This Is CNN (Vaulted)

[BuckeyeLou]

6 hours ago, Medicine Crow said:

..... &&& I've had a total snoot-full of that Kaleigh McEnany.  For GAWD's sake!!!

Ugh...that Kaleigh is awful!  All her excuses for Trump's outrageous behavior!

[shok]

10 hours ago, NewDigs said:

I don't spend a lot of time w/CNN but had it on for the Jake Tapper vs Trump interview this afternoon.

Wow.

Esp. loved Jake's, He's from Indiana!

 

I heard a panelist on another show (another network?) say Trump has Political Tourettes and I thought it was so apt. He really does just blurt out words and phrases that often make no sense at all.

[stormy]

The tourettes remark came for republican strategist Rick Wilson when he was on with MSNBC with Chris Hayes yesterday.  It was a great analogy!

Don't forget fellow Val Gals that CNN insists on having on everyday, Scotti and Katrina.  More mental giants.

The most moving and passionate anti-Trump comments came from Ana Navarro last night when she was on Anderson Cooper.  She was in tears over Trump's attack on the judge (she's a lawyer) will never support or vote for him.  Tara Setmeyer yelled out "I'm with you sister!"

It's refreshing because no matter what Trump said about Marco Rubio or Susanna Martinez, they all come to kiss his ass.  Pathetic.

And let's not forget the great interview Mitch McConnell yesterday.  I hope he sees the last of his gavel after November and goes home to Kentucky with his it's all about the Supreme Court crap.  Does he really think Trump has a clue who the people on his Supreme Court list are?

[GHScorpiosRule]

Sigh.  CNN should have just delayed airing The Eighties until after the conventions. Or at least make them available on demand, since they're soooo in luuuuurve with all things Drumph.

[stormy]

Hugs to David Axelrod.

During last night's primary coverage he slapped down Val Gal Kayleigh's absurd support of all of Trump's BS.

[Padma]

Jake Tapper really won me over with that Trump interview. Trump is so good at deflection (I've seen enough of it to think it's intentional most of the time), but Tapper asked him 23 times (per Huffpo) about it being racist to say a Mexican American judge was unable to hear a case simply because of his ethnicity.  Even after all that--and more elsewhere--Trump still had the nerve to start his speech by saying people had "misconstrued" his words to take them as an attack on Mexican Americans (who, by the way, are some of his dearest friends).

He KNOWS that's not true. Tapper made it clear as could be that the racism was from saying a judge was disqualified simply because of his ethnicity. Yet, Trump chose to spin it again--and had the nerve to blame all of US for misunderstanding him!!!!

Anyway. Does anyone know where I can see the interview Manu Raju did yesterday with Lindsey Graham in the hallway of the Capitol?  It was fairly long and, while Graham spoke a lot on the subject of Trump's racism yesterday, I thought he was particularly eloquent in this one. (Talked among other things about how he believed Trump was intentionally and unfairly "trying to destroy this judge's life").  I'd love to see it again but can't find it anywhere. CNN has the one with Dana Bash and MSNBC has Haley Jackson's. It was really good but with the election, I don't think they reran it later in the day and I can't find it anywhere online.

ETA: Found it in Raju's twitter feed. https://twitter.com/mkraju

Edited June 9, 2016 by Padma

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Loving Costello's new hair, much more flattering and maybe it is just me but she has been a little less whiny of late when asking her guests a question, she doesn't have to almost come to tears asking it for God's sake!  LOL

And here we go again with another inside show this time with Morgan Spurlock following a similar show with Mike Rowe and that United Shades guy.  Give us more of the CNN quiz shows with Anderson! 

Edited June 9, 2016 by Foghorn Leghorn

[NewDigs]

I watched a couple of Morgan Spurlock's old show and though it was interesting it went too long, imho. But I liked it enough to check out this new one.

