(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Democrats Fightng Back Against Potted Plant CNN "Moderators" At Last Debate. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-30 I just want you all to know that Crooks and Liars has up two great posts about some congressional Democrats fighting back against one of the other villains/dopes in the debacle called the CNN Presidential Debate: CNN anchors and the insipid rule of no fact checking during that farce. First up is Congressman Dan Goldman as he gives Anderson Cooper a slap upside the head for asking why President Biden should quit the race. And here is the last part of what Goldman said about those potted plants at CNN: And so, yes, the New York Times is correct. The stakes are very high. But let's not go with this double standard where we just normalize Donald Trump's absurd behavior and absolute outrageous lies of denying January 6th, his refusal to accept the results of the election, his pride at overturning Roe v. Wade and taking reproductive freedom away. That is what the choice is. That's who we're dealing with here. And ultimately, it's convenient for the New York Times to say, oh, Joe Biden should step down. Why aren't they saying that Donald Trump should step down? They're just always apologizing and normalizing for Donald Trump. And, frankly, Anderson, that's what happened last night on the debate stage. Nobody fact-checked Donald Trump when he was blatantly lying over and over and over again. According to Anderson Cooper it IS ALL UP TO PRESIDENT BIDEN TO FACT CHECK DONALD TRUMP! This is outrageous! What the fuck are reporters and so called journalists for then? Why not let AI do the news and debates from now on? From what I have seen over the last 30 years is that newsmen and woman are GIDDY when it comes to catching Democrats in a lie (I’m thinking about Bill Clinton). But Republicans? Most of them still have not called George W. Bush a liar over the Iraq War, which got a whole bunch of people killed. And they simply refuse to fact check Trump. The second one is Congressman Jim Clyburn with one of the potted plants, Dana Bash. NOTE: Dana Bash was always saying that at any moment Trump was going to “pivot” in his presidency. And she is infamous of letting Republicans run rampant during her interviews. "I don't like a debate where nobody will do any fact-checking. You just say what you want to say; you know it's a lie," he continued. "The guy told 30-some-odd lies and nobody checked him on it and said that was up to Joe Biden to do." "If I ask you a question and you lie to me with the answer, I ought to follow up and give you what the facts are and see what your reaction to that will be," the South Carolina Democrat explained. "So that, to me, was not the way to plan the debate. And whoever did that and agreed to that really should think about what they're doing." "Yeah, OK. Well, it was a debate agreed to by President Biden first, who proposed this debate," Bash said. Yes, Biden made a mistake agreeing to that condition. Who pushed for no fact checking? I’m sure it wasn’t Biden and his team. It was fuckin’ CNN. Fact checking Trump would have pissed off Trump voters. And CNN is all in on becoming another version of Fox propaganda. The biggest share holder in CNN, John Malone, is pushing CNN to be another right wing media outlet, as if we don’t have enough of those already. There were multiple points where Tapper or Bash could have corrected obvious lies (like the murder of infants after birth that Trump threw out as a Democratic position on abortion), but both care more about their paychecks than integrity. Therefore, neither was going to utter a word in correction to Trump. Anyway, I wanted to write up something more “positive” and with some fight in it than what I have been hearing and reading from the MSM. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/30/2250013/-Democrats-Fightng-Back-Against-Potted-Plant-CNN-Moderators-At-Last-Debate?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/