42 Replies to “This Is CNN”

    1. You can call CNN whatever you want, nothing bad is going to happen to CNN. There is no justice in America if you are conservative. There is an obvious ‘get out of jail free’ card for all liberals. There is going to be a civil war because this can’t be sustained other than the way it’s done in China.

  1. What puzzles me is this: Doesn’t Jeff Zucker realize that his job is to make a profit for the owners of CNN and that using a business for a crusade against someone is essentially writing an epitaph for that business?

    Don’t CNN’s owners understand that?

    Or are they so blinded by their disdain for Donald Trump that they’re willing to do themselves in so as to try to defeat him?

    1. From what I’ve read and heard, Zucker had or has ambitions to be President, and he also worked closely with Trump while at NBC during ‘The Apprentice’ years. The antagonism was competitive and personal.

    2. Gary, one factual error, in an otherwise compelling video, was the assertion that Jeff Zucker and the CNN are “only out to make a profit”, and that’s what brought CNN into decline. No, if anything Zucker himself is in the process of destroying CNN’s ratings, by turning CNN into and ultra-left propaganda machine. If CNN was operated like a profit-maximixing business, there would be an internal move to improve journalistic quality at CNN, and elsewhere.

      A compelling video, and thanks for posting. I bet Project Veritas is hated right about now by the corrupt elites.

    3. They live in a bubble. They think that mainstream America has their back, and that they (CNN) will be vindicated. Arrogance, a tiny view of what they think is America, and self righteousness.
      They won’t change, any more than Hollywood will.
      And the release of this video? Meh. It is what CNN viewers WANT them to be doing, and Zucker knows it.

      1. Uhh, first timer, you are missing the point. CNN is in the absolute basement in ratings, nobody is watching.

  2. In the wake of this expose’ … I expect the FAA will remove CNN from every video screen in every airport in America. And the FCC will open hearings to examine the content and veracity of CNN broadcasts. Hahahaha ha ha … yeah, never gonna happen.

    However, you know if a similar video was produced and showed that kind of personal obsessive, vendetta and bending of the truth by Fox News … the FCC would step in and open Hearings on the channel’s content, and temporarily take them off the air till Jan. 2021 while they examine the bias and falsehoods.

    1. even when they don’t get caught flat out lying….they make is so obvious across the board

      …it’s like watching Sesame Street on every channel

      Today’s word is “childish”…..today’s word is “bully”….pass out the flash cards…and they are all in lock step

  3. Traitors and treason are part of America and accepted as normal just as communism is accepted
    Just as insanity is accepted. A dumbed down society and people are no longer able to discern the truth and will willingly throw away their freedom because they are stupid.

  4. The New York Times broke the “Trump murders media personalities in a church” video, purposely timing the video release to suppress media coverage of the Project Veritas expose. After all, the corporate media giants protect their own. And it shows how geeky conservative types can hurt Trump’s cause by creating violent videos against left-wing types.

    Fortunately, Project Veritas knows enough to release its treasure trove of CNN in little-by-little bits, so that the NYT tactical move cannot be done repeatedly. One can bet that there will be turmoil within the CNN office-cesspool. All to the good. One wonders how many people in the P.V. video will be fired.

    1. You think this “hurts” Trump’s cause?

      Pretty obvious this “David Murrell” sock puppet, falls in the category of “if we are just more polite, it will all get better”.

      How many decades you been trying polite for , “David”? Anything changed yet? They stopped calling you racist? They stopped calling you homophobe? They stopped calling you islamophobe? You get that party invite yet, the one you been waiting for?

      Yeah, Andrew Scheer hasn’t gotten any invitations to the “right” parties yet either. But he keeps up the virtue signalling efforts.

      1. Re-read my post. I do not think the Project Veritas video (which Kate posted for this thread) is “polite”. In fact, the amassed set of video film P.V. has is the furthest thing is to politeness. My post states that the NYT, to protect its corrupt media pals, released the mass-killing parody video to silence the P.V. revelations. As of today, the media cabal is censoring the P.V. revelations.

