CNN:WTF?
How in the HELL can we take CNN any more seriously than we can take FOX? The “most trusted name in news” regularly allows itself to be the platform for a lying hag who is little more than a Chimpy hagiographer.
We’re not talking about things that might be matters of opinion here-this nasty skank is telling bold-faced, flat-out LIES on a program where “news” is supposedly discussed. You might as well flip it to FOX and listen to Beck’s rantings when it comes to Mary Matalin; she’s a nasty, lying, stupid waste of your time.
On CNN today, GOP strategist and former Dick Cheney adviser Mary Matalin argued that President Obama is speaking too much about the severe debt, deficits, and economic recession he inherited from the previous administration. Defending her former boss, Matalin charged that President Bush had in fact “inherited a recession” and the September 11th attacks from President Clinton:
MATALIN: I was there, we inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history. And President Bush dealt with it and within a year of his presidency within a comparable time, unemployment was at 5 percent.
In reality, the terror attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center occurred on Sept. 11, 2001 — eight months into President Bush’s first term. Also, the 2001 recession technically began in March of 2001, well after Bush assumed office. Last month, former Bush administration spokesperson Dana Perino claimed that “we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.” Former Bush administration officials seem intent on misrepresenting history to pretend that the country never suffered its worst terror attack in history under Bush’s watch. It’s a peculiar talking point, even considering the other efforts to whitewash Bush’s disastrous record.
I’m sorry-there is no way you can have this sack of used-up bones on your network to tell lie after lie and still pretend that you are an “unbiased news” network. Matalin has a clear agenda-an agenda that CNN does not identify beforehand. That makes CNN her co-conspirators, the same as if they knew this lying hag was going out to commit murder and they gave her a gun and some ammo.
Sad shit, CNN. Especially after how you started out.
Tags: cnn, lies, matalin, media bias
December 28th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Who takes CNN seriously?
Check out the 2009 Entertainment Weekly issue and flip to the back showing TV trends. In one year, 2009, CNN lost 30% of its audience.
This is stunning.
When Ted Turner owned the network, CNN was all about news. They turned the camera on and got out of the way. It was BBC but based in Atlanta.
Now, they have the moronic Wolf Blitzer interpreting the news or saying, “And now, lets turn to the best news team on television for their perspective” and the camera switches to a silly panel made up of two lefties and two rights, who weigh-in and tell the audience what we should think.
The real problem with CNN in my opinion is two-fold.
1. the so-called “news magazine” format just doesn’t work. When we got home from dinner Christmas night, I turned on the TV and looked for news — any news. CNN had a series of programs called “After Jesus” and “The Two Marys.” These programs are suitable for the History channel or TBN but NOT, let me repeat, NOT, an alleged news channel. News magazines like “Hispanic in America,” “Black in America,” “Women in America,” and “Islam Today,” may be suitable for History, Discovery or even CNN on-Demand, but not primetime because these news magazines aren’t news.
2. the push for diversity and multiculturalism has led CNN to stack their U.S. programming with a disproportionally large number of African American anchors who are not qualified for a national news desk. Reporting local news in a market like, say Jacksonville or Dallas, is very different than reporting national and international news from the CNN headquarter studio in Atlanta. Six hours every Saturday and six hours every Sunday of the terrible Fredricka Whitfield or the jivy T.J. “what up my man, how you be” Holmes, is evidence that CNN is rudderless. There’s nothing inherently wrong with diversity and multiculturalism but when journalistic qualifications are jettisoned for social experimentation, quality goes out the window.
The only hope for CNN, in my opinion, is for Ted Turner to buy back the network and fire all of them and start from scratch.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Your last sentence is right on – I used to watch CNN up until a few months ago when I realized how slanted to the right their programming was becoming. Too bad, they used to be the news channel I trusted for unbiased information.
Matalin is a mad cow. Everyone associated with GBabyBush’s administration seem to think they can just rewrite history. If they say it, it must be true, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Most of what occurs in the first year of any presidency occurs before the new President’s policies have time to take effect. There are, however, exceptions. When Bush was warned that AQ was about to attack the US using airplaines, laughed it off and said, “You’ve covered your ass,” that’s an exception to the rule.
CNN must know this and choose not to say so.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I have despaired of finding any real news on television. We watch it less and less, with the exception of Stewart and Colbert of course. Ironically, the two fake news programs are more apt to tell me something I didn’t know about than CNN or any of the others.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Christopher, you nailed it with the uselessness of the “news” channels. MSNBC is just as bad, they run nothing but prison shows half the time.
Was Perino referring to Bush I? If so, then that statement is somewhat correct…if it’s referring to Bush II, well then…
December 28th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
News in America? It’s a myth. The promise of Turner’s 24 hour news network died long ago.
But, it isn’t just CNN with it’s silly commitment to Anderson Cooper and Larry King and empty multiculturalism. Look at MSNBC. We had a potential terrorist attack on an American airline landing at Detroit on Christmas day and MSNBC was showing taped programs about serial killers and prisons.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
The MSM is pretty empty these days no matter how you look at it. Just a bunch of content-free bobbleheads.