cnn, which once defined cable news, is now under fire after this week s trump debacle. underilities new ownership, it s now just one more outlet for the libertarian billionaire point of view. also tonight, the unserious caucus, jim jordan continues to carry trump s water, pursuing a pointless investigation of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. as james comer more or less admits he s got nothing on the bidens, but he s going to keep pretending he does anyway. and we begin with the continued clean-up on aisle five at cnn in the wake of widespread criticism over its decision to air a town hall with the twice impeached civilly liable for sexual abuse former president donald trump on wednesday night that played out more like a pep rally or a maga version of the jerry springer show. on thursday, cnn ceo chris lict mounted a defense of the town hall during the network s morning editorial call. insisting the spectacle served the public well despite the widespread condemnation even fro
not scolding your viewers. and that s assuming that unless they watch donald trump on your network, they weren t going to watch him anywhere else or they were wholly unfamiliar with his appeal to his electorate. yeah. i mean, look, i m going to bring you in, angelo. look, there have been plenty of coverage, we cover trump. i don t particularly enjoy it, but we cover donald trump on this show, this network covers him. lester holt has interviewed him. he s had plenty of interviews. jonathan swan s very famous interview with him. it s not as if there s this dichotomy, you re ignoring 74 million people if you don t let him rant, rave, and act like he s at a trump rally. a crazy dichotomy, but it does seem like that is kind of a standard for these sort of billionaire libertarians, whether you re talking about elon musk or talking about, you know, peter thiel, mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos. they all seem to have this same attitude. you must subject yourself to the
to you are listening to a former president mock a woman a jury found that he sexually abused while the audience laughs and applauds, or pretending 74 million americans who voted for trump don t exist. but that has become a familiar tune, mainly from billionaire libertarians like elon musk and media moguls like rupert murdoch that free speech doesn t just mean what the first amendment says it means, that the government cannot restrict or require certain speech, but rather that unless you are willing to subject yourself personally to the farthest right, most racist, misogynistic and offensive viewpoints, fill your psyche with it online, at the university lecture hall, or on cnn, you re against free spich. ditto john malone, who owns large chunks of warner brother, he made his fortune buying up media companies. al gore called him dark vader