CNN DOUBLES DOWN ON BECOMING A FASCIST WHOREHOUSE 1.11.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: It is amazing but true: the coverage of the Biden document story by Fox News has been more restrained and responsible than has CNN’s. The desperate attempt to position the Think Tank Papers story as one that - in the words of a CNN commentator - "almost exonerates" Trump, continued last night. The raw numbers are startling: between 5 and 11 PM ET Monday, MSNBC gave the story 14 minutes, Fox News gave it 29 minutes, and CNN gave it 107 MINUTES. Three and a half times as much as Fox! And the worst perpetrator of CNN’s willingness to literally lie to its viewers has been Anderson Cooper. The first words out of his mouth last night were how quote “President Biden’s first public statement on the classified documents uncovered at his former private office” were 'breaking news.' I suggested in real time that if Cooper had any remaining self-respect he would quit before his program was over. He didn't. He doesn't.
There is much more than money to what CNN's new fascist troika - Chris Licht, David Zaslav, and John Malone - is doing. This is the Clinton-Lewinsky night-after-night brainwash play: convince America that if Biden is not guilty, Trump is not guilty. And having sold their souls, they will keep pushing this as long as we don't stop them.
B-Block (18:45) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Poor Mike Pompeo couldn't get anybody to blurb his book so he had to do it himself. He competes with a climate denier who insists if we reinstate wind power we will automatically reinstate The Atlantic Slave Trade, and the nimrods like Tomi Lahren who complained that Ukraine's president went to Hollywood for the Golden Globes last night - even though he didn't. (23:58) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL No. 1: The perfidy of using cable news to brainwash didn't start with Chris Licht. I was there the day the Chairman of GE was ready to shut down MSNBC because his Mommy the Bill O'Reilly fan believed her son was building IEDs to kill America because Fox told her so.
C-Block (41:55) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL No. 2: My first experience with the ad salesmen who pretend to be cable's journalistic decision-makers came even before my first MSNBC show in 1997. That's when the big meeting with the man Microsoft thought shared editorial control of MSNBC was to meet with me, and NBC's execs were worried about only one thing: how effectively I ignored him.
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Ulerman is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.6 | The conversion of CNN from a news organization into a whorehouse is now complete. |
| 0:23.8 | CNN again led its primetime newscasts last night with breathless, also factless, |
| 0:29.8 | indefensible, overinflated, scandalized, factually altered headlines about a fictionalized story about Joe Biden. |
| 0:38.8 | The actual story is about documents that might be classified and were not on anybody's missing list that were discovered |
| 0:46.4 | without Biden's knowledge in a safe at his think tank and were immediately returned to the National Archives. |
| 0:52.8 | Monday night, a paid CNN commentator asserted this story, quote, almost exonerates Donald Trump. |
| 1:00.7 | It does not. It has nothing to do with Trump's threat to this country's national security. |
| 1:06.6 | With Trump's threat to the nuclear safety of this world, of Trump's probable espionage, |
| 1:11.9 | of his theft of nuclear documents, I will repeat my analogy. |
| 1:15.4 | The 10 or 12 misplaced and immediately returned documents at the think tank are to Trump's crime wave, |
| 1:23.2 | in exactly the same way a Swiss Army knife is to jack the ripper's murder weapon. |
| 1:28.7 | It is amazing, but true. The coverage of the Biden document story by Fox News has been more restrained |
| 1:39.2 | and more responsible than has CNN's coverage. And the worst perpetrator of CNN's willingness to literally |
| 1:48.3 | or itself out to literally lie to its viewers has been Anderson Cooper. |
| 1:54.3 | The first words out of his mouth last night were how, quote, President Biden's first public statement on the classified documents uncovered at his former private office were, quote, breaking news. |
| 2:06.6 | I suggested in real time that if Anderson Cooper had any remaining self-respect he would quit before his program was over, I knew as I said that I was offering a ridiculous theoretical I worked with him at CNN in 2001 and 2002. |
| 2:20.6 | If you can imagine a CNN morning program starring Paul Azon with Jack Capriety and me as the side kicks and the news read by Anderson Cooper. |
| 2:31.8 | Here's a shock it neither worked nor lasted since then Cooper has been CNN's man on the scene for all of its coverage worldwide of disaster porn. |
| 2:41.2 | When a bullet professed has been required he's always had one ready and it is always matched the color of his eyes. |
| 2:49.0 | Anderson Cooper is an actor who can look concerned. Now he has become an actor who can look like this is breaking news or important news or just news. |
| 2:59.2 | When it is not he is an actor who is now employed solely to satisfy CNN's new evil scientist Chris Lick and the fascist Lick works for CNN's new owner John Malone. |
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