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October 5, 2023
William Upton
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REPORT: DC Insiders ‘Celebrating’ As America Declines.

A who’s who of some of the most powerful people in media dined alongside Democrat politicians on Wednesday night to “celebrate” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The rationale for which they were celebrating Jean-Pierre, also present, is unclear. The group included at least two major corporate media network heads: Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC and Kim Godwin, president of ABC.

Also in attendance were NBC’s chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Hakim Jeffries chief of staff Tasia Jackson, far-Left MSNBC host Joy Reid, Biden White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon, CNN political correspondent Kasie Hunt, CBS News producer Shawna Thomas, CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, Obama advisor Stephanie Cutter, radical LGBTQ Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, and Chanelle Hardy who serves as the Head of Civil Rights at Google.

With public trust in the media near a record low, the dinner’s guest list certainly further fuels concerns about partisanship in corporate media. While senior White House staff and major media figures might rub elbows at galas and events like the White House Correspondents Dinner, having so many present at an intimate – yet nondescript – dinner for a White House press secretary is more unusual.

The attendance of Chanelle Hardy, who serves in senior management at tech-and-internet-giant Google, at a dinner with at least two senior White House staffers raises ethical concerns as well. Google is being sued by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice for violating U.S. anti-trust laws.

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A who's who of some of the most powerful people in media dined alongside Democrat politicians on Wednesday night to "celebrate" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The rationale for which they were celebrating Jean-Pierre, also present, is unclear. The group included at least two major corporate media network heads: Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC and Kim Godwin, president of ABC. show more

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September 20, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Endorser Ken Buck Opposes Biden Impeachment, Demands Job at CNN.

Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican “soft endorser” of the Ron DeSantis campaign, is vocally opposed to the impeachment of President Joe Biden and now trying to ditch his work in the Capitol in exchange for a contributorship at CNN.

“I am interested in talking to folks at CNN and other news organizations — on the, I don’t want to call them left, but sort of center-left — and having an opportunity to do that full-time or do that as a contributor would be great also,” Buck said.

He was among eight members of the House of Representatives and one Senator, Mike Lee, who attended a DeSantis event in April, with the Florida Governor’s camp claiming his attendance as a “soft endorsement”. Now, Buck is best known as one of the House GOP’s leading RINOs – or Conservatives Under Notional Terms – for his efforts to stymie the impeachment investigation into Biden, as well as his support for the Biden regime’s harsh treatment of Jan 6 defendants.

He now faces a possible primary challenge by state Rep. Richard Holtorf on behalf of constituents “frustrated and upset” by his behavior, particularly his willingness to carry water for leftist news networks. He has even mooted “joining a DC-based law firm or seeking Biden’s nomination to the Federal Trade Commission.”

“Why is he on CNN and MSNBC? I don’t think the message he is explaining represents the sentiment of the district,” said Holtorf. “For any elected official, it’s not about you. It’s about the people in your district,” he added.

Buck, for his part, has openly admitted he has one foot out the door, and is “interested in talking to folks at CNN and other news organizations” about a new job.

Whether Buck’s support will prove a help or a hindrance to DeSantis, who has struggled to win MAGA converts and had to rely on Never Trumpers and even Democrats to man his ground operation, remains to be seen.

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Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican "soft endorser" of the Ron DeSantis campaign, is vocally opposed to the impeachment of President Joe Biden and now trying to ditch his work in the Capitol in exchange for a contributorship at CNN. show more
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September 17, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Pence: Trump Isn’t Conservative Because He is Anti-War.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested that Donald Trump cannot make any promises to govern as a conservative if he is re-elected in the 2024 presidential election because the former President would implement a quick end to the war in Ukraine.

Pence claimed on CNN on Sunday that by ending the bloodshed between Russia and Ukraine, the 45th President would be “embracing the politics of appeasement on the world stage [and] walking away from our role as leader of the free world.”

The ex-VP intimated that the only conservative position, therefore, was a continuation of the war.

“Look, the only way this war would end in a day, as my former running mate says, is if you let Vladimir Putin have what he wants, which, frankly, other candidates for the Republican nomination are advocating as well,” Pence continued, before describing Trump’s adoption of the same populism Pence himself embraced in 2016 as a growing threat.

Donald Trump announced his intention earlier this summer to bring about an end to the Ukrainian war within just 24 hours after re-entering the White House in January 2025, with the number of casualties on both sides continuing to grow. It is believed the Ukrainians have lost around 200,000 soldiers killed or wounded, and the Russians 300,000 similarly killed or wounded since the war began in February last year.

The former Vice President is not alone in fearing a swift peace if Trump were re-elected, as the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson similarly implored the former President not to abandon the United States’ support for Ukraine.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested that Donald Trump cannot make any promises to govern as a conservative if he is re-elected in the 2024 presidential election because the former President would implement a quick end to the war in Ukraine. show more
August 31, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
News

U.S. Media Defends Gay Pedophile Against Uganda’s Strict New Laws.

Media reports on Uganda’s first prosecutions under the capital crime of “aggravated homosexuality” have framed them as “controversial” and “anti-gay,” with CNN amongst others appearing to take the side of a pedophile, as well as a man who took advantage of a disabled person.

