CNN’s descent into the fake news swamp coincided with their alignment with identity politics and social justice warriors who see straight white men as being the source of all of society’s problems. Many of their black contributors seem to harbor a deep resentment for white people and regularly make bizarre statements about race. CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill actually denies that black people can be racist at all.
In one segment talking about Black Lives Matter he said, “To say that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist is bizarre to me,” and continued, “not just because black people don’t have the institutional power to be racist or to deploy racism, but because the movement has called for justice, it’s called for demilitarization, it’s called for nonviolence.”758 Such a claim is laughable considering they’ve chanted that they want more dead cops. Violence, looting, and rioting are often a regular feature at Black Lives Matter gatherings.759
This same contributor called black community leaders who met with President Trump shortly after the election to discuss how to help their communities, “mediocre negros.”760 This was just one day after Martin Luther King the 3rd met with Trump,761 and shortly after Steve Harvey, Pastor Darrell Scott, and Kanye West met with him too.762 MLK’s niece had publicly revealed that she herself had voted for Trump,763 but the narrative CNN pushes is that only racist white people support President Trump and that black people should despise and fear him.
When one contributor mentioned that neither Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama had denounced the repeated incidents of violence at the hands of the anti-Trump protesters, calling the attacks politically motivated hate crimes, black CNN contributor Symone Sanders responded, “I’m sorry, hate crimes and protesting are not the same things. A hate crime is a crime that is committed against somebody because of their religion, because of what they look like, because of their sexual orientation. That’s not the same thing as protesting.”764
Panelist Carl Higbie answered, “What do you say to the people who dragged a poor white guy out of a car and beat him?”
She responded, “Oh my goodness, poor white people! Please!” she responded. “Oh my. Stop. Stop, Carl.”
The puzzled-looking panelist responded, “That’s not protesting! Dragging someone out of their car and beating them is not protesting.”765
CNN’s anti-white racial bias has become the norm at the network. After the Grammys in 2016 CNN asked, “Is racism why Adele beat Beyoncé at the Grammys?” and said, “Certainly for her diehard fan base known as the Beyhive◦— and for many music critics◦— Beyoncé’s Lemonade was a creative masterpiece. But with its racial themes and imagery, some are questioning if the project was ‘just too black’ for Grammy voters.”766
The Daily Beast (a website started by Newsweek) echoed this insanity and said Beyoncé was a “victim of racism,” and that, “Once again, the Grammy Awards got caught with their pants around their ankles.”767
CNN deceptively edited the statements of a black woman who encouraged angry protesters to go burn down homes and businesses in white suburbs to give the appearance that she had actually called for peace!768 After an armed thug named Sylville Smith was shot and killed by police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, riots broke out with businesses looted and set on fire, and white people were targeted for assault by the angry mob of black thugs.769 The next day the perpetrator’s sister Sherelle Smith gave a statement to the media where she encouraged the mob to move from the black neighborhood into the white suburbs, saying, “Don’t bring that violence here. Burnin’ down shit ain’t going to help nothin! Y’all burnin’ down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit!”770
CNN showed a brief segment of her statement and then muted her while the reporter did a voice over saying she called for peace. After the unedited video went viral online CNN issued an on-air apology the next day for their deceptive editing.771
After Wikileaks published Hillary’s campaign manager John Podesta’s emails, morning host Chris Cuomo discouraged people from visiting Wikileaks’ website to read them, and claimed, “it’s illegal to possess the stolen documents,” but “it’s different for the media. So everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us.”772
In other words, don’t read them yourself, just trust CNN to tell you what they say and what their significance is. While it is illegal to hack in and steal someone’s emails, it’s not illegal to read those stolen emails if the hacker gives them to you or even post them online as long as the person posting them wasn’t conspiring with the hacker to get them. It’s interesting to note that Chris Cuomo has over one million Twitter followers, but can barely get a dozen likes or retweets on most things he posts, and such low engagement is usually only found on accounts that have bought fake followers in order to give people the appearance of being more popular than they are.
This is the same host who said on several occasions that being called ‘fake news’ is the equivalent of being called the N-word,773 and wants to teach young girls ‘tolerance’ so they don’t get uncomfortable seeing naked men in women’s locker rooms when biological males who ‘identify’ as women use the facilities.774
CNN’s chief war correspondent Christiane Amanpour admitted that reporters were self-censoring themselves in their coverage of the buildup to◦— and during◦— the Iraq War, and looking back on the events says that they weren’t rigorous enough, didn’t ask the right questions, and later characterized the Bush administration’s reasons for going to war as “disinformation at the highest levels.”775
Eason Jordan, their former chief news executive, admits censoring stories about the atrocities Saddam Hussein and his sons had committed in Iraq because the network didn’t want their Iraqi CNN affiliates to face repercussions by the regime.776 Just after the Iraq War started in 2003, he wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled, “The News We Kept To Ourselves,” and tried to justify keeping various atrocities he knew of a secret because revealing them would have “jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.”777 He said that some of the events he knew about still haunt him.
The Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group, asked, “If accurate reporting from Iraq was impossible, why was access to this dictatorship so important in the first place? And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states◦— like North Korea, Cuba and Syria◦— are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?”778
Former CNN reporter Peter Collins, who was in Baghdad during the buildup to the first Gulf War, said that he was with Eason Jordan and CNN’s president Tom Johnson during meetings with Iraqi officials where they were hoping to get an interview with Saddam Hussein. Collins later revealed, “I was astonished. From both the tone and the content of these conversations, it seemed to me that CNN was virtually groveling for the interview.”779