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Legacy media in the United States is notorious for its leftward slant ù to
the point that itÆs rare to see conservative commentators unless they are staunchly opposed to President-elect Donald Trump, outnumbered three-to-one
in a panel discussion, or both.

So when CNN hired a relatively normal Republican ù Scott Jennings, a public relations consultant and veteran of former President George W. BushÆs White House ù it was safe to assume that things could, at least, get interesting.
And when it turned out that Jennings could actually hold his own when panel discussions turned into four-against-one pile-ons, all bets were off.

Here are a few of his best moments from 2024.

CNN hosts attempted to set Jennings up by framing a question about the
lawfare against Trump in New York, saying that Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) was doing something they called ôthe Trump pivotö when he argued that the
American people were not as worried about the cases against Trump as they
were about the coming election.

Jennings, instead of playing along, broke their frame and doubled down on ScottÆs assessment.

ôTheyÆre not unmoved, his base, theyÆre outraged by what they see going on in New York, and I would say theyÆre even more motivated than they were before!ö

It must just agitate CNN's liberal base, but CNN analyst Scott
Jennings accurately explains that Republicans are outraged at what
New York Democrat prosecutors and juries are trying to do to Trump,
and Tim Scott is saying it just the way other Republicans will.
pic.twitter.com/pPEROsWK5A

ù Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 19, 2024

During a March appearance on ôCNN Newsnightö with host Abby Phillip, Jennings correctly assessed the state of things after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) finally went public with her endorsement of President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race.

ôScott, were you surprised to hear her say pretty clearly she would support President Biden in November?ö Phillip asked, referring to several Democrats
who were angry that Biden had not done more to force Israel into a ceasefire
in Gaza. ôAnd some of her colleagues, IÆm pretty sure, wouldnÆt say that today.ö

ôNo, sheÆs a Democrat. TheyÆre gonna vote for Biden. IÆm not surprised about that,ö Jennings replied, pivoting immediately to address OmarÆs position on Israel. ôI am surprised that, in the year of our Lord, 2024, there is a
public relations agent for Hamas sitting in the United States Congress.ö

ôCeasefires û she said û donÆt happen magically. Well, you know there was a ceasefire in place on October the 6th. And who broke it on October the 7th?ö Jennings continued. ôI cannot believe honestly what I heard out of that interview. What I want are for those hostages to come home. I want somebody û somebody out there to show just a little bit of remorse that Hamas broke the ceasefire, raped, and murdered horrifically women, all kinds of people. That
û thatÆs it. How about a little bit of concern for those folks? ThatÆs what
IÆm looking for.ö

.@ScottJenningsKY absolutely shredded Ilhan Omar after her appearance
on CNN [flames]@AbbyDPhillip: ôScott, were you surprised to hear her
say pretty clearly she would support President Biden in November? And
some of her colleagues, IÆm pretty sure, wouldnÆt say that today.öà
pic.twitter.com/UrKbBYR9Vu

ù Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 13, 2024

HereÆs an instant classic from an appearance with veteran anchor Wolf
Blitzer, who did his level best to trap Jennings by suggesting that Trump was referring to all immigrants when he used the word ôanimalö to describe the illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

ôShouldnÆt people be condemning that?ö Blitzer asked Jennings.

ôI listened to the entire tape,ö Jennings replied. ô[Trump] was specifically talking about the person who murdered Laken Riley in Georgia. And to be
honest with you, Wolf, if somebody murders another human being, I think they deserve to be called animals. And I donÆt think any American is really going
to reject that kind of rhetoric. That poor girl was murdered in cold blood.
Is that person who did it, not an animal? I think thatÆs an apt term.ö

Scott Jennings sets Wolf Blitzer straight on the "immigrants are
animals" hoax:

"Trump was specifically talking about the person who murdered Laken
Riley. That poor girl was murdered in cold blood. Is that person who
did it not an animal?" pic.twitter.com/TPArgU8UfA

ù Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 3, 2024

Remember Flag-Gate? Early in the summer, as Democrats and legacy media alike were still pretending that Biden was fine and insisting that one of the court cases against Trump would eventually succeed, they stood outside Supreme
Court Justice Samuel AlitoÆs home and tossed a Hail Mary û at his wife.

