Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked

Townhall.com ^ | December 4, 2020 | David Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

Project Veritas' expose of CNN's behind-the-scenes conference calls shows that the network's slogan should be "We won't fully report so you can't knowledgeably decide."

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, in the ultimate trolling coup of the year, monitored and recorded CNN's morning conference call with CNN President Jeff Zucker and other company executives and reporters for some two months. O'Keefe has released the first batch of audiotapes from those calls, which confirm the network's anti-Donald Trump, pro-Joe Biden bias.

Exposing CNN's liberal bias is no bombshell, as it is self-evident to any objective viewer, but it is deliciously affirming to hear these legacy media frauds betray their corruption in their own words. There's no explaining away their admissions of news doctoring in these tapes.

The recordings prove that the executives not only dictate the network's editorial slant but also manipulate its news side in deciding what stories will be reported and how they will be presented -- to ensure that Trump is portrayed in a negative light and Biden is protected at all costs.

It would be less objectionable if the network would admit that it has a liberal bias, but it does the opposite: The anchors and reporters hold themselves out as consummate journalists, exemplary professionals committed to giving their viewers information without a partisan filter. Through these tapes, they've vindicated our long-standing charge that their mission is to tailor the news to fit their liberal narrative, rather than to fairly report it. These are the same people who sermonize on air and on Twitter daily about the importance of honest journalism and political integrity, and who denigrate so-called conservative networks as hopelessly biased.

You've seen how CNN and other liberal outlets have insulated Biden from any serious questions before and after the election. Throughout the campaign, in what I believe is one of the greatest journalistic scandals of our time, the media persistently shielded Biden from press scrutiny and ignored his obvious cognitive decline. At a rare post-election Biden press conference, they asked him no policy questions, only softballs concerning Trump's "continued stonewalling" of Biden's transition. In the same vein, during an unscheduled appearance a few days ago, the press asked Biden only one question: "Mr. President-elect, how does your foot feel?"

This is in stark contrast to how the press has harassed and bullied Trump, and how Zucker directed his minions to treat Trump while Trump was recovering from the coronavirus. On one of the recorded calls, Zucker appears to say: "OK, I just want to re-emphasize that, you know, I think we cannot normalize what has happened here in the last week with Trump and his behavior. And I go back to what ... David Chalian" -- CNN vice president and political director -- "said, that this is a president who knows he's losing it, who knows he's in trouble, is sick, maybe is on the after-effects of steroids or not. I don't know, but he is acting erratically and desperately, and we need to -- we need to not normalize that. ... He is all over the place and acting erratically. And I think we need to lean into that."

So Zucker basically told his people, without any medical proof, that Trump is possibly compromised in a way that could affect his judgment and that they should go out of their way to showcase that and depict Trump as unstable. This wasn't news or journalism but an outright, baseless smear to impact the upcoming election.

In another call, Zucker opines that, while Breitbart, the New York Post and Fox News were pursuing the Hunter Biden corruption story, he put more stock in the Wall Street Journal's take that Joe Biden had no role in any of Hunter Biden's transactions with China. "And, yes," Zucker apparently says, "I do put more credibility in the Wall Street Journal than I do in the New York Post."

Here again, we hear Zucker pressuring his team (it's doubtful the team needed any prodding) to report only one side of the story -- the side debunking the corruption claims -- and omit the serious factual reporting that would substantiate the allegations. An honest network would have presented both sides and let its viewers make their own assessment. But for CNN, it was imperative not to give the Biden corruption story any credence.

This type of news spinning has an impact. A post-election study by the Media Research Center showed that some 17% of Biden voters said they wouldn't have voted for him had they known about some of these news stories. Forty-five percent of Biden voters said they didn't know about allegations concerning Hunter Biden's shady business deals, and 9.4% said they wouldn't have voted for him had they known.

Liberal politicians and media figures constantly rail against threats to "our democracy," but there is no greater threat to democracy than a corrupt news media, because it emasculates free speech, which is the single greatest constitutional safeguard for the integrity of our representative republic.

[SkyPilot]

The answer to that trite questions: "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" is of course - YES. How arrogant to believe that God's laws of physics and sound mechanics no longer apply because an arrogant human being is not present.