[novhappy]

On June 9, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Foghorn Leghorn said:

Loving Costello's new hair, much more flattering and maybe it is just me but she has been a little less whiny of late when asking her guests a question, she doesn't have to almost come to tears asking it for God's sake!  LOL

And here we go again with another inside show this time with Morgan Spurlock following a similar show with Mike Rowe and that United Shades guy.  Give us more of the CNN quiz shows with Anderson! 

the other day CNN comes back from commercial and Carol Costello says "ok we have some breaking news and we're going to bring it to you after another short break" in such a crying voice. I mean it really sounded like she was emotionally destroyed. Given the fact they went to another break before the news my mind went to the Newtown school shootings and some of the other major tragedies recently and I was nervous. 

Back from break she is on about the breaking news in the same emotionally destroyed manner and the breaking news was...GOP leaders not happy with Trumps comments about Judge

she is too much!

[Medicine Crow]

It seems (to me) that Wolf Blitzer starts every segment transition with "more breaking news when we come back" & it's the same "breaking news" they've been harping on all day.  C'mon!!!

I feel sorry for Carol .... she's given a script & it's probably ridiculous & hard for her to "suck up".  Just sayin'.

Edited June 10, 2016 by Medicine Crow
Correct spelling is always appreciated. No?

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Oh I get the script but it is her delivery that gets.on.my.last.nerve!  LOL   

[novhappy]

Her hair does look better. 

[NewDigs]

16 hours ago, Medicine Crow said:

It seems (to me) that Wolf Blitzer starts every segment transition with "more breaking news when we come back" & it's the same "breaking news" they've been harping on all day.  C'mon!!!

I feel sorry for Carol .... she's given a script & it's probably ridiculous & hard for her to "suck up".  Just sayin'.

I think all of the channels use "Breaking News" too often.

Imho, Breaking News is something that is so important that they "break" into their regularly scheduled programming. Not Wolf's, "when we get back from commercial...".

[Ohwell]

The traffic reporter on one of my local stations says "Breaking News!!!" every time there's a traffic tie up, which is every day.  I guess saying "traffic alert" isn't exciting enough.  Drives me up a wall.
 

[DXD526]

If there's one thing the networks have taught us in the era of the 24-hour news cycle, it's that "breaking" doesn't necessarily mean "important".

[NewDigs]

37 minutes ago, DXD526 said:

If there's one thing the networks have taught us in the era of the 24-hour news cycle, it's that "breaking" doesn't necessarily mean "important".

And that attitude could turn them all into "the little boy who called wolf" (no pun intended) with no one paying attention when something BIG does happen. 

I wonder how many news segments are replayed with that "Breaking News" chyron still emblazoned across the bottom. 

It's already next to impossible to recognize a "Live" segment.

[Katydid]

I've often morbidly joked that if I were ever involved in a tragic event, they'd better send Anderson because he's the most compassionate of them all.  Last night he showed that realness again as he got emotional reading the names of all the Orlando victims and something about each of them. 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

1 hour ago, Katydid said:

I've often morbidly joked that if I were ever involved in a tragic event, they'd better send Anderson because he's the most compassionate of them all.  Last night he showed that realness again as he got emotional reading the names of all the Orlando victims and something about each of them. 

Absolutely!  And his partner owns a few gay bars in NY making this really personal.    

[stormy]

Will Trump pull Jake Tapper's press credentials for calling him out yesterday, and rightly so, for his disgusting accusation that the President is an Islamic terrorist sympathizer?

[Janc]

4 hours ago, Katydid said:

I've often morbidly joked that if I were ever involved in a tragic event, they'd better send Anderson because he's the most compassionate of them all.  Last night he showed that realness again as he got emotional reading the names of all the Orlando victims and something about each of them. 

My love for AC will never die.  I didn't think he was going to make it through the list at some points last night.  Very sad.  My local news did something last night when it ended that I'd never seen them do before, had 49 people on the street read the names, ages, and a tidbit about each of the victims. Very humanizing and affecting.