They attempted to argue that the flags she flew outside their home during a dispute with a liberal neighbor ù first an upside-down American flag, and
then an Appeal to Heaven flag ù reflected on her husbandÆs ability to render unbiased judgment in any case involving Trump.

Jennings was having none of that.

When asked whether her flying the flags would ôerodeö his trust in Alito as
an unbiased member of the court, he pushed back.

ôItÆs going to erode my trust in the media and in the Left, because theyÆre going to try to use this to come up with some garbage take that somehow
Justice Alito is going to have to recuse himself from all these cases.
TheyÆre going to go do the same character assassination of him ù by the way,
I know this guy, high character guy ù that they go through on Clarence Thomas and any other conservative judge that casts decisions that they donÆt like.ö

Cheers to @ScottJenningsKY, my former White House colleague (then
boss), who worked on Justice AlitoÆs confirmation with me.

Scott Jennings knows Justice Alito is a good man.

And the leftwing attacks on him are frivolous.
pic.twitter.com/u7ixjE7cqS

ù ???? Mike Davis ???? (@mrddmia) May 18, 2024

Here was Jennings the morning after BidenÆs disastrous CNN debate, noting
that the presidentÆs campaign was essentially over, but arguing that
Democrats were going to cling to him until the end regardless.

ôI was up overnight thinking of the movie Titanic and specifically the string quartet that was playing on the deck. [The Democrats] will ride it out, and theyÆre gonna play the music à and the ship is going to sink.ö

SCOTT JENNINGS: I was up overnight thinking of the movie Titanic and
the string quartet that was playing on the deck.

The Democrats will ride it out, and they're gonna play the music, and
the ship is going to sink. pic.twitter.com/6P28m0UUa4

ù Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 28, 2024

Within hours of Trump getting shot in the ear at his July 13th rally in
Butler, Pennsylvania, Blitzer hit Jennings with the claim that political rhetoric needed to cool down ôon both sides.ö

JenningsÆ response was obvious: ôWhoÆs in the hospital?ö

Wolf Blitzer just did the "both sides" thing on CNN just now:

Scott Jennings: "Who's in the hospital?"

Wolf: "We have to cool the rhetoric on both sides."
pic.twitter.com/PbkFh62bKd

ù Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) July 14, 2024

While Democrats and his CNN colleagues mourned the end of BidenÆs campaign, Jennings kept calling balls and strikes.

ôItÆs odd to me that just a few weeks ago ù heck, a few days ago ù most Democrats were still looking into television cameras and saying that this person is up to another four years,ö Jennings said. ôI mean, heÆs obviously running on fumes. They werenÆt æcheap fakesÆ no matter what the government
told you.ö

.@ScottJenningsKY spits STRAIGHT UP FACTS to CNN panel mourning the
end of Crooked Joe's campaign ?? pic.twitter.com/uPVUiNTICc

ù Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 25, 2024

When Vice President Kamala Harris ù who seized the Democratic nomination without ever winning a single vote on her own ù finally agreed to a formal interview, she brought Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) with her.

Jennings referred to the move as ôweak sauceö and to Walz as HarrisÆ
ôemotional support animal.ö

Weak sauce for Kamala Harris to demand an emotional support animal
for her first interview. Shows an extreme lack of confidence for
Thursday night event on @cnn pic.twitter.com/ZrjGF2nNLz

ù Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 28, 2024

Jennings reacted to the second assassination attempt on Trump, once again torching the Left and media for suggesting that ôboth sidesö needed to tone down the rhetoric in the political arena.

ôThe rhetoric ù they have tried to kill this man twice, okay? He got shot in the ear, and this guy was setting up shop outside of a golf course to try to kill him this weekend,ö Jennings said.

