Posted on 01/19/2020 6:57:52 AM PST by Kaslin
U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) created a firestorm of controversy this week when she called CNN reporter Manu Raju “a liberal hack.” Raju was trying to interview McSally about the upcoming impeachment trial, but the Arizona Senator told him that “I’m not talking to you.”
McSally is a former fighter pilot who certainly knows how to hit targets. In this regard, her comments hit the media target perfectly and were especially appropriate.
Raju and his CNN colleagues are all “liberal hacks.” Other than an occasional token conservative analyst or guest, the entire CNN roster of producers and on-air talent, including all the network’s hosts, is composed of steadfast liberals, progressives and socialists. In fact, one of their major personalities is Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist.
Other Republican officeholders should follow McSally’s lead and refuse to appear on CNN. As tweeted by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), CNN media personalities are not real “journalists.” He noted that they “relentlessly attack every Republican” and “always, always push the prevailing Dem narrative of the moment.” Clearly, Republicans, especially pro-Trump conservatives, will never get fair coverage for CNN is a tool of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
As evidence, this week, CNN hosted a Democratic presidential debate that heavily publicized a dispute between U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). The network’s anchors and reporters spent several days trying to help Warren by trumpeting her allegations that Sanders supposedly told her in a 2018 private conversation that a woman cannot get elected President.
Even though Sanders denies making that statement and said many years ago that a woman should be elected President, CNN’s on-air personalities have been clearly taking the side of Warren. It seems the DNC leadership is once again trying to destroy the candidacy of Sanders, so, like loyal party members, CNN is doing their dirty work. The DNC fears that as a proud socialist Sanders is too far to the ideological left for millions of mainstream American voters and is unelectable in the 2020 general election.
This CNN and DNC attack should feel very familiar to Bernie Sanders. In 2016, CNN played a role in helping Hillary Clinton win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Their political analyst at the time, Donna Brazile, gave Clinton advance notice of debate questions that were not provided to Sanders.
As the 2020 election cycle begins, the ties between CNN and the DNC are especially tight. Incredibly, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said that McSally should apologize for her comments about Raju. He said that the Senator's comments were “disgusting, it was awful” and, according to Blitzer, Senator McSally, “should know better.” Blitzer lauded Raju as “one of the most respected congressional reporters up on Capitol Hill.”
While CNN expressed their extreme outrage at McSally’s comments, she refused to buckle under the criticism. She said, “these CNN reporters, so there’s many of them around the capital, they are so biased, they are so in cahoots with the Democrats, they so can’t stand the president, and they run around trying to chase Republicans and ask trapping questions.” They are so biased that McSally quipped the network “should probably be filing FEC reports with the DNC.”
Leftwing bias afflicts all the CNN hosts, including Brian Stelter, their Chief Media Correspondent and host of ReliableSources. He just announced his participation as Executive Producer in an HBO documentary on “fake news.” It will be titled After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News. This is quite ironic, for Stelter certainly knows “fake news” very well as he has been peddling it at CNN throughout his career.
In recent years, CNN has been forced to apologize many times for false reporting on President Donald Trump. Their “fake news” coverage also extends to others considered to be Trump supporters. The network just announced that it settled a lawsuit with Nick Sandmann, a Covington Catholic High School student from Kentucky, who was falsely accused of mistreating and racially harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, at a pro-life rally last year. The amount of the payment was not revealed but by settling the lawsuit instead of fighting it, CNN admitted its role in falsely portraying Sandmann. He was targeted by the network and other liberal media outlets for having the audacity to wear a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Today, CNN is a joke of a network with poor ratings and pitiful shows. It is a far cry from their heyday in the 1980’s, when it was a respected news network. Congrats to Senator McSally for having the guts to tell the truth about a reporter who represents a network that no longer represents truth in journalism.
The “controversy” arose because Senator McSally was/is correct in her evaluation of Manure a ju (whose name sounds like the weekly special at the Doggy Diner).
Major players in the coup attempt were Valerie Jarrett, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates, Bruce Ohr, Andrew Weissmann and many other lower level DNC operatives.
How many of them or their kin now work for or consult to CNN?
U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ) created a firestorm of controversy”
McSally just helped herself a lot. This will give her a much needed boost in AZ. AZ is purple now because of the horde of invaders from the south and the west but everyone knows what she said was true.
I don’t know why anybody talks to a journalist. No matter what you say they’re gonna “edit” it to suit their agenda.
This story is a good example of manufactured outrage.
This has so offended the sensibilities of the media, that a senator not talking to a reporter becomes a major news story in and of itself?
Who the heck anointed CNN or other media outlets, as authorities which one is required to speak to, required to answer any and all questions, submit to interviewing etc?
This article is an insult to liberal hacks :)
The title “liberal hack” isn’t damning enough.
Traitors actively trying to take down a US president and impose some insane fascist/communist/muslim/LGBTQDIKE approved govt is more along the lines of what they are.
She’s actually wrong.
HE’S A “LEFTIST HACK”. “Liberal” doesn’t really apply.
Besides, MSNBC is the real home of liberal hacks, CNN is just a branch office because they will occasionally put a conservative on just for sport. MSNBC never does.
Yep, this should give her a nice boost.
Other Republicans should use this as a template. Stand up to the evil clown media and voters will approve.
Amen. They are progressive and or leftist. And liberal poseurs at best.
BTW haven’t been following McSally ..how is she doing?
I know the fear is/was she is/was another McCain.
It is election season..does she believe what she is saying or is she trying to get re-elected ala McCain style?
McSally really struck a nerve, and DNCNN squealed like stuck piggies.
Hey! Are you calling Fredo Cuomo a liberal hack?
So where is the word “controversy” or “controversial” in reply to Northam and Virginia? Always used in trivial crap with our side.
Add to that....*** COMMUNIST HACKS ***
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