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Bill Maher cornered Jake Tapper—and the result had the CNN host twitching

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Bill Maher, the longtime host of Politically Incorrect, has never been big on blind conformity.

So, when Jake Tapper recently had him on CNN Primetime, the leftist host quickly found himself cornered.

And the result had Tapper twitching.

The woke left has gone so far off the rails even some of the most dedicated liberals over the past decades are simply appalled.

So, when Jake Tapper brought Bill Maher on CNN Primetime he was in for a big surprise.

For some reason, the CNN host thought he could set-up Maher with a typical leading question and let the rest of the show run on autopilot.

“So you talk about the Democrats being so hemmed in by identity politics. The counter argument would be it’s always been identity politics. It’s just always been white people, so people like you and me didn’t notice,” Tapper said. “And now it’s just an effort at inclusion, which I’m sure theoretically you support.”

“Yeah. I support it in fact,” Maher answered before tearing into the current leftist political crisis. “The Democrats sometimes can take it too far. I would categorize liberal as different than woke.”

“You know, woke, which started out as a good thing, alert to injustice, who could be against that, but it became sort of an eye roll because they love diversity except of ideas,” Maher pointed out.

When asked to define “wokeness” Maher described it perfectly as a “collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism but very often undoing it.”

“I mean, five years ago, Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. We liked him,” Maher added. “Now they take his name off schools and tear down his statues. Really, Lincoln isn’t good enough for you?”

He then tore into the real irony behind how the left is constantly playing the race card.

“Five, ten years ago, bedrock liberalism was we are striving to be a color-blind society where we don’t see race. Of course, we see it, but it doesn’t matter,” he explained. “That’s not what woke is. Woke is something very different. It’s identity—we see it all the time. It’s always the most important thing. I don’t think that’s liberalism.”

Jake Tapper likely asked Maher to appear in the first place because of the woke media and their followers’ accusations that Maher jumped ship and became a conservative.

Maher has a quick comeback to that.

“You change the definitions and then you say I’m more conservative? I believe what I’ve always believed. You change these things and then you yell at me for it,” he concluded.

The fact that Bill Maher comes across as conservative these days illustrates exactly how far leftists have gone to hijack the political process and completely transform society in less than a decade.

And the fact that a major news network anchor has to depend on a guest to point out what’s really happening in America is a sad state of affairs.

Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.

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CNN got caught red-handed in the middle of a shameless propaganda tactic

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May 30, 2023

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The horrific war in Ukraine wages on.

And the corporate-controlled press continues to lie about what’s happening.

And now CNN has been caught red-handed in the middle of a shameless propaganda tactic.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, hundreds of billions spent, and massive worldwide disruption.

But Joe Biden and the foreign policy establishment have recklessly prolonged the war instead of looking for an off-ramp.

There was one report that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had reached a peace agreement, but former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on behalf of NATO, pressured Zelenskyy to nix the deal.

The Military Industrial Complex wants another endless war, not a quick end, even though the strategic goal of crippling Russia’s army has already been established.

And the corporate-controlled press is doing its part to prolong the fight with shameless war propaganda.

Instead of reporting on the reality that Ukraine is severely outmanned and is almost entirely reliant on Western funding and soft NATO support, the so-called mainstream media are presenting the fake narrative that the Russians are on the brink of losing outright.

The latest example came from CNN, which had an entire arc on the significance of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

On October 20, 2022, CNN reported that the “significance of the city cannot be overstressed.”

But on March 2, 2023, CNN reported that “Bakhmut’s strategic importance should not be overstated.”

Then on March 26, 2023, CNN reiterated that Bakhmut offered “limited strategic value.”

Finally, on May 20th, 2023, after the Russians had taken the city, CNN reported that Bakhmut’s “symbolism always outweighed its strategic importance.”

This type of absurd war propaganda is not helping Ukrainians, which are dying by the tens of thousands when a peace agreement could be reached.

The neocons would love regime change in Moscow, but they would settle for a protracted conflict that drags on for years.

And the so-called mainstream media are happy to oblige with helping along either.

The one time Biden got clocked really hard by the press was when he pulled out of Afghanistan.