ôAnd I know after something like this happens, itÆs very fashionable to, you know, talk about rhetoric on both sides,ö he continued. ôDonald Trump is the target, okay? HeÆs the current target, and itÆs happening, and itÆs happened again, and I just ù honestly, we have to have a conversation about elections. If you lose an election, the countryÆs not going to come to an end, okay?ö

IÆm not interested in ôthe rhetoric on both sidesö today. Trump is
the target. HeÆs survived two assassination attempts. HeÆs in danger
and itÆs probably too late to de-radicalize everyone who thinks the
country will end if he wins. My latest for @cnn
pic.twitter.com/4xD2NXGWT4

ù Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 16, 2024

And to cap things off: his immediate reaction to TrumpÆs sweeping victory on November 5.

3:38am û reflecting on TrumpÆs impending victory and coming Harris
concession. Trump has a mandate. The late stage mirage of Harris
momentum was crushed by regular working class Americans of all races.
pic.twitter.com/A1S4WuxOMz

ù Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024

HereÆs to 2025!

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On 2025-01-02 4:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

Legacy media in the United States is notorious for its leftward slant — to the point that it’s rare to see conservative commentators unless they are staunchly opposed to President-elect Donald Trump, outnumbered three-to-one in a panel discussion, or both.

So when CNN hired a relatively normal Republican — Scott Jennings, a public relations consultant and veteran of former President George W. Bush’s White House — it was safe to assume that things could, at least, get interesting. And when it turned out that Jennings could actually hold his own when panel discussions turned into four-against-one pile-ons, all bets were off.

Here are a few of his best moments from 2024.

CNN hosts attempted to set Jennings up by framing a question about the lawfare against Trump in New York, saying that Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) was doing something they called “the Trump pivot” when he argued that the American people were not as worried about the cases against Trump as they were about the coming election.

Jennings, instead of playing along, broke their frame and doubled down on Scott’s assessment.

“They’re not unmoved, his base, they’re outraged by what they see going on in
New York, and I would say they’re even more motivated than they were before!”

It must just agitate CNN's liberal base, but CNN analyst Scott
Jennings accurately explains that Republicans are outraged at what
New York Democrat prosecutors and juries are trying to do to Trump,
and Tim Scott is saying it just the way other Republicans will.
pic.twitter.com/pPEROsWK5A

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 19, 2024

During a March appearance on “CNN Newsnight” with host Abby Phillip, Jennings
correctly assessed the state of things after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) finally went public with her endorsement of President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race.

“Scott, were you surprised to hear her say pretty clearly she would support President Biden in November?” Phillip asked, referring to several Democrats who were angry that Biden had not done more to force Israel into a ceasefire in Gaza. “And some of her colleagues, I’m pretty sure, wouldn’t say that
today.”

“No, she’s a Democrat. They’re gonna vote for Biden. I’m not surprised about
that,” Jennings replied, pivoting immediately to address Omar’s position on
Israel. “I am surprised that, in the year of our Lord, 2024, there is a public relations agent for Hamas sitting in the United States Congress.”

“Ceasefires – she said – don’t happen magically. Well, you know there was a
ceasefire in place on October the 6th. And who broke it on October the 7th?”
Jennings continued. “I cannot believe honestly what I heard out of that interview. What I want are for those hostages to come home. I want somebody –
somebody out there to show just a little bit of remorse that Hamas broke the ceasefire, raped, and murdered horrifically women, all kinds of people. That – that’s it. How about a little bit of concern for those folks? That’s what
I’m looking for.”

.@ScottJenningsKY absolutely shredded Ilhan Omar after her appearance
on CNN [flames]@AbbyDPhillip: “Scott, were you surprised to hear her
say pretty clearly she would support President Biden in November? And
some of her colleagues, I’m pretty sure, wouldn’t say that today.”…
pic.twitter.com/UrKbBYR9Vu

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 13, 2024

Here’s an instant classic from an appearance with veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer, who did his level best to trap Jennings by suggesting that Trump was referring to all immigrants when he used the word “animal” to describe the
illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

“Shouldn’t people be condemning that?” Blitzer asked Jennings.

