Author: 53percenter

America’s premier “fake news” network, CNN, has again demonstrated why it deserves all the ridicule it regularly receives from President Donald Trump.

A day after suspect Nikolas Cruz allegedly killed 17 people during a mass shooting Wednesday at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, CNN host Chris Cuomo falsely accused three top Republicans of being too “afraid” to appear on the network to talk about what happened.

According to The Hill, during Thursday’s edition of “New Day,” he specifically targeted Florida. Gov Rick Scott, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“None would come on this morning. They’re all on Fox, the mothership, because they don’t want to be asked about this,” he said.

CNN’s senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter, doubled down on this erroneous assertion shortly thereafter with the following tweet:

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But both Stelter and Cuomo weren’t just lying — they were covering up the actual truth, as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz himself explained in a reply posted Friday.

“I spoke to CNN for 15 mins yesterday about proactive solutions to prevent gun violence (like passing the Grassley-Cruz bill — which Dems filibustered — that would add $300 million for school safety) yet CNN has aired NONE of it,” the senator revealed.

To top it off, he even provided visual proof of this interview:

Cruz further noted that last year he participated in three CNN-hosted debates against socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Gosh, I seem to recall doing not 1, not 2, but THREE town hall debates w/ @BernieSanders on @CNN Each 90 min long. You can accuse me of many things, but being afraid of CNN is not one of them,” he wrote.

So in summary, not only did CNN falsely Cruz of being too afraid to appear on the network to discuss the mass shooting, but then after the senator did in fact speak with its contributors about what happened Wednesday, CNN chose to pretend like the interview never even happened.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why CNN is “very fake news.” It’s likely also why CNN’s ratings have fell so low as of late that dozens are soon expected to be laid off, as noted earlier in the week by Deadline magazine.

Let me be clear: It’s one thing to make a mistake once in a blue moon; it’s another altogether to continually push false narratives and, worse, make no attempts to correct the record, let alone apologize, after being caught red-headed.

This is CNN, and unlike with milk, regular doses of CNN does not do the body — or the mind, for that matter — any good.

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“Everything they’re accusing Trump of … Obama had done,” said Lee Smith of “Trump-Russia collusion” narratives pushed by Democrats and their news media allies.

Smith, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight for a Thursday interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to discuss his latest article, “The Media Stopped Reporting the Russia Collusion Story Because They Helped Create It.”

Smith highlighted the Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, and the New Yorker’s David Remnick as hypocritical news media figures in their criticisms of the Trump administration’s supposed appeasement of Russia and Vladimir Putin after ignoring actual appeasement of Russia and Vladimir Putin across eight years of the Obama administration.

On March 26, 2012, then-President Barack Obama told then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” in shaping U.S. foreign policy toward Russia after that year’s presidential election:

“Big-name” and “respected’  journalists like Applebaum, Goldberg, and Remnick “enlisted their bylines in a political campaign on behalf of the Democratic candidate for president,” wrote Smith. In so doing, the trio of left-wing Democrat news media figures “rehearsed the talking points [Christopher Steele] later documented.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s ostensible investigation into the “Russian government’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election” is predicated on lies within the “Christopher Steele dossier,” said Smith: “The Mueller investigation is premised on the Steele dossier. It’s premised on nonsense.”

Steele’s allegations – paid for by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee – were central to the procurement of surveillance warrants via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for Trump campaign operatives Carter Page and George Papadopoulos (FISC) at the request of Justice Department and FBI officials during the Obama administration.

“It’s insane. … She’s describing some scenario that’s out of a B movie about all these conspiracies taking place,” said Smith of Applebaum’s 2016 warning that Russia would determine the outcome of the year’s presidential election. 

In her September 8, 2016, article entitled “How Russia could spark a U.S. electoral disaster,” Applebaum warned that “Russian hackers will seek to break into the U.S. voting system [and] attempt to throw the election.” She further claimed the Russian state “might try to get Trump elected,” or even Clinton.” Alternatively — and this would, of course, be even more devastating — [Russia] might try to rig the election for Clinton, perhaps leaving a trail of evidence designed to connect the rigging operation to Clinton’s campaign.”

At the time, Pollak described Applebaum’s warning as a “bizarre conspiracy theory.”

Applebaum is regularly featured across television news media outlets as a non-ideological and non-partisan expert of international affairs, with a focus on Europe and Russia.

