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American Propaganda in Overdrive: CNN Producer Admits Russia Narrative “Bullsh*T”, 3 Employees Quit Over Fake News

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CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN’s Russia narrative. He confirms that the driving factor at CNN is ratings:

Three Employees Resign From CNN Amid Very Fake News Scandal

By Matthew Boyle. Three CNN employees have resigned amid the network’s very fake news scandal in which it was forced to retract a hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates.

“CNN said Monday that three journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted,” CNN’s Brian Stelter reported late Monday. “Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN.”

Stelter quoted an anonymous CNN spokesperson—the network refused to comment to him on Sunday night over the scandal—as saying the network accepted their resignations. As Stelter acknowledged — not in this piece, but in his Sunday evening “Reliable Sources” newsletter — it was a Breitbart News investigation that forced CNN’s retraction and now the resignations of three top network officials. (Read more from “Three Employees Resign From CNN Amid Very Fake News Scandal” HERE)

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CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules on Its Russia Coverage

By Jon Passantino. CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions for online articles involving Russia after the network deleted a story and then issued a retraction late Friday, according to an internal email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The email went out at 11:21 a.m. on Saturday from Rich Barbieri, the CNNMoney executive editor, saying “No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason [Farkas],” a CNN vice president . . .

The new restrictions also apply to other areas of the network — not just CNNMoney, which wasn’t involved with the article that was deleted and retracted. (Read more from “CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules on Its Russia Coverage” HERE)

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How Low Can They Go? CNN’s Laughably ‘Sketchy’ Stunt

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The CNN team is extremely upset that the White House is limiting coverage of daily press briefings. White House press secretary Sean Spicer is relying more heavily on gaggles and audio only press briefings. To fight back, CNN actually brought in a courtroom sketch artist. No, really, they did.

On Thursday, CNN’s Jim Acosta even said the White House was violating the “rights” of the American people.

No, Jim, that isn’t how the First Amendment works. No politician has an obligation to hold press briefings or even allow those briefings to be televised, lest he or she violate the “rights” of Americans. The First Amendment states that the freedom of the press should not be infringed upon. That means government officials shouldn’t be allowed to shut down media outlets because they don’t like what they are saying. It doesn’t mean anyone in the government must talk to those outlets on their terms.

Here are more of the sketches.

As Miller said, this is more about the media personalities wanting to preen for the camera than any fundamental right.

The CNN crew should probably get over themselves. (For more from the author of ” How Low Can They Go? CNN’s Laughably ‘Sketchy’ Stunt” please click HERE)

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CNN Creates Fake News Story, Stages Pro-Muslim Demonstration After London Terrorist Attack

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Yesterday, a Londoner by the Twitter name @markantro filmed a CNN crew telling a group of Muslim women wearing head coverings on where to stand for a photoshoot. In the tweet, he claimed CNN was “Staging the event.”

Other critics have also accused them of staging the event. CNN called the claim “nonsense.” They said, “Police let demonstrators through the cordon to show their signs. CNN along with other media simply filmed them doing so.” The CNN report can be seen below.

The Protest

The “mum’s” group holds signs with messages like “ISIS will lose” and “ISIS = Enemies of Islam.” The crew has the women huddle into a tightly packed group to fit them all into camera coverage. At one point, someone steps forward to offer assistance to one or more of the women.

Next, white police officers securing the area are seen leaving as dark-skinned officers take their place. When everything is set, CNN’s Abu Dhabi Managing Editor Becky Anderson begins filming a report. She gushes over them, describing it as “a wonderful scene” and “poignant.” She raves, “Look at all the people around me here, behind me here, sad about last night but hopeful for tomorrow.”

The Inquisitr reports, “Fox News, BBC, CNN, and The Guardian have all allegedly used either images or video footage of these same Muslims carrying the same signs in various parts of London.”

An AP photo appears to capture the same group standing somewhere else. A man from the first group with green around his neck is also in the AP photo.

