don’t stand up to hom, Anderson, you mindlessly hate and attack. There’s a difference, creep.
It's his SWORN duty to defend the Constitution. That means taking on its enemies, like CNN for example.
Paging James Wood, James Wood. Please pick up the MAGA courtesy phone. Anderson Cooper appears to have had another butt plug malfunction....
“Even the loudest critics can’t silence the facts.” What facts? Whose facts?
Remember this? All over a video with a CNN logo?
“CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again,” Kaczynski wrote. “In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same. CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”
CNN = A Rotten Worm-infested Apple
Would dump AT&T if I were a subscriber.
Defending fake news with more fake news.
I’ve always despised Christiane Amanpour She creeps me out for some reason.
THAT is PERFECT!!
Other than being an America hating muzzie, I don’t know what it could be.
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