Fuck You CNN!

[ProudLib72]

They were running banners at the bottom of the screen saying "Blue State Voter: Dems inept but hearts in the right place" and "Blue State Voter: Dems poor on messaging".

We don't need this shit! Especially not right now! How about running banners at the bottom of the screen saying "Trump aided and abetted first degree murder"? Huh? Why is it not possible to for them to tell the truth? Why do they resort to this kind of bullshittery to make us look bad right before an election?

I'm pissed at CNN!

[Iliyah]

1. CNN is owned by

conservatives as well as the other media outlets. They do this all the time. The Democratic Party does not have a message bullshit. They never tell the truth about when GOPs are the majority they screw the economy big time and every time, the Democratic Party comes in to clean it up, and put America back on track.

The Democratic Party always work for the betterment of the USA citizens, and the GOPs are fucking greedy and fucks the USA.

[LBM20]

11. For the love of Pete, can we please stop saying "conservative". "Conservatism" is DEAD!

They are Right Wing.

[William Seger]

18. "Conservatism" was never an actual political philosophy anyway -- it's just a bad attitude

... with a laundry list of reactionary grievances against liberalism.

[alwaysinasnit]

22. I take your point but IMO they were never Conservatives. They have always been Regressives.

[guillaumeb]

2. The US corporate mass media is right wing.

So this is not unexpected.

[ProudLib72]

3. But, but, but Acosta!

Rump enemy number one!

You'd think they would get tired of his crap and stand up to him. Acosta was threatened at the last rally!

[guillaumeb]

4. There is that.

But the GOP loves to speak about the liberal media as if it were true.

[miss-nasty]

5. Exactly

I stopped watching them a few days ago. I had two TV's that were on CNN as much as 16 hours every day since 2016. I'll be damn if I'm gonna patronize them when they're sounding more and more like Fux News!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. What's this CNN you speak of??

[ProudLib72]

9. It stands for "Crappy Never News"

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. hahaha!! good one!!

[dalton99a]

7. CNN president Jeff Zucker's singular role in promoting Donald Trump's rise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-zuckers-singular-role-in-promoting-donald-trumps-rise/2016/10/02/7c3d4366-865b-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html

Jeff Zucker’s singular role in promoting Donald Trump’s rise
By Margaret Sullivan
October 2, 2016

Looking for someone specific to hold responsible for the improbable rise of Donald Trump?

Although there are many options, you could do worse than to take a hard look at Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide.

It was Zucker, after all, who as the new head of NBC Entertainment gave Trump his start in reality TV with “The Apprentice” and then milked the real estate developer’s uncanny knack for success for all it was worth in ratings and profits.

“The show was built as a virtually nonstop advertisement for the Trump empire and lifestyle,” according to the book “Trump Revealed,” by Washington Post journalists Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish.

And it succeeded wildly — boosting the network’s ratings, as well as Zucker’s meteoric career. In turn, under Zucker, the show gave rise to “Celebrity Apprentice,” another Trump extravaganza. And, in turn, Zucker became the head of NBC overall.

[nini]

8. We're poor on messaging because getting coverage by the fucking media is a joke

The Sunday morning political shows are usually full of right wing pigs and Bernie in there for 'balance'... No comment on BS other than that.

[ProudLib72]

10. Yeah, that's what I was thinking

Hey, CNN, if you want Dems to have better messaging, focus on their message once in awhile and give the orange shitstain a break in coverage! But alas, that takes reasoning skills that seem well beyond those of the CNN talking heads.

[nini]

13. I was just having this conversation with a friend today

We simply do not get the coverage. It's a joke.

[Cha]

24. For those who don't think Dems don't have a message focus this election..

Link to tweet

They don't want us to get us to get our message out.. and then they whine we don't have one.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. There are two channels that are NEVER turned to in my home...

well, more than that, but one is of course, fauxsnooze and the other is CNN. They are never(seldom) honest and still think they can keep that right wing audience watching by running shit like this.

[ProudLib72]

15. I swear they must have made a secret deal with the conservatives

Think about it. The Rump rails against CNN, so we want to find out what they are saying that's so damaging. We turn to CNN and read that Dems are pathetic and have no message. That turns us off of the party. It's impossible to gauge, but I would love to see some statistics on how many people were turned off of the Dem party merely by watching "liberal media" like CNN.

