Everything CNN does now underlines how Chris Licht’s doomed attempts to calm it down are almost completely forgotten. On Sept. 18, Oliver Darcy’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter was topped by the headline “Elon’s Reality Escape.” Because CNN defines what “reality” is, and “reality” has a virulent leftist bias. That bias makes you “reliable.”
Darcy’s screed began: “Elon Musk is showing the world how radicalized he has become. The billionaire, one of the most consequential figures to walk the Earth, spent another weekend swimming in the right-wing fever swamps of X.”
The occasion was Don Lemon’s arrogant and ignorant interview of Musk, which caused Musk to pull his funding of Lemon’s program. Lemon made all kinds of strange demands of Musk, especially his demand to have some control of the platform’s “content moderation” policies.
“He’s not used to having to answer to anyone,” Lemon said in a Q&A with People magazine after his self-destructive debacle, “especially someone like me who doesn’t share his worldview, who doesn’t look like him.”
Darcy lamented: “Musk appears to be growing more intolerant of other viewpoints. While elevating right-wing extremists, he simultaneously seeks to destroy trust in credible news sources.” This is rich, since Darcy is intolerant of “right-wing extremist” viewpoints and has openly advocated deplatforming Fox News and other conservative networks. CNN’s opinions aren’t opinions; they’re “facts.” Conservative opinions are “misinformation” and “hate speech.”
Therefore, Darcy expressed horror that in his Lemon interview, “Musk equated moderating dangerous and appalling hate speech to ‘censorship.'” But what is “appalling hate speech”? In his next clause, Darcy complained Musk “bashed the press for legitimate reporting.” Was this like CNN reporting breathlessly that Donald Trump was elected by colluding with the Russian government? Did that turn out to be “legitimate”?
The horrors kept coming. Musk agreed with a user who wrote “Fake News is the Enemy of the People,” said the press is “basically the Biden cheering squad,” accused the news media of “lying” about Trump’s “bloodbath” comments, called NPR a “nice version of Pravda,” and alleged Google “manipulate[s] their search results with left-wing bias.” That certainly does sound like the conservative critique, even if we won’t describe pro-Biden news outlets as “enemies of the people.” Is Darcy not suggesting conservatives are enemies of all that is good?
In the midst of a cascade of purple prose, Darcy concluded: “At this juncture, calling Musk a right-wing s–tposter is no longer provocative. It’s simply accurate.”
Musk is simply too powerful to be a conservative malcontent: “In his ownership of X alone, Musk controls one of the world’s most important communications platforms, spitting corrosive venom into the public discourse at a faster speed than his SpaceX rockets hurtle into orbit.” Conservatism equals “corrosive venom.”
Darcy found only a sad decline into madness: “In effect, Musk has become self-radicalized on the very website that he was forced to purchase for $44 billion, sliding deeper into the darkest and most unsavory corners of the platform that has served to only reinforce his own worldview with an echo chamber of conspiracy theorists and ego-stoking sycophants that regularly fawn at his every move no matter how outrageous or preposterously false.”
When his rant was ended, he turned to Kara Swisher for support on “Elon’s X-tremism.” She wrote: “My takeaway is that he has devolved into a very ill-informed thinker on a number of complex topics.”
When you think a conservative critique of liberal media is “ill-informed,” you’re suggesting that reliable “information” is liberal information and “misinformation” is conservatives trying to ruin routinely flawless liberal information. Who sounds “intolerant of other viewpoints”?
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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The very powerful Democrats and the very stupid have one thing in common.
They do not alter their view to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their view.
This is a very common trait among the majority of Democrats.
To this treasonous self-righteous, woke Democrat Party and their idiot supporters, the U.S. Constitution, Laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
Note how the DC swamp creatures have now fabricated a right-wing fever swamp in the effort to distract from their treasonous Democrat Party and their Democrat RINO swamp and its traitorous agendas.
Assuming they even ACKNOWLEDGE facts…
CNN’s total decending debilitation into the darkness of Trump derangement syndrome is culminating in a final learning moment of national education of what happens to a former functioning American media institution, when the infection of secular socialism depletes itself into the equal distribution of their insanity where their imagined reality reveals the Democrat driven ding-bat confusion of their own self-destroyed minds and morals. Those CNN unreal accusing others of unreality is just another manifestation of the Trump derangement infection, and when all the shouting is over, and the arguments lost, all they have left is to accuse others of the very infectious unreality insanity that they themselves embrace, and will continue to embrace until the final self-destruction of a once working, profitable cash flush Company goes flushing down their self-made “Tempest in a teapot” toilets.
The Leftist Media are out of the closet and have lost all appearances of non-biased reporting.
Hence why i’ve often said, THE FOUNDING fathers, would have never put in “A free press”, when they wrote the first amendment, IF THEY COULD SEE what our so-called legacy/main stream media has become..
don lemon is a idiot.