Seriously, CNN? Richard fucking Spencer?!

[demmiblue]

CNN Blasted for Interviewing White Nationalist Richard Spencer About Trump’s Tweets

In light of President Donald Trump’s recent racist attacks against four progressive congresswomen of color, CNN gave a platform to white nationalist Richard Spencer — who was a featured speaker at the deadly 2017 Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally — to discuss the “red meat” race-based attacks on Tuesday.

While Spencer was a strong supporter of Trump at the start of his presidency, as he famously leading the “hail Trump, hail our people” Nazi-esque chant in Washington, D.C. just after the 2016 election, the alt-right thinktank president told CNN’s Sara Sidner that these latest “racist tweets” from Trump are nothing more than “the kind of sentiments you might hear from your drunk uncle while he’s watching Hannity.”

“Many white nationalists will eat up this red meat that Donald Trump is throwing out there. I am not one of them. I recognize the con-game that is going on,” Spencer said during the segment, which was pre-taped by CNN and was not aired in its entirety. “He gives us nothing outside of racist tweets and by racist tweets, I mean tweets that are meaningless and cheap.”

Spencer quickly took to Twitter to promote his CNN hit.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-blasted-for-giving-platform-to-white-nationalist-richard-spencer/

JFC.

[TheRealNorth]

1. Modern Nazis

You only used only see modern-day Nazis and Klansman on Jerry Springer. Now CNN is giving them a platform to speak from.

[world wide wally]

2. Springer banned them because of the hate

[Archae]

3. I'm boycotting CNN, they have lost all credibility.

They "interview" Spencer.

And these women for Trump, without disclosing their political activism.

CNN hosted panel of Trump’s “female supporters” to discuss his racist tweets without revealing their history of Republican activism
CNN presented the segment as a focus group-style panel on Republican women

CNN hosted a panel of women who support President Donald Trump to discuss his racist tweets without revealing that they are staunch Republican activists.

On July 14, CNN hosted a panel of Trump’s “female supporters” to see if their opinions of Trump had changed following a series of racist tweets he directed at four freshman congresswomen. The women expressed strong support for Trump and insisted he is not racist, with one noting that he “dated a black woman for two years” and “two of his wives are immigrants” as evidence.

While CNN depicted the panel as a random focus group of Republican women who support Trump, the network failed to disclose that two of them are members of the Texas Women for Trump Coalition, a group that defended Trump in media appearances after an Access Hollywood tape revealed lewd comments he had made about women. Another member of the group is the national director of Trumpettes for America, which Crooks and Liars called “a network of socialites who work to gin up support for Trump in the media.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/07/17/CNN-hosted-panel-of-Trumps-female-supporters-to-discuss-his-racist-tweets-without-revealin/224247

[demmiblue]

5. I seem to remember them doing that before.

Edit: found it

CNN Slammed Over GOP Women Panel Defending Kavanaugh

CNN received harsh criticism over the weekend after airing a segment asking Republican women in Florida their opinions of the sexual misconduct allegation currently swirling round Judge Brett Kavanaugh. All five women offered robust defenses of Kavanaugh, seemingly to the surprise of CNN reporter Randi Kaye.

On Twitter, many pointed out that at least two of the women were high placed Republicans operatives and said CNN should have been more transparent and said they were more than just ordinary voters.

In a viral thread Sunday, author and columnist James Surowiecki laid out the case.

“CNN’s framing of this segment was really irresponsible. This purported to be a focus group that would show what ‘Republican women’ think of Kavanaugh now. So each woman is identified as a ‘Republican voter,'” he said. “But in fact, the two women who dominated the discussion are not average voters — they’re better described as GOP political operatives.”

https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-slammed-over-gop-women-panel-defending-kavanaugh/

[CincyDem]

4. So spencer rejects trump because he doesn't ACT racist enough. Great. n/t.

[NewJeffCT]

6. CNN is horrible for this

they put on people and it normalizes their opinions and gives a platform to radical right-wing hatred

[USALiberal]

7. People need to see these nuts exposed! Nt