CNN Pounces, Seizes on Nonfunctional Bomb Scare As 17,883rd Reason Trump Must Never Dare Criticize CNN as "Fake News"

Note that Hillary Clinton did not cancel her own political appearance today. In fact, in the very statement in which she said something about us needing to come together peacefully (directly contradicting her "no civility" statement from two weeks ago), she immediately added, "And that means electing people who will do the right thing," or words to that effect.

But Trump has to stop campaigning. Not any Democrats. Just the most important player on the field for Republicans 12 days out from an election.

Coincidentally enough!!!

And CNN's Jeff Zucker can't wait to say, once again, that it's off-limits to criticize CNN Because Reasons:

A politically-poisoned Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter shot up seven Republican congressmen. CNN did not caution against overheated political rhetoric then, and certainly did not attempt to cool its own People Will Die rhetoric.

And, in fact, they removed that huge story from the front page within three days.

Think they'll be burying this story in three days?

This is a very cynical and anti-american corporate messaging operation, and a disgusting bit of demagoguery.

CNN has been making the claim that you can't criticize CNN every single opportunity it has received -- or contrived.

When a man who had been stalking and harassing the Capitol Gazette for seven years over a defamation lawsuit entered their offices and shot people, CNN declared this was all because of Trump's attacks on the media (meaning, CNN), and Trump must stop criticizing CNN as fake news or else People Will Die.

When a Saudi national, hooked up with the Muslim Brotherhood, was murdered by Saudi secret police, CNN declared that the Saudis must have felt they had a license to kill reporters, granted to them by Trump, because Trump had criticized CNN as Fake News and thus declared "open season" on reporters.

Therefore, CNN declared, Trump must no longer criticize CNN as Fake News. Or else -- People Will Die.

Now, once again, CNN is ginning up its corporate advertising/political agitation division to once again declare CNN the hero of the #Resistance which cannot be criticized by Trump as #FakeNews because, get this, if Trump criticizes them, People Will Die.

I'm detecting a pattern here.

Whatever happens, CNN seems to seize upon, pounce upon this new event as proof positive that it is simply too dangerous to ever criticize CNN as partisan FakeNews.

CNN never pauses to wonder whether its constant claim that Trump will indirectly (but probably intentionally) kill people with his Murder Words could possibly have some kind of inciting effect on the minds of the emotionally unbalanced.

No, it's only Trump's less dramatic criticism -- that CNN is Fake News -- that could possibly spur an almost-killer into being an actual killer.

CNN's constant People Will Die if Trump Calls Us Fake News has No Effect on the minds of the psychically unstable, they seem to be saying.

Well, I guess that's either because All Liberals Are Angels -- and they couldn't possibly mean that, because they always tell me they don't pick a side in political battles -- or because virtually no one watches CNN.

Let's see what might be causing a "Climate of Hate" besides Trump's "attacks" on CNN, using the apparent Call-to-Murder language of "FakeNews:"

Just over a week ago, Hillary Clinton announced the time for civility had passed, unless and until Democrats won back power.

Eric Holder then topped her by ruling Michele Obama's (laughable) slogan "When they go low, we go high" inoperative, saying the dictum was now "When they go low, we kick 'em."

Prior to that, Corey "Let Me Grab Up On Your T-Bone" Booker proclaimed that it was again time to get up into the faces of people and yell at them.

Rand Paul's wife wrote Booker an open letter asking him to retract this statement and make more soothing statements, given that she had to watch her husband recover from a severe beating that resulted, IIRC, his lung being scratched by a broken rib, and having to sleep with a gun under his pillow.

Booker refused, probably too busy grabbing up on men's dicks in public bathrooms to take notice.

Maxine Waters frequently called for public harassment and intimidation of enemies. When some protesters announced they'd be (lawfully) protesting her offices, she called for her own "protesters" to, um, do whatever leftwing protesters do to rightwing protesters do these days, which is mostly commit assaults and throw bottles of urine at them.

Hillary Clinton propagandist Brian Fallon claimed that violent, terroristic Antifa were the moral equivalent of US troops storming the beaches at Normandy.

And this past week, Democrat Representative Joaquin Castro spread the completely bonkers FakeNews Conspiracy Theory On Acid that Jared Kushner had passed the Saudis a KILL LIST of reporters they were allowed to kill, or perhaps, even encouraged to kill.

The media did not scold Castro for spreading this unhinged conspiracy theory about Trump's family ordering murders in far-away lands. They just kind of shrugged it off as "Just politics."

But when Trump says "CNN, you're Fake News," those are the sort of intemperate words that could provoke a man to commit murder.

Throughout all of this, CNN personnel hailed the tactics of their fellow leftwing Democrats as just good old American political speech. Speech, with occasional assaults.

And now Trump has to modify his rhetoric?

Will Chris Cuomo retract his claim that antifa beat-downs are morally justified?

Will Don Lemon retract his open support for intimidating public officials in restaurants?

Will Brooke Baldwin admit that Democrat mobs are mobs too?

When is CNN going to modify its own significant -- some might say "leading" -- role in creating this Climate of Hate and Toxic Discourse?

By the way, Cucks: Whatever you do, don't ask Jake Tapper about this on Twitter.

If you keep going tonsil-deep on him, he might get you a CNN contributor gig.

Some day, maybe.

Giggle.

posted by Ace of Spades at 05:30 PM

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