CNN granted a platform on Wednesday night to socialists Bernie Sanders and AOC in a "Shutdown Town Hall." The host, Kaitlan Collins, interrupted them only nine times. But when Collins interviewed Trump in a town hall format in 2023, she interrupted 113 times.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha joined our NewsBusters Podcast to discuss that terrible tilt and other topics, along with Dan Schneider, MRC's vice president for Free Speech America and External Affairs.
As Jorge Bonilla reported, CNN’s much-hyped “Shutdown America” town hall sounded like an extended infomercial for socialism in America, with Kaitlan Collins acting mostly as a facilitator. AOC could say that the accounting firm Deloitte was poisoning waterways and say the air was "drinkable" and no one would feel compelled to "fact check in real time."
Concha pointed out Collins used to be a conservative at the Daily Caller, now she's "like Oliver Darcy with longer hair." Darcy used to be an editor at The Blaze. He added AOC has never submitted for an interview with Fox News Channel -- unlike the socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who refused to give an answer when Martha McCallum asked him if Hamas should put down their arms and accept peace. He claimed he didn't have an opinion! (This also needs a fact check.)
From there, we explored how are the media doing on the off-year races in New Jersey and Virginia? Concha professed amazement at the national media ignoring the Democrat candidate for governor of New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, for her financial windfall during her years in Congress and the story that she couldn't walk for her own graduation ceremony at the Naval Academy.
After weeks ducking the murderous text messages sent by Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones, the "mainstream" media appear to have finally found a text scandal they like. The Young Republicans’ group-chat scandal as broken by Politico gave the legacy news a reason to throw it in for a few seconds. NBC Nightly News pounced on the GOP youth making racist statements and “I love Hitler” cracks, and then threw in the Jay Jones scandal as the rebuttal offered by Vice President J.D. Vance for about half a minute. Former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat nominee for governor, has faced no national pressure to disavow Jones.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yelled at a reporter to "shut up" when she was asked why she refused repeated requests for the National Guard to help on January 6. Pelosi shamed her for throwing "Republican talking points" instead of being a serious journalist. This is often what we would say about liberal reporters, who feed Pelosi and others with softballs and Democrat talking points.
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