Project Veritas has exposed Planned Parenthood as body part selling ghouls, Bernie Sanders’ campaign as commie fascists, and ACORN as nuts . While entertaining, none of this is particularly surprising and even less shocking is their newest undercover sting, which shows that CNN is fake news. The group recorded audio of CNN head Jeff Zucker directing his “news” people smear President Trump and bury stories that would embarrass Joe Biden.
Guerrilla reporter James O’Keefe sat in on 2 months of CNN conference calls and recorded every bit.
BREAKING: @CNN President BLASTS Trump & Republicans on 9am Call with Senior Leadership
‘He(@realDonaldTrump) is acting erratically…I think we need to lean into that…’
“If we’ve made any mistake, its been our banners have been too polite…”#CNNTapes pic.twitter.com/zMIRxq9qC6
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 2, 2020
During a conference call Oct. 9, with Trump recovering from the coronavirus, Zucker told his senior leadership to play up the President’s “erratic” behavior and forbid them from “normalizing” anything about him.
“OK, I just want to re-emphasize that, you know, I think we cannot normalize what has happened here in the last week with Trump and his behavior. And I go back to what David, David Chalian said, that this is a president who knows he’s losing, who knows he’s in trouble, is sick, maybe is on the after-effects of steroids or not. I don’t know, but he is acting erratically and desperately, and we need to, we need to not normalize that. … He is all over the place and acting erratically. And I think we need to lean into that,” said Zucker.
With an admission that CNN has been attacking Trump for his entire presidency:
“You know, this is what we’ve come to expect for the last 3 and a half years, 4 years but it is clearly exacerbated by the time that we’re in and the issues [Trump] is dealing with,” he added.
In regards to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal as well as the Obama administration unmasking Gen. Michael Flynn scandal, Zucker told his people not to cover those stories at all:
“The Trump media, you know, moves immediately from — OK, well, never mind — the unmasking was, you know, found to be completely nonsensical to the latest alleged scandal and expects everybody to just follow suit. So, I don’t think that we should be repeating unsubstantiated smears just because the rightwing media suggests that we should,” said Zucker.
Zucker also commanded his minions to compare President Trmp refusing to concede the stolen election to the terrorist attacks of 9/11:
CNN’s Zucker equates @realDonaldTrump not conceding and letting the transition go through to what happened when America was attacked on 9/11/2001
”I would encourage folks to think about that 9-11 commission report and the lack of transition” #CNNTapes pic.twitter.com/LoCqh79pOG
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 2, 2020
“So, if you want a good, concrete example of what happens when you don’t have a good transition, well, look at the Twin Towers,” said CNN field producer Stephanie Becker.
“Yeah, so I think that’s an important point. I think it was just a little bit yesterday in terms of national security. I think it’s really important to raise again. … I would encourage folks to think about that 9/11 Commission Report and the lack of transition,” Zucker said.
When Fox News asked CNN to comment on this, they responded by saying they’ve called the cops on O’Keefe:
“Legal experts say this may be a felony. We‘ve referred it to law enforcement,” said CNN in a statement.
CNN wouldn’t say which law enforcement agency they have filed a complaint with. My guess is it was the “Butthurt” division of the Make-Believe Enforcement Agency.
Like I said, there isn’t anything shocking that CNN is fake news. Anyone who’s been paying attention for the past 4 years already knows it. They don’t however usually admit it out loud and insist that they are unbiased news coverage, so this is at least embarrassing for the network. Then again to feel shame you have to have some shame and CNN doesn’t
