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kpete

(71,984 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 01:10 AM Nov 2013

CNN spends ten minutes comparing President Obama to crackhead Toronto mayor Rob Ford

CNN spends ten minutes comparing President Obama to crackhead Toronto mayor Rob Ford
November 17, 2013
By Anomaly



I’m waiting for a Conservative or network to compare the Obamacare site to the Holocaust soon. We’ve heard everything else. On Saturday, CNN spent ten minutes comparing President Obama to crack head Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.

They began with a split-screen image of Obama and Ford, because why not.



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Lemon responded, “We know the two crises are both very different. But it’s about how do you manage those crises? That’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

We can totally understand this analogy. Ford, caught on video threatening to kill a ‘mother fucker’, used racial slurs, smokes crack, talks about oral sex with his wife, may have had relations with a prostitute and may have abused his wife, is just like President Obama because HealthCare.gov is glitchy.

video & more:
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/11/17/cnn-spends-ten-minutes-comparing-president-obama-to-crackhead-toronto-mayor-rob-ford/

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CNN spends ten minutes comparing President Obama to crackhead Toronto mayor Rob Ford (Original Post) kpete Nov 2013 OP
This false-equivalency stuff has become totally unhinged of late. MannyGoldstein Nov 2013 #1
"glitchy"... Don't they mean Katrinarific NightWatcher Nov 2013 #2
rofl. Thanks for the laugh in the middle of the absurdly depressing bullcrap nt okaawhatever Nov 2013 #23
Cnn is showing signs of breakdownitis , when 24 7 news coverage becomes ... MindMover Nov 2013 #3
"10 minutes" .. wow! I've seen this news before but I Cha Nov 2013 #4
this is why I do not watch CNN or any other "mainstream" news network Skittles Nov 2013 #5
Yup. The only mainstream news I watch is The Weather Channel. progressoid Nov 2013 #6
That is crazy stupid. I hope this ends up on the daily show tonight. pam4water Nov 2013 #7
our media is broken, possibly beyond repair. it's news for profit from now on. spanone Nov 2013 #8
Rob Ford Is A Long-Time Buffoon DallasNE Nov 2013 #9
I quit watching years ago ctsnowman Nov 2013 #10
Is it just me passiveporcupine Nov 2013 #11
I stopped watching after Candy Crowley showed her rapist love riqster Nov 2013 #12
What the fuck? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2013 #13
GOP's dollars are far reaching. tofuandbeer Nov 2013 #14
Ford vs Christy would have been a better comparision nt rickford66 Nov 2013 #15
CNN has become a Faux Lite Dopers_Greed Nov 2013 #16
Well, that's what happens when you try to balance yourself against extremists Scootaloo Nov 2013 #18
Don Lemon NYtoBush-Drop Dead Nov 2013 #17
It would have been perfect had CNN..... ReRe Nov 2013 #19
CNN's #1 job .... smear and weaken the President Botany Nov 2013 #20
This is what they'll keep putting on...... DeSwiss Nov 2013 #21
Avoid CNN. blkmusclmachine Nov 2013 #22
My friends... TRoN33 Nov 2013 #24
CNN is a joke. I haven't watched that cable channel of Fox News for years. I don't watch FOX bluestate10 Nov 2013 #25
Tomorrow he well be compared to Zimmerman. I really hate the msm in this country lostincalifornia Nov 2013 #26
With MSM it never ends .. they just keep on and keep on .. Well I guess MSNBC was the bone > YOHABLO Nov 2013 #27
Wow, I did not know that Rupert had also bought CNN...amazing, but still nauseating drynberg Nov 2013 #28

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
3. Cnn is showing signs of breakdownitis , when 24 7 news coverage becomes ...
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 02:04 AM
Nov 2013

nothing but garbage journalism ...

thankfully I have been watching less news lately ...

and reading more ....