CNN, which illustrated its coverage of the prosecutions with a picture of a black man praying while draped in a Progress Pride flag, waited until its third paragraph before disclosing that “aggravated homosexuality” involves “incest, sex with children as well as people with disabilities or the elderly” under the terms of the “much-criticized” legislation. They did not mention that it also includes spreading HIV.

While acknowledging that one of the two reported prosecutions involves a man accused of taking advantage of a 41-year-old with a disability early on, the network did not tell readers that the second prosecution involves “a child aged 12” until the report’s eleventh paragraph.

The Guardian was even more disingenuous in its reporting on the prosecutions, merely saying that a 20-year-old was accused of “unlawful sexual intercourse with … [a] male adult aged 41” under “anti-LGBTQ+ legislation”. The pedophile prosecution was not mentioned at all.

Several news outlets besides CNN, such as NPR and the Associated Press, chose to illustrate their reporting with emotionally charged imagery of black men carrying Pride flags, or bearing messages like ‘Some Ugandans are gay. Get over it!’

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Media reports on Uganda's first prosecutions under the capital crime of "aggravated homosexuality" have framed them as "controversial" and "anti-gay," with CNN amongst others appearing to take the side of a pedophile, as well as a man who took advantage of a disabled person. show more
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August 25, 2023
William Upton
News

British Exec. Mark Thompson, Who Ignored BBC’s Savile Child Sex Abuse Scandal, is Top Choice to Lead CNN.

Mark Thompson, the former CEO of the New York Times and Director General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), appears to be the front-runner for the top job at CNN. The corporate media outlet has been without leadership after its chairman and CEO, Chris Licht was fired in June after only a year on the job.

Thompson has a controversial history in news rooms – including accusations that he looked the other way during the investigation into child sex abuse BBC star Jimmy Savile. While serving as Director General of the BBC, Thompson became embroiled in a scandal within a scandal, telling media at the time that he was unaware that editor of the British broadcaster’s Newsnight program had abruptly canceled an investigation into decades of sexual abuse of children by network celebrity Jimmy Savile. In the aftermath, Thompson at first claimed he was unaware of the investigation entirely – only to backtrack and admit he did know about it prior to cancellation.

His track record on news judgement isn’t much better. When a Jewish family was gruesomely murdered in their beds by Palestinians terrorists, the news dominated the British press, except at the BBC were broadcasters criticized for ignoring the story entirely. When pressed on the lack of coverage of the Fogel family’s murder in the 2011 Itamar attack, Thompson said his news editors were under tremendous pressure that day and other topics took precedence. He did however offer an apology to BBC views and the Jewish community: “But I do want to say, to all our audience including our Jewish and Israeli audiences here and around the world, we do want to make sure we are fair and impartial. We made a mistake in this instance.”

In at least one regard, CNN might feel like familiar turf for Thompson with one of their former media personalities having been dogged by a workplace sexual offense himself – albeit far less vile than Savile. In 2020, CNN legal analyst Jeffery Toobin was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues at The New Yorker magazine and New York’s WNYC radio. In the fallout from the incident, Toobin took a brief leave-of-absence from CNN. In 2022, Toobin decided to give it a rest and retired from the network.

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Mark Thompson, the former CEO of the New York Times and Director General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), appears to be the front-runner for the top job at CNN. The corporate media outlet has been without leadership after its chairman and CEO, Chris Licht was fired in June after only a year on the job. show more
August 19, 2023
William Upton
Media
News
Politics

WATCH: CNN Admits ‘Trump Was Right… Biden Was Wrong’ on Major Topic.

CNN’s Jake Tapper shocked his panel guests and presumably his television audience by admitting “Trump was right… Biden was wrong” in reference to their 2020 presidential debate dust-up over Hunter Biden and his business dealings with China and Ukraine.

Tapper, who hosts CNN’s The Lead, drew his panelists’ attention to an early August fact check by the Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler, awarding Joe Biden “Four Pinocchios” for his denial:

“… Biden, during the debate, denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals.”

WATCH:

The exchange of words between Trump and Biden was sparked by moderator Kristen Welker, who pressed the elder Biden if he thought his son’s business dealings in China and Ukraine were, “…inappropriate or unethical.” The question obviously agitated Biden who responded in a raised voice that his son Hunter  Biden “…has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.” Biden then quipped that, “…the only guy who made money from China is this guy [gesturing at Donald Trump]. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.”

Trump fired right back at Biden, saying that once Joe Biden had become Vice President, Hunter “…made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow and various other places. Biden emphatically stated: “That is not true.” Recent court documents have revealed that Hunter Biden did in fact earn millions from these deals.

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CNN's Jake Tapper shocked his panel guests and presumably his television audience by admitting "Trump was right... Biden was wrong" in reference to their 2020 presidential debate dust-up over Hunter Biden and his business dealings with China and Ukraine. show more
July 14, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News

Dems Now Trust MSNBC More Than CNN.

MSNBC is considered to be more trustworthy by Democrat voters than CNN, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports. A total of 23 percent of Democrats trust MSNBC compared to the 22 percent who trust CNN.