At the very least, it turns us into apathetic voters!

[MontanaMama]

16. MSNBC is pulling this crap too.

Kornwacki, Chucky Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Joe/Mika and even Tweety...all yammering on and on about Dems “poor messaging”. 2016 revisited. Pisses me off too.

[ProudLib72]

17. Joy, Rachel, and Lawrence seem to be the only ones worth watching

MSNBC throws in the rest of them to be "fair". But you're absolutely right, it's not just CNN.

[MontanaMama]

19. Who are you going to watch

on election night? I swear I have ptsd from Nov 2016. I can’t handle Kornacki but I’m not sure CNN will be any better.

[ProudLib72]

25. My mother despises Kornacki

Can't stand the way he jumps around and talks a million miles an hour. I have to agree.

I will probably let RandySF keep me updated!

[MontanaMama]

34. Good idea.

Korwacky missed his calling...he should be over at Faux or ESPN.

[Snake Plissken]

20. CNN is doing what it always does, it doesn't report the news, it tries to influence it

It's trying to manufacture another close horse race to increase ratings.

It's what it has done since 9/11, when they realized they make more money entertaining people than reporting the news.

[Cha]

21. To those who don't think Dems don't have a message focus this election..

Link to tweet

cnn is carrying fascist water

[-Steph-]

23. I've noticed when election times near, CNN's coverage starts shifting. This isn't the first time.

They played a huge role in legitimizing Trump during the general election.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. I'm confused.

We hate the media while we deplore the murder of a journalist?

[ProudLib72]

28. We hate the media when it doesn't stand up to those who murder journalists

And run banners that are designed to create doubt about the one party that will be able to stop the murder of journalists.

[nini]

30. Real media isn't a problem

These networks who don't deal in facts and fairness deserve all the scorn they get. Real media is a dying breed unfortunately.

They dont brlong in the same category as the murdered journalist.

[JI7]

27. Today they had a panel of Suburban Mothers or some shit like that

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most of them had problems with trump but they weren't exactly liberal. they were all from minnesota and the host asked them if they would vote for keith ellison(because of the accusations) and i think they said no although one said it had to do with him being too liberal.

didn't we get fucking facts on keith ellison that he was the VICTIM of abuse ? the host said nothing about that.

so instead of reporting these actual details about elections and candidates running for office they do lazy ass shit like those panels of people and report on what they have to say.

[treestar]

36. after Kavanaugh, right-wingers can STFU about

any such accusations.

[ProudLib72]

37. Let's analyze this

So they picked a group of suburban women because the women's movement is set to trounce the hell out of the Rs. These women admit that there is something wrong with Rump, which makes other suburban women who are watching them feel at ease believing the panel speaks for them. Then the panel turns on Ellison, thus casting doubt on the entire DNC and, by extension, the Dem party.

[Hoyt]

29. CNN, FOX, Limbaugh, etc., ain't changing the way I vote, or most folks.

[Demovictory9]

31. maybe cnn likes how trump spars with them.

[JI7]

32. remember they had low ratings during Obama's Presidency until the Missing Plane

and for months their entire coverage was the missing plane.

[Demovictory9]

33. if Dems lose the midterms, Trump will be emboldened to act crazier, CNN relishes that

[treestar]

35. And to think the right-wingers call it "Clinton News Network"

implying that it is liberal media.

[cwydro]

38. Those were direct quotes from a voter panel they had on yesterday.

Both Dem and repub voters said the same thing.

[ProudLib72]

39. Maybe they conveniently mixed up the D and R voters' words?

Or cherry picked the most conservative "Dem" voter's quotes? It really seemed staged to me, staged to generate a negative effect on the mid-terms.

[cwydro]

40. I heard it live, so...

[DAMANgoldberg]

41. 2 thoughts

1. CNN was much more of a news-focused network when Ted Turner was running it. Thought Mr Turner was a liberal, his network didn't really reflect that.
   
2. CNN for all of its 38 year history, has always been the GoTo network when the Sh*t hits the fan worldwide, and has always struggled for ratings otherwise, thus Larry King Live, Sports Tonight originally with Fred Hickman (now in NOLA0 and the late Nick Charles, and other programming decisions too long to go into here.