CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan — whom one could think of as Irish Brian Stelter (and with hair) to get a sense of their worldview — joined Friday’s CNN News Central to preview his latest report for Sunday’s The Whole Story about political extremism and falsely claimed “the issue very much so is on the right” but no “equivalent on the left.”
Nevermind that President Trump has faced two assassination attempts in the last year, House Republicans were targeted in June 2017 and nearly murdered en masse by an MSNBC viewer, or the rampant support by the American left for Hamas, a terrorist organization. This is CNN, one of many networks eager to paint right-of-center Americans as not only wrong, but terrorists.
Fill-in co-host Jessica Dean — whose husband worked for the Clintons back during their reign in Arkansas — tried to bring balance by telling viewers O’Sullivan’s special will also profile “people who consider themselves fans of Luigi Mangione,” the alleged murderer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.
O’Sullivan played coy and didn’t address the extremism on the left celebrating the murder.
Instead, he declared that, between January 6 and the August 2017 events in Charlottesville, there shouldn’t be any suggestions there’s serious extremism on both sides:
[W]hen it comes to extremism in this country, I mean, the issue very much so is on the right, on the far-right from — you know, from Charlottesville to — to January 6. There isn’t exactly an equivalent on the left in this moment.
Rewinding to earlier, Dean twice teased O’Sullivan’s appearance and Sunday special, which will feature his interviews with “[t]he godfather of 3-D printed guns, pardoned January 6 rioters, and Luigi Mangione fan club.”
Having used a clip with a released January 6 defendant who threatened O’Sullivan’s safety as the strawman for what CNN’s up against, he said his special would air “on the 30-year anniversary this month of the Oklahoma City bombing, of course, which was, by — by Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma back in 1995[.]”
As students of history would recall, that event was used then and now to censor and smear conservatives such as the late Rush Limbaugh, despite no connection to McVeigh.
“[W]hat we’re looking at is how, over the past 30 years, true — how the revolution in technology and social media and also how we consume and share information, how really much more easier it is to be radicalized in America today than it was 30 years ago,” he explained.
O’Sullivan cited “a racist and anti-Semitic novel, The Turner Diaries” that inspired McVeigh as having been “quite difficult” to obtain in those days whereas “now, obviously, through social media, we know a lot of people, particularly young men, are getting all the sentiments...served...through their social media feeds.”
In other words, the implication is there needs to be some level of censorship, just so long as the legacy press are still allowed to do as they please. And nevermind changing hearts and minds to turn them away from said hatred!
To see the relevant CNN transcript from April 11, click here.
