CNN committing serious JOURNALISM this morning!!

[annabanana]

They are calling out voter suppression in response to the phony voter fraud issue. They totally silenced Santorum in his BS claims that non-active voters on the rolls are voting fraudulently. they went into the discussion armed with the numbers

I was actually pretty impressed.

[Cha]

1. KICK!

[gademocrat7]

2. kick

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Ask Greg Palast about voter suppression

On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump.  The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including “Caging,” “purging,” blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to “provisional” ballots that will never be counted.

Trump signaled the use of “Crosscheck” when he claimed the election is “rigged” because “people are voting many, many times.”  His operative Kobach, who also advised Trump on building a wall on the southern border, devised a list of 7.2 million “potential” double voters—1.1 million of which were removed from the voter rolls by Tuesday. The list is loaded overwhelmingly with voters of color and the poor. Here's a sample of the list


http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/

[JudyM]

9. If only they'd interview him! Or the team that investigated hacking and tried to get recounts.

[FrankfurtCat]

55. LOVE your Winter is Coming sign/logo!

And LOVE Greg Palast-

[JMCoast]

58. Thank You

for posting this. I just can't understand why the national Democratic leadership is not going after this stuff. If Trump wants an investigation, then the Democrats should demand crosscheck be part of any investigation of voting irregularities.

[nikto]

68. Good post! IMO, Until CNN and MSNBC have GREG PALAST on ...

It is hard for me to see those outlets as serious news sources.


He is a great reporter, and one of the few real ones left.

[dalton99a]

4. They did a good job.

[madokie]

5. Its about f'king time

thanks

[annabanana]

7. Maybe they've finally realized that THEY'RE in the headlights too?

Have scales fallen from eyes? Have TPTB finally figured out that THEIR ox is also in line for goring?

[madokie]

8. We can hope

I remember when I used to leave my tv on CNN. Back when Turner owned it that is. It was a good source of information from all corners of the world

[JudyM]

6. And using the word "lying" repeatedly, as well. Glimmer of hope that they maintain this track.

[jeanmarc]

10. Meanwhile Morning Joe is apologizing for torture

...and wants to 'study' advanced interrogation techniques.

Not sure why Joe and Mika can't just join the administration and quit the dancing around it.

[benfranklin1776]

13. Okay well then....

I humbly suggest that we use HIM as the torture test dummy for testing the effectiveness of these torture methods. It is torture and should not be called anything else. As Orwell pointed out in his seminal essay "on politics and language" the use of such innocuous sounding terms to hide the horror of the underlying acts only serves to corrupt society and make the perpetration of such acts more likely in the future. I suspect Joe boy would be singing a different tune after about 5 seconds if he could last that long.

[jeanmarc]

14. Completely agree with you(nt)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Waterboard him with a golden shower

See how he likes it.

[Wounded Bear]

36. Didn't he volunteer to be waterboarded once?

I seem to remember that one.

[Danascot]

43. Sean Hannity volunteered

what, 8 years ago? I'm sure he'll do it.

[jeanmarc]

65. I've volunteered to do it to a friend of mine

Of course, I wouldn't. It might kill him.

But he was acting 'tough' about how it's just water. Give me a break. It's the feeling of drowning.

[Eyeball_Kid]

18. Joe Scar now has the chance to prove he had nothing to do...

with that murdered intern.

HE CAN SUBMIT TO WATERBOARDING! He can kill two birds with one stone. He can offer himself as an experiment for "enhanced interrogation", since he believes in it so much, AND he can prove himself to be completely innocent! What a deal!

Go for it, Joe! Be a hero!

[lark]

53. drumpf thinks he's got sneaky support this way.

He wants them supporting him but in an undercover type of way so maybe liberals or moderates will listen and be swayed to his side.

[Paladin]

11. Let's see if the trend continues. If it does, I'll be happy. (nt)

[Jim Beard]

12. CNN was hitting hard last night. I thought I saw another tweet

from Trump.

[HipChick]

23. Here's one by Don Lemon...destroying Trump's claim

https://twitter.com/CNNPR


https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[dae]

15. Good to hear someone in MSM sees the voter fraud cry

for what it is!

[Initech]

16. It's fake news, OK? It's a political witch hunt!

Can't wait to see Trump's head explode.

[rzemanfl]

21. Yeah, sad, bigly. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Hillary should start a rant about Trump trying to delegitimize her popular vote win! Beware

of diversions here. It means he's doing something horrible in the background (Like forming
an EPA gestapo).

BTW, does Trump know that you can't just sign a proclamation like a a king and make something happen?

[dlk]

19. Republican Voter Suppression Has Given Us Trump

Republicans understand that voter demographics are not in their favor, so they cheat by pushing the bogus idea of voter fraud to enact voter suppression. It's pretty much the only way they can win elections.

[Wounded Bear]

37. This

been going on for years.

[Enoki33]

49. Exactly what I have been thinking.

[wisteria]

20. I think a bit of voting fraud went on at polls where I live, and Trump won 65%.

Never before in my 21 years of voting at the same location, did I see such lax practices, and people I did not recognize.

