It’s going to be really, really hard for networks like CNN and MSNBC to recover from the ‘fake news’ label when they continually shoot themselves in the foot like this.
While news was spreading of terror suspect Akayed Ullah detonating a low-tech explosive device strapped to his body, injuring four people inside the New York’s Port Authority bus terminal during rush hour, CNN and MSNBC were both fixated on a story involving President Trump allegedly watching up to eight hours of television and drinking a dozen Diet Cokes per day.
“The thing that would concern me more is this consistent consumption of fats and sugars and all sorts of stuff that’s bad for you,” one guest told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “Any physician would tell you that’s a recipe for problems.”
Know what’s really a ‘recipe for problems?’ Bombs going off in New York City. Seems slightly more pressing than whether or not the President binge drinks Diet Coke.
Remember when everyone criticized Fox News for talking about the hamburger emoji? I would love people to give the same scrutiny to @CNN and @MSNBC, who cut away from a terror attack to talk about Trump watching TV and drinking diet coke. https://t.co/zyVItvY2ul
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) December 11, 2017
You can watch CNN’s hard-hitting journalism below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZI5GHvW1CE
Only CNN would place something like a Diet Coke story on the same level as a terrorist attack in a major American city.
Oh wait, we stand corrected.
MSNBC spent an exorbitant amount of time covering President Trump’s television viewing habits as opposed to the developing attack.
“Yeah, no question it’s a lot of TV time for any one of us probably,” a panelist on the network’s Morning Joe program said. “He’s got it on when he’s going through papers or having a relatively casual meeting … when he doesn’t catch something right away he’s got what he calls his ‘super Tivo.'”
The amusing takeaway from that clip is MSNBC’s defense of former President Obama, saying he hardly ever watched the news and stuck mostly with sports coverage.
This was a man who constantly claimed he learned about scandals for the first time through news reports.
Remember when Obama first learned about Hillary Clinton’s private email for the first time by watching the news?
Or the time he first learned about the Fast and Furious scandal … on the news?
Or the IRS targeting scandal involving conservative groups?
Sharyl Attkisson covers numerous other instances in which Obama claimed he learned about things from the news. I don’t ever recall anybody in the media discussing Obama’s obvious fetish with the news in such a manner as they’ve been hammering Trump. Unless of course, they knew the former President was lying.
For his part, Trump says the reports of him watching television and drinking Diet Cokes constantly are just more ‘fake news.’
Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day – Wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the “dumbest man on television!” Bad Reporting.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2017
We’d all be better off if we followed the President’s lead and ignored networks like CNN and MSNBC. Two networks that don’t feel a terrorist attack in New York City is worthy of coverage, but a man drinking soda is.
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