        You attack me (Btw, David Murrell is my real name). But I have been active in the conservative movement since the mid-1980s. In the past, I have (1) mailed confidential Public Works documents to the media at the start of the AdScam affair, and (2) mailed confidential Department of Finance documents to the media, in 2001, stating that British Columbia would start receiving equalization payments. The latter revelation came in a BC provincial election election, and helped reduce the then NDP government under Ujjal Dosangh to a party with three seats. These activities were not polite.

        I am against activity which embarrasses the conservative cause. This includes violence and foul language. But the latter does no good.

      2. And btw, as stated before I am undecided so as to my vote. Please do not invent lies out of thin air by saying I am a Scheer supporter. And my vote is my private business, not yours.

  5. “We have a lot of people here that are trying to do what they think is the best of journalistic integrity.” Key line, in my view (though the speaker was talking against Zucker in that instance). The blinders are on, they can only see one way, so that must be the only way to see things that must be allowed.

    I wonder if there’s any self-doubt about how they’re killing journalistic integrity by being so one sided. Or perhaps there’s an assumption that they can somehow get their innocence (public trust) back by doubling down on their methods and calling for more book and witch burnings?

  6. Operation Mockingbird has been flushed out into the open big time, I’ll bet the 4 am talking points are flowing like water over Niagara to every participant in the media. Just take the time to call a major newsroom at the TV or am radio and ask about the secure email talking points every day. The phone will be hung up quickly from the other end. Thank you James O’keef, wish we had a Canadian like you.

    1. wish we had a Canadian like you.
      We do …. Ezra Levant and his crew have been exposing the “media party” for years. It’s just that we are a small pond and we have no fox news to report for us other than “The Rebel” which is stifled by liberal governments all day long. No Canadian Rush Limbaugh either …. Canada has no right wing … really.

      1. It really helped the Rebel when Scheer banned the Rebel from everything; JUST LIKE THE NDP, THE LIBERALS, THE GREENS, ….

        I am going across the street to where the only election sign I have seen is for Kelly Block. I think I will punch whomever answers the door in the face.

        Very odd lack of election signs this time around. Only seen one on private property, anywhere, that Kelly Block sign across the street. Seen 3, maybe four in the usual public area sign dumps. That is it.

        It is almost like, there are more people as angry as I am, than I thought were out there…

        Almost like, there are more people out there who are saying to themselves:
        “Andrew Scheer been in Parliament 14 years, and he is finally going to fix something now?”
        “Maxime Bernier been in Parliament for 13 years, and he is finally going to fix something now?”
        “The NDP been there the whole time, they finally going to fix problems now?”
        “The Liberals been there the whole time…”
        “The CPoC been there the whole time…”

        Our only choices, are an endless succession of Joe Bidens, who have been there their entire adult lives, and the problems have never been resolved. Or western independence.

        1. Part of the reason is the polarization. Many people are just not saying who they voting for when they intend to vote Conservative because of the backlash. I had a Conservative sign on my lawn for the provincial election. I got so much flack from my “progressive” neighbours I declined to put one out for the Conservatives at the Federal level.

  7. Just pathetic. A while ago Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, said he doesn’t recognize it anymore and it is just entertainment.

    1. CNN was at its peak during Bush War I. Its coverage of the attack on Baghdad was unsurpassed.

      Then there was the time when Boris Yeltsin ordered the attack on the Russian parliament. I watched some of the CNN feed when CBC Newsworld carried it.

      After that, CNN started going downhill.

    2. Ted Turner? Hanoi Jane Fonda’s one-time husband? That Ted Turner doesn’t recognize how Leftist CNN has become? Pshaw!

  8. Jeez, I feel so sorry that my American sisters and brothers don’t enjoy the pan-national objectivity and fairness that we get from all our press/media this side of the Border.

  9. Is this really any different than what we see in Canada? Useless Harper had a huge majority and did nothing about the CBC or the CRTC. Why are Canadian taxpayers forced to pay for all the BS programming no one wants? The blocking of all US content not approved by CRTC. Sending the RCMP after Canadians who had direct satellite bypassing Canadian laws on what adults in Canada can see and hear. Why do we still allow the CRTC to control what we can see and hear. Why? Because Canadians are sheep and Harper was a LIBERAL. Canada has only varying shades of Communism to choose from. CNN is nothing compared to the Stalinist control of all media and arts in Canada.
    “Canada is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.’ Claire Wolfe.