CNN has faced a number of challenges since it’s hyper-editorialised, anti-Trump derangement, post-2015. Recently, the network fired its CEO Chris Licht for having the temerity to host a former President and presidential front runner in a town hall where he mopped the floor with the channel’s newest nightly anchor, Kaitlin Collins.

The most trusted corporate media organization is still Fox News, both amongst the American public and Republican voters. But the numbers are hardly solid. Just one in four – 25 percent – of Americans “trust” Fox News, with that figure increasing to 43 percent amongst Republican voters. Notably, Democrats trust Fox News more than they trust ABC, CBS, and NBC News.

Media Bias. 

Rasmussen also asked the 1,005 likely US voters: “Is the problem of bias in the news media getting better or worse? Or is the problem about the same as usual?”

A majority of 58 percent told Rasmussen they believe media bias has worsened, including almost half of Democrats – 42 percent – and a whopping 68 percent of Republicans. Only 13 percent of the respondents believe that media bias has improved.

 

 

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MSNBC is considered to be more trustworthy by Democrat voters than CNN, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports. A total of 23 percent of Democrats trust MSNBC compared to the 22 percent who trust CNN. show more
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July 10, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News

CNN Reporter Sues Over Racism After Cameraman Ran Over Her Foot.

A former international correspondent for CNN is suing the broadcaster for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal after her foot was run-over by her own cameraman while reporting in Israel.

Saima Mohsin argues the company refused to accommodate her injuries after she requested alternative duties, as well as support for rehabilitation. She also claims there was a “gender pay gap” at CNN. Mohsin is also suing for racial discrimination, arguing she was told, “you don’t have the look we are looking for,” after asking for a presenting role at CNN. She also asserts she was denied “high profile on-air opportunities,” with producers preferring to use “white American correspondents.”

“I was repeatedly let down and denied the ability to achieve my potential while I was at CNN. I am bringing my claim to take a stand and call for change to ensure women journalists, and women journalists of colour, are better protected,” Mohsin said to The Guardian.

CNN, however, is opposing the claim on territorial grounds. The broadcaster argues that Mohsin does not have the right to bring the case in London as specified in her employment contract.

Another former CNN employee – who maintained a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo – was sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl last month.

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A former international correspondent for CNN is suing the broadcaster for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal after her foot was run-over by her own cameraman while reporting in Israel. show more
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June 27, 2023
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AUDIO: Trump Talks ‘Secret Info’ In DOJ Clip Leaked to CNN, But 45 Calls it ‘Exoneration’.

A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley’s eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to “secret information” at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence.

The 45th president can be heard referring to “secret information” as the papers are discussed, with a staffer joking that Hillary Clinton would print such information out regularly. “[S]he’d send it to Anthony Weiner, the pervert,” Trump responds, prompting laughter.

The entire clip appears to be jocular in nature – a fact left out by CNN in its previous characterizations of the audio – which could only have been leaked to the network by the U.S. government itself, namely the Justice Department (DOJ) or Obama-linked prosecutor Jack Smith directly. Last week, a judge ordered that while Biden’s weaponized DOJ had leaked against Trump, that Trump was not allowed to leak to the press in return.

In the audio (below), Trump can be heard discussing with staff something referred to in or on one of the documents, stating: “[A]s president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”

But it is still not clear whether Trump is talking about the documents themselves, in the audio, or something the documents may be referring to. As a result, a statement from the former President on Tuesday morning called the audio leak “an exoneration”:

The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and “spun” a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe. This continuing Witch Hunt is another ELECTION INTERFERENCE Scam. They are cheaters and thugs!

– Donald J. Trump, TruthSocial, June 26th.

The case is ongoing, as America draws closer to an election, with an unprecedented campaign from the government against one of its political opponents.

LISTEN: 

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A recording of former President Donald Trump discussing General Mark Milley's eagerness to start a war with Iran has been leaked, suggesting it confirms that President Trump was holding on to "secret information" at his Secret Service-guarded Mar a Lago residence. show more

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June 22, 2023
Jake Welch
News

CNN Producer Sentenced to 19 Years for Sexually Abusing 9-Year-Old.

John Griffin, a former CNN producer who had a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, with an additional 15 years of supervised release.

Griffin, 46, himself a father of three, paid the girl’s mother $3,000 to fly from Nevada to Vermont so he could sexually abuse her daughter.

One of the text messages between the two includes Griffin telling the mother: “One of the big lies of this society is that women are delicate innocent angels and they are in actuality, naturally, the dirtiest sluts possible, in EVERY metric.”

Griffin was arrested in December 2o21 after an 18-month investigation on multiple charges after inviting girls as young as seven to his home for “sexual subservience” training. However, as part of a plea deal, two additional charges against him of ‘enticement of a minor’ were dropped by prosecutors.

He has also worked as a producer at CNN, ABC, Fox News, and CBS. While at CNN, Griffin “boasted” of his proximity to former leader news anchor host Chris Cuomo.

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John Griffin, a former CNN producer who had a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, with an additional 15 years of supervised release. show more