If you’re an Epoch Times reader, chances are you don’t often watch CNN.
I have to admit I don’t. Their absurdly partisan two-year Russia, Russia, Russia obsession essentially destroyed the network for me and evidently many others, given their ratings.
Nevertheless, I tuned into CNN on Dec. 13 for a town hall at Des Moines’ Grandview University with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, moderated by Abby Phillip.
Just as often, however, I had found Mr. Ramaswamy spot on, as when he called for the resignation of Republican National Committee chairperson Ronna McDaniel and asked NBC’s Kristen Welker about her role in that same Russia collusion hoax promoted by CNN.
On Dec. 13, he was spot on plus. You could see he drove CNN’s Ms. Phillip nuts. He was far more than she bargained for.
The event began practicably enough with Mr. Ramaswamy—the best communicator among the GOP candidates save Donald Trump, who’s his own thing—handling questions from the audience of supposedly undecided Republican voters about his relative youth, how he would differ from President Trump, his theory on ending the Ukraine war by driving a wedge between Russian and China, and so forth.
The latter drew a slight challenge from Ms. Phillip, but the real drama began when Jan. 6 was brought up.
Mr. Ramaswamy launched into a detailed analysis of why he thought it was a government inside job when Ms. Phillip, prepared, attempted to trip him up with demands for evidence as if she had never seen those video clips of myriad suspicious characters running around the Mall that almost all of us have.
Mr. Ramaswamy was having none of it, responding with a litany of government/FBI malfeasances, including the many questions about provocateurs surrounding the kidnapping of Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Ms. Phillip interjected that the candidate was misleading the audience, but the audience was obviously supporting Mr. Ramaswamy, applauding everything he said and making the moderator even more frustrated.
What the folks at CNN aren’t getting, or hasn’t permeated their bubble yet, is that after the Russia hoax, COVID-19, and one could easily add all the unsubstantiated nonsense about imminent climate Armageddon, a huge percentage of our public no longer believes the government.
And CCN and much of the rest of the legacy media are considered part of that government and effectively their stooges.
They seem baffled by this because they still think of themselves as rebels, taking it to “the man,” the cools guys. But as Mr. Ramaswamy said during the town hall, he hoped to make faith, family, and hard work cool.
Ultimately, that has more staying power.
All this was on display in Iowa, playing out against the background of the Biden impeachment inquiry being voted in by a unanimous Republican vote almost simultaneously.
No wonder CNN was upset.
I’m not certain of this, but I suspect they cut the town hall a few minutes short. At any rate, the second it was over, they had another announcer ready in close-up to immediately inform their audience that what Mr. Ramaswamy was saying was indeed a “conspiracy theory.” She did this almost breathlessly, as if she were given emergency instructions from network brass.
Forget that the audience just might be able to make up their minds for themselves. This is the way our mainstream media operates, but usually at a more sophisticated level.
To Mr. Ramaswamy’s credit, he outed them.
