AOC: This falls squarely on CNN... This was a choice to platform lies...

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

CNN should be ashamed of themselves.

They have lost total control of this “town hall” to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.

The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.



This falls squarely on CNN. Everyone here saw exactly what was going to happen. Instead they put a sexual abuse victim in harm’s way for views. This was a choice to platform lies about the election & Jan 6th w/ no plan but to have their moderator interrupted without consequence.

[GuppyGal]

1. I think it's going swimmingly...he just said how proud he was to be the one to 'outlaw' abortion.

[Diraven]

12. Nice

You know that's going to be in a Biden campaign ad.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

23. One of a laundry list of stupid things they got Trump to say on tape.

It went swimmingly indeed.

Thank goodness for a free press. A backbone of liberal democracy, which enemies of liberal democracy understand full well.

[jcgoldie]

2. shameless ratings grab

Like filling a room with republicans and trying to contain his bullshit gish gallop would ever end any other way. They didn't care about that and in the process have hung this embarrassment around their new primetime host it seems.

[SouthBayDem]

19. A sign that cable TV is for old people

Younger people have left cable for podcasts, blogs, and on demand video. So of course CNN has to sink to the Sued by Dominion Channel’s level.

[Bev54]

3. So it sounds like it is going exactly as many of us thought it would.

What a fucking disgrace on CNN.

[ShazzieB]

21. Sure sounds like it.

I allowed myself to hope that it wouldn't be quite as bad as everyone here was predicting. Sounds like it was even worse.

This is a night that will live in infamy. CNN should be deeply ashamed.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

24. Don't believe it for a second.

Tonight hurt Trump.

[dalton99a]

4. CNN is giving Trump a free commercial

[dchill]

8. And yet also worse. An instant lie infusion into already...

... deadly toxicity of our politics. Welcome to Prime Time, Kaitlin.

[iluvtennis]

20. Exactly. All in the name of ratings -- disgusting. n/t

[vapor2]

10. Shameless

[gab13by13]

5. I didn't last very long,

when he went to the rigged election rant and Kaitlen couldn't stop his blathering lies I saw enough. My wife watched it a bit longer and she told me he wouldn't say he wanted Ukraine to win the war.

[NGeorgian]

6. They are cheering pardons for 1/6 traitors**

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[GuppyGal]

13. They can cheer all they want...not gonna fly on a national stage. nt

[RoeVWade]

7. A core group of people buy what he says no matter what. We see it again and again.

Unfortunately.

[dchill]

9. CNN is hoping to grow that core. Good for business.

[GuppyGal]

14. But we all know that core is shrinking sooooooo no nt

[dchill]

17. Then what harm is there in letting him repeatedly lie...

...on a national cable network? That core-pleasing network can draw newly re-energized Trumpers back in.

[ShazzieB]

22. What's wrong with it is what you said.

That core-pleasing network can draw newly re-energized Trumpers back in.

I guess CNN doesn't mind providing assistance to someone whose goal is the destruction of our democracy as long as it gets them viewers. How utterly appalling.

[dchill]

25. Yep. 👍

[vapor2]

11. I refused to watch the same BS, the same lies etc etc etc

[area51]

15. CNN can pander to the nazis,

but they'll still never gain their trust.

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. And now they have lost mine

They disgust me as much as the asshole they hosted.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. First the CBS 60 Minutes MTG promotion piece

Now CNN with this abomination.

It’s one thing to be banking on Republicans winning and trying to position themselves as MAGA friendly, it’s another to actively promote their lies by giving a sexual abuser a free platform

Disgusting.

These Msm American execs shouldn’t just think about the money making spectacle but that they too are Americans and should recognize a danger to their democracy when they see it