CNN abruptly cut Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt from the air Monday morning.... Anchor Kasie Hunt pulled the plug just minutes after the interview got underway after asking Leavitt what former President Donald Trump’s strategy was for when he takes to the stage in Atlanta, Ga. on Thursday....
The spokeswoman... noted the debate stage would likely be a “hostile environment” for her boss – and accused CNN’s debate moderators, co-hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, of biased coverage of him in the past....
In overreacting to the mention of CNN bias, CNN's Hunt showed bias. Now, we're all looking at this clip, and I doubt if much of anyone was watching whatever little CNN show that was. I had to look it up: "CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt." But maybe that helps CNN. I believe the show has about 50,000 viewers, and there are sure to be Trump haters who love this plug-pull.
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CNN practicing cutting off the mic.
We show that we aren't biased by silencing the side claiming we are biased!
"In 1993, novelist Michael Crichton riled the news business with a Wired magazine essay titled “Mediasaurus,” in which he prophesied the death of the mass media—specifically the New York Times and the commercial networks. “Vanished, without a trace,” he wrote. The mediasaurs had about a decade to live, he wrote, before technological advances—”artificial intelligence agents roaming the databases, downloading stuff I am interested in, and assembling for me a front page”—swept them under. Shedding no tears, Crichton wrote that the shoddy mass media deserved its deadly fate. “[T]he American media produce a product of very poor quality,” he lectured. “Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it’s sold without warranty. It’s flashy but it’s basically junk.”.
Extinction can be a slow process, but they're dying. Took longer than Crichton predicted, but the MSM as we've known it will not exist by 2050. Every bad thing that happens to them is deserved and won't be something I won't like. Die.
"Hamina hamina hamina..."
Panic has been showing for a while.
Just shut Trump's mic now.
Will save us the drama.
I'm a Trump stan and I will LOVE them cutting off his mic. The more pathetic CNN is, the more interested people will be for a Trump debate hosted by Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald. Are they this stupid? Perhaps, but Bash/ Tapper might be risking their lives if the oligarchs believe they have Trump a "platform."
In reality, the platform is whenever Trump is, whether that's a jail cell in Riker's or the Oval Office.
Never forget, this stuff comes right from the top. The reporter/journalist is just a foot soldier following orders. Directives come from on high that deliberately hide information from the public, or worse yet protect sadists that are found later to have intricate networks and close relationships with extremely powerful people.
Most mass media lies are lies of omission rather than lies of commission. It's easier to hide the truth than it is to defend a blatant lie. And hiding truth is far more invidious than telling blatant falsehoods.
That woman was furious at the Trump representative. You could hear it in her voice. That thing where your heart is in your throat?
You can't fake that kind of authenticity.
Their confidence is inspiring. CNN can’t put up evidence to the contrary, so they must silence any truth-telling.
Just because Tapper and Bash spend their professional careers fellating Democrat politicians doesn't prove they are biased.
She sounded flustered when she said both Trump and Biden would get equal opportunity to talk when they join "now" for the debate that's not actually "now" but later this week.
Like others have said, she's just auditioning. She'd like to moderate a Debate one day.
Kasie Hunt is close enough to the "Mike Hunt" joke that guys are likely to think of it.
Chickens coming home to roost. They never thought they would get called out, apparently. Good for Leavitt to keep stating the facts despite the initial warning from Hunt.
The fact that Trump agreed to CNN hosting the debate means he plans on spending a lot of debate time complaining about the media, again.
He has a huge advantage on policy stances (most HISPANICS want to deport illegal immigrants) but he doesn't have it in him to exude calm confidence, which is what voters are desperate for.
CNN who?
CNN can't handle the truth.
The very best pouncing is when the chump pounces on themselves.
It's amazing how blinded they are to their own behaviors.
This is where the calming waters of Biden’s dementia will provide succor to the weak-minded among us.
Biased,mics off,drugged up sounds like whining before Dark Brandon makes the other guy look like the 2x impeached,adjudacated sexual abusing,34 count felon(so far) obese rambling incoherently person setting up for another loss..The guy is a chronic loser right?
