Posted on 01/06/2020 8:37:28 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Can CNN possibly be this naive—or is the Trump-hating network this cynically manipulative? On this morning's New Day, CNN seized on crowd size and man-in-the-street interviews in Tehran to claim that the killing of Qasem Soleimani has "united" Iran.
Co-host John Berman teed up reporter Fred Pleitgen, on the ground in Tehran, with this leading question:
"These demonstrations that you’re seeing . . . do they indicate that the US actions have actually worked to unify the Iranian people behind the government there?"
Pleitgen was only too happy to oblige, repeatedly claiming that the killing of Soleimani has indeed "unified" Iran. The height of absurdity came when Pleitgen cited "one gentleman who came up to me" and said that despite the problems in Iran, "now everybody is united." Gee, Fred: you don't suppose that "gentleman" might have been an Iranian agent or lackey who had been gently encouraged to speak with a Western reporter? Whatever happened to journalistic skepticism?
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Rhetorical question: would CNN go to a Trump rally and accept the opinion of a “gentleman who came up to me” as America’s unified opinion?
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
My standard response to anything coming from those buffoons:
“CNN? LMAO!!”
CNN = Domestic Enemies
Reporting without researching again, are they?
And the Dems and their propagandists in the MSM are eating this up, even to the point of cheering the enemy on. Their support for the Terrorist state is breathtaking.
Enemy propaganda
How about emboldened those who want to overthrow the mullahs?
All propaganda all the time....dregs of humanity...
The depth of Soleimani’s support is much thinner and more fragmented than it was a few days ago.
Those CNN every morning get together’s to make get talking points, make sure everyone is in sync, etc. must be hilarious as sh*t! Wish someone would expose them with undercover vid, but yeah.....
CNN is an enemy of our country. They should be regarded as such.
Dear Morons
How did the President get the Iranians to attack the US Embassy in Baghdad?
The US performed a flawless direct proportional response to the people who planned, and organized, that internationally recognized act of war. A target which has direct documented links to the assassination of 700 US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
That you infantile scum are trying to make him out as a victim indicates you are the same sort of scum as he was.
I swear that network would root for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
Don’t think so. Anyone thinking this unified Iran is having a global leftist wet dream!
When cnn talks, folks in the “yewwwwwwwww” listen. Oh, and 4 or 5 people in the US.
CNN and most of the news media along with the Democrat Party are as much terrorist as the Iranians.
Well, in defence of the commie cnn reporter: what do you expect him to say in the likely presence of regime supporter/security,..... “it’s about 50/50 for the regime here on the street”, or... “there are a lot of people pulling for Trump here.” The guy doesn’t want to disappear.
Just being there to ‘report’ is ridiculous under that situation. But cnn can’t be honest anywhere, so no surprise.
If we fought Japan today, they would just say that the Japanese are just trying to remove the Western Imperialists from Asia.
For America maybe
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