The Daily Mail‘s Katie Hopkins tweeted out more photos of the group posing in other locations. She observes that a woman wearing pink pants can be seen in multiple photos.

CNN’s actual report.

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It Took 26 Hours for CNN to Fire Kathy Griffin

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Twenty-six hours after a photo of comedienne Kathy Griffin posing with a severed and bloodied prop head of President Trump was published, CNN has finally fired Griffin. The announcement was made on Twitter Wednesday afternoon by the network.

The disturbing image drew outrage from people on both the Right and the Left. The Secret Service is even investigating “the circumstances surrounding the photo shoot.”

According to a report from TMZ, a distressed Barron Trump thought the photograph was real. President Trump said Wednesday that Kathy Griffin “should be ashamed of herself.”

CNN was criticized by many, including Donald Trump Jr., for taking too long to cut ties with Griffin.

Griffin apologized for the photoshoot Tuesday evening. But the controversy has ended several of Griffin’s business relationships, including a commercial for Squatty Potty that was terminated and a performance at an Albuquerque casino that was cancelled.

Since CNN has fired her as well, she will no longer appear alongside Anderson Cooper for the network’s New Year’s program.

Good riddance. It was unwatchable anyway. (For more from the author of “It Took 26 Hours for CNN to Fire Kathy Griffin” please click HERE)

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CNN Drops Congressman’s Feed as He Spills the Beans

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A U.S. congressman was abruptly disconnected from his CNN interview Monday just as he began citing statistics revealing 300 refugees admitted to the U.S. are being investigated by the FBI in domestic terrorism cases.

CNN correspondent Dana Bash was interviewing Rep. Scott Taylor, R-Va., on the issue of President Trump’s revised travel ban, which bars entry of individuals from a list of six terror hotbeds (Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syrian and Libya) for 90 days as the administration examines the vetting process.

Bash asked Taylor if he believes Trump’s ban is necessary for America’s security.

Just today, the FBI comes out and says that 30 percent, 30 percent, of their domestic terrorism cases that they’re investigating are from folks who are refugees,” Taylor replied. “It’s important not to label all refugees bad people, that’s not why I’m here, but …”

That’s when the feed suddenly cut out. Taylor’s face and voice were replaced by an image of colored bars and a loud buzzing noise. (Read more from “CNN Drops Congressman’s Feed as He Spills the Beans” HERE)

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Project Veritas Undercover Audio Exposes CNN Bias

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Now that the presidential election is over, James O’Keefe, the undercover videographer of Project Veritas, is turning his sights on the media. Thursday, he released 119 hours of audio secretly taped inside CNN’s headquarters. He will be releasing another 100 hours soon. A disgruntled CNN employee made the recordings in 2009. Employees — including management — are heard freely expressing their biases and how they affect news coverage.

A small portion of the 119 hours of material has been transcribed already. Nicki Robertson, a CNN assignment desk editor, says, “Fox News, I think Fox News is unbearable. It’s horrible.” She goes on in a disdainful voice, “It’s so American.”

Richard T. Griffiths, vice president and senior editorial director at CNN, is heard explaining that the fundamental role of a journalist is in part to “aid the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” He adds, “It’s actually one of the things I can be most proud of as a journalist.”

In another clip, Miss X — who apparently is the undercover journalist — can be heard questioning why an outdated poll was being used, regarding Americans’ opinions of (as yet unconfirmed) Supreme Court appointee Sonia Sotomayor. Arthur Brice answers her: “I don’t think we stand to change how people think of her.”

Arthur Brice is the executive editor of CNN. Joe Sterling was the news desk editor for CNN’s The Wire at the time. Sterling is also heard saying in regards to whether global warming is caused by man, “There’s no debate.” He compares it to “born-agains’” absolute belief in creationism and says, “I admit, I’m a little biased. The only spin I think is going on is by Republicans.”

The Scandal is Going to Get Bigger

O’Keefe is utilizing crowdsourcing, asking for help transcribing the audio since he lacks the manpower. He has been criticized in the past for selectively releasing only parts of his undercover videos, so the release of raw material should dispel those accusations. His organization compares its new strategy to that of Wikileaks.

