The strategy CNN management chose was silence. Just say nothing, and hope the controversy fades away.
It's been almost 10 days since Fauci diary entries revealed that two of CNN's top anchors were private pals with the man they were supposed to be objectively covering.
From "friendship building" dinner parties, backchanneling interview questions, to texting insults about Republicans, none of it has been addressed by Tapper, Bash, Stelter or anyone else at CNN.
Just pretend like it never happened.
And to many people who aren't on 𝕏 or don't consume right-leaning media — it never did.
Ethics. Transparency. Journalism.
This is CNN.
Did taxpayers spend billions covering people who weren't even eligible for Obamacare?
A new study claims nearly half of those enrolled in Obamacare in 2024, roughly 9 million people, may not have qualified under federal eligibility rules.
According to the Paragon Health Institute, millions receiving subsidized coverage earn too much to qualify or are not legally present in the U.S., as pandemic-era policies helped supercharge the issue.
The report estimates Obamacare fraud costs taxpayers as much as $32 billion a year. It says California and New York are among the states facing the biggest issues, with up to 62% of enrollees in California possibly being ineligible.
The findings are expected to add fuel to the debate on Capitol Hill over oversight of the program, with a hearing on it set for this week.
To prove Islam is not violent, Muslim debater warns Oxford opponent that Muslim mob outside would "cook" him if not for her benevolence
https://t.co/7Dvr4GgAL8
Democrats: voter ID is racist and the SAVE Act must be stopped. Also Democrats: you will need a "library card-esque" ID to buy milk at Mamdani's government grocery store. Make it make sense.
This was a long-overdue moment on CNN.
RFK Jr. called out the network on air for helping to silence dissent during COVID.
Dana Bash was getting visibly irritated, after she repeatedly tried to move the conversation away from censorship.
Then he aimed his fire at Dana Bash directly: “Of course you want to move on because you were part of the problem!”
KENNEDY: “We need to protect our constitutional rights. That is the primary obligation in our country.”
BASH: “What does that mean?”
KENNEDY: “Well, during COVID, we completely dismantled our constitutional rights. We began censoring people in violation of the First Amendment.”
BASH: “You’re saying what not to do, I’m asking what to do.”
KENNEDY: “Well, that’s something to do. That is the number one priority: we protect the Constitution.”
BASH: “Forgive me, but you’re talking about rights and I’m asking about a potential public health crisis that is coming. But I do want to… let’s…”
KENNEDY: “And one of the mistakes we made last time was suppressing those rights. So people weren’t being heard. Doctors who were saying, ‘You’re doing it wrong,’ were being marginalized and vilified.”
BASH: “Again, I really want to move on…”
KENNEDY: “Yeah, of course you want to move on because you were part of the problem!”
BASH: “No! I wasn’t part of the problem!”
KENNEDY: “There was absolute press malpractice. Your job is to have a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren’t doing that.”
“You were beating up on people who were dissenting!”
Here goes Bernie Sanders again…
Telling America that Black people can’t get a photo ID to vote.
Think about how insulting that is.
We’re expected to believe that Black Americans can serve in the military, run businesses, earn college degrees, buy homes, board airplanes, cash checks, open bank accounts, and raise families…
…but somehow we’re incapable of getting a government-issued ID?
Enough.
Stop treating Black Americans like we’re helpless victims who need white benevolent liberals to speak for us.
We’re not a monolith.
We don’t all think alike.
We don’t all vote alike.
And we certainly don’t need Bernie Sanders telling us what we’re capable of.
Every American should meet the same standard when voting. Requiring a photo ID isn’t racist, it’s a basic safeguard that applies equally to everyone.
The soft bigotry of low expectations isn’t compassion.
It’s condescension.
And that’s why we NEED the Save America Act on the President’s desk, NOW.
March, 2021. CNN breaks the "news" that the Pfizer vaccine is 100% effective in preventing infection and sickness in 12-15 year old.
It was absolutely not true.
This is the same CNN that wouldn't air Trump's recent speech because of "misinformation."
Before Fauci pled the Fifth 100+ times, I covered @RandPaul's claim that Fauci sent American money to Wuhan, China, to fund research that might have created the COVID pandemic.
At the time, Paul was called a conspiracy theorist.
Here's how that went down:
FLASHBACK: Dr. Fauci's 2022 CNN interview isn't aging well.
He said he would "cooperate fully" with Congress, that he has "nothing to hide," and that he could "explain and validate everything" he's done.
Four years later, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during his Senate testimony.
Fauci's diary WASN'T leaked, stolen, or hacked. It wasn't even "private." @SecKennedy breaks down exactly how he uncovered it:
“If you do something on a government server, it belongs to the government. He was keeping a diary for the book that he intended to write about his life. And at the end of his term, just before he was leaving, he emailed the entire diary to himself... And that's how we found it, through those emails.
It's not a diary in the sense, like you said, that a teenage girl keeps a diary that's private and has a lock on it. This is a government computer, a government laptop, on government time, keeping this account of what his official duties are and then making private observations about them.
The liberal media is now feigning indignation that we released private diaries and violated his privacy, but that's just a crazy assertion. What they're really doing is covering up this vast media malpractice that took place during COVID, when they elevated this guy to a deified status, who had funded the weaponization of coronavirus, who then had given it to a Chinese military-run lab.”
Everything the left wants to do to America suddenly makes sense when you realize they have zero respect, love, or appreciation for this country.
This explains everything.
Every American needs to read it.
RFK Jr. reveals the single most disturbing thing he discovered in Anthony Fauci’s diaries.
This is peak hypocrisy. No other way to put it.
KENNEDY: “One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine.”
“So he took the Moderna vaccine on TV… to show people it was safe.”
“And then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction.”
“He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of the diary.”
“He was getting the best medical treatment that is available to anybody in the world at Walter Reed and all these other centers. There were doctors fawning over him.”
“Meanwhile, he was telling other people to take this product and concealing the fact that he himself, after announcing this press conference to show it was safe, had actually gotten very, very sick from an injury that was highly expected and highly likely to be caused by the vaccine.”