Ep. 567 - A Crisis of the Imagination
The Andrew Klavan Show
The Andrew Klavan Show
4.8 • 22.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | CNN says it stands by a story that is completely false and trusts in its reporting which was |
| 0:07.1 | both wrong and dishonest. |
| 0:09.1 | So array for CNN. |
| 0:11.1 | You all remember CNN, of course, it's that white noise machine they turn on at the airport |
| 0:15.0 | to make sure you can't hear the announcements about how long your flight has been delayed. |
| 0:18.4 | Well last week CNN breathlessly reported that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had evidence |
| 0:23.5 | that Donald Trump was aware of a Trump tower meeting no one cares about before the meeting |
| 0:27.7 | where nothing happened took place. |
| 0:29.9 | Now it turns out Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, was the anonymous source for this largely |
| 0:34.3 | meaningless story and he says he made a mistake in the story was completely untrue. |
| 0:38.9 | This means CNN was not only incompetent in its reporting but also dishonest because they |
| 0:43.3 | allowed Davis to give a no comment on the record as if he weren't the original source. |
| 0:48.4 | In response to their latest catastrophic and humiliating error, CNN released a statement |
| 0:53.1 | to its audience, which is like three or four guys who were passing through Dulles Airport. |
| 0:57.9 | The statement was released by a man in a clown mask who said he wanted to stay and answer |
| 1:01.3 | questions but couldn't because he'd missed the gate change of his flight because CNN |
| 1:05.3 | plane on the public TV drowned out the announcement. |
| 1:08.4 | The CNN statement read quote, we hear at CNN stand by our completely false story and remain |
| 1:13.6 | absurdly confident in our totally incompetent reporting. |
| 1:17.0 | Although our facts were not correct, the story contained the words Trump and Russia and |
| 1:20.6 | so point to a narrative of collusion and treachery that we have been selling for coming up on |
| 1:24.6 | two years now with stories just like this one, which we also stand by. |
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