MSNBC has been hiring all of the Biden-Harris PR operatives, but finally, CNN has its own partisan mouthpiece! CNN announced on Friday that Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director and Biden-Harris deputy campaign manager, is joining CNN as a "political analyst." She's not starting out with a weekend program of her own, like Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders.
“I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to work with some of the very best in journalism at such a pivotal moment in our nation’s politics,” she tweeted in response to the news. “Can’t wait to get started.”
Yes, it's a "pivotal moment," bringing on a professional Biden communicator to re-enforce all the Biden narratives as just another Democrat in the stable of CNN Democrats. Bedingfield just stepped out of the White House at the end of February.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal prior to the final 2020 presidential debate, Bedingfield said giving oxygen to the New York Post’s reporting about his laptop and foreign business dealings would be “amplifying Russian misinformation.” Earlier in the campaign, she called the focus on Hunter Biden “an entirely partisan smear.” As we knew then and now (and liberal outlets would confirm years later), it wasn’t.
This is just the latest clear signal that any hope of CNN moving to the center or "going nonpartisan" is a non-starter.
Bedingfield's a longtime Democrat operative. She was also Communications Director for then-Vice President Biden in the second term of President Obama, and also has PR experience in the 2008 John Edwards presidential campaign, the 2008 Senate campaign of Jeanne Shaheen, and a stint in 2006 communications for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
It runs in the family: her father Sid Bedingfield was a CNN executive vice president from 1986 to 2006.
Bedingfield will be based at CNN's D.C. bureau to provide on-air commentary.
