Cat 2
Judge slammed CNN in one head-turning lawsuit that could cost the network $1 billion
CNN cannot use the “most trusted name in news” moniker with a straight face.
The network has destroyed its credibility in the Donald Trump era.
And a judge just slammed CNN in one lawsuit that could cost the network $1 billion.
CNN and other Democrat-controlled outlets mocked Fox News after the network settled its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million.
But CNN itself could be on the hook for $1 billion amid its own legal troubles.
CNN getting sued
Navy veteran and security contractor Zachary Young sued CNN for defamation, claiming that the network slandered his company regarding the evacuation of Afghanistan.
CNN referred to his firm as “black market,” implying illegality and internal communications proved that the network was eager to “nail” Young.
Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in a court ruling, “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages.”
Alex Marquardt, the “primary reporter” on the Afghanistan story, sent a message to a colleague that said he wanted to “nail this Zachary Young mf***er.”
Marquardt added that the story would be Young’s “funeral.”
CNN editor Matthew Philips replied to Marquardt: “gonna hold you to that cowboy!”
The internal messages got worse.
CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan—a member of CNN’s self-styled “Triad” of editorial, legal, and standards and practices oversight personnel—said that Young was “a s***.”
During court proceedings, Judge Roberts pressed CNN counsel Charles Tobin on the network’s use of the term “black market.”
Judge Roberts asked, “[W]hen they were talking about Mr. Young, they had his picture on the thing and there was a chyron that says he was involved in a black market. And, you know, I’ve looked in a couple of dictionaries – three or four – and the first definition for black market in all the dictionaries is criminal activity. And you know, if you are accusing someone of criminal activity and they’re not involved in a crime, that’s usually defamation per se. Correct?”
CNN admits to defamation
Tobin responded, “Under the law where we would be looking at the defamatory meaning, perhaps it would be.”
That is a shocking admission from CNN’s own lawyer.
Tobin countered by saying that the definition was irrelevant.
He argued, “Here, we’re on a question of actual malice, express malice, and outrageous conduct measured by objective standards. Under that criteria, your honor, regardless of what the meaning may be in the dictionary, which is an objective definition.”
Judge Roberts already ruled that CNN’s internal communications met the malice standard for the case to move word.
The judge then asked about CNN’s “Triad.”
Tobin responded, “The Triad, your honor, is a group of three different departments at CNN. It’s the Standards and Practices Department, it’s the Legal Department, and it’s the Editorial Department, they come together—”
“So these are lawyers and professional writers that, you know, are used to dealing with words and have dictionaries and know how precise—what words mean?” Judge Roberts interjected.
Tobin answered, “One would presume, your honor, that they’re educated people that they’ve been in the business for a while. But your honor, there is nothing in the record discussing the word “blackmail” [sic] at all among any of the CNN journalists. And it is plaintiff’s burden.”
Young’s counsel Vel Freedman hammered CNN for playing word games.
Freedman argued, “So what CNN is claiming is they took a word from the English language that has one definition and they meant when they said ‘black market,’ they actually meant ‘gray market,’ but they said ‘black market’ that has one definition. . .CNN can’t get up there and say, ‘Hey, Mr. Young is a serial killer,’ but actually mean that he was a good Samaritan, but they only knew that in their head.”
Thus far, the court proceedings do not seem to be going very well for CNN.
After sneering at Fox News, CNN could have egg on its face if the network gets hit with a massive judgment.
Cat 2
Democrat-controlled rag had the most unhinged reaction to Biden’s crushing defeat against Trump in the debate
The Democrat Party is in utter disarray.
Joe Biden melted on live television in front of the entire world.
And one Democrat-controlled rag had the most unhinged reaction to Biden’s crushing defeat against Trump in the debate.
Democrats have reached DEFCON 1 in the 2024 presidential campaign.
Joe Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump was far worse than anyone could have imagined.
Even Republicans expected Biden to come out the gate fired up and quickly fade.
But Biden had absolutely nothing from the start.
Left-wing media outlets have been all over the map.
Some are trying to sugarcoat the performance and put lipstick on a pig.
Others are calling for Biden to leave the race and make room for a younger challenger who can at least string two sentences together.
Democrats are hoping Trump will bail them out
However, The Philadelphia Inquirer might have had the most outrageous take of all.
The Editorial Board wrote a piece titled, “To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race. . .Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.”
The paper wants Trump to drop out of the race when he’s clearly ahead.
Why?
Because he’s threatening democracy, and cue all the other lame talking points, too.
The piece began, “President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race. But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”
“Democracy” on the line
When Democrats say “democracy,” they simply mean things that they like.
For example, when Biden tried to use OSHA to federally mandate COVID vaccines for private businesses, that was “democratic” because Democrats liked forced vaccination.
The Inquirer continued, “In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?”
Outside elite Democrat circles, people actually liked Trump’s Presidency.
Gas was cheap, prices were stable, immigration was lower, and America did not start a new war.
Trump has the easiest pitch in the world.
He can just ask people if they were better off before COVID or right now.
The Inquirer added that “Trump told more than 30 lies during the debate to go with the more than 30,000 mistruths told during his four years as president. He dodged the CNN moderators’ questions, took no responsibility for his actions, and blamed others, mainly Biden, for everything that is wrong in the world.”
Of course, the rag gave Biden a pass on all of the ridiculous lies he told during the debate, the worst one being that no U.S. troops died on his watch.
The families of the 13 servicemembers killed during the withdrawal from Afghanistan would beg to differ.
