CNN Trashed Mount Rushmore During Trump Visit, But Praised It During Obama Visit

PJ Media ^ | 07/05/2020 | Matt Margolis

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President Donald Trump’s trip to Mount Rushmore on Friday was met with jeers from the ever-so-reliably anti-Trump network CNN, which had all kinds of negative things to say about the monument in connection to Trump’s visit.

“President Trump will be at Mt. Rushmore where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that [they are] focusing on the effort to, quote, tear down our country’s history,” reported CNN Leyla Santiago on The Lead with Jake Tapper.

We could check the archives, but safe bet that this is the first time CNN has ever described Mount Rushmore as:

“A monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”

What changed, @CNN?pic.twitter.com/0ukqhyVH7B

— Tim Murtaugh – Download the Trump 2020 app today! (@TimMurtaugh) July 3, 2020

She wasn’t alone in showing such glaring negativity towards Mount Rushmore.

“[A]t a time of racial unease, when protesters are tearing down statues of slaveholders and calling for the names of Confederate generals to be removed from army bases, the Rushmore event is a reminder that Trump is fighting to preserve these relics of heritage and history that some see as symbols of oppression,” said CNN Senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns. “And to indigenous people, Mount Rushmore, with four white presidents, two of whom were slave owners, is one of those symbols.”

But, boy, did CNN have a different attitude about Barack Obama’s visit to Mount Rushmore in May 2008, while campaigning for president.

“Obama arrived there late last night and got a good look around Mount Rushmore — it’s quite a sight if you haven’t seen it,” said CNN anchor Rob Marciano.

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“Barack Obama is in South Dakota today. He arrived there last night. Take a look at this. He got a good glimpse of the majestic Mount Rushmore,” fellow CNN anchor Betty Nguyen said later in the same broadcast.

A few days later, CNN’s Jim Acosta described Obama’s visit to Mount Rushmore like this: “It’s a fitting campaign stop for a presidential contender looking to make history. Standing before Mount Rushmore over the weekend, Barack Obama was asked whether he sees his face joining the likes of Washington and Lincoln.”

It’s amazing how Mount Rushmore went from “quite a sight,” “majestic,” and “a fitting campaign stop” when Obama visited but turned into a symbol of slavery and oppression when Donald Trump visited.

[exnavy]

Democrat slight of hand.

[Sans-Culotte]

and on land wrestled away from Native Americans

And yet, we never hear reporters say "reporting from New York, from the island the Native Americans were swindled out of..."

[PGalt]

The TOTALITARIAN DESTROYERS of history are setting the stage for the re-write.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOM2fT6tBFE

Happy Birthday America and Americans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjsAy7HFeX0

I’ll be lovin’ you always.

Excelsior!

[JBW1949]

That was to be expected from CNN...
Just like Kaepernick wishing everyone a happy 4th of July in 2011 when Obxxx wa in office, then condemning the 4th of July yesterday when TRUMP is in office...

Two faced MF’er...

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RE: we never hear reporters say “reporting from New York, from the island the Native Americans were swindled out of...”

Hey, if you prefer beads to an island and WILLINGLY traded one for the other and DID NOTHING to make what you traded away for valuable, how is that a swindle?

[Rusty0604]

WATCH: Bernie Sanders Hails Mount Rushmore As “Our Country At Its Very Best” In 2015 CNN Clip

“Just the accomplishment and the beauty,” says the progressive leader of the monument, which he visited during a South Dakota campaign tour in 2015. “It really does make one very proud to be an American.

This is our country at its very best… What an incredible achievement,” says Sanders of Rushmore,

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-bernie-sanders-hails-mount-rushmore-as-our-country-at-its-very-best-in-2015-cnn-clip/

[Don Corleone]

and on land wrestled away from Native Americans

I hate to tell her that the WHOLE OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENTS WERE INDIGENOUS NATIVE LANDS. The Norsemen were here before Christoforo..

[silent majority rising]

“Bombardier to Pilot: Over the target, sir. Bombs away!”

[bert]

I saw an interesting clip just a day or so ago. It was with the ATT CEO who retired on july 1. He sounded like a pure communist and is certainly the reason ATT hangs on to CNN and permits such an Anti American sewer to exist.

He still has a title something emeritus, but his control is gone

Perhaps the new ATT CEO will make a sound business decision and destroy the money losing Cancer that is CNN and blight on the ATT name

[Sans-Culotte]

I hate to tell her that the WHOLE OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENTS WERE INDIGENOUS NATIVE LANDS. The Norsemen were here before Christoforo..

That's what is amusing about the comments. For some reason, the left is fixated on Mount Rushmore of all places as "belonging to the Native Americans". I guess it's because it's flyover country to them and because they hate the site of the remarkable monument there.

BTW, Columbus "discovered" America and deserves the credit. Some Vikings may have come over and established some settlements, but it was essentially done in secret. Even though Columbus failed in his mission to reach Japan and China, he was the one that established there was something real across the Atlantic.

[jeffersondem]

“Hey, if you prefer beads to an island and WILLINGLY traded one for the other and DID NOTHING to make what you traded away for valuable, how is that a swindle?”

The history around the fabled exchange is murky; some of the history may have been invented.

Regardless, there is a legitimate question as to whether each party in the deal had reasonable knowledge of relevant facts, a must in a willing-buyer, willing-seller transaction.

[frank ballenger]

Good catches.

I wonder if this means Acosta and CNN are total hypocrites? /S

[trublu]

I’m sure Ms. Santiago’s home sits on land “wrestled from Native Americans”. When does she plan to leave?

[Gene Eric]

CNN is ATT

It’s Antifa Telephone & Telegraph that trashed Mt Rushmore.

[Hernando Cortez]

History: For everyone from a website on the black hills

“By 1750, the Lakota, mostly the Oglala and Brule bands, had moved to the southeastern area of present-day South Dakota, near the Missouri River. Here they encountered the Arikara, and attacked and pushed them out of the area. During the late 1700s to early 1800s, the Lakota came to control the lands in the Black Hills and on the northern plains by the eviction of the Cheyenne and the Crow tribes; areas that would later become western South Dakota, eastern Montana, northern Wyoming and northern Nebraska.”

[elbook]

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These Apparatchiks are weaving their own nooses.

People wont forget how these leftist media wankers have betrayed them.

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BOYCOTT LEFTIST MEDIA WANKERS

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[sauropod]

Re: the picture you posted.

Jon McNaughton just did a sketch of that. I just ordered one.