On Thursday afternoon, CNN cheered Vice President Kamala Harris swearing in the three new Democratic senators. Anchor Erin Burnett and left-wing pundit Bakari Sellers wasted no time to start gushing over the diversity that these new members bring to the United States Senate -- not a diversity of fresh ideas, of course, just a difference in how they look.
CNN neglected to inform viewers about the far-left policies of the new lawmakers. In fact, the liberal cable channel didn't mention anything about these senators aside from their race and how their swearing in was "historic."
Burnett's obsession with identity politics continued unabashedly as she went on to conclude that "history" was being "made again, and again, and again" exclusively by Democrats:
All right. So, you are watching the Vice President swearing in three new senators that will change the balance of power in the Senate. You're going to see, of course, Raphael Warnock, first black senator from Georgia. Jon Ossoff, he is the first Jewish senator from Georgia—complete turn in Georgia, right, from two Republicans to two Democrats, and, of course, Senator Padilla replacing Kamala Harris herself. He will now be a senator from California and also making history; he will be the first Hispanic senator from the state of California. So, Bakari Sellers, we are seeing history made again and again and again. And, of course, it all seems to stem from Kamala Harris herself, the Vice President. If she speaks here, I'll cut you off. But go ahead.
There was no mention of Senator Padilla's support for a Green New Deal, nor was there any mention of Senator Ossoff's support for the banning of semi-automatic rifles. And, of course, there was no mention of Senator Warnock's radical support for abortion or his desire to expand both early and mail-in voting.
Instead, Sellers hailed how "you're starting to see the Democratic Party look like the demographical changes that are happening in the country." He failed to mention, however, the unprecedented number of blacks and Hispanics across the nation who voted Republican in the 2020 election.
Despite the increase in minority support for the GOP, Sellers was allowed to launch into a tirade accusing Republican members of Congress of being in league with "white supremacists": "...the seventeen House members, one including Madison Cawthorne, who actually was a part of inciting the riot that we saw on Capitol Hill. There has been a rise in this country of white supremacy and domestic terror. And this is going to have to be one of the challenges that this administration faces head on from the beginning."
Further supporting the thesis that the hard left doesn't truly want or care about unity, Sellers argued, "And so while we're talking about everybody coming together, we have to have accountability before we can get to healing." Heal and move forward? No. Ostracize and belittle? Yes.
Had the liberal media reported in earnest about the radical views and scandals of the two Democratic Georgia Senate candidates, the outcome of the run-off election likely would have been different.
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4:50 PMERIN BURNETT: All right. So, you are watching the Vice President swearing in three new senators that will change the balance of power in the Senate. You're going to see, of course, Raphael Warnock, first black senator from Georgia. John Osoff, he is the first Jewish senator from Georgia—complete turn in Georgia, right, from two Republicans to two Democrats, and, of course, Senator Padilla replacing Kamala Harris herself. He will now be a senator from California and also making history; he will be the first Hispanic senator from the state of California. So, Bakari Sellers, we are seeing history made again and again and again. And, of course, it all seems to stem from Kamala Harris herself, the Vice President. If she speaks here, I'll cut you off. But go ahead.BAKARI SELLERS: Yeah. No, I think that what we saw are an uptick in voters of color throughout the country. All these major cities that dictated the trajectory of this race, Atlanta, Georgia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan. You saw voters of color come to the forefront. Native American voters in Arizona, Hispanic voters throughout the sunbelt. And that's what you're seeing on your screen right now with the swearing in of Ossoff, who’s your first millennial United States senator, Raphael Warnock, who is the pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s spiritual home, Ebenezer Baptist Church. And Senator Padilla, first Hispanic senator from the great state of California. And you’re starting to see the Democratic Party look like the demographical changes that are happening in the country. But let me also say something to kind of tie in, Erin, to this conversation we were having, a larger conversation with the seventeen House members, one including Madison Cawthorne, who actually was a part of inciting the riot that we saw on Capitol Hill. There has been a rise in this country of white supremacy and domestic terror. And this is going to have to be one of the challenges that this administration faces head on from the beginning. So, yes, we do have the issue of Coronavirus, which we have to deal with. We are going to have issues like infrastructure, where you can have some bipartisan resolve. But you're also going to have to deal with the rise of white supremacist, domestic terror that we saw storm the Capitol on January 6th. And so while we're talking about everybody coming together, we have to have accountability before we can get to healing. People want unity, but they don't want any atonement. And so we have to go through the steps necessary to get there and I anticipate as the Senate changes, as the look of the White House changes, you will begin to see these changes, and us tackling these issues head on as well.