[Rick Kitchen]

Anderson Cooper just went off on homophobic Pam Bondi, AG of Florida, and her sudden flip-flop in support of gay people.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

28 minutes ago, Rick Kitchen said:

Anderson Cooper just went off on homophobic Pam Bondi, AG of Florida, and her sudden flip-flop in support of gay people.

I saw that and he wasn't letting her off the hook!  

[Rick Kitchen]

Turns out Bondi lied about having a rainbow handclasp on her website.

[NewDigs]

AC going after Bondi was a thing of beauty. FL person here and I've been waiting and hoping to see someone wipe that hateful smirk off her face. 

Now, if he could corner Rick Scott...

[Foghorn Leghorn]

OMG Brooke Baldwin just asked an alligator expert "what would that gator have been thinking?"  G.M.A.F.B.  To me these are signs the media has reached it's limit of how many good questions can I ask before I have to start the stupid ones to satisfy air time!

And is Rick Scott trying to tell us he has not slept since the Orlando nightmares because he is still in a perfectly pressed blue shirt or is that his uniform?!  He also has this grin/smirk all the time! 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Foghorn Leghorn
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[Katydid]

Our boy Anderson is going off on Pam Bondi again tonight (without her being there) after she accused him of editing the interview and misrepresenting her. I love seeing him so fired up and not letting her hypocrisy off the hook. 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Katydid

[GHScorpiosRule]

So CNN finally put up The AIDS Crisis and Video Killed the Tadio Star episodes on Demand and I watched them.

First, the AIDS episode should have been two hours , or rather 90 minutes instead of 45. A lot of skimming over and apparently, Rock Hudson was the only celebrity to die from this. No mention of anyone else. I know Susan St. James is still among us, and Doris Day. Nothing from them about this?

interesting to see Geraldo's thoughts on how the government refused to do anything.

Wow-I hadn't remembered an effigy of Reagan being set on fire.  He couldn't have made it more clear he was on the side of the homophobes. 

I'm a cynic about most things, but still I was shocked and angered at the ignorant woman screaming at Ryan White how she wouldn't let him "kill" her child, when he was forced to leave the school.

As for the Video...no words. None. No mention of Rick Springfield, Culture Club (other than a clip of a song and a couple of sound bytes), bananarama??? Tears for Fears? Except at the end playing their song? And wait until the last minute until they mention BonfuckingJovi??!! What about the American artist who got together to release "we are the World?"

So lazy and looked like a last minute slap dash.

i"ll have more later when I get home.

To say I'm disappointed in CNN and Tom Hanks, is putting it mildly.

[slensam]

1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

So CNN finally put up The AIDS Crisis and Video Killed the Tadio Star episodes on Demand and I watched them.

First, the AIDS episode should have been two hours , or rather 90 minutes instead of 45. A lot of skimming over and apparently, Rock Hudson was the only celebrity to die from this. No mention of anyone else. I know Susan St. James is still among us, and Doris Day. Nothing from them about this?

interesting to see Geraldo's thoughts on how the government refused to do anything.

Wow-I hadn't remembered an effigy of Reagan being set on fire.  He couldn't have made it more clear he was on the side of the homophobes. 

I'm a cynic about most things, but still I was shocked and angered at the ignorant woman screaming at Ryan White how she wouldn't let him "kill" her child, when he was forced to leave the school.

As for the Video...no words. None. No mention of Rick Springfield, Culture Club (other than a clip of a song and a couple of sound bytes), bananarama??? Tears for Fears? Except at the end playing their song? And wait until the last minute until they mention BonfuckingJovi??!! What about the American artist who got together to release "we are the World?"

So lazy and looked like a last minute slap dash.

i"ll have more later when I get home.

To say I'm disappointed in CNN and Tom Hanks, is putting it mildly.

No Guns N' Roses either. They were kind of big at the end of the 80's.