I'm surprised no one has given her the nickname Hasie and let the reader infer her last name.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (IED)
CNN won’t be able to stop themselves overplaying their hand in the debate. This will make Trump look better as he holds his own against three opponents - two of whom are sentinent
She immediately displays what is going to happen in the debates. Quelle surprise.
Ambrose:
- two of whom are sentinent
Ambrose, you magnificent bastard. I was taking a sip of coffee after typing my above remark and damn near did a spit-take.
Watch for editing. Look for visual stutters, not audio.
I predict the internets will decide Kasie Hunt's new nickname will be Hasty Kunt.
Probably they feared that the next thing mentioned would be the way Donna Brazile, then working for CNN, fed the questions in advance to the Hillary camp before one of the debates with Trump.
I have not the smallest doubt that every media organ or NGO sponsoring a debate has done this for every Democratic candidate over many decades, both before and after CNN was caught doing it in 2016. That's the kind of people leftists always are.
"Cheap fakes" incoming.
Incidentally, I don't think she pulled the plug on anything. The producer did, and fed her the info on her earpiece while it was being done.
Just like it will be done in the debate. They're just brushing up on their snottiness.
Oligonicella said...
Watch for editing. Look for visual stutters, not audio.
yep! as i asked a few days ago, does ANYONE think this is going to "live"?
you can do A LOT of editing with a few minutes delay
Jake Tapper was the media’s face of the phony Steele Dossier, Russia collusion story. Tapper has no business moderating a debate of a candidate he tried to destroy.
I think Trump should have demanded that if the moderators cut off a mic, they must announce they did so to the audience with the words “La,La,La I can’t hear you”, so they are honest about the behavior.
From Wikipedia: In 1992, Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) and later served as her congressional press secretary. Tapper also worked for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate.[24] Tapper also worked for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.
IOW, Jake's got a natural background to serve as an unbiased debate moderator.
Ah CNN I shut your microphone off in my home long ago. I can remember when CNN was useful.
I was in Milan on a business trip when the USA bombed Qaddafi in his tent. I was in my hotel room getting ready to go to the airport to fly back to the States. I was listening to CNN on the television. They warned that attacks on Americans in airports in Europe were likely that day. I timed my cab ride to the airport such that I could pretty much scoot through the security and boarding procedures with the least possible time in the airport.
But that was long ago when CNN was (a) useful, and (b) was a news rather than an opinion organization.
CNN is just DNC news and has been since 2015. I guess this is the daily reminder and will help the Dumbos remember that CNN is not an objective news network but in the tank for the Democrats and Joe Biden.
Hope they can remember that when the Debate happens. its a long time away - what 3 days?
The CNN new exces hate Trump and are all liberal democrats. They choose anchors who reflect their policy and telll them what stories to report and how to report. its not just Jack tapper that's been in the tank for Biden since March 2020.
The "debate": No live audience / witnesses. "Slight tape delay". Effectively 3 v 1.
Will both sides be allowed to record the event, on site, with their own equipment?
I'm suspicious, but probably not suspicious enough.
re: editing and cuts on debate.
a caller on Clay & Buck suggested that President Trump wear a digital clock on his lapel, so to stop CNN from doing cuts to the debate.
They Have Never In The History Of Television Taken A National Press Secretary And Treated Her With Such Lack Of Respect! Kasie Hunt Owes Her An Apology, CNN Owes her An Apology TODAY, And If We Don’t Get That Apology To @kleavittnh And To The Trump Campaign And MAGA TODAY, President Trump Should Cancel This.
Just don't show up, and let Biden be up there alone and see how that plays, see what their advertisers say about that
He love you long time, DinkyDau45?
Is Trump trying desperately to not appear at the debate by claiming it will be unfair and sending out his spokespeople to make a case for him? If he’s worried about what Jake Tapper has said about him, there are people on his VP short list who have said the same or worse about Trump. It looks like Trump is getting cold feet. I will be surprised if he goes through with it.
