{"id":11253,"date":"2014-01-13T01:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2014-01-13T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T09:39:20","slug":"breitbart-news-invents-quotes-to-smear-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11253","title":{"rendered":"Breitbart ‘News’ Invents Quotes To Smear CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an old saying that wisely counsels to leave well enough alone. Unfortunately, the Tea-guzzlers at Breitbart News have dismissed that advice and unleashed an assault against CNN and its chief, Jeff Zucker. Never mind that CNN has devolved into a nearly useless platform for right-wing propaganda as evidenced by their recent interview of Glenn Beck by Beck’s own employee, S.E. Cupp. But that’s not good enough for the BreitBrats. Now they are launching an attack on CNN that is so feeble they had to make up quotes to hammer them with.<\/p>\n

\"Breitbart<\/p>\n

The title on Breitbart’s article is “CNN To Republicans: Drop Dead.”<\/em> Of course, no one on CNN ever said or even implied that. The flimsy impetus for the citation occurred in an article that was a slobbering love sonnet to Fox News by BreitBrat Tony Lee, whose feathers were ruffled by a remark made by CNN’s Zucker at a TV convention. Zucker responded to a question about a recent Fox criticism of CNN by correctly pointing out that “I think we all know what\u2019s going on there. The Republican Party is being run out of News Corp. headquarters [and] masquerading as a channel.”<\/em> Zucker was merely acknowledging the obvious: that the cozy relationship between Fox and the GOP is a well documented fact<\/a>. [Note: Fox happily reposted the Breitbart article on their own web of lies, Fox Nation<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

BreitBrat Tony rushed to Fox’s defense with a quote by the Chairman of the Republican Party, Reince Preibus who denied that Fox was his party’s mouthpiece saying “Hey Jeff Zucker, we’re the Republican Party and we speak for ourselves, pal.”<\/em> Sure they do. They just do it mostly on Fox News, and when they aren’t available, Fox does it for them.<\/p>\n

Lee then gets to the point by alleging that “It\u2019s an interesting strategy Zucker has: trash the Republican Party and, by extension, all Republicans.”<\/em> Except where in Zucker’s remarks did he trash the Republican Party? He merely noted that Fox is a GOP friendly network, which no one who is paying attention would dispute. Zucker’s comments were not even directed at Republicans at all. They were characterizing Fox News’ obvious partisan bias. But apparently associating Republicans with Fox News constitutes “trashing”<\/em> in Lee’s view.<\/p>\n

The rest of the article went on interminably about how Fox is beating their competition in the ratings, as if that had some relevance to the subject or to the measure of news quality. Lee’s conclusion, therefore, was summed up in the article’s second made up quote: “These factors led The Hollywood Reporter to declare that Roger Ailes and Fox News had won the cable news wars.”<\/em> The only problem with that is that the Hollywood Reporter declared no such thing. In fact, it was Ailes himself who made the declaration in an interview<\/a> with the Reporter.<\/p>\n

It takes an astonishingly low grade level of comprehension to take a quote by Ailes and attribute it to the Hollywood Reporter simply because that’s where it was published. But the quote itself was deliberately misleading and self-serving, as one might expect coming from the the CEO of Fox News about his own network. The only people who still believe that cable news quality is measured by ratings are the marketing and the PR departments. The truth is, in a point made often here at News Corpse, is that being number one is only a measure of popularity, not quality. After all, McDonalds is the number one restaurant in America, but very few people would say that it is the best quality food in the country. However, they do have something in common with Fox News:<\/p>\n

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There’s an old saying that wisely counsels to leave well enough alone. Unfortunately, the Tea-guzzlers at Breitbart News have dismissed that advice and unleashed an assault against CNN and its chief, Jeff Zucker. 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