[GHScorpiosRule]

Okay, finally in front of a computer, so here are other critiques nitpicks:

No mention of Sheena Easton, Olivia Newton-John, two  musicians who were HUGE in the 80s.  What about Poison? Van Halen? Huey? Lionel Ritchie going solo, even though he said it was only a "separation" from The Commodores. What about Will Smith's "Parents Just Don't Understand?" That was HUGE. Or Michael Jackson and Sir Paul McCartney teaming up? And is Journey more of a 70s band? 

And hoowee, does Ann Wilson look AMAAAZING. 

I'm probably aging myself, but weren't Tiffany and Debbie Gibson a thing in this decade?

I learned something new--that MTV refused to air rap, hip-hop, MichaelFUCKING!Jackson! music and videos. And when they showed DavidFUCKING!Bowie, ask what'shisface, curly mop, why, and really? The lame ass excuses/party line he spewed? That only teens/people in CA, NY were familiar, but not the ones in the midwest? South? That look Bowie gave him? Totally said "You're so full of shit."

I had to laugh when Simon LeBon and Nick Taylor of Duran Duran were saying how their video of "Rio" was "tasteful smut." Whoever called "Rio" porn clearly and I mean CLEARLY didn't see "Girls on Film."

And I was quickly reminded that before he met his wife, Tracy Pollan, that Michael J. Fox and Nancy McKeon were an item for a looong time. They showed them attending some function on behalf of Ryan White.

I know I said it before, but I'm really upset and peeved over the laziness in putting together this decade.

But whoever said it was right: The one thing that can be attributed to this decade was that the music was FUN.

Edited June 22, 2016 by GHScorpiosRule

[shok]

I see CNN is going to do their best to gin up terror before the election. They've pretty much wrung as much as they can out of the Orlando massacre so regular repeats of Why They Hate Us are on the schedule and now tonight they dredged up an hour long special on Paris. Why do they want Americans to be so scared? Five more months of it to come and maybe everybody will hate Muslims by then. It's disgraceful what they're doing.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

5 hours ago, shok said:

I see CNN is going to do their best to gin up terror before the election. They've pretty much wrung as much as they can out of the Orlando massacre so regular repeats of Why They Hate Us are on the schedule and now tonight they dredged up an hour long special on Paris. Why do they want Americans to be so scared? Five more months of it to come and maybe everybody will hate Muslims by then. It's disgraceful what they're doing.

Agree!  And the gun debate adds to the repeated "breaking news"......"new details" bullshit drama.  I have had to change the channel not out of fear but from Boredom!

Edited June 22, 2016 by Foghorn Leghorn

[shok]

And now of course they're drooling over Trump and his slanderous speech this morning, blathering on and on about how Trump has changed and is sounding so serious now that he fired his campaign manager and he read from a teleprompter so well. Barely a mention about the FACTS and that the garbage Trump was spewing was almost all lies or wild right wing extremist bullshit that has long been factchecked and refuted. I hear some of the pundits going on about both Hillary and Trump now giving speeches that really takes the other one on but what they never mention is that Hillary's speeches have been based on Trumps WORDS, on what he has said, while Trumps are based on wild LIES and insults. The country is not going to survive until November. It's frightening.

[NewDigs]

And right now, when history is being made in the House, they are still prattling on about Trump.

At least MSNBC has a split-screen.

[Constantinople]

On 6/19/2016 at 6:49 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

So CNN finally put up...Video Killed the Tadio Star....

...No mention of...bananarama???

It's a cruel, cruel summer

[GHScorpiosRule]

Just now, Constantinople said:

It's a cruel, cruel summer

Touché!

[WendyCR72]

This is splitting hairs, but let's keep direct political commentary on either side to a minimum (which has also been requested in the MSNBC forum). I realize this is very hard, considering it is presidential race season, but PTV is against politics as a rule, so focus on the talking heads/programming and, if politics must be discussed, keep it to a minimum and try not to focus on specifics.