I just want to clarify — and by no means am I making any sort of original observation with this — Trump presages ALL of his debates with complaints about how biased and unfair they are. Including, most significantly, Fox News:
https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1805223376249635312?s=46
My thought is that if CNN is such a terrible host for a debate, why did Trump agree to it?
Its a tag putting the viewers on notice
white Savior Karen Inga: "Is Trump trying desperately to not appear at the debate by claiming it will be unfair and sending out his spokespeople to make a case for him? If he’s worried about what Jake Tapper has said about him, there are people on his VP short list who have said the same or worse about Trump. It looks like Trump is getting cold feet. I will be surprised if he goes through with it."
LOL
"cold feet". Too funny. Trump shows up everywhere! Including a CNN Townhall, the All In Podcast, downtown Philly, Detroit, etc.
But perhaps Inga has been picking up emanations from her mindreading penumbra and knows something we, and even Mueller(!), don't know!
Don't hold back collusion/Hoax Dossier girl! Let us know what Muelle....er....the Trump campaign knows!
Seems like the moderators are fair game in most debates.
Poor dumb Inga- neither candidate can fail to appear on Thursday, Inga- to do so is political suicide. However, CNN has been trying to get Trump to bail the entire time by making the debate as friendly for Biden as they can.
"My thought is that if CNN is such a terrible host for a debate, why did Trump agree to it?"
Chuck pretending to be stupid, or just stupid?
Trump accepted it because Biden and his team expected him to decline the challenge- if Biden and his staff had really wanted this debate, they wouldn't have gone with CNN at all but FoxNews instead, making it very hard for Trump to decline.
You just don't get it, do you, Chuck- Trump isn't afraid of anything that you seem to think he should be.
Trump does this before every debate.Trump did negotiate the terms and rules of the debate and he is the best deal maker ever to walk this planet. So what's the problem?
To the claim Trump might skip the debate, in addition to the list provided by Drago, Trump had an excellent reason to decline a debate series not organized by the Presidential Debate Commission since the Democrats have been attacking the GOP for wanting to change the PDC format, and feel silent when Biden summarily ditched it. I've been hearing for years that Trump was going to duck debates but he only missed one due to COVID and then declined to participate in the 2024 GOP primary debates for obvious tactical reasons, just like Biden.
Seems less like panic and more like solidarity.
In past debates were carried on all networks. Is that the case this Thursday?
He doesnt pretend kaitlin was shamed the last time when they Apologized to their audience
The Middle Coast: "Seems like the moderators are fair game in most debates."
They most certainly are.
But our New Soviet Democraticals, like Inga, Chuck, Rich and the other usual suspects, have become quite used to their Soviet Show Trials where the New Soviet Democratical judges put gag orders on those being railroaded, thus giving the lefties/LLR-lefties free rein to say whatever they want, whenever they want, without significant challenge.
Our lefties would very much like to have the same arrangement in the debates and they are clearly worried they won't be able to silence any and all opposition opinion at all times.
Thus, they are unhappy, even though they've been given the advantage 10 different ways already!
LOL
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-jake-tapper-called-trumps-presidency-nightmare-tapped-moderate-presidential-debate
Bannon calling on Trump campaign to cancel debate over this.
It is a struggle for me to read through the ignorance of people. I am astonished. That woman from CNN couldn’t even hear a word before she jumped on the “ don’t attack my colleague “ train. Bullshit. She was a lightweight not up to the challenge. Poor thing. Hope she saving her money because she won’t be making it for long.
Comrade Drago — try to be more concise, your sarcasm doesn’t improve with length.
Rich,
If there were no words from you, your comments would be exactly as informative.
Oh no its the anchorman 2 fight anyways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3BSzTl9_d4
Much more entertaining than a cnn panel well intentionallh so
This was just a shot across the bow by the Trump team ... and it was effective and prescient.
It will be fun to watch the moderators (read: hacks) execute their plan. It will remind the American public of the DOJ going after Trump in the various one-sided court cases.
