CNN: They Were Liars Then and They are Bigger Liars Today

With the addition of new readers and subscribers daily/weekly I find it important to remind you of what I have said in the pass, is what is happening today. Thus the reason for today’s “TDR.”

In September of last year, I chronicled the lies and fake news produced by CNN and its affiliate stations going back to 2002. I re-post this piece today for those who initially missed it and for those who have forgotten just how corrupt CNN and its affiliates really are.

CNN and its affiliates have led the baseless attacks on President Trump over the past two plus years. The program hosts knew they were lying, just as they knew they were lying in 2002 about what Saddam Hussein was really doing in Iraq. But it is a truism that “liars lie, because that is what liars do.” And nowhere has my bromide been more evidenced than with CNN reporting.

There is another thing to remember about liars. No how many times they are caught lying, they believe we will either forget or if they lie more we’ll eventually believe them. I wouldn’t believe CNN or its affiliates if they said the sun was shining unless I looked at the sky. And even then, I would double check to make sure I wasn’t standing on a movie soundstage.

A FoxNews headline read: “CNN fires back at Trump, stands by controversial story: ‘CNN does not lie.’ (Brian Flood; foxness.com; 8/30/2018)

Oh really? So, CNN does not lie? We know the definition of a sexual intimacy according to serial sexual molester Bill Clinton, depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is. Are we now to also understand the definition of bold-face lie(s) is the exclusive determination of CNN?

I submit the “truth” for CNN is at best fluid and selective. At its worst, truth for CNN is non-existent. Paraphrasing a paragraph written about the Clintons by Robert Chernin, Vice President, RedTech Data, to make it fit CNN: “Truth for [CNN] is not a code to be honored. It is not a bond with the American people to be nurtured and protected. To [CNN], truth seems to be more of a tool to be used or at times a trap to avoid. Use it when necessary, but only with the precision of a scalpel. When it comes to the truth, [CNN] are experts at parsing the English language like a veteran contortionist.” (See: Hillary Clinton’s Lying: Does It Depend On What The Meaning Of The Word “Is” Is; The Daily Caller; 8/23/2016)

CNN has an uninterrupted history of lies. In January 2005, I reported: “Eason Jordan – then executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN, chairman of CNN’s editorial board and member of CNN’s executive committee – by his own admission kept secret Saddam Hussein’s son, Uday’s plan to murder two brothers-in-law, after Uday had indicated his intent to Jordan, before actually committing the assassinations. Jordan also admitted concealing Hussein’s horrific atrocities, including, no doubt, the filling of mass graves and torture chambers.” (See: Throwing Stones From Inside Glass Houses; WND.com; 1/18/2005)

As I wrote in the same syndicated column: “Hugh Hewitt wrote, [CNN’s] Jordan even misled the New Republic’s Franklin Foer on the very subject on CNN’s reporting on Baghdad. This after, as Franklin Foer wrote, Jordan in October of 2002 told him … flatly that his [Jordan’s] network [CNN] gave a full picture of the region – he at that time challenged Foer to find instances of CNN neglecting stories about Saddam’s horrors.

I reported that CNN’s Eason Jordan: “brazenly and habitually lied to fellow journalists about the integrity of his network’s reporting.” The Truth, as Jordan would later admit, was quite different. Jordan admitted that CNN under his watch, “rarely publish[ed] the truth, preferring to parrot the party line of [Saddam] who they personally knew was a bloody maniac with terrible weapons and plans.” Jordan would later admit CNN [intentionally] misreported the news in Iraq so as to retain a news desk there and also retain a favorable relationship with Saddam Hussein. (See: 6 Eye-Popping Cases Of Mainstream Media Fake News: Exclusive Mychal Massie Exposes Scandalous Reports By CNN, ABC, NBC; WND.com; 12/19/2016)

So, after years of documented and confessed lying that resulted in American lives being lost and the military coalition forces being set back because of CNN’s acknowledged lies – we’re supposed to believe that CNN has suddenly found religion and no longer lies?

CNN’s fallacious reporting from Iraq was second for its unadulterated dishonesty only to president Franklin Roosevelt’s coercing American newspapers to falsify and whitewash the horrors Hitler’s Germany was perpetrating upon the Jews.

Roosevelt downplayed atrocities and certain topics that cast Hitler in a negative light and the newspapers followed suit. “The result, according to Laurel Leff, the leading expert on American coverage of the Holocaust, was a ‘feedback loop’: The Roosevelt administration, which carefully monitored 425 newspapers daily, downplayed the plight of the Jews, and then ‘used the lack of prominent news stories to confirm its judgment that the public was not interested and to justify its lack of response.” (The American Papers that Praised Hitler; Dr. Rafael Medoff; dailybeast.com; 12/20/2015)

The complicity between the Roosevelt administration and the American newspapers provided a veil of protection that allowed Hitler to inflict unimagined suffering upon the Jews.

So too, the brazen misinformation shovel fed to the American people by CNN, invented by Eason Jordan, did irreparable harm to our brave men and women fighting in the Middle East. The lies that CNN parroted from Jordan each day gave comfort to the enemy at the cost of our servicemen.

For CNN to now say: “Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news. And we report when people in power tell lies. CNN stands by our reporting and our reporters,” forces me to ask the questions, when did CNN stop lying? When exactly was it that they stopped reporting outright lies, distortion and biased news?

CNN stood behind Eason Jordan for years as he provided lies upon lies upon lies that cost the Iraqi people their lives. After publishing knowingly false news reports, CNN turned around and viciously castigated our military and the Bush administration’s handling of the war.

But now, just because CNN says they aren’t lying we are supposed to blindly believe them? I don’t think so.

And yet they continue their charade of pretending to be above reproach. If I were CNN, their affiliates and the rest of the fake news outlets, I would take very serious President Trump’s words that he “doesn’t want to see another American President go through what he has.” That statement has a razor sharp edge to it, that suggests there are going to be harsh penalties for those who tried to overthrow the duly and constitutionally elected President of the United States. Especially when he has also increased his usage of the word “treason.”