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Wow. That IS excellent. After reading it the video made it clearer.

A link you forgot to include .. CNN's Kasie Hunt: "Scott is our colleague"
What about the truth?
Steve Schmidt
Jun 03, 2024
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/cnns-kasie-hunt-scott-is-our-colleague?r=f7s8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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CNN's Kasie Hunt: "Scott is our colleague"
Steve Schmidt
17–21 minutes

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Understanding something about astronomy and political physics helps explicate the complexities of the moment. Think about your old science class where you learned about a giant star collapsing into a black hole. When the star collapses, it gets smaller, but denser and heavier.

Political parties function in exactly the same manner. Shrinking parties are always cauldrons of intensifying extremism, which are fueled by dogmas that demand purity, obedience and conformity. The smaller they become, the more extreme they become. Pure parties are always small, but then again, it isn’t necessarily the size of a political party that determines their capacity to take power. What matters most is intensity and commitment. Trump has simultaneously stoked devotion and apathy. The two opposing forces can be a potent combination in a political campaign. The fundamental and substantive difference between the Biden and Trump campaigns is one believes in elections, reality and juries, while the other stands opposed to all three.

Politically, the difference is more complicated. President Biden stirs all of the contempt and indifference that Trump does, without any capacity to create a reciprocal intensity. This fact exposes the fundamental design flaw of the Biden campaign,...

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That George Conway and Scott Jennings said is beside the point and doesn’t particularly matter, but the same can’t be said for what Kasie Hunt said. There is a higher value than the truth at CNN and a chalk line on the studio floor that denotes boundaries. When extremism deserves confrontation there can be none because the definition of journalism at CNN imposes a requirement that plain words be interpreted by a translator from the very cause that spoke them to balance their plain meaning with denials that proclaim A means B and B really means A.

Like a drunken diplomat who runs over a child but is protected from accountability by diplomatic immunity, a “colleague” designation at CNN gives propagandists spinning nonsense a license to deceive on the backs of actual journalists, who are some of the best in the world. Their credibility doesn’t deserve to be tainted, much less assaulted, by the ethical conundrums that arise from play acting around deadly serious events because some relic of a formula demands it.

The problem at CNN is the world they are covering isn’t the ocean, but rather the aquarium, which they insist is the sea. The events transpiring demand clear and objective reporting, which doesn’t nullify the possibilities of sinister motives behind criminal conspiracies to seize political power from the ashes of defeat and conviction that are malignant and potentially deadly.

The debate occurring in America is not proximate to a disagreement about whether the top marginal tax rate should be 39 or 35 per cent. The issues at hand are existential. They shouldn’t be trivialized and sanitized to sustain a business model that requires allegiance to a fantasy that two good faith philosophies — conservative vs. liberal, both committed to the preservation of American democracy — are in perpetual competition and partnership with one another.

Kasie Hunt and CNN are supposed to be on your side, permanently and unambiguously, but they are not. The moment demonstrated that “colleagues” stand up for each other — even when one is a spokesperson for the cause of revenge, retribution and the imprisonment of political prisoners. What is so offensive is not the advocacy of fascism, but rather the constant denial of the advocacy, which is perfectly clear. When nothing can mean anything and everything nothing, when up can be down and down can be up, we are all in trouble. How has it come to be that the lie and truth are locked in a death struggle in a twilight haze of indifference and apathy where most people can’t tell one from the other?

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America needs informed citizens. When Donald Trump was indicted I said this: while Trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty, his indictment creates a dangerous hour for the Republican Party, and our nation as a whole.

When he was convicted, Scott Jennings said he was innocent, which is why it was fair and necessary for George Conway to ask why he is paid to be on CNN. Scott Jennings sought to confuse and muddle matters of plain fact on a news show that left the audience misinformed and uninformed, and one of CNN’s anchors squandering her integrity for an errant shill who claims expertise, but demonstrated none besides the capacity to do with words what Mikey did with cereal. Either way, it was a bad look for everyone involved, with the exception of the always brilliant David Frum, who made the obvious point correcting Scott Jennings: no, Alvin Bragg didn’t say he was out to get Trump, and being a felon isn’t good for your campaign.

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/cnns-kasie-hunt-scott-is-our-colleague?r=f7s8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

The video again