Perhaps CNN is feeling a bit stressed:
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/06/24/cnn-could-be-forced-pay-upwards-1-billion-defamation-suit
Tapper involved ….
A June 19th Hill/Emerson poll has Trump up 3 in Wisc.
Readering said...
"Seems less like panic and more like solidarity."
Nah. It's panic. You can smell it from here.
It would be fun if Trump refers to Tapper and Fake Jake throughout. Modern "debates" are kind of a joke anyway, so why not treat it as the farce it is?
a caller on Clay & Buck suggested that President Trump wear a digital clock on his lapel, so to stop CNN from doing cuts to the debate.
He should wear a clock around his neck like Flava Flav. It would be a twofer. It prevents cuts from CNN and appeals to black voters.
IOW, Jake's got a natural background to serve as an unbiased debate moderator.
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to strike chord with Professora the terminology for unbiased debate moderator = cruelly neutral / cruel neutraality
and it must be said
if libs dint have shit for brains
they would have no brains
LLR-democratical Rich: "Comrade Drago — try to be more concise, your sarcasm doesn’t improve with length."
Huh.
I guess you thought that would be effective, didn't you?
Well, live and learn, eh?
Someone had to say it. Libs are shithouse rat crazy.
Hamas-supporting, baby rapin’, priest humpin’ crazy
I call "Putin Czar of all Russias" to tap live feed from CNN and help out tovarisch.
if they edit tape with time delay where would be the techs and control room w/equipment?
K Hunt is the same person who called Rand Paul's beating "One of my favorite stories.
https://x.com/SaveLibertyUS/status/1805259700633469178
I call "Putin Czar of all Russias" to tap live feed from CNN and help out tovarisch.
if they edit tape with time delay where would be the techs and control room w/equipment?
Trump does this before every debate. Trump did negotiate the terms and rules of the debate and he is the best deal maker ever to walk this planet. So what's the problem?
No problems at all for Trump. He just needs to do what he does, while the other side overreacts as usual. We are simply pointing out how bad it looks for CNN and Trump has yet to take the stage. Of course, if CNN had its normal audience, only a few would know just how bad it is.
But where would we be without the libs and their eatin’ MoonPies, drinkin’ RC Cola and barkin’ at the fucking Moon ways!?!?
Jake Tapper is unprofessional when it comes to Trump and he is unfit to be a moderator. Watch his antics this Thursday--he will make my words look prescient.
Blogger The Middle Coast said...
Seems like the moderators are fair game in most debates.
Just not on the blogs.
I am starting to get the sense that Trump is well ahead in the polls. However, it is not because I trust public polls.
Trump must be ahead because we are seeing much more from the idiots Inga and Chuck.
I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It smells like ... victory!
The Middle Coast: "Seems like the moderators are fair game in most debates."
Banned commenter, LLR-democratical And Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck, who explicitly stated one of the key reasons he posts at Althouse blog is to attempt to "drive a wedge between Althouse and her readers", has thoughts about this blog's moderators: "Just not on the blogs."
Apparently, he is having some sort of a "sadz" crisis.
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh!
And all on a day after so many of Chuck's nearest and dearest New Soviet Democratical hoaxes have been completely blown out of the water despite his desperate clinging to them as a baby clutches a warm bottle of milk.
Let's face it, Chuck's only here because his no doubt large team of therapists have likely not yet put their foot down and told Chuck he needs to step away before another "incident" likely occurs.
chickelit: "Jake Tapper is unprofessional when it comes to Trump and he is unfit to be a moderator."
So, a standard issue legacy media type.
Without exception.
JaimeRoberto... He should wear a clock around his neck like Flava Flav.
That would be hilarious. Trump would wrap up the election right there and then. No amount of shady ballot harvesting could overcome it.
Snopes just admitted Joe Biden and the rest of the democrats were lying about the "Fine People" hoax.
It would be harder to find something that CNN and the rest of the Regime were actually honest about in the last 10 years.
The people who still support Biden now are just at the core of their being dishonest people.
if they edit tape with time delay where would be the techs and control room w/equipment?