“The media’s relationship with the establishment renders them incapable of challenging the normative order in our society, while the media systematically targets and shames any independent media organization or citizen which attempts to ferret out real information,” O’Keefe says. “So it’s time to turn their tactics and rules against them.”

While O’Keefe doesn’t think this will necessarily result in the demise of CNN, he told Gateway Pundit, “[E]very time we have previously released undercover audio/video someone does end up fired, someone does end up in jail.” He says he has operatives currently working at several media outlets. He is also offering $10,000 to people who can provide inside evidence of “corruption, malfeasance and wrongdoing” within the newsroom, and he promises to protect his sources’ identities.

The biased so-called mainstream media is already going on the defensive protecting one of their own primary outlets, claiming that most of the CNN employees caught recorded no longer work there. That is fake news. Most of them still work there and in fact at least one has been promoted.

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Hey, CNN, Your Pathetic Contempt for Pro-Lifers Is Showing!

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For the past 44 years, pro-life activists have come to Washington, D.C., in the dead of winter to speak for the millions of unborn children who have been the victims of abortion in America. And every year the mainstream media’s pro-abortion liberal bias is on full display for all to see.

Enter CNN’s Carol Costello. Costello is the host of CNN Newsroom, and today she covered the March for Life. But take a look at how the march was characterized:

“Anti-abortion.” For years, members of the pro-life movement have stressed the concept that this is a positive movement. A life-affirming movement. It is not singularly directed in opposition to a medical procedure, abortion, but rather is a movement to defend human life in the womb. A movement to protect the right to life possessed by unborn children.

Viewers noticed:

And that is an important point. For when Costello’s program went live to CNN’s Brianna Keilar, reporting from the National Mall, the comparisons drawn between the March for Life and last week’s liberal Women’s March should raise eyebrows for conservatives.

Keilar listed the litany of issues left-wing activists at the Women’s March last week supposedly protested for, including “immigrants rights, Muslim rights … women’s rights.” She used the term “abortion rights” as well.

But did you notice what was absent? Any discussion at all of the rights of unborn children. The activists at the March for Life are not there to simply oppose abortion. They are their to defend the natural right to life endowed by our Creator possessed by every human being. And make no mistake, an unborn child in the womb is a human being. Fighting for unborn rights is fighting for human rights.

The pro-life, pro-unborn rights participants are labeled with negative language and that leads one to wonder why. But this final exchange from Costello’s program might provide viewers with some insight.

Costello brought on Deana Wallace, staff counsel at Americans United for Life, to discuss what pro-life activists are looking for in President Trump’s pick for a Supreme Court justice. Listen at the end of this clip:

Costello laughed at the notion that a justice who wants to uphold the Constitution should defend unborn children and their right to life.

She laughed! At the thought that unborn children should have the right to life.

The liberal media, ladies and gentlemen. (For more from the author of “Hey, CNN, Your Pathetic Contempt for Pro-Lifers Is Showing!” please click HERE)

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CNN Responds to My Application for Its Fake News Position

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The following is the CNN human resources department’s reply to Rachel’s application for their new position of fake news editor. You can find her application here.

Dear (not to imply a level of intimacy that would make you uncomfortable) Ms., Miss, Mrs. Alexander (not to imply a marriage status or non-fluid gender identity, not that there’s anything wrong with that, if that’s who you feel yourself to be, and not to exclude Mr.),

We have reviewed your request to join our team (not that it’s a competitive type of team, everyone is equal here) as a reporter on fake news.

You must have misunderstood what we are looking for. We don’t run fake news here. We consider ourselves a ministry of truth, as the most trusted cable news network. We are looking to expand the work that our fake news expert Brian Stelter is doing.

We are looking for someone with a Media Matters, Snopes or Politifact approach to fake news. This means calling out biased, fake news sources like Fox News, The Washington Times and the Drudge Report. Or The Stream, a right-wing Christian site based in Dallas.

