{"id":325341,"date":"2019-10-15T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=325341"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:12:22","slug":"cnn-staged-town-hall-question-project-veritas-exposes-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/15\/cnn-staged-town-hall-question-project-veritas-exposes-more\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Staged Town Hall Question! Project Veritas Exposes More"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: CNN failed to disclose that a question — they had a town hall last week. Remember when I was confused over what was the debate and the town hall? They had a town hall last week. An LGBTQ town hall, like the second one of these things. And they stacked another audience member just like Donna Brazile was sending Hillary the questions at these things back in 2016. So, it makes all the sense in the world for Fox to hire Donna Brazile, right?<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, it turns out that CNN found one of the biggest donors to Warren\u2019s campaign to pose as a member of the audience with a question. And it turned out to be one of the head honchos of a militant gay civil rights group called the Human Rights Campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cElizabeth Warren\u2019s zinger at an LGBT town hall may have gone viral, but CNN failed to disclose that the questioner donated the federal maximum to her,\u201d campaign in 2018. \u201cCNN\u2019s [Fredo] Cuomo introduced Morgan Cox at the Thursday town hall as \u2018the chair of the Human Rights Campaign board of directors\u2019 who was part of \u2018a real estate investment firm in Dallas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a donor to Fauxcahontas! Handing her a setup in advance arranged question that she knocks out of the park and then the video of it goes viral! CNN participated in this, which takes me to page two of O\u2019Keefe\u2019s Project Veritas expose on CNN.<\/a> Now, this to me is fascinating. James O\u2019Keefe found a whistleblower inside CNN, willing to wear a wire, hidden camera, hidden microphone, and to record editor meetings, executive suite conversations and what have you.<\/p>\n

The data was collated by O\u2019Keefe at Project Veritas, and he has released it in two stages yesterday and today. And in the normal ebb and flow of things, I think it\u2019s huge news. But you know what I\u2019m getting from people? “Hey, Rush, we already know CNN\u2019s corrupt. This is not a surprise to any of us that CNN has a political agenda.”<\/p>\n

And this is exactly what Moynihan meant when he came up with the term \u201cdefining deviancy down.\u201d When a society no longer can enforce the law on certain crimes, when it seems like everybody\u2019s doing it, we just stop calling it crime and instead we start calling it normal. And therefore aberrant, deviant behavior becomes normalized.<\/p>\n

The same thing\u2019s happening here. This ought to outrage people because CNN holds themselves out as the exact opposite of what they are. CNN portrays themselves as the essence of journalism. They don\u2019t pick favorites. They don\u2019t have sides. They\u2019re simply out there doing the news. They\u2019re doing journalism. They\u2019re reporting events. There is no agenda. There is no narrative.<\/p>\n

This is what CNN says. Whenever you corner anybody there about their bias or about their agenda, their narratives, they deny it and they accuse you of being some kind of conspiracy theorist. So here comes O\u2019Keefe and he\u2019s got the goods on \u2019em, and a lot of people think, \u201cWell, no big deal, Rush, we already knew it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think it is a big deal because CNN is just a microcosm of all the rest of them. And even if people know it, even if there is this now commonly accepted observation that CNN\u2019s not news, I think it\u2019s still worth noting. So I want to play a couple of sound bites from the treasure trove of hidden audio and video that O\u2019Keefe and Project Veritas and his whistleblower accrued.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, the first sound bite here — and these and more are available to the Project Veritas website<\/a>. Today they released part 2 of their hidden camera whistleblower video from inside CNN. This one, this sound bite here is a portion of a video. You will hear part of the CNN 9 a.m. rundown call. The way these networks do it, in the old days when they were just the three networks and the network newscasts were at 6:30, seven, what would happen, there would be a bunch of calls during the day.<\/p>\n

The first one would be at 9:30. You\u2019d have the anchor, the managing editor and a whole bunch of other people, and they would sit in the room and they would talk to reporters out across the world and they would determine what was going to be on the nightly news that night. And they would argue and cajole and so forth. The managing editor had final call, in many cases it was the anchor, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings.<\/p>\n

And then they do it again at 3:30. And in these meetings is when they would discuss the importance of various stories, which reporters had what, which reports were worth putting on the air, which reporters were not worth putting on the air, which stories they wanted to focus on. And nothing untoward about any of this. I mean, they do this as newspapers, too, except in these instances we\u2019re talking about a 22 minute program, a half hour newscast with 18 minutes of commercials, 42 minutes of content. But you would hear how they were making valuations on the worth of stories and so forth.<\/p>\n

But in this, in these calls what you hear is advocacy for a candidate, advocacy for an issue, instructions to hit a candidate, the exact kind of stuff they all deny that they do. So here is the 9 a.m. — this is the rundown. Now, they\u2019re not putting together a 6:30 newscast here. They\u2019re planning their news coverage for the day and they\u2019re prioritizing things. What we have here, we have Jeff Zucker, who is the CEO, the president of CNN and the political director, David Chalian, who also appears on camera.<\/p>\n