Tape? Well I guess there is no easy replacement for the term. There's always a control room for a broadcast.
It's all digital, the equipment is compact and being on a ten-second delay it's not hard at all to "skip forward" a couple seconds over any small Biden gaffes as long as there's always one camera on the moderators (but they'll have at least two) to cut to. And with CNN-DNC controlling Trump's mic there will be little indication to the home audience (no one there live of course). Unless Joe freezes for an extended time. If we are suddenly thrust into an awkward commercial break it will be the genesis of many a conspiracy theory. He has been quite hinky lately and prone to freeze-ups.
There will be theories and "analysis" for sure. Because no one trusts CNN, or Biden or the moderators. Our best hope is that one of Trump's staff has a tiny go-pro camera and they are getting ALL of it "on tape."
Readering said...
Seems less like panic and more like solidarity.
In past debates were carried on all networks. Is that the case this Thursday?
No. Because CNN plans on running a tape delay.
You are just a dishonest person. The cope fails.
All the lies you people keep clinging to are being thrown back in your faces.
It is just sad to watch you people continue to humiliate yourselves like this.
Everyone's focusing on Tapper because of the Hitler comparison, but Bash's first husband was one of the 51 intelligence community signees on the Hunter Biden laptop story. After their marriage ended (and after her second marriage to CNN's John King ended as well), but still.
Seen just now on X: "Trump Preps For Debate Against Biden By Going to Nursing Home And Arguing With Dementia Patients" --Babylon Bee
I wonder if CNN did this purposefully in order to enrage Trump, because they know an enraged Trump in the debate would hurt him. I hope he stays sunny and calm, which he's been of late. Makes it all much more enjoyable.
Trump team is smart to soften both the Biden target and the CNN target. Reminding people how biased CNN is beforehand will give appropriate context to anything they do before, during, and after the debate.
The left lose their minds ..
CNN moderators will cut off Trump's mic over and over. Thus cutting him off.
I'm probably not alone in thinking that CNN has already written their "Biden so Won This Debate!!!!" summary of the debate.
I hope he stays sunny and calm, which he's been of late. Makes it all much more enjoyable.
Sunny and calm? Really?! Have you listened to the man recently. He is on the verge of calling this country a shithole.
Field Marshall Freder: "Sunny and calm? Really?! Have you listened to the man recently. He is on the verge of calling this country a shithole."
You New Soviet Democraticals have certainly done your best to drive the US into s***hole status....and the reaction of everyday people demonstrates that conclusively.
Trump is on the verge! Quick - cut off hi mic!
It appears Bill Maher’s Friday broadcast may have deleted Cuomo’s statement about New York’s prosecution of Trump. You can pull up the specific segment on YouTube, but try to pull up the original program in its entirety and it is gone.
Maher is an uninformed tool.
"Will both sides be allowed to record the event, on site, with their own equipment?"
Why shouldn't either party be able to record the debate? What possible legitimate reason could there be to prohibit it?
Space Mountain - there is a market for entertainment that the MSM satisfies. Also a market for fear mongering.
Just a note:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/
SCOTUS is now showing Wed, Thurs, and Friday as opinion release days.
SO I predict the immunity ruling will come out on Friday, after the debate
Greg, that was probably intentional change to get past the debate. Roberts does not like roiling the political waters if he doesn't have to.
"Sunny and calm? Really?! Have you listened to the man recently. He is on the verge of calling this country a shithole."
LOL, Freder- the Democrats are definitely trying to turn every jurisdiction they rule without opposition into shitholes.
"Space Mountain - there is a market for entertainment that the MSM satisfies. Also a market for fear mongering."
Just so TickTock, just so. Precisely my point. At the rate we're going, by 2050, there won't be.
Jake Tapper said the end of Trump 1st term was the "end of our long national nightmare"??? Who pooped in his pudding? Just before Biden took office bad weather and bad luck left me borrowing money for home repairs. That interest rates now 2.5 times what it was 3 years ago. Worse yet Tapper brought up Rep Brian Mast recognizing he lost both legs in the service of his country and then paused for a moment. He the questioned Mast if still was commolitedted to the Constitution.
