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Brief update on CNN (or why I expanded my personal boy/girl/cott) [1]
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Date: 2025-01-25
This will be short.
Honestly? I banned Fox from my T&V, and have for years. CNN temporarily joined my list until a short respite yesterday.
As I watched, some CNN employee displayed two figures, polling about trump from March 2017, when he was going underwater without a scuba tank.
The other number was simply “+6” with yesterday’s date. The CNN male reader with forked tongue, repeatedly claimed this recent Reuters poll result proved trump was incredibly popular.
He admitted this was a partial read he “selected,” but he then claimed +6 reflected the love people are showering upon the Orange Buffoon.
Turns out there was a slight rise of 0.06 in polls from a negative Reuters poll of 2017, but Trump’s actual, total number was STILL NEGATIVE! CNN never mentioned that. Nor, did they ever mention the actual final figure with positive feelings (around 46.5%) which showed that even now, a MAJORITY of people do not support him.
Despite several tries, the CNN host tried to get to the actual facts, like the true numbers and totals contained in Reuters data, but the spinner refused to go there. He stuck with how that 6% rise showed huge popularity.
CNN shamefully now joins other MSM, being so deeply in the tank for a traitor, rapist and grifter, that it becomes obvious we need to create a new news source. We cannot trust these corporate owned and operated ad revenue seekers. They are too beholden to the Orange Idle.
There is a musee in Springpatch, IL. The Abe Lincoln Museum. It has some fantastic exhibits and displays. I won’t bore you with details, depaws or desnout, but it is worth a trip just to see dewhole thing.
The opening show is fantastic and thought provoking, but two other exhibits are worth a mention. The war room, and the newsie hallway. The newsie hallway is filled with reproductions of actual stories and headlines dating back to 1864 until the war was over. Many of them basically called for the early, forced expiration of President Lincoln. The insults were wild and very creative. The abject hatred was incredible. But it explains a lot about our very (un)Civil war. We could learn a lot from that hallway.
The other exhibit was a large wall sized display. It simply recounted the locations and the resulting deaths of each and every skirmish in our war. The union numbers were in blue, the future MAGA wore red. As the death counts and battles increased in number and scope, it almost became a race between the two figures. Higher and higher the numbers went, and you almost felt like cheering when a really big number was added to one side’s total. Then, it all hits you like a 2x4. THOSE WERE THE DEAD - boys and girls. And fathers, grandpas, uncles, and more. Then you began to sense a hint of the true horror of war.
The museum simply reported facts as to the growing number of dead and injured. You could interpret the figures.
But CNN? They plucked out one twisted, limited, partial figure from an otherwise well regarded and fairly done poll, and simply reported that fraction of its poll as though it proved Trump was incredibly popular. In fact, it did nothing of the sort. The reader kept repeating, “Look! The 6% proves his growing popularity!”
Right.
CNN has become a cheerleader for our mini-fascist in cheat. As if “mini” could apply it trump in anyway, except his personal package. Screw CNN.
Do NOT get me started about MSNBC. At least Rachel is back, until she is arrested or shot live on air for treason to the Orange Idle. What Mika and Jo did recently, was completely irresponsible, and yet, so telling.
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