“I listened to the entire tape,” Jennings replied. “[Trump] was specifically
talking about the person who murdered Laken Riley in Georgia. And to be honest with you, Wolf, if somebody murders another human being, I think they deserve to be called animals. And I don’t think any American is really going
to reject that kind of rhetoric. That poor girl was murdered in cold blood. Is that person who did it, not an animal? I think that’s an apt term.”

Scott Jennings sets Wolf Blitzer straight on the "immigrants are
animals" hoax:

"Trump was specifically talking about the person who murdered Laken
Riley. That poor girl was murdered in cold blood. Is that person who
did it not an animal?" pic.twitter.com/TPArgU8UfA

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 3, 2024

Remember Flag-Gate? Early in the summer, as Democrats and legacy media alike were still pretending that Biden was fine and insisting that one of the court cases against Trump would eventually succeed, they stood outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home and tossed a Hail Mary – at his wife.

They attempted to argue that the flags she flew outside their home during a dispute with a liberal neighbor — first an upside-down American flag, and then an Appeal to Heaven flag — reflected on her husband’s ability to render
unbiased judgment in any case involving Trump.

Jennings was having none of that.

When asked whether her flying the flags would “erode” his trust in Alito as
an unbiased member of the court, he pushed back.

“It’s going to erode my trust in the media and in the Left, because they’re
going to try to use this to come up with some garbage take that somehow Justice Alito is going to have to recuse himself from all these cases. They’re going to go do the same character assassination of him — by the way,
I know this guy, high character guy — that they go through on Clarence Thomas
and any other conservative judge that casts decisions that they don’t like.”

Cheers to @ScottJenningsKY, my former White House colleague (then
boss), who worked on Justice Alito’s confirmation with me.

Scott Jennings knows Justice Alito is a good man.

And the leftwing attacks on him are frivolous.
pic.twitter.com/u7ixjE7cqS

— ???? Mike Davis ???? (@mrddmia) May 18, 2024

Here was Jennings the morning after Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, noting that the president’s campaign was essentially over, but arguing that Democrats were going to cling to him until the end regardless.

“I was up overnight thinking of the movie Titanic and specifically the string
quartet that was playing on the deck. [The Democrats] will ride it out, and they’re gonna play the music … and the ship is going to sink.”

SCOTT JENNINGS: I was up overnight thinking of the movie Titanic and
the string quartet that was playing on the deck.

The Democrats will ride it out, and they're gonna play the music, and
the ship is going to sink. pic.twitter.com/6P28m0UUa4

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 28, 2024

Within hours of Trump getting shot in the ear at his July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Blitzer hit Jennings with the claim that political rhetoric needed to cool down “on both sides.”

Jennings’ response was obvious: “Who’s in the hospital?”

Wolf Blitzer just did the "both sides" thing on CNN just now:

Scott Jennings: "Who's in the hospital?"

Wolf: "We have to cool the rhetoric on both sides."
pic.twitter.com/PbkFh62bKd

— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) July 14, 2024

While Democrats and his CNN colleagues mourned the end of Biden’s campaign, Jennings kept calling balls and strikes.

“It’s odd to me that just a few weeks ago — heck, a few days ago — most
Democrats were still looking into television cameras and saying that this person is up to another four years,” Jennings said. “I mean, he’s obviously
running on fumes. They weren’t ‘cheap fakes’ no matter what the government
told you.”

.@ScottJenningsKY spits STRAIGHT UP FACTS to CNN panel mourning the
end of Crooked Joe's campaign ?? pic.twitter.com/uPVUiNTICc

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 25, 2024

When Vice President Kamala Harris — who seized the Democratic nomination without ever winning a single vote on her own — finally agreed to a formal interview, she brought Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) with her.