Cha

(297,141 posts)
4. "10 minutes" .. wow! I've seen this news before but I
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 02:11 AM
Nov 2013

wasn't aware they made damn sure they milked their brainwashing for all it was worth.

wtf to do about the US Corporatemedia/AKA/Brainwashers R Us Disaster?!

spanone

(135,823 posts)
8. our media is broken, possibly beyond repair. it's news for profit from now on.
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 12:04 PM
Nov 2013

whatever sells is what's reported

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
9. Rob Ford Is A Long-Time Buffoon
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 12:27 PM
Nov 2013

That became the default Mayor of Toronto when the former liberal Mayor of Toronto screwed up. He is what passes in Canada for a Tea Bagger. Ford and Obama have nothing in common. Not style and certainly not substance. Obamacare has already been a huge success as it was recently announced that Medicare premiums are not going up for 2014 showing that the cost curve on price increases has been broken because of the competition it creates in the marketplace. Yes, the web site development did not employ standard benchmark tools or proper management controls, exposing the weakness of privatizing development of government programs, but a policy implementation glitch is not a huge personal scandal like the reckless behavior of Rob Ford, including the criminal purchase of crack cocaine, foul language and spousal abuse so give me a break.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
11. Is it just me
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 01:36 PM
Nov 2013

who thinks they are trying to make a connection between two "drug users"? Like anyone who used any drugs in their youth is a total loser for life?

Just a little subliminal reminder...you know...wink wink.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
16. CNN has become a Faux Lite
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 04:32 PM
Nov 2013

They do spend some time covering actual news, but their political commentators are all either RWers or the "maybe both parties are wrong" types.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
19. It would have been perfect had CNN.....
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 06:48 PM
Nov 2013

..... compared Ford to George W. Bush! After effing all! Since effing when does PO compare in any effing way with that blond Rush Limbaugh wannbe mayor in Toronto? EFF CNN! Didn't see it and don't want to see it! Where's that CNN comment line number??????? Thanks for the news anyway, kpete. That is unbelievable!

Botany

(70,490 posts)
20. CNN's #1 job .... smear and weaken the President
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 06:54 PM
Nov 2013

Second-term woes: Obamacare, Katrina, Iran-Contra

The bloodletting was a near-acknowledgment that his presidency is at a tenuous point. The Obama administration's mismanagement of his signature legislative achievement threatens to sink the rest of his second-term agenda. With more than three years left in office, Obama teeters on the brink of lame-duckedness.

But the problem of a tortured second term is not unique to the 44th President. Many before Obama triumphantly won reelection only to be sunk by a scandal, a debacle or a mistake.

For George W. Bush, public weariness over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the debacle over the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, made his second term seem longer than four years.

Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and his impeachment by the House marked his second term.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/politics/second-term-drama/




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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
21. This is what they'll keep putting on......
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 07:50 PM
Nov 2013

...as long as we keep turning on. It's not about truth for them, you see. It's about maintaining this controlled chaos we call ''life'' where nothing makes sense, conflict is everywhere, and everyone's divided into categories. It's easier to sap away our strength that way. And it's in their interest to portray everything this way. It's how they ''make'' the news.

- The worst thing that could happen to CNN and their ilk, is that no one says anything about them at all.

Turn. It. Off.

K&R

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
24. My friends...
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 11:49 PM
Nov 2013

This is my final straw with CNN. They once used to be one of great news media networks. Now they are working vigorously to pandering the fringe base, anti-Obama base, and far-right jackoffs.

CNN also has refused to call out Republicans for being liars yet they would whine about President and Democrats' lies also. They're like the second coming of Fox News. Their rating are going down the toilet.

No more corporate mainstream media. I'm beginning to appreciate The Guardian and hope it will never get to buy out by anti-Union corporations.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
25. CNN is a joke. I haven't watched that cable channel of Fox News for years. I don't watch FOX
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 11:52 PM
Nov 2013

ever, but added CNN to my list once President Obama was elected and CNN started incessant attacks on him.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
27. With MSM it never ends .. they just keep on and keep on .. Well I guess MSNBC was the bone >
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 02:13 AM
Nov 2013

they threw to the liberals .. well except for their day time programming like ''Morning Joe". There's no comparison what-so-ever, but yet there it is .. wow these are strange times indeed.

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