In the context of a discussion of the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show and related matters, today's CNN This Morning aired a clip of Rep. Daniel Goldman [D-ActBlue Jeans] calling President Trump a "wannabe mob boss."
Meghan Hays, a former Biden aide and a CNN analyst, agreed with Goldman, then proceeded to claim:
"We are running dangerously close to state-run media . . . We are losing our democracy. They're dismantling democracy by doing this."
Democracy = equals lying about an assassin?
Scaremongering about Trump supposedly dismantling democracy is standard liberal-media fare. Might as well add it as a tag line to the daily weather report. Democracy will end with the cold front....
But accusing Trump of creating a "state-run media?" That's something of a new line of attack. And a laugh line at that.
Even without the likes of Kimmel and Stephen Colbert polluting the late-night airwaves with their bilious attacks on Trump and all things Republican, Americans will continue to be subjected to ceaseless leftward slanting of the news by CNN, MSNBC, the broadcast networks' "news" shows, the New York Times, Washington Post, et al.
Moreover, it's pretty rich of CNN to cry "state-run media," considering that:
- The liberal media just spent four years covering up for Declinin' Biden.
- Biden's FBI and intelligence agencies successfully pressured social media into suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
- Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that "Biden administration officials pressured Facebook into censoring Covid-related content."
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
9/18/25
6:08 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: Let me make sure Meghan gets a word in here. We had Congressman Dan Goldman, Democrat. Here's what he sees.
DANIEL GOLDMAN: The companies that continue to cave to this completely improper behavior. And we saw it with ABC when they settled. We've saw it with CBS. We now see it again with ABC. We've seen it with tech companies. We've seen it with law firms.
Donald Trump is a bully. He is a wannabe mob boss who will push the envelope to the end of the earth.
MEGHAN HAYS: So I agree with Dan. This is about power, and this is about control, and this is just one more way in going into civil society. As the congressman said, you start with media, universities, law firms. He's doing all this systematically.
But this is not about free speech. It's about power. Whether or not Disney could have fired Jimmy Kimmel, absolutely, everyone can, you know,
for what he's wearing, absolutely, that's not a free speech issue. But we are silencing people for critiquing the president, and they are using the power of these mergers to be able to do that, and that is what is not right here.And I think what's interesting is why there aren't more people speaking up about the government using the power to then silence media. We are running dangerously close to state-run media.
CORNISH: Can I ask you a question about what Carr said about narrative, and what I put to Stephen, which is you can have an alternative media, right? There's a whole world where they can go and still make money, still have a large platform. They didn't have the grip on the culture the way they used to. So, can you say if there's, what a next step is?
HAYS: But I'm wondering what you mean by a grip on the culture? Because 50%, Donald Trump did not win by a mandate whether or not he says so or not. So half the country still is Democratic and has those beliefs.
So whether or not you think they're funny or whether or not you're staying up late to watch them is a different story. There are ratings; we could talk about all day about what TV ratings are, but that's not the issue here.
They're using the power of the government to silence media organizations, and that is not acceptable in our country. We are losing our democracy. They're dismantling democracy by doing this.
