Posted on 05/12/2023 5:13:06 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
CNN’s prime-time broadcast of a raucous town hall with Donald Trump propelled a tsunami of criticism from inside and outside the network Thursday — and renewed questions about how the news media will handle the challenge of covering the serial falsehoods of the Republican Party’s leading candidate going into the 2024 election.
The former president repeatedly dodged or sneered at questions from CNN’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins, during the live, 70-minute forum at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. He doubled down on false claims that “a rigged election” led to his 2020 ouster and referred to writer E. Jean Carroll, who just prevailed in her lawsuit against him for defamation and battery, as a “whack job,” to cheers and laughter from the audience, made up of local Republican voters.
And when Collins pressed him on why he removed classified documents from the White House, he replied: “You are a nasty person.”
“Predictably disastrous,” wrote former network TV news executive Mark Lukasiewicz, part of a chorus of media critics and political observers who bemoaned the on-air spectacle. “Live lying works. A friendly MAGA crowd consistently laughs, claps at Trump’s punchlines … and the moderator cannot begin to keep up with the AR-15 pace of lies.”
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"Serial falsehoods". Uh huh. I suspect they'll cover them as they always have - by lying through their teeth about everything.
by disastrous do they mean high ratings for cnn?
hehehe
never let go of the con.
CNN’s programming every day is Trump...Trump...Trump.
When all you have are lies the truth sounds like a lie.
I’d love to know how this was allowed to happen...
I can’t believe XiNN dumped out 20 minutes early because things were going to plan.
Is this just what happens because Deep State refuses to hire the front office types for brains...
Or is something else at work here?
“Live lying works.”
And so does live cheating. Dems are experts at both. As well as live projecting.
It’s a good lesson for many Americans if they needed any more proof that these are not journalists or reporters they are just democrats and marxists with an agenda.
They don’t know anything about journalism they don’t care anything about journalism.
Their ‘allstar’ panel of DNC operatives getting it’s collective ass kicked by Bryon Donalds in the aftermath of the town hall probably didn’t do much to assuage leftist haters and never Trumpers either.
the AR-15 pace of lies.
Of course they drag out an idiotic analogy.
They prefer to machine gun questions at their victims.
“You bastard!”
“Now THAT I heard!”
I don’t want to be a pirate!
the AR-15 pace of lies
what complete and utter nonsense
I mean, how dare anyone be able to see anything other than the official media narrative in the media?
“Dodged or sneered”? Is that what my own two eyes saw? Is that what my own two ears heard?
my overall impression from the LEFT’s reaction
is that Trump should not be allowed to speak
“Liberal snowflakes be like...”
I hate to break it to you, but.... there is fast coming a time....when your average non-liberal patriot is going to be screaming to the cosmos, as well. Wondering “why” we sat by and did nothing....
while our nation was destroyed by radical leftists from within. I’m already wondering.
I keep hearing “he lied about everything” yet not a single example.
It’s laughable reading the DC Compost lamenting how they and the rest of the propagandists will cover the “serial falsehoods” of Trump in the upcoming campaign. They’ve been reporting serial lies for decades while providing cover for the Democrats and their GOP wingmen.
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