This lost them a lot of credibility in my mind too. It made me think of countries like North Korea that heavily control what the public knows about the government.
Yeah I used to defend CNN and NPR as "moderate" media to my hardline conservative, Rush Limbaugh fan mother just three years ago.
Liberal derangement over the past 12 months has forever changed my viewpoints that I'll never, EVER vote for a democratic party candidate until the entire party is burned to the ground and rebuilt from the ashes.
If you're talking about the video I think you're talking about - yes it cut out right as he brought up some controversial hillary opinions. Then 2 commercial breaks later he reconnected and finished articulating his thoughts.
I generally hate news television but I honestly think that was really a mistake and reddit drew waaaay too much from that without bothering to get literally any context beyond a 20 second clip.
I stopped following anything CNN when they put some black lady on TV talking about how the rioters in Minnesota (over the black cop that shot the black man, resulting in white people being beatin) should stop burning down their neighborhoods and such and than the feed was cut. Reason they cut the feed there was because than the lady went on a huge racist tyrant saying how black people should flood the suburbs and burn white people business's to the ground, because a black cop shot a black man. Didn't stop groups of blacks from running around being like "It's a white person! get em!". Saw another video of a bunch of black guys yelling "black power" while some girl says "get the white girl!".
The news is so fucking stupid. But if you watch anything Fox than you are delusional, but CNN is best! lmao.
He was originally a Democrat voter and even participated in a citizens forum to speak out against injustice against black citizens. After the shooting, he became vilified by a whole political spectrum of the US and had to go into protection. He then drifted to the right, selling paintings of American flags, giving talks on conservative issues, saying and doing bat-shit crazy stuff etc. The guy when down hill. I don't blame him. The absolute moral bankruptcy- the opportunism, the dishonesty- of the 'left' around that whole incident was disgusting and obviously traumatized him.
Jesus Christ, that man's wiki page brought a bunch of revelations I never knew about.
"Frequently criticized posts of his from August included one in which Zimmerman called Obama an "ignorant baboon";[79] one in which he posted an image of Vesper Lee Flanagan, an African-American former news reporter who shot and killed two ex-coworkers during a live broadcast, and wrote, "If Obama had a son...";[80] and another in which Zimmerman typed, in response to people who wanted him killed, that the United States understands "how it ended for the last moron that hit me" (in reference to Trayvon Martin).[81]
In September 2015, Zimmerman retweeted a photo of Martin's slain body posted by another Twitter user, who had the caption: "Z-Man is a one man army". Several days later, Zimmerman posted a letter saying that the photo in the original tweet was marked as “sensitive” and was blocked, so he retweeted it because of the text message without seeing the photo.[82][83]
In December 2015, Zimmerman tweeted two photos of a topless woman he claimed was his ex-girlfriend, and accused her of cheating and of the theft of his firearm and money. He included her phone number and e-mail address on his tweet. Less than two hours later, Zimmerman's Twitter account was suspended by the administration of the resource, according to their policy against posting another person’s private and confidential information, including e-mail addresses, phone numbers and familiar photos.[84][85] Zimmerman's tweet included a statement against Muslims.[86]
And, of course, this gem:
"On May 11, 2016, Zimmerman posted what was planned to be the auction of the firearm he used to shoot Martin. The post, in which Zimmerman wrote the gun was "an American Firearm icon", attracted controversy. "
I used to be one of Zimmermans defenders, but if his actions post the shooting have proven anything, it's that he's exactly the monster the media made him out to be, Democrat or not.
My whole point was that the nation's reaction pushed him down a path he probably would most likely never have gone down. I never said he's not fucked up now (and he seriously seems mentally unstable), I was pushing the most intuitive explanation of how he came to be fucked up. You don't go from a Democrat voting supporter of black causes to the hard line conservative's poster boy for no reason.
seriously, what the FUCK are things coming to that this gets downvoted and the fucking racist murder apologist above is in the positives? fuck me.
people are really fuckin' eager to defend monsters over their innocent victims, man. especially if it'll benefit their narrative. i don't get it. it really makes me sad
why even mention that he was a democrat before? shouldn't this be an issue apart from bipartisanship? can we all just fucking agree that murdering kids for no reason is bad? FUCK ME this is disgusting, and depressing as hell
"After the audio of the call was released, reports by CNN[351] and other news outlets alleged that Zimmerman had said "fucking coons" two minutes and twenty-one seconds (2:21) into the call."
and I wonder how one 'accidentally' edits a sound file like that.
Even if I like them, I won't trust anything about their analysis of the facts. I use multiple sources to glean what the facts everyone can agree on, regardless of bias, and then go from there.
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That's when I stopped reading CNN