Left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media outlets succeeded in their desire to prompt a federal investigation of Donald Trump and his presidential campaign to diffuse the public’s attention toward the ostensible investigation of Hillary Clinton’s felonious mishandling of classified information and evasion of record-keeping laws, said Smith.

“Journalists were participating in a political campaign,” said Smith. “Hillary had an investigation, so the idea was, ‘Well, let’s stick Trump with an investigation, too.’ And that’s what they got. They got an investigation of the Trump campaign, which was insane enough.”

The fraudulent investigation of the Trump campaign then morphed into an attempt to nullify the outcome of 2016’s presidential election, said Smith.

“After the election, it turned into something even worse,” said Smith. “It turned into an attack, not just on the president. … The purpose was to delegitimize the political choice that American voters made in electing the person that they wanted to be president. It’s an absolutely obscene campaign that the press waged. First, it was against Trump. Then, it was against the American public.”

Steele had utilized an “echo chamber” strategy among left-wing and partisan news media allies to push the “Trump-Russia collusion” narrative upon the American electorate, wrote Smith: “Much of the Russiagate campaign was conducted in this circular manner. Steele and Simpson built an echo chamber with their opposition research, parts of the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and the press all reinforcing one another.”

The news media are broadly avoiding the “falling apart” of Mueller’s ostensible investigation given their central role in its genesis, said Smith.

“Everything they’re accusing Trump of leaning toward, the Obama administration has done,” said Smith. “In Ukraine, in Syria. Whether or not you agree with Obama’s policy — I did not — but whether or not you agree with it, the fact is this is what the Obama administration did. All of a sudden, for the same people, like David Remnick, like Jeffrey Goldberg, who were speaking with President Obama extensively [and] repeatedly, for them to somehow ignore that this is what Obama had done and that suddenly, Trump was this insane outlier, that this had never happened before, that, in itself, was a huge tell.”

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Not long after openly gay United States figure skater Adam Rippon insulted Vice President Mike Pence for his Christian faith, a fed-up Donald Trump Jr. took to social media to absolutely crush Rippon and his criticisms.

As reported by the Daily Caller, Rippon was quoted in The Hill as saying he didn’t want the Winter Olympics in South Korea to be “about Mike Pence.”

Oddly enough, though, every time the bronze medalist got in front of a camera, all he wanted to do was make political statements criticizing Pence for his Christian views and alleged objections to homosexuality.

Trump Jr. fired off a tweet in response to The Hill article featuring Rippon’s quotes — and mocking the skater for saying “the Olympics are about Olympic competition,” not any political figures.

“Really? Then Perhaps you shouldn’t have spent the past few weeks talking about him. I haven’t heard him mention you once???” Trump Jr. tweeted Tuesday.

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Really? Then Perhaps you shouldn’t have spent the past few weeks talking about him. I haven’t heard him mention you once??? https://t.co/8lcCsoyBsq

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 14, 2018

Pence has not commented publicly on Rippon’s remarks.

In an interview published Feb. 7 with USA Today Sports, Rippon was asked about Pence being at the Olympics and how he felt about that.

“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?” Rippon said.

The USA Today article also noted that Rippon refused a meeting with Pence after the vice president reached out and offered to have a sit down with the figure skater.

“I don’t want my Olympic experience being about Mike Pence,” Rippon said.

He added: “I have no problem about what I’ve said because I stand by it, but I think right now the Olympics are about Olympic competition.”

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The vice president, besides being more mature than the 28-year-old Rippon, has more class, too. He even sent the athlete a tweet after the USA Today article appeared, saying he supported him and wished the entire United States Olympics team luck in the Games.

.@Adaripp I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don’t let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get ‘em!

— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 8, 2018

Guess what? No response from Rippon.

As Trump Jr. pointed out, Rippon has been telling anyone who will listed to him that he doesn’t want the Olympic Games to be about Pence, yet he can’t seem to stop talking about all the vice president.

Rippon says he doesn’t want to any controversy with Pence, then he rejects a meeting with the vice president who likely just wanted to tell him face-to-face he supported him.

He claims he doesn’t want to make the Olympics political, then tells the Daily Mail that he would reject an invitation to the White House if one were to be offered.

Americans like patriots representing them at the Olympics. RIppon is apparently nothing more than a liberal hypocrite. Trump Jr. had every right to rip him apart.

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