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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:04 AM Mar 2017

I have CNN on in the background ...

... for part of the day.

(Yes, they won me back after I stopped watching them over a decade ago.)

Anyway, I am loving the way Don Lemmon keeps putting Trump's original tweets (re "Obama wiretapped me", "This is McCarthyism", etc.) up on the screen, and keeps reading them on-air every chance he gets.

Today's Sean Spicer presser has been a great source of bobble-head babble - and the Republicans are literally squirming.

I. Am. So. Enjoying. This.

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I have CNN on in the background ... (Original Post) NanceGreggs Mar 2017 OP
me too... chillfactor Mar 2017 #1
Just watching Jack Kingston... NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #2
Jeff Sessions' tortured "nnnnNO" was kinda fun to watch. madamesilverspurs Mar 2017 #4
Been watching more CNN... WiffenPoof Mar 2017 #3
They really ARE ... NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #5
I think that's exactly... WiffenPoof Mar 2017 #6
That's why I keep it on ... NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #7
Indeed. NT WiffenPoof Mar 2017 #8
I'm in Europe now CNN international is basically saying the rest of the world think Cheeto is insane kimbutgar Mar 2017 #9
Hoisted on his own peetard... Princess Turandot Mar 2017 #10
Schadenfruede tavalon Mar 2017 #11
Only problem MFM008 Mar 2017 #12
Don Lemon does a good job Gothmog Mar 2017 #13

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
2. Just watching Jack Kingston...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:20 AM
Mar 2017

... is worth the price of admission alone.

I haven't seen that much skating since the last Olympics.

madamesilverspurs

(15,798 posts)
4. Jeff Sessions' tortured "nnnnNO" was kinda fun to watch.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:30 AM
Mar 2017

Still wondering, though, about the noises that preceded it . . .


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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
5. They really ARE ...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:34 AM
Mar 2017

... which is what brought me back.

Who'da thunk it? I guess Trump's early-on declaration that CNN was "fake news" lit a fire under some asses.

WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts)
6. I think that's exactly...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:38 AM
Mar 2017

...what happened.

If something is going to break, my bet is that it will break on CNN.

We count on the Fourth Estate. It's time that they do their job.

Paige

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
7. That's why I keep it on ...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:45 AM
Mar 2017

... in the background. I keep watching for the "Breaking News" thingy - because with this administration, there's new info coming out almost on an hourly basis.

It's like watching one of those over-the-top prime-time soaps from the 80s - except it's really happening.


Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)
10. Hoisted on his own peetard...
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 04:53 AM
Mar 2017

so to speek. As much as I can't stand listening to him, his inability to keep his trap shut is surprisingly helpful, international incidents aside.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
11. Schadenfruede
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 05:19 AM
Mar 2017

If it weren't for my consistent nuclear nightmares (i thought I gave up night sweats when I went on HRT), I would be sloppy with this.

I've started watching CNN again after a twenty year hiatus. I started around the time MSNBC went weird. I've gone back to watching Rachel because she is constantly pulling on that Russian thread and it's fun again. She is still gagged but not like during the primaries. I think the higher ups realize they could have their very own Rather/Cronkite.

Surprisingly, a person who has (creepily?) become a favorite of mine is Shep Smith. Yeah, the one from Faux.

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