Matrix XII
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Good. Another piece of trash, gone.
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Jeff Lord tweets "Sieg Heil!" at Media Matters president; fired by CNN
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Y'know, on one hand, I'm actually kind of happy, because there's no more subtlety. It's out there now. The racism, the white supremacy, the sexism. The hatred. It is there, in your face. On Twitter, on YouTube, you can find it. EASILY.
On the other hand, despite it being so visible, it feels like there's no real backlash. It just feels like folks are keeping their eyes down, shoulders slumped, and trying to just get past all of this.
*sigh*
But Paris is worse than both. They are all terrible but I rage when Paris gets his turn to defend racism against his own race.
I mean, if there was no real backlash, Jeffery Lord would still have a job right now. The amount of donations to groups like the ACLU and SPLC wouldn't be at record high. We wouldn't be having these conversations in multiple southern states to remove Confederate symbols and statues, and etc. Ideally, this would be crushed throughly, sure, but no backlash whatsoever is hyperbole I feel
Gentleman Jack
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One one hand, I'd like to praise CNN for firing him.
On the other hand, they hired him in the first place and are looking right now for another shitmouth Trump surrogate to sit in front of their Feel Good Firing Squad to replace him.
On the other hand, they hired him in the first place and are looking right now for another shitmouth Trump surrogate to sit in front of their Feel Good Firing Squad to replace him.
Alligatorjandro
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He should be in jail
Chmpocalypse
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Thats still a lot of subtlety for these people. Next election cycle theyll straight up call Obama the n word.
What? ....You know what, I don't even want to know anymore
Mechanized
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CNN just got 100% more watchable.
It's why CNN is literally worse than Fox and deserves all the mocking and taunts from the Trump trolls. At least Fox is open about what it is: a far right, pro Trump, extremist propaganda outlet that dispenses with any attempts at getting boths sides of the argument to instead peddle complete fiction.
On the flipside you have MSNBC which has been doing some cracking work in squaring up to Dump and his fascist regime recently. CNN however insists on always playing devil's advocate and attempting to provide equal airtime to deranged Trump surrogates pushing their lies and bullshit. Many times there aren't two sides to a story. I swear if there was a discussion on the Flat Earth "theory" they'd have "for" and "against" panelists allowed equal airtime.
So fuck them and their balance falacy. Trying to please both sides by sitting on the fence and ending up with splinters in their ass instead as everyone berates them.
I'm convinced Lord is a troll. He sits on those panels and tells big, bold-faced lies. He knows that we know he's lying. And the other panelists just had to sit there and indulge him. I suppose that's what CNN thought was entertaining, but it was just so sad to watch. Like, you used to be the actual news, CNN.
At least they fired him.
At least they fired him.
As many issues as CNN has, to literally say they are as bad as Fox is a profoundly ignorant thing to say
Yeah, CNN doesn't actually conduct smear campaigns and harassment to capitalize on talking points of a political party.
CNN is trash, but not evil.
I'd say 25-33%
They still have the thumb-with-a-goatee, Uncle Paris and I feel like there's another one of them that I can't remember. It's definitely more watchable, but they could still be better
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The Autumn Wind
While I completely agree with your criticisms of CNN, comparing them to Fox News is way off base.
It's worse in the sense that they're all over the fucking place with no coherency or direction. Fox is straight up fascism but at least its focused on a singular objective, namely to defend Trump with all its energy. Likewise MSNBC has been laser focused on holding the WH to account and not let them get away with their bullshit.
However if we're evaluating news channels solely on content then Fox is hands down the worst.
Hope this has provided some clarification.
n00bsauce87
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Somewhere Angela Rye is sipping some Chardonnay in a bubble bath and candles just having a good ol time.
TheGameshark
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That's pretty much the vibe I got from him. Didn't Anderson Cooper say to him "if trump took a dump on the president's desk you'd defend it" or something like that?
shawnbuddy
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I followed that rabbit hole to the bottom and Jesus fuck. Lord writes an article that tries to smear Media Matters as a George Soros funded group. Media Matters points out that they have only one Soros donation, in 2010. Lord quadruples down and screams fascist in an unhinged follow up article. Media Matters responds when he tweets the story. Lord tweets back and hings get Hitlery. Lord is not endorsing Hitler, he's just Godwining, but it's still fucked up.
