Right before CNN reporter Susan Malveaux was about to deliver a live report about Donald Trump’s visit to the Carrier plant on Thursday, a CNN producer was caught in a hot mic moment joking about Donald Trump’s plane crashing.
Today the network apologized for the rare behind-the-scenes incident that reveals liberal media bias.
FTV Live first published the video of the off-camera comment and according a December 2 article, by The Hollywood Reporter’s Ryan Parker, CNN has now “disciplined” the still unidentified producer:
CNN has apologized to Donald Trump after a producer was caught on camera joking with reporter Suzanne Malveaux about the president-elect's plane crashing.
The remark was made before a live shot on Thursday.
The unidentified producer, in footage obtained and posted on YouTube by Scott Jones of FTV Live, can be heard saying "That means his plane’s crashed. No, I'm kidding."
CNN released a statement Friday saying the producer had been "disciplined."
“An unfortunate and inappropriate remark was made by one of our producers off camera yesterday," CNN said in its statement. "We have apologized to the Trump transition team, and the producer has been disciplined.”
Trump has been a huge critic of the network essentially since he announced his bid for president, saying it has covered him unfairly. Even this week, he was criticizing the network through Twitter.
What exactly the discipline is has yet to be reported, but one can imagine the furor in the liberal media if a conservative media member joked about President Obama’s plane crashing. The offending producer may be a household name by now.
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