Carville Says Networks Should Have Aired Trump Speech So America Could See What CNN Sees Every Morning

James Carville has finally solved the mystery of why the legacy media should carry President Donald Trump's speeches live. Not because Americans deserve to hear their president. Not because voters can make up their own minds. No, according to the Democratic strategist, the networks should have aired it so viewers could receive the proper Commie News Network approved diagnosis.

Appearing on CNN's The Situation, Carville lamented that ABC, NBC, CNN, and the rest of the usual suspects deprived America of what he considers must see television. Others might call it "reporting the news."

"I would advise them to attack CNN, attack ABC, attack NBC, attack MS NOW, because they didn’t air the speech. And I think the President of the United States acting loonier than a tune is newsworthy. I don’t think we should have hidden that from the American people. I think it should have been blanket coverage of it. He’s literally off his rocker, and there’s no other way to describe this," he told Wolf Blitzer.

That is quite a pivot. Just hours after the media collectively decided Trump's remarks on election security were too dangerous for public consumption, one of the Democratic Party's loudest strategists complained they should have broadcast every second of it.

Apparently censorship is only a bad idea when Democrats think it will help their polling numbers.

Carville is the longtime Democratic strategist and Bill Clinton campaign advisor. He is known for his blunt, combative style, and some of the statements he has made in the past, have sparked backlash for being classist and even misogynistic and dismissive of women's claims. He has also been quite dismissive toward fellow Democrats.

In 1998 the made what is known as the "Trailer Park" comment: “If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find” (or “you’ll find plenty of women to accuse Clinton of sexual harassment”). This statement was made at the height of the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit and Monica Lewinsky 'Oral Office Scandal," as some have called it.

But even prior to that comment, there was the "Bimbo Eruptions" in his handling of the 1992 campaign. While he didn't make a direct quote along these lines about Bill Clinton's affairs and sexual misconduct during the presidential race, he was a central figure int the Clinton "war room" where aides (Betsey Wright, specifically) used the term "bimbo eruption. This was criticized as slut-shaming and derogatory toward women. Carville and his team had to deal with damage control.

In 2017 Carville referred to Hillary Clinton as "a little bit like the guy who killed his parents and then asked for mercy because he was an orphan." This came soonafter Clinton's 2016 election defeat to President Trump. He was criticizing her for blaming external factors (such as FBI Director James Comey’s letter and Russian interference) rather than taking full personal responsibility.

The last example I'll give is when, in 2024, Carville called to "kill the woke." In interviews around the 2024 election cycle, he stated that the party had to “kill the woke” or move away from progressive cultural priorities to focus on economic “kitchen table” issues. This obviously provoked strong backlash from progressive Democrats and activists, who viewed it as a betrayal of social justice causes, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial equity priorities. 

So James Carville is a tad touched in the head.

Wolf Blitzer looked slightly confused by the sudden outbreak of consistency and asked, "So you think we should have given him more publicity? Is that what you’re saying?"

Carville eagerly snatched a fly near his face, popped it in his mouth, and replied, "Absolutely saying that, I’m absolutely saying that. I think the decision not to air that speech by CNN and other and other networks is not being what’s really newsworthy, and that this guy’s gone."

Translation, Americans should have been trusted to watch the speech, as long as they arrived at the same conclusion CNN had already prepared for them.

Carville then continued his medical evaluation from the comfort of a television studio.

"He knows he’s going to lose, but he couldn’t explain what he was trying to do. He couldn’t execute it. Literally, the guy was literally crazy. And he just rehashed everything."

It was an impressive performance from a political consultant insisting the media should air a speech only because he was certain viewers would hate it.

The irony is hard to miss. For years, the press has insisted Americans cannot be trusted to hear certain arguments because they might be persuaded. Now Carville is arguing they should hear Trump's speech because they definitely will not be persuaded.

At least someone on CNN accidentally admitted the obvious. If Trump's speech was really as unhinged as Carville claims, why hide it? 

The only thing stranger than refusing to air it is demanding it should have been aired only after deciding in advance what everyone was supposed to think about it. That is less journalism and more Mystery Science Theater with a newsroom budget.

Journalism is dead.

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