So, if a scandal erupts in the media, and no one reports it, did it occur? Yes again, but propaganda if highly effective on the weak minded, the lazy, and the fearful.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

The whole place acts like a propaganda arm for Dems. It actually is. They are worse than Russia Today.

[sauropod]

Yep.

[Liz]

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, monitored and recorded CNN's morning editorial conference call for some two months....

And isnt it a kick hearing the CNN PTB plotting the "news of the day"?

Commandant Zucker dictates the network's editorial slant. Zucker and his henchmen are in lockstep manipulating
news items, hand-picking stories to be reported, and how they will be presented...... deciding stories like Hunter's
laptop should be ditched to save Joe Biden's ***.

CNN made sure candidate Biden was protected at all costs.

This makes CNN a criminal accessory after the fact, aiding and abetting, colluding in the Democrats' election steal.

NEED TO KNOW---When did CNN know about the election steal....and when did they know it?

[nuconvert]

Ya got that right!

[servantboy777]

When the media becomes a propaganda machine for a particular party or ideology...you become one step closer to a dictatorship.

This is where we find ourselves. Various agencies of the ferrule gubbamint such as the IRS, FBI, CIA, DOJ...have been used as weapons against American citizens.

Yea, the ol democrats are loving it now. Problem is, when it happens to one side, it will eventually be reciprocated toward the other side. And on and on it goes.

Then when half of the nation perceives their voices are not heard, their votes do not count, oppression begins to set in...you have revolution or civil war.

These people think they’re winning...but in the end, we will all lose.

[Chainmail]

Umm, no: if the tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, it didn't make a sound. A sound is the action of the vibration in the air arriving at a person's ear and that person's brain receives and interprets it.

If the tree falls, it make the air vibrate for sure but without anyone to hear it, it isn't a sound.

[Getready]

They also did it to make it seem natural that Biden would win the election, when, instead, the election was predeterminedly tampered with.
We need to defund these liars. I don’t need to watch them. I dont have a msm supplier. If your media supplier wont cut them out, then cut off the media supplier. All liars need to be cut off.

[lgjhn23]

CNN is a rotting, dead financial albatross around the neck of AT&T. Here’s to hoping that AT&T can never spin it off and financially gags on the stench.

[Carl Vehse]

"This makes CNN a criminal accessory after the fact"

If the U.S. had a less treasonous DOJ/FBI, we'd probably have evidence that CNN was a criminal accessory BEFORE the November fraudulent election.

[Liz]

[Ahithophel]

That “trite question” posed by Bishop Barkley serves as a gateway into discussion and analysis of metaphysics. Any comments to share on John Locke’s theories on the subject?

[Liz]

POSTER IN ZUCKER’S OFFICE-—words he lives by
“Not every item of news should be published. Rather those who control news policies must endeavor
to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” ~ Joseph Goebbels (The Third Reich’s Minister of Propaganda)

[silent majority rising]

O’Keefe said that he would release two every day until the end of the year.

[Getready]

Didn’t know that.

[silent majority rising]

“CNN made sure candidate Biden was protected at all costs.”

Zucker threatened O’Keefe with a criminal prosecution, but whoever recorded the conversations was a CNN employee who obviously gave his permission. The employee might be in trouble, but not O’Keefe.

However, Zucker provided extremely valuable services to the Biden Campaign and the Democratic Party far in excess of Federal Law. Therefore, he has opened himself up to criminal prosecution, as well as CNN...

[KobraKai]

Modern day der Sturmer. Modern day Volkischer Beobachter.

[IncPen]

The board of directors should be prosecuted for malfeasance.

ATT is reportedly trying to unload CNN...

[Liz]

(H/T silent majority rising).

Zucker threatened O’Keefe with a criminal prosecution, but whoever recorded the conversations was a
CNN employee who obviously gave his permission. The employee might be in trouble, but not O’Keefe.

FACTS ON THE GROUND--- Zucker provided extremely valuable services to the Biden Campaign
AND the Democratic Party far in excess of Federal election Law. Therefore, Zucker has unwittingly
opened up himself and CNN to criminal prosecution.

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