Laura Coates on CNN went there!

[senseandsensibility]

About an hour ago I heard her live on a CNN panel on Tapper's show. The panelists all tiptoed around the elephant in the room. While they kept saying that tfg was so brave to face questions, and listed topics for tough questions, no one said who would be asking the questions. They kept trying to imply that these republican voters would be challenging him.

Finally, Laura Coates (paraphrasing) said the last thing we want to do is normalize trump. And she questioned whether the repub voters would challenge him.

Everyone else looked uncomfortable. Thanks, Laura!

[ecstatic]

1. She'll be receiving a pink slip next. nt

[senseandsensibility]

2. You know, that crossed

my mind as well.

[emulatorloo]

3. Licht won't be happy with her, that is for sure.

[brush]

17. MSNBC should hire her then. She's brilliant.

CNN seems to have gone full-trumper. Don Lemon's firing must've been a warning to all to lean to the right.

[ecstatic]

20. Yep. I'll watch. I don't watch CNN anymore and frankly

MSNBC is on shaky ground with me too. I have a lot of favorites, but if they fire Joy, that's it. Strike 3, I'm done.

[brush]

21. MSNBC's afternoon to evening line-up is pretty strong...

IMO starting with Michelle Wallace, Ari Melber, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow when she's on, Alex Wagner (so-so IMO), Lawrence O'Donnell and Stephanie Rhule (also so-so).

They need to fired Andrea Mitchel in the morning line-up.

[GuppyGal]

4. They just called Fucker Carlson a right wing provocateur spreading conspiracy theories

But their are in the bag for pukes. LOL

[Scrivener7]

12. They're giving trump a town hall. "Their" ARE in the bag for the right wing.

[Celerity]

26. Yet CNN used a weak AF ex Cucker Tarlson Daily Caller moderator to play the MAGAt punching bag role

Kabuki theatre all-round, and democracy suffers for it.

[Boomerproud]

6. The panel actually said he was brave?

That's it. Goodbye!

[senseandsensibility]

7. That's not a direct quote

but they were heavily implying that he was going to face tough questions from these voters when he has been in a rightwing bubble for years now.

[spanone]

8. Doesn't matter who or what they ask, he'll lie about it all.

According to the TV this will go on for 90 minutes.

[senseandsensibility]

9. True, but I have to say that I

wish Laura Coates was the moderator tonight.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

10. Anyone catch what (retired officer) Michael Fanone had to say about this ?

He was right on target.

Giving trump an oppportunity to spread is vile vulgar garbage is disgusting.

I don't want to hear that he is the front runner. The convention is a long time off.

Hell, Biden is a front runner, too.

CNN now sinks to the bottom of the sewer with the rest of the turds.

[senseandsensibility]

11. Yes, DUers have posted

his editorial. And I agree with it completely.

[Permanut]

13. Thing about the sewer, though,..

is that the biggest pieces float to the top.

[groundloop]

14. It's disheartening watching CNN go down the toilet.... once upon a time CNN was great

They're ancient history for me after their stunt of giving a rapist a platform to spread his lies. Their app has been removed from my phone, their bookmark removed from my browser, and their channel hidden on my streaming service. There are other sources of news which are far more palatable.

[Sky Jewels]

15. CNN, Twitter, and, frankly, the New York Times, to a large extent.

Right wing oligarchs taking over all media. Very depressing.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

28. Well, they're stupid

And those who give credence to stupid aren't too bright themselves.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[BlackSkimmer]

30. Interesting, eh?

But every single day, I see DUers posting from twitter, from CNN, from the Times, from NewsMax, from Fox...

I wonder why that is? Surely they don't watch or participate in those platforms? Can't be!

[Claustrum]

18. I have given up on CNN after 2016 (even though I still watch their international programming).

But their US programming is unwatchable since TFG came into the picture in 2015. They keep giving the most extreme right winger a platform to spill lies all in the name of "both sides".

I have since moved to foreign news and it's refreshing to watch anchors that actually challenge both sides (and they really do it). They would take whatever the opposition point and ask the interviewee about it, challenging them to answer the real questions. It's so different from the softball BS we get in the US. And thin skin TFG that would walk off the stage whenever an opposing question is asked.

[housecat]

19. Years ago during the Art Deco Weekend on South Beach, a CNN reporter was looking for the

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head of the Art Deco organization for an interview. He ran out of small talk while trying to locate the person to interview (I don't remember names). The reporter looked very uncomfortable. He was also extremely handsome. I volunteered for the interview, curious to see where this could go. I was able to only provide a bit of unimportant information, so I looked at the CNN fellow and embarrassed him and likely made a fool of myself getting the camera to come closer and show the viewers how good looking this guy was.

That evening there was a fancy event that I either crashed or was invited to (don't remember). Seems most of the Deco crowd had been watching CNN, and they were demonstrably pissed that an outsider dared to fill in for what's-his-name. There was more to the story, but I only wanted to mention my singular encounter with CNN.

[lucca18]

22. Trump is a disgrace. He is despicable. I am so disgusted.

To give someone like trump a “town hall” to spread his lies and conspiracy crap, makes me weep with frustration and sadness.

CNN has lost all credibility, or what little they had left.
Shameful.

[BlackSkimmer]

31. What do you think of those who watched?

??

[Cha]

23. Yeah, and who was rigth?

TY & Laura Coates!

[Patton French]

24. CNN never should have went there. NT

[BlueIdaho]

25. CNN is dead to me.

Fuck ‘em - this “Town Hall” was nothing more than FOX style propaganda.

[Ray Bruns]

27. The one word that should never be applied to Dump is "brave".

[NotVeryImportant]

29. Of course it's the black woman that's speaking truth to power.

When all others didn't have the balls to.

Damn shame.

[BlackSkimmer]

32. The "black woman" doesn't have balls either.

She doesn't need "balls" to speak up.

She has a brain.

Yuck.

[NotVeryImportant]

33. Apparently she has more balls than anyone else on that Godforsaken network.