CNN's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
1. CNN’s quid pro quo
CNN’s troubles started on Tuesday, when Fox News host Tucker Carlson played a tape exposing CNN President Jeff Zucker appearing to offer a quid pro quo to then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, the New York Post reported.
Zucker told Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that he wanted Trump, whom he called “the boss,” to host a weekly show. He also touted the importance of having CNN on Trump’s side in the presidential election.
“You guys have had great instincts, great guts, and great understanding of everything. But you’re missing the boat on how it works going forward,” Zucker told Cohen during a March 2016 conversation Carlson revealed.
Zucker had worked with Trump as the former CEO of NBC Universal while the network was airing The Apprentice. “You cannot be elected president of the United States without CNN,” the network’s president told Cohen.
Zucker also gave Cohen advice about how Trump should handle the debate on March 10. Then the CNN president explained why he would speak to Cohen rather than sending an email to Trump directly.
“I’m very conscious of not putting too much in email, as you’re a lawyer, as you understand,” Zucker said. “And, you know, as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency, like, you know, if I call him or I email him, he then is capable of going out at his next rally and saying that we just talked and I can’t have that, if you know what I’m saying.”
2. Chris Cuomo and Stormy Daniels
On Wednesday, Carlson released another tape. This time, the recording concerned a conversation between Cohen and CNN host Chris Cuomo. Carlson condemned Cuomo for manufacturing a “scripted drama, written for the Democratic Party” by preparing Trump’s lawyer to give an interview on the network regarding Trump’s alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“I think the way this conversation goes is almost exactly the way we’re having it right now. Which is, where I say, ‘This looks shady,’ and you say, ‘It looks shady to you because you’re coming in with a specific intention,'” Carlson said, quoting Cuomo.
Cuomo instructed Cohen on how to dodge questions about a shell corporation he had allegedly used to make the Daniels payments.
“Quote: ‘I’m not being shady,’ Cuomo instructed Cohen to say. ‘I was being legal, and I did it my right way. You’re wrong about the LLC. I’ve used it for other things. I have tons of LLCs. I did not form it just to do this. And even if I had, my whole point would have been to keep it quiet. But that happens to just not be true.’ End quote,” Carlson read.
The Fox News host also reported that Cuomo actually advised Trump’s lawyer to threaten Cuomo on air with a defamation lawsuit if he “speculated” that he was “paid back by Trump or the campaign” for the alleged payments.
The recording also included Cuomo informing Cohen he’ll make “some phone calls” to make sure the questions he would ask wouldn’t put him in legal trouble.
3. What, exactly, did Jake Tapper tell Sean Parnell?
CNN’s bad week continued on Thursday when word got out that CNN host Jake Tapper had tried to pressure a U.S. Army veteran not to run against Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) and later denied it. Tapper reportedly told Sean Parnell, now Lamb’s Republican challenger, to run in a safer congressional district for Republicans. Yet when former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell asked Tapper about the situation, he denied asking Parnell not to run against Lamb.
Fox News published a Twitter direct message that Tapper sent to Parnell’s @SeanParnellUSA account on November 8, 2019, after Parnell officially declared his candidacy in the U.S. House race.
“And best of luck in your race. For the record, I wasn’t trying to talk you out of running — I was trying to talk you into running in a safer R district! Lol,” Tapper wrote to Parnell.
However, Tapper denied Breitbart’s reporting from earlier this week that the CNN host had tried to discourage Parnell from running against Lamb.
Grenell, who recently became a senior advisor for the Republican National Committee (RNC) revealed Tapper’s denial and excoriated the CNN host.
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Hard hitting news, if only close to 200k Americans weren’t dead because of Trumps mishandling of Covid19
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Further evidence that CNN is a joke.
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So the big scoop is CNN offered the reality star a tv show?
That's some hard hitting journalism right there.
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What do you want Biker the Democrat to post about? The fact that The President of the United States lawyer is best friends with a Russian Agent?AnalHamster wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:06 pm So the big scoop is CNN offered the reality star a tv show?
That's some hard hitting journalism right there.
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You didn't, though. You inserted a blatant lie.
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This dumb thot just said in the same breath that the protests were mostly peaceful but that damages are in the 1-2 billion dollar range
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If only Hillary or Barry were president! That dang virus wouldnt have even entered America.
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Democrats are nothing but consistent. Can’t win using the current rules and so they have to be changed so they can win.
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Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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When / where did you move?Stapes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:01 pm Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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That criminal pig isn't my president you crackerAntknot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:03 amWhen / where did you move?Stapes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:01 pm Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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Yes he is, Karen. Yes, he is.Stapes wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:04 amThat criminal pig isn't my president you crackerAntknot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:03 amWhen / where did you move?Stapes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:01 pm Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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Stapes wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:04 amThat criminal pig isn't my president you crackerAntknot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:03 amWhen / where did you move?Stapes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:01 pm Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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"Cracker"? Another weak insult more correctly describing yourself. You live in Florida the origination of the term.Stapes wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:04 amThat criminal pig isn't my president you crackerAntknot wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:03 amWhen / where did you move?Stapes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:01 pm Don Lemon is a problem but Tucker Carlson saying there should be a drug test for the debate because the only way Joe Biden is acting so with it is he must be on drugs. Then he gets some paid faux news stooge with a medical license to come on and hint that Biden must be on adderall or speed. All because Trump at his rally is now pushing that little hoax. Joe Biden who can't string two words together in his words is now so with it and threatening for the debates it must be cause they shoot him up in the ass before the debates.
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You guys gonna go correct DP's assertion that Obama was never President or is that ok?
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