    1. I agree that CBC should be defunded. However, we both know that defunding will not change the imbalance and bias of our general media. CTV any better? Toronto Star?
      I know, at least we won’t be paying for their smug platitudes of “what Canadians value”, and seeing some of them unemployed may satisfy our frustrations, but we are in a culture war. Unless more Canadians see that and choose to stand their ground and push back against the relentless onslaught of the other side, the remaining media will keep pounding away at the foundations of Canada until there is nothing left. People without a foundation will eventually go along with whatever they are told enough times. CBC may be the worst of the lot, but the rest of the MSM would continue unabashed.
      The media are the real enemy. JT without them would be nothing, and most of what he does is an attempt to look good to them. Without Fox, Trump may well have not been elected, and we have no parallel widely disseminated alternative voice in Canada.

      1. “Unless more Canadians see that and choose to stand their ground and push back against the relentless onslaught of the other side, the remaining media will keep pounding away at the foundations of Canada until there is nothing left.”

        Bingo. But to date, Canadians have been for turning, not for standing ground.

  10. It strikes me that we expect, over and over again, objectivity from the news. Yet, it has never been objective. Why do we always seem to be surprised when we learn a media outlet had bias and seeks to exert their influence (Toronto Star vs. Toronto Sun)?

    For some reason we worry about the affect of that outlet on the other person, while understanding, and feeling immune to the bias ourselves. We get emotional when shown a truth we’ve all been aware of since Junior High.

    This video, while interesting, is neither surprising nor did I hear anything (in my non-expert opinion) illegal. It’s simply the way that he has chosen to run his business and define the brand / editorial approach.

    In a world of near infinite data, moderate doesn’t stand out.

    My final thought is that dude with his secret camera just got some of his interviewees (subjects?) in alot of trouble with their employer. Not exactly a quality move.

  11. True believers, gonna truly believe. Not much to say about it. Zealots gonna zealot. Cultists gonna drink the Kool-Aid.

  12. Do you suppose anyone at cbc have the guts to do what this dude did?
    na, not a chance……to bad.
    cbc the 650 million bought and paid advertiseing agency for the corrupt lieberal party of Canada.

  13. This isn’t news. It is a confirmation of what Captain Obvious has been saying all along. There is no media that isn’t essentially partisan political functionaries with varying levels of subtlety. In Canada, leftist media constitutes >95% of the total while in the US, that figure is lower but nowhere near representative of the population.

  14. When there is the middle ground to cover with real reporting and they choose to project a radical left voice, what in hell are they thinking. They are battling on the left with MSNBC for half of the left half when they could stake the middle ground and lead. Doesn’t CNN have shareholders who prefer money to petty personal bickering? I guess not.

  15. Melania Trump is the best dressed FLOTUS since Jackie Kennedy.

    One simple way I’ve found to illustrate media bias is to ask folks (especially women) if they’ve ever seen Melania on any fashionista magazine covers at the news stands or checkouts.

    The absence of same helps people understand ‘media bias’.

      1. Marilyn was hardly a hooker.
        Times were different then, but the same applies.
        What’s not in the news is not in the public eye.

        Melania dominates other political wives through poise, style and stature as no one before her, yet is unseen on the news stands…because Trump.

        Folks need a simple, yet effective, wake up call to realize they’re being played.

        1. I wasn’t thinking of Marilyn although Hollywood starlets have been known to exchange sex for upward mobility which is pretty much the same thing. The night that JFK out-debated Nixon, his Secret Service detail stood out in the hallway of a hotel while JFK was doing a hooker (not Marilyn) so he could be less stressed for the debate. The Secret Service guys sat on it for decades before going public.

  16. Kennedy never out-debated Nixon.
    Radio listeners thought Nixon was the stronger debater.
    TV viewers thought Kennedy the stronger presenter.
    Radio was to TV as land lines are to cell phones.

    Nixon was the Hillary of his day in terms of expectation and result, which is unsettling with 2020 around the corner, and no clear candidate for the Dems.

  17. O’Keefe pretty much exposed what we’ve always known but for which we never had the smoking gun: CNN is a left wing fog horn with not even the slightest interest in objectivity, notwithstanding its protestations to the contrary.
    As though eight retractions in seven days wasn’t enough, now with these tapes we can say it, “CNN, the most busted name in news.”

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