Jennings referred to the move as “weak sauce” and to Walz as Harris’ “emotional support animal.”

Weak sauce for Kamala Harris to demand an emotional support animal
for her first interview. Shows an extreme lack of confidence for
Thursday night event on @cnn pic.twitter.com/ZrjGF2nNLz

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 28, 2024

Jennings reacted to the second assassination attempt on Trump, once again torching the Left and media for suggesting that “both sides” needed to tone
down the rhetoric in the political arena.

“The rhetoric — they have tried to kill this man twice, okay? He got shot in
the ear, and this guy was setting up shop outside of a golf course to try to kill him this weekend,” Jennings said.

“And I know after something like this happens, it’s very fashionable to, you
know, talk about rhetoric on both sides,” he continued. “Donald Trump is the
target, okay? He’s the current target, and it’s happening, and it’s happened
again, and I just — honestly, we have to have a conversation about elections.
If you lose an election, the country’s not going to come to an end, okay?”

I’m not interested in “the rhetoric on both sides” today. Trump is
the target. He’s survived two assassination attempts. He’s in danger
and it’s probably too late to de-radicalize everyone who thinks the
country will end if he wins. My latest for @cnn
pic.twitter.com/4xD2NXGWT4

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 16, 2024

And to cap things off: his immediate reaction to Trump’s sweeping victory on
November 5.

3:38am – reflecting on Trump’s impending victory and coming Harris
concession. Trump has a mandate. The late stage mirage of Harris
momentum was crushed by regular working class Americans of all races.
pic.twitter.com/A1S4WuxOMz

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 6, 2024

Here’s to 2025!

I can't help but wonder what would happen to CNN's ratings if they made
the majority of their on-air people sensible people like Jennings and retired/fired the leftist shills....

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On 2025-01-02 17:31:29 +0000, Rhino said:

I can't help but wonder what would happen to CNN's ratings if they made
the majority of their on-air people sensible people like Jennings and retired/fired the leftist shills....

Probably in the basement like OAN's.

Nobody's knocking Fox News and its legion of willfully ignorant viewers
off its perch.

And BTW Jennings is a hyperpartisan Republican hack and a shameless
liar like Trump.

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:05:23 -0600, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-01-02 17:31:29 +0000, Rhino said:

I can't help but wonder what would happen to CNN's ratings if they made
the majority of their on-air people sensible people like Jennings and
retired/fired the leftist shills....

Probably in the basement like OAN's.

Nobody's knocking Fox News and its legion of willfully ignorant viewers
off its perch.

And BTW Jennings is a hyperpartisan Republican hack and a shameless
liar like Trump.

Sadly it's too true. Ryan George has it right in his Youtube video
about how people may say they want good news but they will always tend
to trend towards the more dramatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSJGjarfMk

Fox News manages to do drama very well which keeps people engaged more
so than CNN. I'll watch CNN but it's always for about 10-15 minutes
which is long enough to let me know the important bits of the news
without getting into the repeated discussions.

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In article <vl6kh3$3eubh$1@dont-email.me>, super70s@super70s.invalid wrote:

Jennings is a hyperpartisan Republican hack and a shameless
liar like Trump.

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Rhino wrote:

I can't help but wonder what would happen to CNN's ratings if they made
the majority of their on-air people sensible people like Jennings and >retired/fired the leftist shills....

You seem to think they're more interested in reporting the news and not Democrat propoganda.

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On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 04:30:51 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

Legacy media in the United States is notorious for its leftward slant ù to >the point that itÆs rare to see conservative commentators unless they are >staunchly opposed to President-elect Donald Trump, outnumbered three-to-one >in a panel discussion, or both.

Which is really stupid as let's be fair - the question wasn't whether
Trump was better than all possible (or even credible) Democrats or
whether he was better than Kamala Harris.

That was the question faced by voters last November and the voters
said yes to the question actually asked as opposed to the answer to
the second question which was almost certainly no.

