CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile

[alp227]

Source: Politico

CNN says it is "completely uncomfortable" with hacked emails showing former contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile sharing questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.

Hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile, whose CNN contract was suspended when she became interim DNC chair over the summer, sharing with the Clinton campaign a question that would be posed to Hillary Clinton before the March CNN Democratic debate in Flint, and sharing with the campaign a possible question prior to a CNN town hall also in March.

In a statement, CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas said that on Oct. 14, the network accepted Brazile's resignation.

"On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a CNN contributor. (Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC.) CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor," Pratapas said.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/cnn-severs-ties-with-donna-brazile-230534

[dbackjon]

1. Yet they continue to employ Corey Lewandowski

[Adrahil]

4. Yeah, for real.

Yeah... okay CNN. <sheesh>

[NewJeffCT]

6. fair and balanced

of course - fire the Democrat and keep the Republican Trumplydite

[GWC58]

23. No different than

Hannity, who admittedly, contributes money to conservative candidates yet still has his gig at Faux. Keith Olberman does same, gets "suspended," fired, really.
IOKIYAAR!! Bullshit!👺

[BlueCaliDem]

34. Republican "Trumplydite" - ROFLMBO! eom

[TeamPooka]

15. seriously

[barbtries]

33. no shit.

i don't know if they even have confirmation of the emails. lewandowski STILL works for trump.
fucking hypocrites.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. thought they fired him because he was being paid by trump and cnn

[Bradical79]

52. Nope, he's still there -nt

[wordpix]

70. yeah, what's with that?

[Coyotl]

2. HELLO: "CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background ..

CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate.

[texasmomof3]

13. wikileaks says differently and....

whatever email they have is enough to scare the higher ups at CNN apparently. I don't understand why they don't just come out and make the same statement you just made and hold the line! Don't give in! Been shaking my head at this lack of backbone all morning!

[Coyotl]

25. Wikileaks is in the business of altering the election, so you want to trust them?

[BlueCaliDem]

35. SLAM DUNK. Boom! eom

[ProudProgressiveNow]

40. +1 nt

[Hekate]

55. +1000

[Kingofalldems]

37. Big wikileaks fan?

[texasmomof3]

68. not in the least....

I actually think that Wikileaks is a joke. I am sick of waking up every morning to the latest dump. Nobody is buying it that I talk to in the sense that it is old news and the daily drip turns up nothing.

[Bradical79]

56. No, Wikileaks doesn't really say differently

The email was concerning a single question she found out about. It's suspected that she had come across one of the questioners at an event who was going to ask about the Flint water crises. Really had nothing to do with any special CNN access or anything like that.

[awoke_in_2003]

58. If the Russians, I mean wiki leaks

has the expertise to hack the emails, they can surely hack the content.

[Coyotl]

28. No primary was rigged. You are echoing Donald Trump's CT talk now.

Anyone who fell for that agitation propaganda got played.

[Cha]

44. No, we don't see that at all.

[Coyotl]

47. Wow, trolls are really at work. Must be Monday morning, back on the clock time

in the USA.
Most of them, are probably outsourced to India, working graveyard shift.

[JNelson6563]

32. This caught me eye too! WTF?

How did she supposedly send the questions in advance if she never had access to them?

Madness.

[Iliyah]

3. But then again they keep Le....ski (whatever his name is)

[BlueCaliDem]

36. Lewan-BOWEL-ski? Cuz everything that comes out of his mouth is s**t.

Yeah, I don't understand how they can keep Lewan-BOWEL-ski on the payroll and force Donna Brazile to resign...unless, of course, they, as part of the mythical 'libral media' are being ultra-deferential to that Alt-Rightwinger Trumplydite and are coming down HARD on Democrats to show they're "fair and balanced". Uh-huh. For the record, it doesn't make sense to me, either.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. So they wait 2 weeks until 8 days before the election to announce this

[LynneSin]

7. Seriously, they have no problem paying for one of Trump's mouthpieces to have a job

Fire Corey Lewandowski

[Jason1961]

8. Who the hell cares

The Long Knives are out for Hillary.

Support her no matter what they come out with because they're sure to try and pile it on now.

Donna Brazile did NOTHING wrong

This is Putin trying his best to influence our election.

[thesquanderer]

26. The charge is legit. She would not have resigned otherwise.

She did something wrong by helping one candidate's campaign, at the expense of the other.

[Jason1961]

45. They forced her out

We don't know for sure if these emails are accurate or doctored and to assume one way or the other is ridiculous.

There should be no decisions based off anything revealed solely by these stolen emails.

