CNN can't even get the simple stuff correct

The Comedy News Network (CNN) has once again shown the country why they essentially suck at journalism. The network is under fire after an "Anderson Cooper 360" segment portrayed a group of Republican activists from South Florida with deep ties to the GOP as simply "Republican voters."

That's almost as bad as CNN calling men who believe they're women, "she" and vice-versa.

Whether or not this was done intentionally is irrelevant--the news is supposed to be reported factually. Opinion, not so much. Maybe they were tricked into believing the women had no deep ties to the Republican Party, but journalists are supposed to check their sources [I tell that to my guy in the street, Vinny Boombots, all the time].

Cooper began the segment Thursday referring to the group as "a group of Republican women in Florida," which is akin to calling Cooper simply "a gay guy on TV." The women immediately stated they believed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in spite of claims by a woman with no facts, no corroborating evidence, and people who dispute the accuser's claims that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago.

Kavanaugh is alleged to have gotten on top of Christine Blasey Ford on a bed and tried to remove her one piece swimsuit. When she tried to scream, he allegedly put his hand over her mouth.

"Republican voter" Gina Sosa asked the panel, "What boy hasn't done this in high school?"

The women declared they'd support Kavanaugh regardless of whether the allegations are true. Hey, it was high school and guy do stuff like that to chicks--it's how we roll, ladies. Just ask Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Keith Ellison, Bill Cosby, James Franco, Paul Haggis, Kevin Spacey, Ben Vereen, Charles Dutoit, Tavis Smiley, [no relation to Art Laffer], Ryan Lizza, Mario [aka Mahbone]  Batali, James Levine, James Rosen, Garrison Keillor, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Glenn Thrush, Russell Simmons, Jeffrey Tambor, Sen. Al Franken, Matt Zimmerman, Andrew Kreisberg, Roy Moore, Louis C.K., Steven Seagal, Ed Westwick, Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven, Michael Oreskes, Mark Halperin, James Toback, Bob Weinstein [keeping it in the family], Oliver Stone, Ben Affleck, Nelly, the left's hero-Roman Polanski, Steve Wynn, Eric Schneiderman, and perhaps the baritone section of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but that hasn't been made public yet.

The panel along with Kirsten Powers and Judicial Crisis Network counsel Carrie Severino, discussed what the women said, still not identifying their important roles in the GOP but it eventually came out on Twitter, to which the nation nervously anticipates the presidential response the network's failure will likely elicit from him.

CNN definitely has editorial and journalistic standards. Unfortunately, they are all low. By not disclosing key information about the women in the focus group, CNN proves once again that fake news is alive and well.


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