TV commentators seem to be responding as if voters had faced the
second question which is absurd.

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On 2025-01-02 2:03 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:

Rhino wrote:

I can't help but wonder what would happen to CNN's ratings if they made
the majority of their on-air people sensible people like Jennings and
retired/fired the leftist shills....

You seem to think they're more interested in reporting the news and not Democrat propoganda.

I really don't know about that. I expect that the owners mostly just
want to make money and are relatively ambivalent about which political
slant to take while the senior management is where the political agenda
is. CNN's agenda is clearly left-leaning but if the owners decide to
prioritize making money, they can do a housecleaning of senior
management and bring in more right-leaning people who in turn will hire
more right-leaning producers, correspondents and on-air staff.

But maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps the leftist bias includes the owners. In
that case, they will very likely drive the whole thing so far into the
ground that it has to close up shop. That's how free enterprise works:
if people don't like what you're selling, they stop buying it and
eventually your customer base may be so small that the business can't
sustain itself. Or you manage to survive, just barely, as a niche
provider, which seems to be where CNN is right now - and MSNBC as well.

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On 2025-01-02 3:22 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 04:30:51 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

Legacy media in the United States is notorious for its leftward slant — to >> the point that it’s rare to see conservative commentators unless they are >> staunchly opposed to President-elect Donald Trump, outnumbered three-to-one >> in a panel discussion, or both.

Which is really stupid as let's be fair - the question wasn't whether
Trump was better than all possible (or even credible) Democrats or
whether he was better than Kamala Harris.

That was the question faced by voters last November and the voters
said yes to the question actually asked as opposed to the answer to
the second question which was almost certainly no.

TV commentators seem to be responding as if voters had faced the
second question which is absurd.

Uh, Trump's main challenger in November was indeed Kamala Harris. No
other Democrat made it to the top of the ticket. The Democrats had the
option of staying with Joe Biden or having an open convention which
could have chosen any of several people but they chose to anoint Harris
without any real contest so she was their candidate in November.

Of course Trump did face other Presidential aspirants but Jill Stein and
the rest of them had no chance whatever of winning, although they could conceivably have drawn off enough votes from one party or the other to
tip the election to a different party. That's how Ross Perot prevented
George H.W. Bush from getting his second term and let Bill Clinton win
in 1992.

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:14:04 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Uh, Trump's main challenger in November was indeed Kamala Harris. No
other Democrat made it to the top of the ticket. The Democrats had the
option of staying with Joe Biden or having an open convention which
could have chosen any of several people but they chose to anoint Harris >without any real contest so she was their candidate in November.

Of course Trump did face other Presidential aspirants but Jill Stein and
the rest of them had no chance whatever of winning, although they could >conceivably have drawn off enough votes from one party or the other to
tip the election to a different party. That's how Ross Perot prevented
George H.W. Bush from getting his second term and let Bill Clinton win
in 1992.

I think you're missing my point - of course the only Democrat Trump
had to face was Harris - though I really do think CNN tends to think
that Trump was the best (or worst) GOP and Harris the best Democrat.

Hint: Election night and the Superbowl are not the same thing -
scoring more points doesn't automatically get one the nomination as we
all know.

(I just watched the Youtube of Pierre Poilevre with Jordan Peterson
today which was interesting but obviously not the results of the 2025
election)

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:06:36 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

But maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps the leftist bias includes the owners. In
that case, they will very likely drive the whole thing so far into the
ground that it has to close up shop. That's how free enterprise works:
if people don't like what you're selling, they stop buying it and
eventually your customer base may be so small that the business can't
sustain itself. Or you manage to survive, just barely, as a niche
provider, which seems to be where CNN is right now - and MSNBC as well.

Which would be a shame - CNN has done some great material through the
yers with my personal favorite being the end of their news show on
(I'm going from memory here) that scene of the Kremlin on 25 Dec 1991.

This isn't the CNN version but should give you the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktwa4YX6WfM

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