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Person of Interest

(365 posts)
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 07:04 AM Aug 2021

CNN Reporter Tells Anti-Vax Trump Supporter

The media has thoroughly covered the opinions of only one group: Trumpanzees. Their's are the only opinions, only world view that matters.

Instead of focusing on the least informed, the most profoundly ignorant, the least read, the most anti-intellectual, why not highlight people who have been vaccinated and are now able to visit family and friends?

Why not interview people who wear masks regularly as a matter of cause?

Why not interview a vaccinated person who contracted coronavirus but did not require hospitalization because of being vaccinated (so called break-through case)?

Why not highlight all the desired behaviors a normal, considerate, cogent people would want instead of the behaviors that prolong all our miseries and misfortunes?

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CNN Reporter Tells Anti-Vax Trump Supporter (Original Post) Person of Interest Aug 2021 OP
trump and his warped followers knew that if more people died it would make Biden look bad. Walleye Aug 2021 #1
I honestly think they never thought out that far. I think they just decided this is who they are, Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #20
Sadly, all true. The bad Biden headlines were just a bonus Walleye Aug 2021 #21
Oh, they're totally capable. I think McConnell would perform a public human sacrifice if he thought Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #24
I think that's true of the rank and file TheFarseer Aug 2021 #23
The MSM is not our friend gab13by13 Aug 2021 #2
I don't watch any tv news at all right now. ananda Aug 2021 #11
Because saying JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #3
Remember the tea party? Cosmocat Aug 2021 #4
My sentiments exactly. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2021 #6
Why not feature the train that doesn't wreck? alphafemale Aug 2021 #5
Then they couldn't "own the libs". SergeStorms Aug 2021 #7
Excellent Questions Point. Did the CNN Reporter Tell these things to Anti-Vax Trump Supporter? msfiddlestix Aug 2021 #8
That's Donie O'Sullivan's thing arlyellowdog Aug 2021 #9
Great post-- I am truly tired of this focus on our dumbest people who make us an idiocracy LymphocyteLover Aug 2021 #10
There are intelligent people in Congress. twodogsbarking Aug 2021 #12
"If it bleeds, it leads" Been true since the invention of newspapers... Wounded Bear Aug 2021 #13
not enough money in smarts and sanity NewHendoLib Aug 2021 #14
Yes, watching TV news PatSeg Aug 2021 #15
Kick. In times of crisis the media has usually previously reported on the positive. Scrivener7 Aug 2021 #16
Because....spineless and ratings whores Hulk Aug 2021 #17
They should do that IronLionZion Aug 2021 #18
Yes, last night Don Lemon interviewed a father whose 32 year old son Bev54 Aug 2021 #19
CNN would love it if TFG was reinstated this month. Jon King Aug 2021 #22
People go to the circus to watch the performers, not the truck drivers. Chainfire Aug 2021 #25

Walleye

(30,997 posts)
1. trump and his warped followers knew that if more people died it would make Biden look bad.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 07:09 AM
Aug 2021

Once again doing the very thing they accused us of on a catastrophic scale

Scrivener7

(50,934 posts)
20. I honestly think they never thought out that far. I think they just decided this is who they are,
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:40 AM
Aug 2021

they are smarter than the effete college libruls, and they will simply do the opposite of whatever the effete college libruls do.

For the men, I think it let's them think they are real men who are tougher and smarter than the libruls because they have "horse sense" and that is much more valuable in their eyes than an effete librul education.

And for the women, I think it is much the same concept except that it let's them think of themselves as pioneer-women types, a version of the above "real men" that women can be comfortable with as a self identity. It is attractive because it distinguishes them from them librul feminist types.

I think this is all about their feelings of inferiority and their masking of those feelings. As such, they will never go back on those opinions because if they do their self images will fall apart.

I think it has nothing to do with a larger effort against Biden.

Walleye

(30,997 posts)
21. Sadly, all true. The bad Biden headlines were just a bonus
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:44 AM
Aug 2021

But I do believe some of the leaders in the GOP are capable of this kind of dirty politics

Scrivener7

(50,934 posts)
24. Oh, they're totally capable. I think McConnell would perform a public human sacrifice if he thought
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:10 AM
Aug 2021

it would stall the Democratic agenda.

Which is essentially what you are saying they are doing, and I agree. Insofar as they are the ones who define the parts of the librul agenda that the rank and file are instructed to reject in order to be real men.

TheFarseer

(9,319 posts)
23. I think that's true of the rank and file
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:03 AM
Aug 2021

But many RW talking heads and politicians, I believe, want the vaccine effort to fail and for cases and deaths to rise in large part to make Biden and others look bad.

gab13by13

(21,287 posts)
2. The MSM is not our friend
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 07:23 AM
Aug 2021

including cable news.

