This would be funny if it wasn’t so………
….never mind. It’s not funny at all. It is, however, another example of why CNN is so regularly taking it on the chin.
Excerpted from John Nolte’s less-than-diplomatic piece at dailywire.com:
As we all now know, on Tuesday night, straight through to Wednesday, the American media went on another one of their Fake News Witch Hunts against Donald Trump, this one about a sinister “secret meeting” between the American President and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Desperate to keep their flailing Russian conspiracy theory afloat, the media took a usual-usual G20 dinner conversation, one that took place literally in front of the whole world, a dinner the media all knew about, and turned it into a series of frenzied fake headlines.
Because the media did not already look dishonest and foolish enough at this point, enter dumb-dumb Cillizza to go for the extra point. This is going to sound like a joke, this is going to sound as though I’m making this up, but… In response to Trump’s tweets, Cillizza actually wrote the following at CNN:
This is a classic bit of Trump misdirection.
No media outlet reported anything about a “secret dinner.” No one is making the dinner look “sinister.” And, no one is suggesting that the media was unaware that the dinner was taking place.
Never content to not look as ridiculous as possible, Cillizza even took to Twitter to stress the point. “Again, NO ONE is saying the meeting was private or secret. NO ONE,” the serial-liar tweeted.
I’ll let Matt Boyle from Breitbart News take it from here:
On the same day that Cillizza published his fake news—Wednesday, July 19—two different CNN anchors contradicted his assertion that nobody said the meeting was “secret” live on air on CNN.
Brooke Baldwin, a CNN anchor, twice referred to the meeting as a “secret sitdown” between Trump and Putin—and even at one point asked, “Why didn’t we know about this?”
At CNN Cillizza blasted Trump as a liar with two claims: 1) “No media outlet reported anything about a ‘secret dinner'” and 2) “no one is suggesting that the media was unaware that the dinner was taking place.”
In the meantime, at this very same CNN, on this very same day, Brooke Baldwin is calling the dinner “secret” and openly asking “Why didn’t we know about this?”
But wait, there’s more!
[CNN anchor Kate] Bolduan on Wednesday called it a “secret and second sitdown between the president and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Why wasn’t the meeting revealed?”
Let me stop again to stress an even more important point.
According to CNN’s own transcript, Bolduan made the above statement at 11:49 am ET. According to CNN’s own timestamp, Cillizza published/updated his piece a full THREE HOURS LATER.