For example, Politifact has a great article entitled, “Fake News Purveyors Cheer On, Echo Trump Team’s Lies About Inauguration Crowd Size.” Not only does the article call out several offensive sites, but it goes further and notes that the sites all make revenue from Google advertising, so they are violating the company’s terms of service by providing misleading content. Politifact went the extra mile and is trying to shut these sites down.

To be honest, Ms./Miss/Mrs./Mr. Alexander, we don’t think you could do this. We think you’d be too biased.

Further, we want our new reporter to reach even higher levels of accuracy and zealousness. A really good reporter would go beyond what the Politifact article did and break down the Trump team’s inauguration numbers, explaining why they were fake. Or better still, keep repeating that the numbers were fake with smug authority and furrowed brow until it becomes accepted common wisdom.

We don’t think you understand that readers can only trust reputable sources like CNN, the New York Times and Huffington Post. You can generally distinguish a reputable site from the riff-raff because we use the AP Stylebook (the Times has its own stylebook, but it’s very similar). This guarantees our objectivity. For example, AP style requires the neutral term “anti-abortion” instead of the biased term “pro-life.”

The fake news sites use prejudicial terms like “Islamic terrorism” and “illegal immigrant,” so they should be easy to spot. We were alarmed to notice when reviewing the writing you submitted that you used these terms. We do not hire bigots who think that Muslim freedom fighters are “terrorists” and that undocumented visitors to this country are “illegal immigrants.”

We’re afraid we also doubt your ability to recognize fake news. How good are you at parsing every word in order to find one that looks off? President Trump’s Twitter feed should be a gold mine for this position, but we suspect you do not agree.

Take this tweet, for example, where Trump brags about meeting with “automobile industry leaders.” That looks objective, right? But that’s the genius of rightwing fake news. Who are these men really? What would the objective journalist call them? They’re greedy, wealthy white men and polluters largely responsible for the massive increase in manmade global warming.

This position requires the ability to create effective sound bites, in order to make sure the fake news exposés go viral. The stronger phrase “fake fake news” should be reserved to describe the worst offenses, like any story about someone connected to the Clintons who died under mysterious circumstances. “Trump fake news machine” should be used anytime the president says anything incorrect, which seems to be every other tweet.

Although it looks like your skills and the needs of CNN do not mesh, feel free to reapply and submit some samples of your work exposing the “real fake news.” Getting published in Media Matters will improve your chances with us. We hired Stelter in part because he came from one of the world’s most honest publications, The New York Times.

In keeping with our tolerance and diversity policies, we write you in peace and solidarity with all the oppressed peoples of the earth, the whales and all endangered creatures, and especially with the Palestinians oppressed by Israel.

Right on, sister (or brother if you wish)!

Your comrades at CNN

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Dear CNN, I Am Applying for Your Fake News Expert Position

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Dear CNN,

I am applying for your new position for a reporter who will expose fake news. I’m definitely the person you want. Why, just last month, I wrote an article on how your own Brian Stelter is a purveyor of fake news himself.

In fact, you’ve helped make me the journalist I am. Even if you don’t hire me, I’ll always be grateful to CNN for all the practice. I’ve made a career from pointing out many fake news stories at CNN. With all the experience you’ve given me, I feel I am overqualified for this position!

Since CNN churns out so much fake news, we’d be a great fit. I have a large social media following, and already share with them all the fake news stories I find on CNN. You can’t beat that kind of publicity. You publish fake news and get all the readers, then you publish my exposure of the fake news and get all those readers and more. It’s a win-win!

I could spend all my time debunking your own fake news. I wouldn’t even need to look at other news sites. We’d keep the readers to ourselves. If you keep Stelter on, I could just focus on exposing his fake news.

This part of the job description describes me well: “They should get angry every time they see any inaccuracy in any story, whether large or small, and whether published by a fake news site or a real one.” I was snowbound in a motel a couple of weeks ago, and watched CNN (there was no Fox News) for several days in a row, and I felt myself get angrier and angrier.

