One obvious way you can tell that CNN is "comfort food" for Trump haters -- to borrow a phrase from Brian Stelter -- is all the clapping and yelling when Amber Ruffin starts trash-talking Trump on CNN's Saturday "comedy" panel show Have I Got News For You.
The show's host Roy Wood Jr. put Ruffin in their "Offend-o-Meter" segment to discuss the White House Correspondents Association firing her from their dinner gig. The crowd wildly supported offending Trump and journalists who thought it would be best to mock both parties.
Wood asked if Ruffin thought she was dumped for revealing her hand too early that she would only mock Republicans.
"Oh my God, I could f--king talk for the next three hours," Ruffin said. "But what I choose to say is, it’s like, I lost the gig because I was out here talking sh-t. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig, because I was going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, it’s not anyone’s fault, because when I was hired, we were like, ‘oh, yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody.’ And I was like, bet."
She continued, "Then they started f--king disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back f--king civil rights. So I was, like, if I make this equal, then I’m also a piece of sh-t. I can’t f--king do that." The crowd whooped some more.
CNN’s Have I Got News for You on Sat night blamed Amber Ruffin’s cancellation from WH Correspondents Assn dinner on her planning to criticize Repubs but not any Dems. No mention of how she called Trump admin “murderers” who are not human beings. Sat night she doubled down: “They… pic.twitter.com/AFMXTEdKW7
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Notice Ruffin & Co. didn't act offended when illegal aliens were killing people in America, which certainly rolls back a person's civil rights.
Wood called the decision a "blessing in disguise" for Ruffin, adding that she would have regretted doing what was expected of her and would have been haunted by the choice. Remember, the White House reporters never seemed to get across to all the leftist comedians they've hired to balance out the jokes. Their dinner is a party for liberals.
