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CNN Host Phil Mattingly's Pauline Kael Moment
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 09/05/2023 2:37:49 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as saying, "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” The actual quote might actually have been a bit different, but the point remains: liberal elitists live in an echo chamber of their own ideas.
On Monday, Phil Mattingly (recently named Kaitlin Collins' permanent replacement as a co-host of CNN This Morning) seemed to have his own Pauline Kael moment.
Mattingly was commenting on a recent column by CNN analyst Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic entitled "Why Biden Just Can't Shake Trump in the Polls." Said Mattingly:
"Ron, I think that the value of this piece, and I say this often about your analysis, is you listen to Donna Brazile, you listen to people talk, and it's just this constant how, why, why does this keep happening? Even after seven years of it always happening to some degree."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; ...
This CNN host apparently never speaks with any of the tens of millions of Americans who continue to support Trump avidly.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
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09/05/2023 2:39:46 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
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09/05/2023 2:46:33 AM PDT
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servo1969
To: servo1969
Thanks, servo: I messed up my link!
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posted on
09/05/2023 3:00:23 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
They live on the bubble, and Trump voices are censored or balkanized in the media, so they are never exposed to conservative ideas, nor are their liberal ideas challenged.
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09/05/2023 3:39:08 AM PDT
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Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
This is what I get when I click on your link:
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posted on
09/05/2023 4:29:25 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone? It was “Pedo Peter”. -- Jim Hoft )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
He saved the country by creating the vaccine.
To: nickcarraway
"He" didn't create the vaccine. He did rely on the Communist shill Fauci to promote a 'vacccine' that 'science' purported to be safe.
..but you knew that, right?
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posted on
09/05/2023 5:20:24 AM PDT
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Thommas
(The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as sayingDecember 1972.
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posted on
09/05/2023 5:22:35 AM PDT
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Jim Noble
(They don't think you know but I know that you do.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: Jim Noble
So uninformed is the etiolated conservative media that it cannot even get basic facts right.
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:28:34 AM PDT
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nwrep
To: nwrep
“So uninformed is the etiolated conservative media that it cannot even get basic facts right.“
Well then, have achieved parody with the army of leftist propagandists that masquerade as journalists
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09/05/2023 7:38:01 AM PDT
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iamgalt
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The media shills regurg' the DNC talking points, generating what Chomsky called (and endorsed) 'manufactured consent'. Even the Murdoch larvae's planned implosion of Faux News is part of this.
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posted on
09/05/2023 7:48:24 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Jim Noble
Thanks for the correction!
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09/05/2023 8:00:40 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: GOPJ
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09/05/2023 8:00:58 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: nwrep
The quote was wrong, also, but I didn’t have time to post the right one.
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posted on
09/05/2023 8:03:52 AM PDT
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Jim Noble
(They don't think you know but I know that you do.)
To: Jim Noble
Yes, and this is also what happens when one becomes strongly anti-intellectual, as the right has become over the past decade or so.
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09/05/2023 8:05:32 AM PDT
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nwrep
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Thanks. Enjoyed the site statement too... we're all getting on the same page:
As leftist policies drive our country toward third-world status with open borders, bare shelves, caviar-priced gas, and out-of-control inflation, the media sell a fantasy of rainbow skies and rivers made of chocolate. It’s called propaganda. And when the media aren’t spinning lies, they ignore news that doesn't fit the leftist narrative.
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09/05/2023 8:29:09 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone? It was “Pedo Peter”. -- Jim Hoft )
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
09/05/2023 9:00:56 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That’s a misquotation. She wasn’t surprised. She knew she lived in a very different world from most Americans and was commenting on that.
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09/05/2023 9:06:36 AM PDT
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