CNN: Still suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome!
You’d think that after being embarrassed by their eight-year activist campaign promoting the then-unverified and now completely discredited Steele Dossier/Russia Collusion story (dreamed up and paid for by the Hillary Clinton Reelection campaign), CNN would have shifted its reporting on Donald Trump towards a more balanced view.
On Monday last, I caught a rerun of the program where their star pit bull, Dana Bash, had Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on to get his “thoughts” on US/Ukraine relations following the previous Friday’s uncomfortable spat between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Here is some of what Murphy said:
“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin… the entire pretext for that meeting yesterday was an attempt to rewrite history to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine….
“That is disastrous for US national security. That means that China will be on the march. Putin may not stop. America may be at war with a nuclear power….
“Donald Trump wants us to have our closest relationships with despots all around the world, because that makes it easier for him to transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy, where Elon Musk and Donald Trump rule and steal from the American people.”
A reaction the following Monday from the WSJ that captures my response perfectly:
“Reviewing [the spat], one can certainly find fault with a number of the comments – and not just from the US side. But to suggest that the Zelensky visit was staged by the White House to hand more power to the world’s dictators and risk nuclear war in order to help Mr. Trump destroy our republic so that Elon Musk can steal money from Medicaid is sheer lunacy.
“Mr. Murphy’s unhinged rantings were not even consistent on their own mad terms. If the Trump administration really were an arm of the Kremlin, why would Putin be orchestrating this grand plot to enrich Mr. Musk instead of keeping the money for himself?
“And anyway, who wastes time designing risky criminal schemes to enrich the world’s richest man?”
No, they didn’t get the message. Since they began airing their anti-Trump conspiracy theories in 2016, CNN’s viewership has done nothing but tumble. In February, they had their lowest-rated month in a decade, with viewership at 587,00, compared to 2.6 million for Fox News and 1.2 million for MSNBC.
One has to wonder: Have they even considered the possibility that the drastic falloff might be due to an increasingly large percentage of their viewers increasingly finding their reporting on the President to be unfair and untrustworthy?
Or, worse, that their TDS actually contributed to Trump’s strong victory in November?
I guess not.
