And journalists wonder why Americans dislike the media? The answer is sneering statements like the one on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning. Yahoo! journalist Bianna Golodryga inserted a mocking commentary into a report on Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit.
Asked by guest co-host Reena Ninan what will come from the meeting, Golodryga responded, “Look, the bar is not very high in the sense that if the President doesn't give away classified information to the Russians, that's going to be seen as an achievement.”
She lectured, “If he doesn't have photo-ops where he looks like he's very cordial and comfortable with Vladimir Putin, that will be an achievement as well.”
Golodryga previously co-hosted the weekend edition of Good Morning America on ABC. While at the network, she married Barack Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag.
Of course, the network used Orszag to tout her journalistic skill.
Golodryga has a long history of finding the liberal spin for economic issues (her main subject). On February 10, 2009, she promoted the efforts of a left-wing, self-proclaimed "bank terrorist," but left out any identifiers.
On November 17, 2007, Golodryga touted liberal investor Warren Buffett as "Robin Hood," gushing over his plea for higher taxes.
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A transcript is below:
CBS This Morning
7/5/17
8:09BIANNA GOLODRYGA: This will be their first meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The pressure is very high. Putin unlike President Trump —
GAYLE KING: Pressure on who, do you think?
GOLODRYGA: Pressure on President Trump because he's sort of boxed in many ways here. He doesn't bring up the cyber attacks, if he doesn't bring up the Ukranian sanctions, then you're going to hear a lot of backlash here at home. There’s a lot of anticipation. But for Vladimir Putin, remember one of his biggest angst was being called a regional power by President Obama. He wants to look like a global power. And in a sense, everything we’ve talked about this year, leading up to the election has put him in those ranks. This will be their first meeting before President Putin is expected to launch a reelection campaign next year and he wants to look like he's coming away with something. And from what we're hearing at home, the President has asked for deliverables to give to Vladimir Putin. So Vladimir Putin is really going to look as if he's coming away with something. At least that's the way it appears he wants to be looking at.
KING: Go ahead, Reena.
REENA NINAN: The President said back in April that it’s an all time low, the relationship between the Russia and the U.S. So, what do you think is really going to come from this?
GOLODRYGA: Look. The bar is not very high in the sense that if the President doesn't give away classified information to the Russians, that's going to be seen as an achievement. If he doesn't have photo-ops where he looks like he's very cordial and comfortable with Vladimir Putin, that will be an achievement as well. So, you want the President coming in with the sense of talking points. Obviously North Korea has given him that. But I will be curious and I do think it's important to bring up Ukraine, to bring up sanctions and he can do it in a way that says, “Listen, I want to lift these sanctions as much as you do.” But to get there —
KING: Should he bring up Russian election meddling? We keep hearing there's no formal agenda. That he should just see how it goes. Should he bring that up?
GOLODRYGA: Absolutely he should bring it up and he doesn’t have to bring it up in the sense of “Listen, I think that’s the reason why I won. You know, there’s all this pressure and that you sort of hacked the election.” You don’t have to go there. All you have to say is “Let’s work on a plan to eliminate cyber attacks going forward in the future elections.
