Posted on 01/19/2018 10:33:49 PM PST by lowbuck
Every day it is becoming clearer that CNN, the once proud ratings giant and unquestioned cable network news leader, has abandoned objective journalism to cultivate obsessive hatred for President Donald Trump. It has “jumped the shark,” meaning that a once distinguished broadcaster has become absurd. The original definition referred to the fifth season premiere episode of the hit TV show Happy Days, in which the main character, Fonzie, literally jumped over a shark while water skiing with his signature leather jacket. It is also a perfect reference to a broadcast network like CNN that has diminished greatly in quality and popularity.
Sadly, CNN has become infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. The network is filled with liberal hosts and analysts who regularly spew antipathy toward our President. In the aftermath of the infamous White House meeting focused on solving immigration problems including how to deal with DACA recipients, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) claimed that the President used the word “s...hole” in reference to Haiti and countries in Africa. During the meeting, Trump supposedly asked why the United States should accept more people from those countries instead of countries such as Norway.
Even though the President and two Republican Senators disputed the fact that the crude word was used, CNN decided to air the word “s...hole” 196 times in just one day. This unfortunate decision shows their lack of broadcast standards and common decency. Surely parents with small children, as well as adults who are offended by profanity, were upset to hear such foul language on a formerly respected network.
CARTOONS | STEVE BREEN VIEW CARTOON If the President used the word, at least it was uttered in a private, closed-door and supposedly “off the record” meeting. In contrast, CNN allowed the word to be used during programs aired all throughout their broadcast day.
After focusing almost exclusively on the contentious DACA meeting for days, CNN decided to put their own spin on the issue of the President’s health. On Tuesday, the President’s physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, publicly addressed the media for almost an hour. He delivered the results of the President’s annual physical and a 30-question cognitive test. Not surprisingly, the President passed both tests with flying colors, actually, scoring a 100% on the cognitive test.
Amazingly, this superlative result upset the hostile news media who questioned the integrity of the President’s physician and the testing methods used. The media was uninterested that Jackson actually served both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They wanted a story that the President was somehow “sick.” Thus, CNN interviewed their Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who reviewed the test results and diagnosed the President with heart disease. Of course, he never personally examined Trump, but delivered an “expert” medical opinion that the President was dangerously sick. This ludicrous conclusion was derided by even liberal media colleagues and described as “hyperbolic” by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), not exactly President Trump’s top supporter. Regrettably, CNN is so invested in their anti-Trump agenda that their on-air personalities cannot even accept a positive medical report delivered by a source with impeccable credentials.
This week, the President also announced his highly anticipated “Fake News Awards.” Among all news outlets, CNN was the overwhelming winner in the unsavory category of “Fake News” by winning four of the ten awards. No other news outlet came close, as clearly CNN stands atop the media world in this area.
Of course, this did not sit well with White House Correspondent Jim Acosta who claimed that the President, not his network, was the “King of Fake News.” Acosta had a tough week after being publicly scolded at news conferences by both White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney. He also was ignominiously thrown out of a news briefing by President Trump, who became agitated after Acosta continued his well-documented pattern of childish behavior and yelled several obnoxious questions. The President simply, but firmly, told Acosta to get “out.”
These disturbing CNN antics are nothing new. The previous week senior presidential advisor for policy, Stephen Miller, was shouted down by unhinged CNN anchor Jake Tapper during the taping of the Sunday show State of the Union. Miller was repeatedly interrupted, and his microphone was turned off. Eventually, Miller was escorted out of the CNN studio because Tapper did not like his answers. Miller had the audacity to criticize CNN for its biased programming. Henceforth, members of the Trump administration should refrain from appearing on any CNN programs.
The White House should already know that CNN is their sworn enemy and working constantly to present the President as negatively as possible. Instead of reporting on the improving stock market, high consumer confidence, historically low unemployment rates, and the success in the battle against ISIS, CNN prefers to give wall-to-wall coverage to any issue that may damage the political standing of President Trump. For example, CNN shows provided extensive coverage of the book of anti-Trump fiction,Fire and Fury, by discredited author Michael Wolff.
CNN will never give President Trump credit for the improving economy and for the two million new jobs created or the bonuses being announced by corporate giants such as Wal-Mart in the wake of the passage of the historic tax cuts. Instead, the network will continue to focus on the questionable Mueller investigation, and tout every conspiracy theory imaginable to damage the credibility and effectiveness of the President.
CNN is a shadow of its former self and functions in a manner that is the complete opposite of how a fair and balanced network should operate. In its infancy, the network cared about reporting the real facts, maintaining objectivity, while being dedicated to true journalism. Today, the network devotes 24 hours a day to one main goal, attacking a man they despise, Donald Trump.
CNN has the unfortunate situation where they never thrive no matter the President.
Fox News thrived during Obama years.
MSNBC is kicking Fox and CNN’s butt during Trump years.
CNN will never have that kind of luck.
Amen
“”””“Sad to think that 25 years ago CNN was the authority on what was actually happening in the world”
Like back when they were giving Sadam Hussain editorial control of their reporting?””””””””””””””””””””””
Yup, A lot of these yutes don’t remember that CNN had an office in Baghdad and were allowed to stay there as long as they reported positive things about Saddam Hussein. If they told the truth about him they would be sent through the wood chipper.
Propaganda at it’s finest.
I never voluntarily listen to a thing they say, but I’m in a hotel where they have it playing on a large screen in the coffee bar in the mornings. Yesterday was stunning - it wasn’t news, it was one band of squeaky voiced women after another, accompanied by a few “outraged” sounding men - going on and on about how Trump “hates women and minorities,” how “Trump is Stalin,” etc.
I’m sure something newsworthy must have happened somewhere in the country during the night, but even if it didn’t, how these raving, paranoid opinion-rests can possibly qualify as news is utterly beyond me.
This article is BS. I recall they were almost as bad to Reagan as they are to Trump.
Is it any wonder POTUS DJT has such low approval numbers, when nearly all (99.9999999%) that ever gets broadcast is wall-to-wall negative, spiteful coverage, with virtually nothing about the good things taking place. And this is on nearly every news outlet, except for Fox News, which is more fair in its coverage.
Then Donald Trump is compared to Joseph Stalin for attacking that bastion of the First Amendment. CNN: we retort; we decide.
Even better and more edifying that a stunt on water skis in his (probably) Armani suit...
Was the ‘Scud Stud’ with CNN? I cannot remember!
I asked a (former) Lefty friend if she thought, as Stephy was so close to the Clinton’s, anyone could consider him unbiased. She said ‘of course!’. I then asked if the Press Secretary for ANY Republican President was hired by any ‘news outlet’ to report on political news, would they be considered ‘unbiased’. She said ‘no way’. The hypocrisy was lost on her and she was a PhD and teaching at a State University in California. ‘Nuff said.
NBC...Arthur Kent
I don’t think stories about CNN or MSNBC need to be covered on FR anymore than stories about batbaby or the Hubble scope seeing Heaven off in the distance. It’s all silly fiction.
I used to like watching ones like Natalie Allen and Lauren Sidney on the regular CNN and Lynne Russell on HLN. Lynne apparently has not had many nice things to say about CNN lately, lol.
Does anyone know how and why CNN is in the airports, and have any ideas on how to get it out?
They jumped the shark and nuked the fridge.
The shark it jumped has died of old age by now.
>> CNN has jumped the shark.
You just noticed?? The shark it jumped grew old and died years ago.
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