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CNN's Cornish Defends Francesca Hong's Loony Tweets: That Was Way Back in the 2020s!
NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 08/11/2026 10:52:08 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Tuesday’s CNN This Morning played a clip of the radical DSA candidate, the favorite to win Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, supposedly walking back her insanely radical positions.
In the clip, she offers this defense of her past calls to defund the police, abolish the U.S. Senate, and cancel Thanksgiving:
“I learned then you have some hot takes, sometimes bad takes, on Twitter, and I let my feelings out into the world.”
Francesca, Francesca! You let your feelings out? Do you realize you just admitted the crazy stuff is actually how you feel?
Host Audie Cornish did her best to cushion the admission. Offering a variation on the progressive “Woke 1.0 was crazy” retreat, Cornish said:
“The 2020s were a time, and the hashtag activism was a time, and people were just like, ‘Defund, send!’ you know, like, and it was everywhere.”
“The 2020s were a time?” We’re still in the 2020s!
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KEYWORDS: audiecornish; crazydemocrats; democrats; dsa; francescahong
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Defending nutjobs like Hong isn’t easy, but CNN’s Cornish gave it her best shot.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:53:02 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Yet the stupid Access Hollywood tape of Trump from 10+ yrs prior was ALL OVER TV..gee I guess its always (D)ifferent when commies do it
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The 2020’s were back when WW eleven was fought.
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:55:20 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The 2020’s were back when WW eleven was fought.
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:55:24 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: Sirius Lee
That’s journalism, folks!
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The traitorous media loves Xi’s daughter.
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:57:26 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald .)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
“The 2020s were a time?” We’re still in the 2020s!Don't bother him with details!
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:58:30 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: MrBambaLaMamba
Hong is Korean American I believe?
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posted on
08/11/2026 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
antceecee
( )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
[DEMOCRAT Francesca Hong calls to:
1) Defund the Police,
2) Abolish the U.S. Senate, and
3) Cancel Thanksgiving 🦃🍽️🌽🥔🍠]
🤦♂️🤦🤦♀️
Democrats Are
Destroying America
The Modern Democratic Party is an Absolute Disaster
And Hell-bent, literally, on sowing Godless Chaos and Destruction Organized Insurrection and Treason Against the Republic
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:02:51 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Don't bother HER with details!
Stupid autocorrect. 🙄
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:03:38 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: antceecee
She looks like a North Korean dictator.Probably would not hesitate to put somebody in a Gulag or a re-education camp.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:03:38 AM PDT
by
willk
(Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
To: antceecee
South Korean or North Korean?
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:04:34 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Today is about getting her the win in the Primary. They need ALL Nutjobs at the polls for that. Then they’ll have months to flush all this down the memory hole and make her look perfectly sane and respectable. Conservative, even.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:05:21 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(We are all Charlie Kirk now)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Abdulrahman Audie Cornish is a stark raving mad seditionist too.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:06:23 AM PDT
by
Kudsman
(4728)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
So I guess that Cornish would totally forgive someone who made a racist spew “back in the 2020’s.” Yeah I didn’t think so.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:15:15 AM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ian Haworth
@ighaworth
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I love the way we’re talking about 2020 like it’s 1920, and 1619 like it’s 2025.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:20:01 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:22:45 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
To: Clay Moore
Exactly. I am so torn up about mocking transsexuals in 2020. Now I just think they are all mental.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:23:47 AM PDT
by
Kudsman
(4728)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
… people were just like, ‘Defund, send!’ you know, like, and it was everywhere.” Because, you know, like, I had to like, go along with this because like, you know, it was you know, like, what all the cool kids were like, into.
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posted on
08/11/2026 11:36:04 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(I hate the word “literally.” )
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