[annabanana]

25. that said..

I DO believe that tRump brought out many of the previously uninvolved.

[wisteria]

34. True. But many I did not recognize were poll workers.

Actually, there was only one familiar face.

[nbsmom]

50. Where do you vote?

Not needing specifics, just a general sense of region (or state if you're okay with sharing that).

[nolabear]

22. This bastard might just wake this country up.

[truebluegreen]

31. Yes. Silver linings. nt

[Javaman]

24. prehaps they are actually doing "journalism" because the orange menace singled them out

as frauds.

Now maybe they are going to actually do their jobs and go after the orange jerk.

a step in the right direction would be firing wolf blitzer.

[malaise]

27. They are covering this topic and virtually ingoring his destruction of health care, the EPA, public

education etc.

[Javaman]

29. as much as I figured.

I don't have cable so I don't watch much network or cable news.

[lindysalsagal]

33. He's under attack for his lies. All am. But ignoring exec. Orders

They're debunking his voter fraud claims and the need for or effectiveness of a wall.

I wish I could hear more about the remaind er of his exec decisions. Healthcare has been rarely mentioned.

[bdamomma]

39. this voting fraud thing

is a distraction

There is so much crap going on................we have to remain focused

But Putin is happy he will be continuing on with his plan, while we are in knots over here. He's got his puppet in place.

malaise

[malaise]

40. Hi here sis

Well said

[malaise]

26. Still doing it

Calling him and this idiot lying moron out on their lies

[colsohlibgal]

28. There Is Voter Hanky Panky For Sure

Greg Palast cannot find a regular media gig here and that tells us a lot.

MSNBC and CNN are doing better but I hear nothing about CrossCheck, which among other things gave Dubya Florida and thus the White House.

It should be a huge, huge story. The right is giving media an opening with all this talk of voter fraud. There is massive fraud alright but not by the left.

[LovingA2andMI]

32. Chris Cuomo & Alisyn Camerota have been killing it....

In the name of Truth Journalism for awhile now. It baffles the mind why ANYONE would watch Morning Puke over on MSNBC or anything on Faux News in the morning over Chris and Alisyn's morning show from 6 am - 9 am ET.

[sammythecat]

47. I saw Chris Cuomo grilling Sanctimoron and

maybe 20 min. before. He was great. He wouldn't let them obfuscate and repeatedly called a lie a lie. No euphemisms. I loved it.
If only someone would have done this (their job after all) during the early years of Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Oh well, what's not done is not done and I am relieved they've decided to do their jobs this time around. I hope they keep this up. They have to. We need them to. Desperately.

[blm]

52. finally..

.

[lark]

54. Cuomo and Camerota are the best in the am.

That's the only show I can stand watching for even a few min. while I'm getting ready for work. They show spine and actual journalistic work a lot of the times. Still can't watch anything showing Drumpf, I see his face and want to vomit, so immediately turn off the news when he's on. Getting to that point with Conway as well. Both are total lying shills.

[mobeau69]

63. What was Alyison like when she was with Faux? n/t

[lark]

70. Never watched her.

Haven't turned on Faux Snooze in decades.

[mobeau69]

72. Me neither. Thanks, lark. n/t

[bdamomma]

38. they better step up to the plate!!!!!!

annabanana

[ffr]

41. If only they would have read the tea leaves and crown a backbone months ago.

But instead we get this, which is controversy making...good for ratings. CBS is doing the same thing.

Where was our media's integrity when they were serving up the horse race?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

42. Did hell freeze over?!?!

[TheBlackAdder]

44. Committing as in institutionalizing it, or committing as in performing? After all, this is CNN.

[annabanana]

61. HA! . . . .n/t

[TygrBright]

45. It's finally dawned on them that their viewers are only worth 3/5 of a Fox viewer. n/t

[Amaryllis]

46. which show was it? Anyone have a link?

[annabanana]

48. Don't have link, but:

Chris Cuomo & Alisyn Camerota, Morning show from 6 am - 9 am ET. CNN

[Amaryllis]

62. Thanks, that's what I needed.

[coco22]

51. Kicked&Recommended..

[bucolic_frolic]

56. Trump is opening a can of worms for himself

and exhibiting an exponential degree of paranoia over his popular vote loss

[The Wizard]

57. Republicans have compromised

the foundation of our democracy. They must be sent to prison.

[bucolic_frolic]

59. I think the press is ashamed and tired of being played

it must be embarrassing

[Skittles]

60. IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME

JEEZ, are they finally realizing THE FUTURE OF AMERICA is more important than their FUCKING RATINGS?

[Lucinda]

64. KN a very surprised R

[iluvtennis]

66. I'm surpised. They normally just kiss #TraitorTrump/his folks a**es nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

67. K&R nt

[Bucky]

69. when the gov't attacks basic services, CNN doesn't care. But when Trump goes after the press...

[NightWatcher]

71. "I'd like to think it's not about crippling insecurity" re his crowd number obsession

They're doing it again this morning. They're hitting him hard and calling out lies and other impossible theories he has.