You know what made me angry? Watching your incessant coverage of the unproven accusations that the Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails and gave them to Wikileaks. Meanwhile, you didn’t even mention the possibility that a disgruntled Democratic insider could have leaked the emails, which is what Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said. If you hire me, you can bet I’ll be angry all the time! At you!

I know you’ll be impressed with my work. Here are some CNN headlines with fake news from the last couple of days with a sample of my analyses:

Trump puts GOP in awkward spot on ObamacareThis is a great example. You took simple business as usual and turned it into a problem. Trump says his plan to replace Obamacare is ready, whereas Republicans in Congress don’t have a plan ready yet. This isn’t “awkward.” It just means the two need to agree on how they want to fix healthcare. That’s how Congress and the president do things.

The article also said Sen. Orrin Hatch “bristled” at Trump’s promise to provide healthcare coverage for all. He said we need to be careful about over-promising. That sounds more “cautionary” than “bristling.”

Obama approval hits 60% as end of term approachesHere’s another good one. You say Obama is still popular. How’d you do that? You sampled a lot more Democrats than Republicans. The same with your polling about President Trump. Your recent poll on his approval rating sampled 31 percent Democrats and only 23 percent Republicans, despite the fact those percentages are not reflective of the general population.

Nancy Sinatra not happy Trump using father’s song at inauguration In response to a question about her father’s song being used at the inauguration, Nancy Sinatra jokingly tweeted back, “Just remember the first line of the song.” The first line is, “And now, the end is near.” You ran the headline above about her tweet.

Sinatra angrily tweeted in response, “That’s not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?” She went on, “What a rotten spin to put on a harmless joke,” and had only good things to say about Trump. While it is true she recently praised Meryl Streep for her criticism of Trump at the Golden Globes, she is not the angry firebrand the article portrayed her as.

Since Sinatra called you out on this fake news, you changed the title to “Sinatra on Trump picking ‘My Way’: Remember the first line” and corrected the article, adding Sinatra’s response. Unfortunately, it took a celebrity to convince you to correct your fake news.

Finally, you’re looking for someone of impeccable character. As many who know me can attest to, I’d turn in my own mother if she were guilty of fake news.

I look forward to hearing from you. We’ll make a great team, I promise!

Sincerely,

Rachel Alexander

P.S. Here’s an idea if you’re feeling really radical. Rename CNN to FNN, for Fake News Network. You’d take all the traffic away from the conspiracy sites that dominate the fake news market. Together, we can take fake news to a new level.

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Clinton Accuser Rips CNN as Network Trumpets Another New Poll

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As CNN on Monday breathlessly announced yet another poll from media sources bearing good news for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, there was one very loud, dissenting voice.

Kathleen Willey, who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct while she was a White House aide, started an avalanche of attacks against CNN by delivering a succinct denunciation of the network.

The flareup started innocuously, with CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeting out a preview of coming attractions.

A little while later, Willey pounced.

Tapper’s reaction seemed puzzled.

Willey had one more shot.

Her tweet referred to Charles Ortel, a writer and financial expert who has been critical of the Clinton Foundation.

Willey, who first told her story of being sexually assaulted in 1998 as part of the investigation into Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, has returned to the national stage this year in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

She found support for her position on Twitter.

Trump has also questioned the accuracy of polls, roundly attacking them as an example of media bias.

“What they do is they show these phony polls where they look at Democrats, and it’s heavily weighted with Democrats. And then they’ll put on a poll where we’re not winning, and everybody says, ‘Oh, they’re not winning,’” Trump said Monday in Boynton Beach, Fla. “The truth is, I think we’re winning.”

Trump has indicated he sees media bias and dubious polling as an extension of a larger issue in the campaign.

“There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself,” he said earlier this month.

“The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media,” Trump added. “Let’s be clear on one thing: The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda. And their agenda is to elect the Clintons at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it is a war — and for them, nothing is out of bounds.” (For more from the author of “Clinton Accuser Rips CNN as Network Trumpets Another New Poll” please click HERE)

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