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  • CNN's Cillizza Repeats Wrong 2016 Prediction: Trump 'Rapidly Slipping Away'

    06/09/2020 3:00:32 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 19 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | June 9, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick
    If you boldly make an incredibly embarrassing prediction that turns out to be horribly wrong, wouldn't you prefer not to make that same mistake again? Most normal people would avoid repeating that error. However, CNN's Chris Cillizza revisited his 2016 electoral prediction and renewed it for 2020. Amazingly the two predictions have almost identical headlines. The 2016 Cillizza prediction appeared in the October 11, 2016 Washington Post in which he (and Aaron Blake) proclaimed that "The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump." After that prediction flopped, instead of putting it to sleep forever, it looks like...
  • Will Bob Beckel Address His Laughably Wrong Election Predictions on The Five?

    01/16/2017 12:05:36 PM PST · by PJ-Comix · 66 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | January 16, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick
    It has been announced today that Bob Beckel will be returning to The Five on Fox News. Of course, there is an issue that must be addressed almost from the moment that Beckel reappears on his old show. It is the laughably wrong predictions Beckel was making on CNN in the months leading into the November election. It wasn't just that his predictions were wrong but the over the top manner of cocky certitude in which they were delivered. Before we review Beckel's inadvertent comedy act while at CNN, let us read the news of his return to his old slot...