[Bradical79]

60. Bernie's senior aide, Tad Devine, said she helped them too

Basically, she wanted everyone to do well, and would email both campaigns with tips and advice.

[Jason1961]

64. It happens all the time

Donna Brazile didn't "help one campaign at the expense of another" and to suggest otherwise is buying into the Republican Party BS.

Nothing changes the fact that these emails were stolen and the authenticity of them is suspect at best.

[leimen]

9. CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile

Well that seals their fate. They keep paying lewandowski but sever ties with one of the few sane pundits, Donna? I will no longer watch their site.

[ebbie15644]

10. Don't watch them anyway

[ananda]

12. CNN has been on my boycott list for some time.

And still is.

[wisteria]

17. We have a candidate. And, Bernie supports her.

Grow up.

[still_one]

19. hope you enjoy your short stay here

[wisteria]

16. So, for the questions weren't know in advance, how could she have shared one?

I think they are throwing her under the bus, because CNN was mentioned in Wikileaks's. But it really bothers me they still have that POS Lewandowski on, when he contractually is tied to Trump and can not be fair or balanced.

[still_one]

18. Every since they screwed Ted Turner with the AOL fiasco they have been going down hill. Let them

push their trump agenda.

We WILL WIN BIG regardless

[musiclawyer]

21. Why do you watch cable news? Any of it

Seriously. Just go cold turkey. Really. You will feel better. So much better infirmation on TYT, democracy now and other sites. By watching MSM you are paying your oppressors......

[Laser102]

27. I thought Tad Devine said she shared the same question with them. So what is the problem?

Oh. I know. CNN. There's the problem. I am not watching any cable news. It's all Hilary's fault. It will always be all her fault regardless of any facts. And yet pig boy Lewandoski is still there. F them.

[Cha]

39. I call bullshit on cnn.

[adigal]

42. And that Cory Asshole?? They are comfortable with him?? He lied to them

about being on Trump's campaign still.

Oh, I get it. Another example of our "fair" media.

Off to twitter to complain.

[hollowdweller]

46. I would really like to see all the political talking heads not be able to work for the news.

I think political reporters and commentators should be political reports and commentators.

Once they are in gov't I'd rather them not be used.

To me it's just like the revolving door between banks and gov't.

[MadDAsHell]

48. “One of the questions directed to HRC is..." "She will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do..."

In addition to the already known exchange in which Brazile sent Palmieri the text of a question about the death penalty in an email with the subject line: “From time to time I get the questions in advance," and followed it up with “I’ll send a few more.”

Yes, the primaries are over, so I know previous Sanders supporters probably are supposed to pretend this didn't happen.

But man, it stinks to high heaven, and unfortunately is right along the lines of everything the HRC campaign was being accused of during the primaries, which will make at least some people assume that all of the rest of the accusations must be true as well.

[Foggyhill]

53. The Sanders campaign already commented on this weeks sgo

Google the response and get with the program

[TCJ70]

62. Careful...

...there are people alerting posts like yours for even the insinuation that anything untoward went on during the primary. It is discouraging as a primary Bernie supporter to see crap like this, though.

[sarcasmo]

49. Turn off that crap, find your news on the Internet.

[left-of-center2012]

50. "We are completely uncomfortable with ..."

"We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor,"

But that former Trump manager is OK on CNN all the time?

[Foggyhill]

51. Didn't the Sanders campaign say they got info too

This is not even new

[Hekate]

54. 1. Consider the source (illegally hacked by a foreign state) 2. Corey Lewandowski

Need I say more? CNN has lost it's last shred of journalistic credibility.

[True Dough]

57. I have no sympathy for Donna Brazile

She did something unscrupulous and got caught. She should lose her job with CNN.

As for Corey Lewandowski, I can't stand a word that comes out of his mouth. Same with Kayleigh McEnany. But as far as I know neither of them leaked debate questions to Drumpf, so it's apples and oranges.

[elehhhhna]

63. She been an ineffective hack for a long time. Buh bye.

Not like any questions were gotchas anyway, tho'.

[NobodyHere]

61. Wasn't DWS forced out of DNC because of similiar accusations?

Brazille has got to go.

[dicksmc3]

66. What!!!

CNN is going down like faux.. This morning they talked to Tucker Carlson about the FBI investigations. Boy, that guy is a real PRO!!! WRONG!!!

[Calista241]

69. Media organizations should be 100% neutral in my opinion.

I'm uncomfortable with talking heads, campaign surrogates, and the way the media has taken sides in the most recent couple decades.

There shouldn't be help for ANY campaign from media organizations. I miss the days where we had a truly independent, and unconcerned with profits, media.