SolarPowered
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CNN should be embarrassed they even had him on their payroll.
Shadow Puppetry
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"I love CNN, but I feel they are caving to bullies here," he said in a telephone interview shortly after the network's decision was announced.
Damn Clinton News Network, bunch of snowflakes!
Good riddance.
I love how Lord's article reads like he dictated it while crashing from a coke binge
This to me looks like two very well paid men doing exactly what they're being paid to do
Hm? I'm not aware of Lord outside of CNN. What did he do?
They'll just replace him with another guy like him that won't kill himself on social media. CNN wants that dynamic no matter how awful those people are.
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Right, I'm talking about Alligatorjandro saying he should be thrown in jail though.
Saint Gregory
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I actually said "Jesus H. Christ" reading this thread title. And the Tweet is still there! :O
He's among the worst of the worst Trump surrogates that CNN hired, which isn't really saying much since they're all trash. I stopped watching the network months ago since I couldn't take any more of their bullshit attempts at playing both sides.
He's among the worst of the worst Trump surrogates that CNN hired, which isn't really saying much since they're all trash. I stopped watching the network months ago since I couldn't take any more of their bullshit attempts at playing both sides.
Saint Gregory
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i dont even get it.
he thinks the guy he is replying to is a fascist trying to stifle free speech because he's complaining about Sean Hannity in an article or something. I think he thinks it's a joke but apparently his history is a little uhhh and maybe not so much.
Scottie Hughes.
The Chosen One
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I'm guessing with Donald Trump's poll numbers starting to dip inside the toilet rim, CNN no longer has a use for Jeffrey Lord.
Because on the face, he's said far more inflammatory things than this. The context of the tweet is that he was accusing someone else of Nazi behavior. I teach my kids not to make Nazi comparisons in jest, but people do it all the time. Every day on this forum there is at least a half dozen people that compare Trump or this WH admin to Nazis. So in context, I don't see Jeffrey's tweet as overly shocking. He's also a political hack, not a politician, so he has a bit of latitude to say stupid shit. His mistake was making a very vague tweet that easily could be misinterpreted.
That said, he was a completely useless commentator. He never added a legitimate conservative viewpoint or perspective to the panels, he was simply trotting out Trump propaganda. with lots of inflammatory rhetoric. CNN knew what they were doing because they kept him on for so long. I just wish he was fired for all the other insane things he's said on-air, instead CNN basically made him a martyr among most Republicans as another victim of the PC media.
Because on the face, he's said far more inflammatory things than this. The context of the tweet is that he was accusing someone else of Nazi behavior. I teach my kids not to make Nazi comparisons in jest, but people do it all the time. Every day on this forum there is at least a half dozen people that compare Trump or this WH admin to Nazis. So in context, I don't see Jeffrey's tweet as overly shocking. He's also a political hack, not a politician, so he has a bit of latitude to say stupid shit. His mistake was making a very vague tweet that easily could be misinterpreted.
That said, he was a completely useless commentator. He never added a legitimate conservative viewpoint or perspective to the panels, he was simply trotting out Trump propaganda. with lots of inflammatory rhetoric. CNN knew what they were doing because they kept him on for so long. I just wish he was fired for all the other insane things he's said on-air, instead CNN basically made him a martyr among most Republicans as another victim of the PC media.
shadow_shogun
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Apparently, firing Jeff was a mistake as Nan Hayworth is a going to take his place. She's the combination of both Jeff and Kayleigh McEnany.
The firing wasn't a mistake. Replacing him with someone similar is the mistake.
Conciliator
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yes, this shit where Jeffrey Lord, Roger Stone, Sekulow, whoever just sits on a cam or panel and says literally fuckin whatever, and constantly gets taken in good faith, and by the time you try to to analyze or critique anything said they're on to the next soundbyte. Repeat 2 or 3 times, commercials. It ain't fuckin news.
And that's why CNN is trash, and I'll never give them a single view. Just irresponsible bs as usual.
They also hired Corey after Trump dropped him.
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