It was during the Bill Clinton presidency that CNN rightly earned the nickname “Clinton News Network.”
The name stuck during the last election cycle, especially in light of how the network covered the two campaigns. Anyone who turned on CNN noticed this anecdotally, but the bias is quantifiable. A Harvard study on media bias in the 2016 election found that 93% of CNN and NBC’s Trump coverage was negative. Can you imagine them covering anything else so negatively? Even CNN’s endless coverage of the missing Malaysian airline three years ago was more positive!
There were also countless times when guests would be cut off the second they began to dare question Madam Secretary.
And despite the fact that Hillary’s political career is over, they’re still defending the woman.
CNN cut away from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, seconds after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised concerns that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had hired a former Clinton Foundation attorney to assist with the probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Graham was questioning Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was sitting in for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The relevant exchange between Graham and Mueller was as follows (watch below – or see the transcript):
Graham: Is giving political donations a reason to disqualify somebody for serving in the Special Counsel’s office?
Rosenstein: No, Senator, it is not a disqualification. It is not.
Graham: As a matter of fact, many states, the judges and prosecutors are actually elected. Donations are a part of that system, is that correct?
Rosenstein: Yes, that’s true.
Graham: Would it be a disqualification for somebody in the Special Counsel’s office who had represented Mrs. Clinton in the past to serve?
Rosenstein: You know, Senator, it would depend on facts and circumstances. As a general matter, I think the answer is no.
Graham: Isn’t that much closer to a conflict of interest?
Rosenstein: I don’t want to answer a hypothetical, Senator. Everybody needs to make a determination based on the facts and circumstances of the individual case.
Graham: How would you get it before the Special Counsel? What process could a member of the Senate use to inform the Special Counsel that you’d have a concern about hiring someone that represented Clinton?
Rosenstein: We have a process within the Department of Justice, Senator, so I would encourage you, if you have those concerns, to raise them with [former] Director Mueller or to raise them with me, and I’ll make sure —
Graham: So should I do it to you or to him?
Rosenstein: Well, you could do it to both.
Graham: Okay. That’s fair enough.
Rosenstein: And we have career —
Graham: And I don’t know if I’ll do that, but I’ve read some things that were — I don’t think donations are disqualifying at all, but if you represented the Clinton Foundation or Clinton herself, that would be disturbing to me, but I’ll take care of that.
H/T Breitbart
It was at that point that CNN cut back to the studio, as Graham’s questioning continued. What the cut-away done on purpose? Well, considering the network’s pro-Clinton bias, I think we know the answer.
CNN is living proof of what conservatives long suspected: That the mainstream media carried water for Clinton. Thank goodness the American people stuck it to biased networks like CNN by putting Doanld Trump in office!
Even so, Hillary Clinton may have lost her Secret Service protection following the election, but the media will always be there to protect her when the going gets tough.
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