We all know that when it comes to the liberal media, CNN is right up there with putting a leftist stamp on many of the issues they cover. Of course Fox News Channel is nothing like CNN, we all know that, and the differences were on display for all to see on Wednesday night at 9pm ET, when Fox News's Hannity and CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins each covered the same story in very different ways.
On Tuesday, Tim Graham posted our first story on a Democrat video being ignored. He wrote, "Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is already exploring a run for president, and apparently one way to get Democrat primary voters excited is by suggesting military personnel should rebel against President Trump and refuse to accept his orders. On Tuesday, Slotkin posted a video featuring five other congressional Democrats urging the military to resist Trump 'to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.'"
He pointed out that the major TV networks did not cover this on Tuesday. ABC, CBS and NBC all skipped it on their respective nightly newscasts on Wednesday too. (Jorge Bonilla noted they picked it up Thursday night after Trump trashed the video makers for "sedition" and said sedition is punishable by death.)
On Fox News, Sean Hannity led his Wednesday show with the topic. "We begin tonight with what some are calling an attempted coup let by six Democratic lawmakers." Hannity then played a montage of Slotkin and her Dem buddies urging the military and others do disobey orders if they feel they are illegal. "This administration is pitting our uniform military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. You all swore an oath. To protect and defend this constitution. Right now. The threats to our constitution aren't just coming from abroad but right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders."
Hannity interviewed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who pulled no punches: "I felt like I was watching a propaganda video by one of our enemies trying to recruit the military to become spies, when you see what these men and women were saying about this administration, about this President. And you ask what they did is a crime? I mean, you tell me what it is. You tell me what it is. I mean what is the value? What is the reason for saying what they said, except for to encourage members of our military, to encourage members of our intelligence community to defy a direct command from their superior, and that is wrong."
Meanwhile over on CNN, host Kaitlin Collins began her show by talking about, what else, the Epstein Files. She didn't get around to the Dem video story until 50 minutes into the show. She began by playing a short montage of the video, and then said, "Now, that video prompted some furious reaction, not just from inside the white White House, but also from the second in command at the Department of Justice this evening."
Yes, she was talking about the interview that Hannity had done minutes before on his show, She played a clip and then welcomed in one of the Dems in the video, Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado. During the interview, Collins gratuitously noted that Crow got a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq. "Obviously, I think is a is a good thing to remind people of." Was she attempting to legitimize his encouraging others to disobey orders? She let him cartoonishly claim that on January 6th, "I was surrounded by the mob that Donald Trump and his minions summoned to beat police officers and try to derail our Constitution." No pushback from Collins, just pathetic.
At least Collins did a segment on this outrageous issue, and a fluffy interview. Her producers watched and decided that a clip from a guest on "Hannity", the competition, was worth playing on their show, which is unusual. But the placement of that segment, and the quality of it compared to Hannity's, speaks volumes about the differences between the two shows, the two networks, and about the success of one over the other.