Example; Rand Paul was banned from You Tube for a week for posting a lying video, so what do CNN and MSNBC do, they show the banned video that was taken down on You Tube giving it more publicity than it would have gotten.

Cosmocat

(14,561 posts)
4. Remember the tea party?
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 07:42 AM
Aug 2021

white people gloriously acting like fools is something this country eats up with a ladle.

SergeStorms

(19,192 posts)
7. Then they couldn't "own the libs".
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 08:55 AM
Aug 2021

Apparently sacrificing right-wing lives is all part of a day's work as long as you can lay claim to, " owning the libs".

We can't understand this extremist viewpoint, but they do, and they have the will (or stupidity) to pull it off.

msfiddlestix

(7,272 posts)
8. Excellent Questions Point. Did the CNN Reporter Tell these things to Anti-Vax Trump Supporter?
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:03 AM
Aug 2021


Just working on my first cup of coffee and I don't see what the reporter told the wackadoodle cult follower.

arlyellowdog

(866 posts)
9. That's Donie O'Sullivan's thing
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:10 AM
Aug 2021

I really love Donie O’Sullivan, but I kind of wish he didn’t think CNN has him pigeonholed into freakies interviews. Maybe they could tell him to interview a crazy, over the top, vaccinated, mask wearing, social occasion avoiding liberal (I’ll volunteer).

LymphocyteLover

(5,640 posts)
10. Great post-- I am truly tired of this focus on our dumbest people who make us an idiocracy
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:13 AM
Aug 2021

I suppose it's kind of like gawking at a car wreck but it's so tiresome and depressing

PatSeg

(47,357 posts)
15. Yes, watching TV news
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:20 AM
Aug 2021

you'd get the impression that the majority of people don't wear masks, aren't vaccinated, and don't socially distance. Then again, I suppose it is a good idea to put a spotlight on the people who are causing the greatest problems.

Scrivener7

(50,934 posts)
16. Kick. In times of crisis the media has usually previously reported on the positive.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:32 AM
Aug 2021

During WW2 it was all about people doing their part, etc. After 9/11 it was photos of neighborhoods with flags on every door.

Now we have these assholes. I'm truly not interested in hearing what another one of them wants to say. They are pitiful and the sad fact is that many of them will soon be dead or permanently disabled. And we can't do anything about that.

So let's stop giving them the attention they crave so much they are willing to die for it.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
17. Because....spineless and ratings whores
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:34 AM
Aug 2021

Nobody care what these stupid morons have to say....but it's a "freak show", same as was true for the biggest freak of them all, the twice impeached pussy-grabbing narcissistic pathological liar himself.

You see. It's all about ratings. "Did you hear what that ignorant gun hugging Bible thumper just said.." That's what corporate "news" is today. It's a different sort of "soap opera". Like when Ann Coutier would say some outrageous, offensive crap - the corporate whores played it. Now its greene, boebbert, gaetz, gym jordan, cruz, blackburn, gohmert....they cover the most ignorant and offensive clowns and stooges in politics today. It's a "freak show", and the corporate puppet masters want to make us hungry to hear the most asinine of the low lifes in our land.

Ignore them, and they fade away...but then they might lose ratings points, so they continue to give these idiots a platform to spew their nonsense.

IronLionZion

(45,409 posts)
18. They should do that
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:34 AM
Aug 2021

but trumpanzees would say they can visit family and friends because freedom. They can infect others if they want to, and die if they want to. Consequences will be blamed on foreigners or someone else.

Bev54

(10,045 posts)
19. Yes, last night Don Lemon interviewed a father whose 32 year old son
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:39 AM
Aug 2021

was in the hospital in Florida with covid, and he (the father) was in California. The son was not vaccinated. The man had covid last year and was not vaccinated and just decided with the delta to get the jab, though he still was hesitant. This man went on a rant because the nurses or doctors at the hospital would not get back to him, in a timely manner, when he wanted an update on his son. No awareness of the ordeal that the doctors and nurses were in, with the influx of covid patients in Florida. Then he said one nurse allowed a facetime with his son that very day. No questions on why was his son not vaccinated, just let him go on and on about nobody keeping him up to date on his sons condition. If he was going for sympathy he lost me totally, but I was pissed that Lemon did not push back more on the entitlement and lack of vaccination.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
22. CNN would love it if TFG was reinstated this month.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:49 AM
Aug 2021

Their ratings were never higher than when democracy almost fell.

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