He is on the verge of calling this country a shithole.
Yeah. It takes some gall for him to point out what your actions have done to this nation. How dare he!
"He is on the verge of calling this country a shithole."
Parts are. Some parts make Haiti look scenic. And they're growing...
"Yeah. It takes some gall for him to point out what your actions have done to this nation. How dare he!"
Democrats hate the country and think there's not much good in it. Why are they bitching when someone points out that there are places that are actually as bad as they already think?
Think this Kasie Hunt incident was a plus for CNN? Think again. Check out CNN's website and look for banner headline .... there is none. In fact, I don't see it mentioned on their website at all. Uh oh.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Its fun to watch CNN being so jittery and thin skinned when people point out their clear bias against Trump and any republican foolish enough to come on one of their shows. They are still losing buckets of money and the new managers are struggling to remain relevant in a media scape that has passed them by.
This debate may be the first time in many months CNN beats Spongebob and Nick at Night TVLand in the ratings.
This is the same Kasie Hunt who said this was b 2017: “New details today on the incident that left Senator Rand Paul with six broken ribs – this might be one of my favorite stories” Yes she later apologized. But she should have been fired.
Democrats and their media servitors squaring the circle once again.
is this tactic allowed?
Trump just yields all his time to Biden to keep him talkimg without catching breath!
Given the set-up, all Biden has to do to draw in this debate is live through it. If CNN’s manipulation means he comes across as coherent, he wins big. I think Trump made a mistake agreeing to this format. He doesn’t need more publicity, or more examples of the media being hopelessly biased. He needs Biden unmasked for the demented old fool he is. This format won’t do that, and might do the opposite.
""He is on the verge of calling this country a sh*thole."
Well, CNN is a news program, so....
Puzzles me after 10 years or so, why people answer the leftists who troll here. If you haven't figured it out, they aren't looking for anything more than what they can get in the way of responses from people here-and they don't care what the response is.
Most of their comments are high school level, one seems stuck in Jr. High.
They bring nothing to this blog but Maddow style talking points, over all, they are a bit retarded and typical of people who can't defend their own side in this mess.
Again, they aren't interested in facts-they adhere to the leftist ideal that facts are just another form of lies, to be used to disrupt things.
Been the same nonsense since UC Berkeley in the 60s and 70s, which was the last time I treated the left as anything but the scum most of them are.....
Yes, Freder, "sunny and calm." I say that because every clip I've seen shows him in good humor, often very funny, and, yes, enthusiastic and ebullient in calling the mess Biden has made of the country (not the country itself) a "shithole." You are clearly missing out on it badly.
8:01 Eva Marie-
Thanks for the reminder.
F CNN.
Biden must be coddled and treated by the hack-D corrupt press like the Castro he is.
Blogger Jimmy said...
“Puzzles me after 10 years or so, why people answer the leftists who troll here. If you haven't figured it out, they aren't looking for anything more than what they can get in the way of responses from people here-and they don't care what the response is.”
It’s like an arcade. Sometimes like whack-a-mole but more often like an old time shooting gallery with BB guns shooting at the moving targets on a revolving track (These days it’s done with lasers). The lefty targets get knocked out with a skillful hit, but sure enough they pop right back up after moving behind the scenes. It’s fun and challenging to hit these moving targets. It’s all fun and games until somebody puts an eye out.
is this tactic allowed?
Trump just yields all his time to Biden to keep him talkimg without catching breath!
So it looks like other networks can and will simulcast as long as they don't delete CNN logo. Includes Fox News. Achilles' usual blather can be ignored.
So it looks like other networks can and will simulcast as long as they don't delete CNN logo
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can analysis of 'simulcast' reveal edits by CNN
So it looks like other networks can and will simulcast as long as they don't delete CNN logo
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can analysis of 'simulcast' reveal edits by CNN
Reddit video: This guy has no business moderating a Trump debate
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