Full-blown panic has set in for the Democrats.
Joe Biden looks like the weakest incumbent president ever, both literally and figuratively.
And the Left resorted to one desperate tactic to sell Bidenomics on Americans.
Joe Biden is getting hammered on the economy.
Polls show that Americans trust Donald Trump more on the economy by 20 points.
That hasn’t stopped Democrats and their media allies from chastising everyday citizens for not understanding the brilliance of Biden’s economy.
The experts are at it again
In the Democrats’ latest attempt to get Americans on board with Bidenomics, they promoted a letter signed by 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists stating that Trump’s economic policies would be worse for the country.
Of course, the economists were all left-wingers who, like dutiful Keynesians, believe that good economic policy is endless government spending.
The letter was tinged with “progressive” politics.
For example, the economists wrote, “While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump’s. In his first four years as President, Joe Biden signed into law major investments in the U.S. economy, including in infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, and climate. Together, these investments are likely to increase productivity and economic growth while lowering long-term inflationary pressures and facilitating the clean energy transition.”
Anyone promoting “clean energy transition” as a good economic policy should be viewed with skepticism.
Automakers are currently scaling back their electric vehicle production because the market does not exist.
The obsession with “green” energy is not a sound economic policy; it is a top-down initiative without a robust market.
Other than tariffs, the economists did not mention anything specific about Trump’s plan that would harbor such hand-wringing.
Don’t trust your lyin’ eyes, trust the experts
The letter continued, “Many Americans are concerned about inflation, which has come down remarkably fast. There is rightly a worry that Donald Trump will reignite this inflation with his fiscally irresponsible budgets.”
First, the rate of inflation has come down, but prices have not.
Inflation is still above the target rate of 2%, and the price increases are already baked in.
Biden’s strategy for combating inflation has been to spend even more money, which will only contribute to more inflation down the road, and bring in a flood of illegal aliens to stunt wage increases.
It should also be noted that target rates of inflation in and of themselves are ridiculous, but this is the debt-based system that has been handed down since the creation of the Federal Reserve.
It’s also interesting that the economists dinged Trump for “fiscally irresponsible budgets,” but what they meant is anyone’s guess.
Are the budgets irresponsible because they’re too big—which has never been a problem for Keynesians — too little, or too big in areas Democrats do not like.
One notable omission from the letter was Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who writes a column for The New York Times.
Krugman has been wrong so many times for so long that his inclusion on the list likely would’ve exposed it for the partisan hackery that it was.
Cat 2
CNN’s Jim Acosta pulled the plug on one interview after getting schooled on this hot-button issue
Democrat-controlled media outlets have to lie to their viewers.
That’s why they tightly guard the information that goes out to the masses.
And CNN’s Jim Acosta pulled the plug on one interview after getting schooled on this hot-button issue.
Democrats are terrified about the November election after Joe Biden’s horrifying debate performance.
After the nation saw Biden’s clear cognitive decline, running on “Orange Man Bad” just isn’t going to cut it anymore.
Expect a hard pivot toward abortion
Democrats will likely run on fear-mongering about abortion.
But Democrats have become an extremist party on the issue; former DNC Chair Tom Perez declared that pro-lifers no longer had a place in the party.
CNN host Jim Acosta brought on pro-life advocate Kristan Hawkins to discuss the abortion pill Mifepristone, and things did not go well for him.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that ER doctors in Idaho can perform abortions in narrow medical cases, which drew cheers from the Left.
Acosta asked Hawkins, “What’s your reaction to this decision?”
She did not give the response he wanted.
Hawkins answered, “Well, I think President Trump and the GOP needs to take note. The Biden administration continues to make the case to weaponize federal agencies to make abortion a federal issue. But we also see a silver lining in this decision today. If Idaho, while this is tragic—saying Idaho must allow for abortions to prevent infertility, future infertility, the FDA must now change its policy too to do the same. Given their no-test online distribution scheme of chemical abortion pills, which we know harm women’s future fertility, as 15 percent of women of our population are Rh negative, and there is no testing now because of the Biden administration and their FDA on these dangerous chemical abortion pills that she’s having these pill abortions. She’s not being tested for Rh negative status—”
“Haven’t the experts said that Mifepristone is safe for women to use?” Acosta interjected.
“Safe and effective”
Big Pharma reps likely had a heart attack when Hawkins said what she did.
She replied, “Ask any woman who’s Rh negative.”
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists explained, “The Rh factor is a protein that can be found on the surface of red blood cells. If your blood cells have this protein, you are Rh positive. If your blood cells do not have this protein, you are Rh negative. The ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ part of your blood type, such as O positive or A negative, refers to your Rh status. During pregnancy, problems can occur if you are Rh negative and your fetus is Rh positive.”
If a woman is Rh negative and the fetus is Rh positive, her antibodies will attack the fetus, and it could result in a miscarriage.
“But haven’t the experts said—” Acosta shot back.
Yes, the omnipresent medical “experts” that have destroyed their credibility over the past four years.
Hawkins continued, “Ask someone who’s been pregnant, sir. When you’re pregnant, one of the first things they do is they test for Rh negative status. Because if you have a miscarriage, if you give birth—”
Acosta cut her off, then began talking over her.
He quickly ended the segment by saying, “I’m sorry, Mifepristone has been proven to be safe. It’s been that way for years. But thank you for coming on. We appreciate it.”
“No, it actually hasn’t—” Hawkins got in before Acosta went to commercial.
Democrats do not want anything disrupting their abortion industry.
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