There are many other places this can be dissected if one needs to.  :-)  Thanks!

[DXD526]

During the sit-in last night, one of the commentators was talking about how people are "grappling" with the gun issue. Excuse me, CNN, but polls show approval for background checks, which Congress absolutely refuses to even consider, hovering at around 90 percent. You can't get 90 percent of Americans to agree that the sky is blue, so this is huge. Ninety percent is not a "grappling" number. The "grappling" is over, so stop trying to take the heat off greedy, selfish pols by insinuating that Americans haven't made up their minds about this. They have.

[pennben]

Good lord, CNN just hired Corey Lewandowski, formerly Trump campaign manager and hater of the press, to be a political correspondent. Note Lewandowski is subject to a confidentiality/non-disparagement contract with the Trump campaign, so yeah, we'll be getting real information from him.  That will be a quick flip of the channel from me whenever his face shows up on the screen.  What the hell is wrong with these cable "news" outlets?

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Following on the heels of hiring Roger when he got the boot!  More Trump syrup!  I would like to see him and Van Jones get into though on a panel!

[Rick Kitchen]

They really need to only bring in female reporters to counteract him to see if he attacks them physically.

[Ohwell]

Ok this is getting ridiculous.  They might as well hire somebody's drunk uncle to bloviate.  At least it would be entertaining.  Hire mine.

[Rhetorica]

I'm sure it's because of his charming, witty personality...
 

[Padma]

"CNN is one of the only networks who pays political commentators who are specifically Trump supporters. At CNN, Lewandowski will join former Reagan White House political director Jeffrey Lord and Kayleigh McEnany, a lawyer and conservative columnist."

You need to have three identified Trump supporters on salary. What an insult to journalists--especially after Corey was shown to have lied about grabbing a reporter at a Trump rally (but, thanks to Trump strong arming the AG's office with his -three- personal phone calls, there were no charges pressed. And not even an apology given, despite Trump telling the AG there would be one.)

Television "journalism" is so corrupt its sickening. Is there anyone who cannot guess EVery. Single. Answer. Lewandowski will give to any Trump-related question? Makes you wonder if Trump set the whole thing up with his good buddy, Jeff Zucker, whom Trump calls "my booker". Disgraceful.

[maraleia]

When Megyn Kelly calls you out on hiring Corey L then you are in trouble. This so-called news channel is so embarrassing. Much more than MSNBC and that's saying something.

[Jaded]

I hate the fact that Michelle Kosinski made her way to CNN.

[stormy]

I'm so sick of the political hacks on CNN. That runs from the Trump Val Gals to "legal analyst" Jeffery Toobin, who seems to actually be a Trump supporter, to Corey Lewandowski, good God.

[Padma]

Don't forget Jeffrey Lord who gave us this:
 

Quote

 

Lord’s comments came in response to a question from Stelter, who asked if Trump should “be more careful” in his speeches, given that fact-checking is critical of Trump “across the board.” 

“I honestly don’t think this ‘fact-checking’ business ... is anything more than one more out of touch, elitist media-type thing,” Lord said. “I don’t think people out here in America care. What they care about are what the candidates say.” 

 

Facts! So elitist! Unlike commentator blather.  Why CNN hires all these hacks is beyond me. Will they really lose ratings if they have analysts talking about issues and facts rather than feelings and opinions?  If "fact-checking is elitist" is true, then the dumbing-down of America is complete.

[Janc]

Can't wait til Corey punches out a fellow commentator who disagrees with him, he got pretty close last night on Don Lemon's show. 

[Foghorn Leghorn]

6 minutes ago, Janc said:

Can't wait til Corey punches out a fellow commentator who disagrees with him, he got pretty close last night on Don Lemon's show. 

Damn, missed it, who was it with?  If it is going to happen on anyone's show it will be Don's who seems to rile things up!

[Janc]

Peter Beinart from The Atlantic, who I think was just egging him on to some degree.  I could only find this twitter link: