CNN is well known for hiring liars as "contributors" and liars as editors of the news in the background where people can't see what they are up to, so the fact that there is another editor here who can't put two and two together on a basic politics 101 scale shouldn't be a big surprise. This post just continues to document some the useless news people on CNN.
1. Here is an example of a ridiculously shallow analysis (to the point that you have to wonder if this is a coverup or this guy is extremely dumb and uninformed) because conservatives have never stuck to one idea, they only say what they believe will help them win THAT particular fight they are fighting in the moment. Anyone involved in the last few GOP elections would know that rich white men are what Republicans prefer over anything else, including morality or any sort of platform, so these comments show an extreme lack of political and historical awareness. Also, Republicans are well known to be followers of thier leaders no matter what. Its like Chris has never even visited America, as far as his political analysis is concerned, so the question is, why is Chris Cilliza at CNN and who put him there?
CNN's Chris Cillizza isn’t sure if Donald Trump fits in the “moderate lane” or the “conservative lane” Cillizza: “He shattered the lane thing”
CHRIS CILLIZZA: I think we have a tendency to think about things in lanes, oh it’s the moderate lane, it’s the conservative lane. Donald Trump, that doesn't mean the Democratic primary will -- but he shattered-- the evangelicals supporting a guy with Donald Trump's background who said the things Donald Trump has said, he shattered the lane thing. Oh, there's a conservative lane and a moderate lane. Well, I don't know where he fits there.
2. This piece by Media Matters has a full analysis of Chris Cilliza and what a bad political analyst he really is;
Media Matters: Chris Cillizza, impeachment, and a grotesque monument to modern media What CNN’s analyst shows about what gets prioritized in the press
You know how in movies like Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30, and Big, there are always those scenes where the main character has to learn how to be an adult? They go to an office, they don’t know how anything works, and they generally fumble through the day, ordering things like jelly beans and chocolate milk for lunch while spinning around on a swivel chair? Well, the difference between those scenes and CNN analyst Chris Cillizza’s career is that at least the children in the movies eventually learn to do their job with some level of competence.
Cillizza is, at best, an overpriced embarrassment CNN has chained itself to. He treats politics like a game played for his entertainment, rather than something that affects the lives of everyone in the country. His Twitter feed is a mess of played-out memes that make his reaction to any given event as predictable as a talking doll with a pull string. Though he’s treated as an expert on the American political establishment, his analysis comes with the naivete of a newborn child.
In short: Cillizza is bad, and his impeachment analysis shows just how bad.
On January 31, Cillizza wrote that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “pulled off a near-impossible impeachment feat” by managing to wrap up President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial without witnesses ahead of the State of the Union address on February 4. A week and a half earlier, in a January 21 blog post, Cillizza explained why he thought this would be such a difficult task for McConnell, citing polling showing public support for hearing from witnesses.
It’s a dewy-eyed understanding of politics to think McConnell would have either caved to public pressure or lost grip on his caucus. Looking back to 2016, when McConnell stonewalled Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, he faced a similar situation. Public support for holding Senate hearings on Garland’s nomination was overwhelming, and yet McConnell was able to keep Republicans in line. It’s utterly bizarre that any serious political analyst would conclude that McConnell “pulled off a near-impossible impeachment feat” by rallying his fellow GOP senators to buck public opinion once again.
On January 29, Cillizza wrapped himself in a “both sides” security blanket, tweeting a quote from his own article about that day’s impeachment hearing question-and-answer session: “Two sides deeply entrenched in their views and with zero interest in engaging the other side in any sort of thoughtful conversation or debate. So convinced of the rightness of their views that they don’t want to waste time by considering any others.”
“It was everything wrong with our politics,” he wrote in the CNN piece before lamenting, “There's no political body immune these days from the reflexive partisanship that has seized us all.” But by this point in the impeachment trial, it was clear that while one side was interested in discussing facts and actually making a case for removing Trump from office, the other was simply trying to run out the clock with conspiracy theories and absurd claims that the president was more or less untouchable. This kind of analysis tells us absolutely nothing about the merits of the arguments being made, which ones were based in fact, or what any of this meant in historical context. This was worse than worthless; it was detrimental to the public’s understanding of what was happening.
On January 14, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that the House would vote on sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, Cillizza determined that “Pelosi gambled and lost on the impeachment delay.” Predictably, Cillizza’s description of the events sounded more like a caller to a sports talk radio show complaining about a couch's decision than an effort to help people understand why the impeachment documents hadn’t been sent over in the first place.
Pelosi's goal was simple: To try to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hand. Pelosi wanted to use her possession of the articles of impeachment to yield promises and/or compromises from McConnell -- most notably on the issue of witnesses being allowed to be called in the Senate trial.Except that McConnell wasn't playing ball.
Cillizza could have covered the fact that Pelosi and Democrats were concerned that McConnell and Republicans would hold a sham trial with the goal of acquitting Trump. He could’ve written about how broken the system is if one party can simply look the other way in the face of serious allegations against the president. Instead, he covered it as a game. Later that day, a bombshell of a story dropped about newly released documents related to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his fixer Lev Parnas. Had Pelosi sent the impeachment documents over immediately, as Cillizza suggested she would have been better off doing, it’s possible that the Senate would have barrelled through its trial before Parnas’ involvement in surveilling then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was revealed.
While most of Cillizza’s articles are poorly written and only as intellectually deep as a Dixie cup, one impeachment story stands out as particularly bad. Following the December 8 House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, Cillizza churned out an article lamenting how difficult it was for him to do his job.
For just the third time in the country’s history, a sitting president was about to be impeached by the House of Representatives, but it wasn’t enough to entertain Cillizza. It was “unwatchable,” in his words. “A bunch of adults yelling at one another over matters that almost no one watching understood or cares about,” he wrote. That, right there, is his job. If people don’t understand or care about what’s being discussed, it’s his job to help them. Politics can be complicated, and it’s the job of journalists like Cillizza to explain the complications.
As Trump’s impeachment trial wrapped up in the Senate, and at a time when the public needed a competent press as much as ever, Cillizza’s articles did little to actually keep people up to speed with what was happening. Ahead of the final vote, Cillizza wrote a piece about Trump getting good news about his poll numbers, a story about how “we ain't seen nothing yet” when it comes to Trump’s outrageous antics post-acquittal, an article highlighting the obvious fact that Trump won’t ever take responsibility for his actions, and a loving ode to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT). In a smorgasbord of content, Cillizza’s position at the self-appointed “most trusted name in news” is little more than intellectual empty calories.
The press exists to inform the public. What role, exactly, does Cillizza play in that?
In a 2017 Reddit “ask me anything” session, one user asked Cillizza, “I’m curious as to whether or not you’ve spent time contemplating how your approach to journalism might be damaging to the public dialog,” citing an old quote in which Cillizza said that his job is not to assess “the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality.”
In his reply, Cillizza shirked responsibility by pointing out that some people simply won’t believe facts, no matter how many times they’re presented with information and clarifications. Other users in the thread highlighted the times when Cillizza was the one making factual mistakes and his tendency to draw false equivalencies, equally blaming and praising both political parties in order to keep a supposedly balanced perspective.
At its core, that’s the problem with Cillizza, especially in the Trump era. It’s not that he has changed -- he’s always been this terrible -- but that our politics changed around him. Our need to be entertained more than informed is what helped propel Trump to the presidency and Cillizza to one of the most visible positions in journalism. They’re both symptoms of larger problems in media and politics, embodiments of a reality TV world built around short attention spans. Cillizza’s shallow clips are made with the belief that people can digest information only if it’s presented as entertainment. His on-camera demeanor is often better suited for a post-screening discussion of an action movie than for a discussion about the future of democracy. This wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if he didn’t treat fluff commentary -- like the “news” that Trump has a habit of comparing his political enemies to dogs or the president's “199 wildest lines of 2019” -- as though it's as important as stories like the president’s impeachment for abuse of power.
The real shame of Cillizza’s success -- during a time when journalism is one of the only checks on power we have left -- is that there are so many talented, hard-working, fact-based journalists who’ve lost work in recent years. Columbia Journalism Review reported in December that 3,160 journalists were laid off in 2019. As we view Trump’s scandals and impeachment through Cillizza’s warped lens, it’s worth wondering how different things would be in our media and our democracy if news organizations rejected the sort of lighthearted hackery he peddles, instead of making it a highly sought commodity.
Chris Cillizza is a monument to our modern media, and that should worry us.
CNN
- CNN's "Civility" Argument Shows CNN Anchors/Hosts Can't Put Facts In Context Of What's Going On!
- CNN Often Promotes (And Hires!) People Getting PAID To Push A Particular View - Or Professional Liars - And Don't Disclose It Thus Giving Liars A Platform To Become More Influential (By Not Saying That Some Of Their Talking Heads Are Infomercials & /Or Liars, CNN Is Deceiving Its Viewers)
- CNN Hires A Well Known And Proven Liar To EDIT The News In Secret (i.e. No Disclaimer On Anything Edited By Her!)
- CNN's "Editor At Large" (Chris Cillizza) Lies About And Frames Elizabeth Warren! What's That About And Who's Paying/Influencing Him To Do It? DNC/Biden?
- How CNN Focuses On Sensationalism (With The Daily Show)
Media
- Mainstream Media Is Completely Failing In Covering The Enormity & Context Of Trump's State Of The Union Speech
- Obama Notices The GOP Are Like Nazis And Warns Us About Being Complacent (& Media Completely Ignores Obama's Warning!)
- We Know That Most People Only Read Headlines So Is Mainstream Media Being Incredibly Stupid Or Are They Intentionally Pushing Untruths?
- CNN's "Civility" Argument Shows CNN Anchors/Hosts Can't Put Facts In Context Of What's Going On!
- CNN Often Promotes (And Hires!) People Getting PAID To Push A Particular View - Or Professional Liars - And Don't Disclose It Thus Giving Liars A Platform To Become More Influential (By Not Saying That Some Of Their Talking Heads Are Infomercials & /Or Liars, CNN Is Deceiving Its Viewers)
- CNN Hires A Well Known And Proven Liar To EDIT The News In Secret (i.e. No Disclaimer On Anything Edited By Her!)
- War Based Money Con: Chuck Todd Of Meet The Press Promoted Pro-Iran War Views By Hosting A Lobbyist/Briber Without Disclosing That He Was Doing That And Helped The Guys Companies Stock Go Up!
- BREAKING: Corporate Media Is Helping The GOP With Their Lies On Iran The Way They Did With Iraq
- CNN's "Editor At Large" (Chris Cillizza) Lies About And Frames Elizabeth Warren! What's That About And Who's Paying/Influencing Him To Do It? DNC/Biden?
- Media Uselessness Example: Ignoring Historical Context To Explain The Trump VS Lincoln Poll Of Republicans
- Moment Of Zen: Fox News Was Designed To Protect A Republican President From The Constitution!
- The Many Times The Washington Post Has Betrayed The Public's Trust
- Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies
- Media Uselessness Example: Corporate Media Gives Steve King A Pass On White Supremacism
- Here Is Chuck Todd Skewing Viewers Perceptions With A Pro-Republican Piece Using NBC's Meet The Press
- The Coast Guard Domestic Terrorist Is Just The Latest Right Wing Terrorist Enabled By Media Silence On Fox News Incendiary Rhetoric
- Why Do News Outlets Bring On Non-Scientists To Argue Against Science?
- Examples Of How The "Fact Based" News Media Distorts Public Perception Of Truth Because Of Unusually Bad And/Or Incompetent Journalism
- As Fox News Launches Fox Nation, I Would Like To Note That Mainstream Media Lets Fox Lie Unchallenged And Don't Fight Fox To Dominate The Ratings By Suppressing Their Lies... Thus Fox Has Been #1 For Decades. "Fact" Based Media Has Enabled Right Wing Hate & Are Thus A Threat To National Security!
- BREAKING: Fox News Is The Real President
- Don't Let Chuck Todd Fool Ya. The GOP Really Is Very Very Bad
- Chuck Todd: Spreading Lies By Sanitizing Right Wing Nuts Talking Points
- The Last GOP Bill Condemned 28,600 Americans To Death (Approx), Media Ignores Story
- Trump's Terrorist Attack On the Press (With Fox News Support)
- Fox News Has Literally Been Created For Obstruction Of Justice (i.e. Choosing Party Over Country Is What They Are All About)
- The Ultimate Proofs That Fox News Is Basically Just A Group Of White Supremacists/Nationalists/Nazis
- The Infowars Style Group Of Hate & Violence Mongers, Include Fox News & Fox Business!
- Fox News Is A MAINSTREAM Fearmongering Media Channel Mistakenly Labelled Real News Followed By A Bunch Of Sheep Who Don't/Can't See The Con!
- Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - The Southern Strategy By The GOP Created Modern Politics But They Continuously Get Away With It!
- Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny: The Paul Ryan Example, i.e. "Paul Ryan Is A Bad Person", So Why Won't The Media Tell The American People?
- The Main Political Commentators At Fox News & Alex Jones (Infowars) Are Now Joined At The Hip
- How Media Enables The GOP's Southern Strategy: The Puerto Rico & Hurricane Maria Example
- NRA, Infowars, Fox News, Breitbart And Sinclair Function As A Terrorist Propaganda Wing Of The GOP That Seeks To Build Hate & Muddy The Waters (Kinda Like State TV)
- Note - Gerrymandering Is A Subset Of "Rigging Elections" Or "Election Fraud", An Important Aspect That Gets Left Out Of Media Coverage
- Fox News - And Right Wing Media - Is Nothing More Than A Conspiracy & Nazi-Style Propaganda Ring
- Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - Making Russia Seem Worse Than The GOP (& How Russia & The Right-Wing/GOP Are Really In A Symbiotic Relationship!)
- Media: How The "Left" Enables GOP Tyranny - The Ongoing Iraq War Lies Coverup By Richard Engel & NBC
- The Right Wing Are Basically Terrorists Or "Terrorist Creators" (Alt Right Terrorists Is The Politically Correct Term)
- The Last GOP Bill Condemned 28,600 Americans To Death (Approx), Media Ignores Story (Choosing Politeness Over Saving Lives?)
- The Liars & Bullshitters Of The Iraq War (Such As John Bolton) Are Still Treated With Respect By Mainstream Media (Despite Being Constantly Wrong... Its Like Being Respectful To Nazis Because They Are Americans)
- FLASHBACK: The Tea Party Wasn't Authentic Because Outside Groups (Fox News & The Kochs) Created, Organized And Spread It
- Outlining The Kochs Treasonous Agenda: Proofs That The Koch Brothers OWN The Right Wing & Thus The GOP Could Be Renamed "KOCH"
- NBC/MSNBC's Hidden Role As "The Rights, Left"
- CNN's Model For Reporting & Journalism Has A Problem With Conveying The Whole Truth Based On Facts To Its Viewers Because Of Its "Both Sides" Format That Places Outright Lies On the Same Footing With Facts On Their "Facts First" Apple-Banana Channel
- An Introduction To, & Overview Of, The Mainstream Corporate Media
- FCC's Anti-Constitutional Push Under Trump To Cut Of Net Neutrality To Increase Authoritarianism
- BREAKING... The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It OR Real Economics VS Fake Economics: How The Kochs Are Destroying America By Attacking Its Societal Structures In Favor Of Social Darwinism Or "Survival Of The Fittest"
- Trump's America: The GOP Sentences At Least 15,000 To 17,000 Americans To Death EVERY YEAR! (i.e. The Effects Of 13 Million Uninsured)
- How "Liberal" Media Helps The GOP With It's Fake Healthcare (More Examples Of The Corporate Media's Coverups)
- Corporate Media's Iraq War Coverup: Incontrovertible Proof Of Network News & The Beltway Media Covering Facts About The Iraq War For Their GOP Masters
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