By Sister Toldjah
Though much is still unsettled from last week’s presidential election, one thing that has been settled in the aftermath beyond a shadow of a doubt is the fact that CNN is not a news organization.
As I’ve previously noted, “The Lead” host Jake Tapper has endorsed the idea of an “Enemies List” of sorts that targets Trump officials and rank and file Trump supporters alike for shunning and ostracization from polite society. His colleagues Anderson Cooper and Jim Acosta have taken to calling President Trump an “obese turtle” and “sore loser”, respectively.
Anchor Don Lemon has boasted about dropping his Trump-supporting friends because they simply can’t handle his political brilliance or something. Chief media correspondent Brian Stelter is chomping at the bit over the possibility that “normal relations” between the White House and the pres corps would be resumed under a (possible) Biden-Harris administration. Tough guy Chris Cuomo is even issuing veiled physical threats to Republicans.
While there are many more examples along those lines, I think those alone prove the point. But the examples keep adding up, as Real Clear Politics co-founder and president Tom Bevan pointed out in a recent retweet of a tweet which noted that CNN was keeping a list of its own of Republican Senators who have failed to congratulate Joe Biden for claiming victory (even as the Trump campaign is mounting lawsuits alleging mail-in ballot fraud and poll-worker errors in several states):
CNN is not a news organization. https://t.co/kqyHKxCj4g
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 10, 2020
Predictably, this triggered CNN’s most super-sensitive-to-criticism anchor Jake Tapper, who proceeded to take a cheap shot at Bevan over an issue with which RCP had corrected and apologized over (which Tapper lied about in this tweet and subsequent tweets):
Tom’s upset because we’ve pointed out that he published libelous smears of an active duty Green Beret (that he had to delete) and of Trump administration official @VictoriaCoates. But instead of apologizing and being better, he attacks. It’s a shame because a lot of RCP is great. https://t.co/f6bZir7CMC
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 11, 2020
It was then Bevan dropped receipt after receipt on Tapper, backing up his claims on how CNN was not a news organization, and throwing in some bonus receipts that focused specifically on Tapper’s starring role in the network’s dramatic decline:
Just this week @jaketapper has:
1) threatened Trump supporters 2) Tweeted ‘bye Felicia’ at WH Press Sec 3) nodded as Clyburn said Putin was dictating US fortunes.Plus 4 yrs of hyping Russia hoax, getting caught meddling in an election & lying about it, maybe just take a seat? https://t.co/EeY936jH26
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 11, 2020
Tapper then continued to lie about Bevan and RCP:
Tom, you can lie about me all you want, but just own up to the fact that you smeared an active duty Green Beret as well as Trump administration official @VictoriaCoates. They deserve public apologies. Changing the subject doesn’t change those ugly facts. https://t.co/sS378AHDf3
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 11, 2020
Bevan then proceeded to drop more receipts, this time about his website and how – contra to what Tapper lied about – RCP had updated the piece in question and apologized three months ago:
For those who are interested, here's a link to the note: https://t.co/3e1zB5BU4F
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 11, 2020
Tapper did not respond and had moved on at that point, presumably because he realized he’d just been nuked into oblivion.
Frequently I get someone presenting one of those charts that shows what someone, probably a liberal, because they are most worried about covering up bias and lies, provides a chart that shows the right and left bias of all sources. Most show CNN just barely to the left, which tells me immediately it’s bullshit. CNN is nothing but a joke, a farce, a BabylonBee that provides propaganda instead of satire. They are as close to a criminal organization without breaking any laws as one can get.