Recent presidential debates have blown out of the water any lingering claims the American mainstream media might have had to “objectivity”. In 2016, hosts CNN primed Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton with leaked questions. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden was allowed to get away with spouting blatant whoppers, denying the veracity of his son’s “laptop from hell”.
Seeing a pattern, here?
Don’t expect any better from CNN in 2024. In fact, expect a lot worse. CNN showed its colours days ahead of the first debate.
A CNN host cut Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from the air just days before the network is set to host the first 2024 presidential debate.
Leavitt was cut off only minutes after the interview began.
Because – how dare she! – she tried to point out that the debate “moderators” were hopelessly biased.
“President Trump is well prepared ahead of Thursday’s debates. Unlike Joe Biden, he doesn’t have to hide away and have his advisers tell him what to say. President Trump knows what he wants to say,” Leavitt started.
She then highlighted that the debate would most likely be a “hostile environment” for Trump, mentioning how the network’s moderators, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have a previous history of biased coverage against him.
“That’s why President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network on CNN with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years in their biased coverage of him,” she said.
Leavitt was obviously referring to CNN’s Jake Tapper, who is well known for his unhinged Trump Derangement Syndrome, including frequently comparing the former president to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
The nerve of the broad!
Meanwhile, host and political correspondent Kasie Hunt, who was interviewing Leavitt, fired back and asserted that her CNN colleagues were “professionals” before playing prepared clips showing Trump’s past comments regarding what he’s expecting to face from moderators.
Ah, yes, the ‘professionalism’ of the guy who spread the knowingly false “Russiagate” fake news and accused the former president of trying to “kill democracy” and supposedly “echoing” Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
A veritable paragon of sober impartiality.
As Leavitt tried to clear her throat and speak up, as it was supposed to be her turn to speak, Hunt simply drowned her out and continued to do so several times at any point that Leavitt noted the bias of past remarks said by both CNN moderators.
“Ma’am, we’re going to stop right there if you’re going to keep attacking my colleagues,” Hunt said.
She means, if you keep saying truths we don’t want our audience to hear.
As Jack Posobiec tweeted, This is a preview of how CNN will act during the debate.
“CNN cutting off my microphone for bringing up a debate moderator’s history of anti-Trump lies just proves our point that President Trump will not be treated fairly in Thursday’s debate,” Leavitt said. “Yet President Trump is still willing to go into this 3–1 fight to bring his winning message to the American people, and he will win.”
Then there’s this unintentional howler from an indignant CNN:
In a statement released on Monday, CNN defended Tapper and Bash, vaguely stating that the two are “well respected veteran journalists who have covered politics for more than five decades combined.”
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Oh, I didn’t realise I’d accidentally tuned in to Comedy Central.