Biden botched the withdrawal, but the fact that he agreed to pull out at all had the media up in arms.

Presidents are not allowed to end wars.

If Biden runs on an endless war in 2024, he will lose.

The American people have lost their appetite. 

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CNN is in a world of hurt after airing Trump town hall

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May 26, 2023

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CNN positioned itself as the Orange Man Bad network.

Then the cable news outlet invited Donald Trump onto the air.

Now CNN is in a world of hurt after airing Trump’s town hall.

Donald Trump gave CNN its best ratings in a long time when he appeared on the network for a town hall hosted by Kaitlan Collins.

CNN easily won the night with 3 million viewers, a rare victory for the network in the primetime slot.

However, the network is experiencing fallout since Trump’s appearance on the network.

CNN has long been mired in third place in the cable news ratings behind Fox News and MSNBC, and they’re trending in the wrong direction.

The week prior to Trump, CNN averaged 494,000 primetime viewers; after Trump, viewership fell to 400,000.

That represents a 23.5% drop in ratings, a huge blow for a network that is already a distant third place.

The likely reason for the sharp drop-off is that CNN conditioned its viewers to hate Trump and disdain anyone who gives him a platform, so it’s no surprise CNN’s well-trained viewers did what they were told.

It also can’t have helped that CNN personalities trashed the network from inside the house.

After the town hall, Anderson Cooper said on his show,  “Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions, and predictably, continued to spew lie after lie after lie…I get it. It was disturbing. It was disturbing to see and hear that person refer to a black law enforcement officer as a thug, an adjective he used many times to describe black men and called Kaitlan Collins, the moderator nasty, which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him…You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again.”

Oliver Darcy had such an emotional response to Trump’s town hall that he was reportedly called into president Chris Licht’s office and read the riot act.

As for Collins, she was announced as the permanent replacement for Chris Cuomo in primetime despite her lackluster performance as town hall moderator.

CNN likely knows they’ll get those anti-Trump viewers back the closer he gets to winning the GOP primaries, as the Left grows more rabid heading into 2024.

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Jake Tapper lost his mind when Elon Musk said one thing about George Soros

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The so-called mainstream media defend George Soros to no end.

Criticizing him creates instant backlash.

And Jake Tapper lost his mind when Elon Musk said one thing about George Soros.

Billionaire globalist George Soros has become off-limits.

Simply mentioning his name elicits accusations of antisemitism, which is absurd.

The Left routinely attacked Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson when he was alive.

Soros gets criticized because of his stated ambitions, which include undermining national sovereignty.

Twitter owner Elon Musk recently called out Soros by comparing him to Marvel comics supervillain Magneto.

Musk tweeted, “Soros reminds me of Magneto.”

The make-believe character Magneto and Soros were both Holocaust survivors.

CNN’s Jake Tapper was apparently triggered by Musk’s tweet.

Tapper said on his show that Musk “launched a baseless twitter attack against George Soros, the progressive Jewish philanthropist, who has been the target of antisemitic conspiracy theories.” 

This is absurd because Soros gets attacked for things that he actually says and does.

For instance, Soros bankrolls far-left District Attorneys that downgrade felonies, ignore misdemeanors, and release repeat criminals from prison early.

The pro-crime policies have unsurprisingly led to upticks in crime.

Even Fox News is wary of criticizing Soros.

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich was chastised on the air for mentioning Soros’ funding of socialist DAs.

Later in the CNN segment, Tapper said, “It’s interesting, in terms of how Elon Musk has chosen to run the platform. He’s constantly engaging with people who are bad faith actors, I mean, people who subscribe to QAnon, people who are white supremacists, people who are focused on black-and-white violence, I mean he’s, people who criticize diversity in Hollywood casting, I mean these are choices he’s making.”

That is what passes for “objective” journalism at CNN, and Tapper is considered one of the network’s less incendiary hosts.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the media protects Soros because he’s funding a lot of it.

According to an investigation from the Media Research Center, at least 54 prominent media figures are tied to Soros-funded organizations.

For example, leftist journalist Christiane Amanpour is a senior adviser for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which received $2.75 million from Soros between 2018 and 2020 alone.

Soros scratches the media’s back, and they scratch his.

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