Posted on 08/11/2020 1:23:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
CNN guest Errin Haines claimed Sunday that there’s no network on the left dedicated to tearing down President Donald Trump, at least not in the way that right-wing radio shows attack former Vice President Joe Biden.
Haines joined fellow panelists Nicole Hemmer and David Zurawik on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with host Brian Stelter to discuss the way that some right-wing radio hosts have attacked Biden.
Stelter began by playing clips from several radio shows — including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro — saying that Biden was “falling apart” or broadcasting “from a nursing home” rather than his own basement.
He then turned the question to Hemmer, asking, “Nicole, first to you, negative partisanship, it kind of explains everything about what is broken in our media environment because there’s all of these media outlet, all of these radio stars constantly attacking, fueling hatred of the other side. Am I right to say this happens on the left and the right but it’s more severe on the right currently?”
“Yes. I would say it’s more severe on the right currently,” Hemmer replied, saying that the right’s tradition of attacking from “overtly ideological media outlets” went back at least three decades. “There is this sort of habit of attacking Democrats that goes pretty far back. If you look at like the 1990s and the way that Rush Limbaugh and others sort of sharpened their teeth on Bill Clinton, this is the way they built audiences,” she explained.
Stelter then turned to Haines, asking whether she knew of any networks on the left that were as dedicated to destroying Trump. “When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent of that on the left, tearing down Trump?” he asked.
“There really isn’t. What I would say is it’s really a diet of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting,” Haines replied. “A lot of the voters I talk to, I can — when I interview them, I do hear them saying a lot of the talking points that sound very familiar from some of these shows that I try to listen to when I’m out on the campaign trail or when I’m home, watching TV. You can hear these comments being echoed by voters.”
Haines went on to say that President Trump’s use of social media to bypass legacy media outlets and speak directly to the public had only intensified that response.
Errin who?
Newspeak. Good is bad. It was supposed to be a mediocre high school level work of fiction, not a guide book for modern society.
Live not by lies...
Yeah I guess referring to President Trump as Adolf Hitler, a Nazi, Mussollini is just a term of endearment
Technically the title of this article is correct. There is no network(singular) dedicated to tearing down President Trump. However, all networks(plural) are dedicated to tearing down President Trump.
“There are no vampires” -Count Dracula
lol
I knew they did a lot of opinion, instead of news, but did not know they were getting into comedy.
Joe Biden was on to something! We need Mandatory Drug Screening along with common sense Licensing, Regulations and Training for Presstitutes engaged in Commercial Speech
I heard a lot of woppers in my 60 years....that may take the cake. Surprised she didn’t spontaneously combust when she said that.
In terms of radio, she is correct. Lefties can't make it in talk radio. Maybe because their would-be listeners get enough left-wing anti-Trump propaganda on TV and aren't interested in talk radio?
I dont recall the right making movies showing Biden’s assassination.
ERROR WHO?
So she announces on the network exclusively devoted to bringing down Trump 24/7
And the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy are Democrats and wil vote for Biden.
sheesh....News sites need to quite reporting about CNN....it just gives them what they want.
sheesh....News sites need to quite reporting about CNN....it just gives them what they want.
Well, they had “Air America” radio. Fell apart quickly once Bush was out of office and they had nothing to really whine about anymore.
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