CNN Facing Internal Revolt After Disastrous Trump Town Hall - Ring of Fire

[TexasTowelie]

According to CNN senior media correspondent Oliver Darcy, the network isn't just facing public backlash over the disaster that was the Donald Trump town hall this week - they are also facing internal turmoil from their hosts about what happened. Even immediately after the event, the hosts that were assembled to discuss the town hall expressed shock and dismay over the event that their network had just put on the air. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The crap is hitting the fan over at CNN n according to Oliver Darcy, cnn, senior media reporter, following the disaster of a town hall that CNN hosted for Donald Trump. On Wednesday evening, Darcy wrote an article actually calling out his own network and admitting that not only is the public off at CNN for doing this, you know, for airing the Donald Trump propaganda hour, but internally, there is now a bit of a revolt at CNN for them, allowing this to even happen. Now, before I read what Darcy said, it's important to point out that even before Darcy wrote this, even before we got word that, yeah, there's internal anger at cnn, president Chris licked over what happened on Wednesday. You could already tell that was going to happen in the immediate aftermath of the Town Hall, because as soon as it ended, right, as soon Trump walks away, I love you, New Hampshire, Olivia seat, Olivia, Caitlin Collins, even though I just called you a nasty woman, it then went to the Anchors, right?

And you had Jake Tapper there. Anderson Cooper was there. A bunch of other CNN folks were there, and they were stunned. They were stunned at what they had just seen. They were stunned at what their own network allowed on the air, and they called CNN out in their coverage of what had just happened. So then of course, next day, Darcy comes out with this piece where he says, quote uh, and CNN aired it all on and on. It went, it felt like 2016 all over again. It was Trump's unhinged social media feed brought to life on stage. CNN and new Network boss, Chris Licked, are facing a fury of criticism, both internally and externally over the event. How Licked and other c n executives this criticism in the coming days and weeks will be crucial. Will they defend what transpired at STS Anthem College, or will they express some regret?

For now, CNN is defending itself, and of course, CNN is gonna defend itself. They have no journalistic integrity. This wasn't about journalism. This wasn't about speaking truth to power. This wasn't Ed Murrow sitting down with McCarthy to call him out. This was them desperate for more eyebrow eyeballs because CNN's ratings have been in the toilet for years. Hell, on most days, our YouTube channel here gets more viewers than CNN gets in primetime. That's how bad CNN is. Or maybe that's how good we are at Ring and Fire. I don't know which one it is. Maybe it's a combination of both. But CNN will sell their soul, which I think they already did in order to get more eyeballs, which is why I couldn't finish it. It reached a point where not only was I sick of the lies, but I was sick of

Giving CNN my attention. I was sick of having my eyeballs see this garbage that they were spewing out. The only time I ever turn on cable news at all, like it doesn't matter, cnn, Ms. N B C, never Fox. Actually, the only time I turn that on on my TV in my home is when there is a debate, and that is the only place I can watch it. So that is why I did for a while give CNN in my eyeballs, but I promise you that is not a mistake I will ever make again. And there's millions of Americans this week that are having the same thought.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. CNN is the new Twitter

[NoRethugFriends]

2. nope no internal revolt just some unhappiness

[miss-nasty]

5. In that case this certainly gives everyone in America

a very good reason to not watch their elfin trashy shows then! They better revolt if they’re not wanting to join the long list of others like Tucker and Megan. Every democratic heart I know has already flushed the QNN propaganda channel down the commode for the shit they are spewing

[NoRethugFriends]

12. That's true. If you're revolting, you threaten to quit if Licht isn't gone, and you go through witt

[IzzaNuDay]

3. CNN is dead to me

I deleted them from my news feeds. There is no
amount of redemption that will get me back watching.

[Blue Owl]

4. CNN has eaten shit -- now they can die

[Evolve Dammit]

16. I like it!

[IbogaProject]

6. Time to make cable alacarte

Maybe some deals on combinations, but the sports and news should be by choice. We need to move back to written media or video made by real journalists.

[Cha]

7. Well ain't that good news!

Good job, Licht, Collins, & then the attempt at damage control, Cooper.

TY TT!

[moreland01]

8. It's like an SNL skit now.

CNN . .where to come for interviews with your favorite brutal dictators . . .Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein . . and Donald Trump! We'll tell you what the dictators are thinking! Bringing the worst to you!

[bringthePaine]

9. Cooper didn't call out shit🤨he tried to excuse it! what an asshole

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Yeah, I was really disappointed in his trying to cover up the mess apology/excuses in having tRUMP

on. He didn't succeed by far, and if anything, his apology (not really one either) was a wimp-out. I lost all respect for him at that point.

[McKim]

10. So Does Anyone Have a List....

So does anyone have a list of advertisers? We need their names!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Easy

Just google top ten advertisers/sponsors CNN

[Tetrachloride]

14. CNN employees should stay with the company and cavort from within.

Graffiti so to speak. Recording conversations. Getting on the air.

[Joinfortmill]

15. Chris 'Licked' is right. Dude is down for the count.