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senseandsensibility

(21,738 posts)
Wed May 10, 2023, 06:47 PM May 2023

Laura Coates on CNN went there!

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!

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Laura Coates on CNN went there! (Original Post) senseandsensibility May 2023 OP
She'll be receiving a pink slip next. nt ecstatic May 2023 #1
You know, that crossed senseandsensibility May 2023 #2
Licht won't be happy with her, that is for sure. emulatorloo May 2023 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author GuppyGal May 2023 #5
MSNBC should hire her then. She's brilliant. brush May 2023 #17
Yep. I'll watch. I don't watch CNN anymore and frankly ecstatic May 2023 #20
MSNBC's afternoon to evening line-up is pretty strong... brush May 2023 #21
They just called Fucker Carlson a right wing provocateur spreading conspiracy theories GuppyGal May 2023 #4
They're giving trump a town hall. "Their" ARE in the bag for the right wing. Scrivener7 May 2023 #12
Yet CNN used a weak AF ex Cucker Tarlson Daily Caller moderator to play the MAGAt punching bag role Celerity May 2023 #26
The panel actually said he was brave? Boomerproud May 2023 #6
That's not a direct quote senseandsensibility May 2023 #7
Doesn't matter who or what they ask, he'll lie about it all. spanone May 2023 #8
True, but I have to say that I senseandsensibility May 2023 #9
Anyone catch what (retired officer) Michael Fanone had to say about this ? Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2023 #10
Yes, DUers have posted senseandsensibility May 2023 #11
Thing about the sewer, though,.. Permanut May 2023 #13
It's disheartening watching CNN go down the toilet.... once upon a time CNN was great groundloop May 2023 #14
CNN, Twitter, and, frankly, the New York Times, to a large extent. Sky Jewels May 2023 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author GuppyGal May 2023 #16
Well, they're stupid ExWhoDoesntCare May 2023 #28
Interesting, eh? BlackSkimmer May 2023 #30
I have given up on CNN after 2016 (even though I still watch their international programming). Claustrum May 2023 #18
Years ago during the Art Deco Weekend on South Beach, a CNN reporter was looking for the housecat May 2023 #19
Trump is a disgrace. He is despicable. I am so disgusted. lucca18 May 2023 #22
What do you think of those who watched? BlackSkimmer May 2023 #31
Yeah, and who was rigth? Cha May 2023 #23
CNN never should have went there. NT Patton French May 2023 #24
CNN is dead to me. BlueIdaho May 2023 #25
The one word that should never be applied to Dump is "brave". Ray Bruns May 2023 #27
Of course it's the black woman that's speaking truth to power. NotVeryImportant May 2023 #29
The "black woman" doesn't have balls either. BlackSkimmer May 2023 #32
Apparently she has more balls than anyone else on that Godforsaken network. NotVeryImportant May 2023 #33

Response to emulatorloo (Reply #3)

brush

(59,649 posts)
17. MSNBC should hire her then. She's brilliant.
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:36 PM
May 2023

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

ecstatic

(34,749 posts)
20. Yep. I'll watch. I don't watch CNN anymore and frankly
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:49 PM
May 2023

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

(59,649 posts)
21. MSNBC's afternoon to evening line-up is pretty strong...
Wed May 10, 2023, 08:07 PM
May 2023

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

(1,748 posts)
4. They just called Fucker Carlson a right wing provocateur spreading conspiracy theories
Wed May 10, 2023, 06:56 PM
May 2023

But their are in the bag for pukes. LOL

Celerity

(49,479 posts)
26. Yet CNN used a weak AF ex Cucker Tarlson Daily Caller moderator to play the MAGAt punching bag role
Wed May 10, 2023, 09:54 PM
May 2023

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

senseandsensibility

(21,738 posts)
7. That's not a direct quote
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:02 PM
May 2023

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

(138,840 posts)
8. Doesn't matter who or what they ask, he'll lie about it all.
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:02 PM
May 2023

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

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,456 posts)
10. Anyone catch what (retired officer) Michael Fanone had to say about this ?
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:03 PM
May 2023

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.

groundloop

(12,786 posts)
14. It's disheartening watching CNN go down the toilet.... once upon a time CNN was great
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:15 PM
May 2023

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

(9,120 posts)
15. CNN, Twitter, and, frankly, the New York Times, to a large extent.
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:30 PM
May 2023

Right wing oligarchs taking over all media. Very depressing.

Response to Sky Jewels (Reply #15)

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
28. Well, they're stupid
Thu May 11, 2023, 04:24 PM
May 2023

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

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
30. Interesting, eh?
Thu May 11, 2023, 04:41 PM
May 2023

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

(5,052 posts)
18. I have given up on CNN after 2016 (even though I still watch their international programming).
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:37 PM
May 2023

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

(3,138 posts)
19. Years ago during the Art Deco Weekend on South Beach, a CNN reporter was looking for the
Wed May 10, 2023, 07:48 PM
May 2023

Last edited Wed May 10, 2023, 08:23 PM - Edit history (3)

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

(1,388 posts)
22. Trump is a disgrace. He is despicable. I am so disgusted.
Wed May 10, 2023, 08:45 PM
May 2023

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.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
25. CNN is dead to me.
Wed May 10, 2023, 09:47 PM
May 2023

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

 

NotVeryImportant

(578 posts)
29. Of course it's the black woman that's speaking truth to power.
Thu May 11, 2023, 04:37 PM
May 2023

When all others didn't have the balls to.

Damn shame.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
32. The "black woman" doesn't have balls either.
Thu May 11, 2023, 04:44 PM
May 2023

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

She has a brain.

Yuck.

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