“Does Macy’s Inform Gimbels?”
Gimbels is not any extra, however again within the day, it was a fierce Macy’s rival, and the phrase stood for the notion that opponents do not assist one another.
However evidently for MS NOW’s Morning Joe, liberal-media solidarity trumps aggressive instincts. At the moment’s episode devoted a protracted section to defending CNN in opposition to President Trump’s important feedback concerning the community, and his need to see CNN offered to new possession.
Joe Scarborough was fiercely important of Trump telling a CNN reporter that she works for the Democrats, and that CNN is “mainly an arm of the Democrat social gathering.”
“Preposterous,” sputtered Scarborough!
However can anybody actually doubt it? Right here at NewsBusters, we document–day in and day out–CNN’s slavish parroting of the Democrat social gathering line. Let’s take a look at some latest NewsBusters headlines demonstrating CNN’s bias.
- Amid Chuckles, CNN Dumps Out Early From ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ Presentation To Trump
- CNN’s Tapper, NPR’s Martin Pamper Ilhan Omar, Skip Her Connections to Big Somali Fraud
- OOPS: Jake Tapper Claims Black Pipe Bomb Suspect Is a ‘White Man’
- CNN’s Hunt And Visitor Ignore Tom Cotton’s Navy Service Throughout ‘Ship Strike’ Section
- CNN Sports activities Reporter Compares U.S. ICE Operations To Russia and Qatar
- CNN’s Cornish: Dems Can Win In Locations Like Tennessee By Operating to The Left of Mamdani!
Case closed!
And, opposite to Morning Joe’s declare, Trump is not attempting to “destroy” CNN—he’d merely prefer to see it transfer into extra honest ‘n balanced fingers.
Humorous, we do not keep in mind Morning Joe moaning when in 2009, Brian Stelter [!] reported that Obama communications director Anita Dunn stated of Fox Information [emphasis added]:
“We’re going to deal with them the way in which we might deal with an opponent. As they’re enterprise a conflict in opposition to Barack Obama and the White Home, we don’t have to faux that that is the way in which that professional information organizations behave.”
And in September 2009,
“When the White Home booked Mr. Obama on a spherical robin of Sunday morning speak exhibits, it skipped Fox and referred to as it an “ideological outlet,” main the “Fox Information Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace to look on Invoice O’Reilly’s prime-time present and name the administration “the largest bunch of crybabies I’ve handled in my 30 years in Washington.”
This is the transcript.
MS NOW
Morning Joe
12/11/25
6:10 am ETMIKA BRZEZINSKI: And President Trump is inserting himself even additional into the present drama surrounding the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying its cable community, CNN, needs to be offered off as a part of any deal.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I feel CNN needs to be offered, as a result of I feel the folks which can be working CNN proper now are both corrupt or incompetent. I feel any deal, it needs to be assured and sure that CNN is a part of it.
. . .
CNN REPORTER: Mr. President, has Secretary Hegseth advised you why he hasn’t launched the video of the second strike?
TRUMP: No, he hasn’t advised me. I assumed that difficulty was lifeless. I am shocked you are bringing it up. You should be CNN.
CNN REPORTER: Lawmakers are nonetheless speaking about it on the Hill.
TRUMP: Are you CNN? I do not learn about lawmakers? Which lawmakers? Are you CNN?
CNN REPORTER: I’m with CNN. The lawmakers are nonetheless speaking about it on the Hill.
TRUMP: Effectively, I will let you know, I do not learn about lawmakers. Which lawmakers? I imply, the folks you’re employed for: the Democrats? You realize you’re employed for the Democrats, do not you? You are mainly an arm of the Democrat social gathering.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, , it is so outrageous what he does there. And what a bubble he is put round himself the place a primary query that each reporter is asking instantly is an excuse for him to strike out at a younger reporter and say, no one’s speaking about that anymore. Once more, when all people is, you should be with CNN. You’re employed for Democrats.
And once more, it is preposterous. The query is, what are the regulators going to do? What are Republicans in Congress going to do? What are the courts going to do? Are they going to permit a president to destroy a information group just because he would not like what they are saying about him? As a result of that is the path he is headed.
. . .
JONATHAN LEMIRE: This concept to attempt to push, attempt to hijack CNN. The Wall Avenue Journal has reported that David Ellison has promised the White Home that if he certainly does take management of Warner Bros. Discovery, that he would make lineup modifications to CNN, like change the management there, and their, we presume, new on-air expertise as properly, new exhibits. As a result of we all know President Trump would not like among the voices on that community, which, once more, in itself is a gross overreach . . . It’s a inform, as Willie stated. He lashes out at reporters. There’s been an entire bunch these days, we must always be aware, principally feminine reporters, and there’s a sense right here in that constructing that issues are off observe.
