CNN producer admits network hyping "mostly BS" Trump-Russia for ratings

[tucker6]

Trump needs to limit CNN's access to the WH similar to National Enquirer. See link for video.

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has struck again: This time, a senior CNN producer was caught on camera by one of O’Keefe’s investigators admitting that the network’s relentless bashing of President Donald Trump with the Russia scandal lacks proof.
“Could be bullshit. I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now,” the CNN producer, John Bonifield, said in a video O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released on Tuesday, when asked about his thoughts on the Russia investigation. “Like, we don’t have any giant proof. Then they say, well there’s still an investigation going on. And you’re like, yeah, I don’t know. If they were finding something we would know about it. The way these leaks happen, they would leak it. They’d leak. If it was something really good, it would leak…. The leaks keep leaking and there’s so many great leaks, and it’s amazing. I just refuse to believe that if they had something really good like that that wouldn’t leak because we’ve been getting all these other leaks. So, I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the president is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun. You have no real proof.”
The video also shows Bonifield admitting that he has not seen evidence that Trump has committed any crimes.

“I haven’t seen any good evidence to show the president committed a crime,” Bonifield says in the video.


And even if Russia did try to influence the U.S. election, Bonifield is heard saying in the video, that is not really much of a scandal. He is seen arguing that Russian efforts to influence the election would be normal, and that the U.S. government does the same thing around the world all the time.

“Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing **** all the time, we’re out there trying to manipulate governments,” Bonifield says.

Bonifield is a supervising producer for CNN Health. According to his biography on CNN’s website, Bonifield works with the CNN Medical Unit and “primarily with CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.”

These startling admissions from a CNN producer on hidden camera video come amid many other comments the video shows him making that are particularly problematic for a network in crisis. The Project Veritas video was released on Tuesday amid the worst scandal in CNN history. Zucker, the network president, is currently leading an internal investigation into a very fake news hit piece that CNN published Thursday night then retracted late Friday after a Breitbart News investigation. He is joined, per reports from BuzzFeed News, by the head of HR inside CNN at the top of the investigation. Three of CNN’s senior-most editorial staffers have resigned as a result of the growing scandal.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern....l-for-ratings/

[incoming]

Three resign at CNN after retraction of Russian story!!!!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thr...cid=spartandhp

[chadk66]

desperate times call for desperate measures. when your ratings are that bad you'll do anything to gain viewers. finally people that didn't understand/believe are coming to their senses.

[MargieRose]

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[tucker6]

Are our friends on the left still in bed this morning, or is this the hot potato without an answer?

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by tucker6

Are our friends on the left still in bed this morning, or is this the hot potato without an answer?

They are waiting for the real experts at MSNBC to explain why this is all Trump's fault.

[Marshall Bennett]

Seems some law can be applied in a manner that would give news people jail or prison time for manufacturing fake news. Would curb the leftist news agencies from broadcasting whatever they feel like in an attempt to brainwash the simple minded.

[chadk66]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Seems some law can be applied in a manner that would give news people jail or prison time for manufacturing fake news. Would curb the leftist news agencies from broadcasting whatever they feel like in an attempt to brainwash the simple minded.

that's what I've been saying. And also give jail time for reporters that print leaked classified info.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

It is truly an impossible selection as to which CNN 'journalist' makes one's skin crawl the most.

Jake Tapper?
Jim Acosta?
Anderson Cooper?
Chris Cuomo?
Don Lemon?
Michael Smerconish?
Brian Stelter?
Gloria Borger?
Van Jones?
Jeffrey Toobin?

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Lemon Drop Husker

It is truly an impossible selection as to which CNN 'journalist' makes one's skin crawl the most.

Jake Tapper?
Jim Acosta?
Anderson Cooper?
Chris Cuomo?
Don Lemon?
Michael Smerconish?
Brian Stelter?
Gloria Borger?
Van Jones?
Jeffrey Toobin?

In reality, aren't they the same person but with different names and wigs to appear as if the organization is more robust and diversified than it really is?

Jacob Paul Tapper is an American journalist, cartoonist, and author.

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones is an American activist, commentator, author and non-practicing attorney. He is a cofounder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator"

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Seems some law can be applied in a manner that would give news people jail or prison time for manufacturing fake news. Would curb the leftist news agencies from broadcasting whatever they feel like in an attempt to brainwash the simple minded.

We already have laws against libel and slander. We don't need any more laws. Potential punishment could also inhibit real news getting out to the public, as the lawyers kept a lid on reporters in fear of legal action.

Given the freedom of the internet, fake news is usually exposed and ends up hurting the credibility of those involved. CNN is paying the price now without the involvement of law enforcement. They may yet be sued for libel.

[Tom]

CNN should definitely be banned form WH press corps.
Make an example of them.

And send a message to the rest of the lying press out there.
CNN has always been lacking journalistic ethics. Anything for a big on air story.

How many time have we heard Ba Ba Booie live on the air?
Remember the OJ chase?

CNN has lived in the toilet for decades.

[NJ Stinks]

Originally Posted by tucker6

Are our friends on the left still in bed this morning, or is this the hot potato without an answer?

Maybe you missed this part of the linked article above:

"Bonifield is a supervising producer for CNN Health. According to his biography on CNN’s website, Bonifield works with the CNN Medical Unit and “primarily with CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.”


What does somebody's opinion in CNN Health mean when it comes to expressing a political opinion? Put another way, do you think every employee at CNN is automatically anti-GOP?

To buy the premise in the article quoted in the first post in this thread is absurd.

IMO, of course.

[reckless]

Originally Posted by NJ Stinks

Maybe you missed this part of the linked article above:

"Bonifield is a supervising producer for CNN Health. According to his biography on CNN’s website, Bonifield works with the CNN Medical Unit and “primarily with CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.”


What does somebody's opinion in CNN Health mean when it comes to expressing a political opinion? Put another way, do you think every employee at CNN is automatically anti-GOP?

To buy the premise in the article quoted in the first post in this thread is absurd.

IMO, of course.

Stinks, did you forget the part of this report where CNN president -- not some Medical field reporter -- Jeff Zucker, was quoted to go back to the (hoax) 'Russia' story?

While I don't think every CNN employee is anti-GOP, the last time I saw a segment on CNN there was 8 -- count 'em, 8 -- anti-Trump nitwits, and one, yes, one, Trump supporter on the panel.

No lie, it was 8-1 against the GOP/Trump. Totally balanced in CNN's eyes.

[NJ Stinks]

Originally Posted by reckless

Stinks, did you forget the part of this report where CNN president -- not some Medical field reporter -- Jeff Zucker, was quoted to go back to the (hoax) 'Russia' story?

While I don't think every CNN employee is anti-GOP, the last time I saw a segment on CNN there was 8 -- count 'em, 8 -- anti-Trump nitwits, and one, yes, one, Trump supporter on the panel.

No lie, it was 8-1 against the GOP/Trump. Totally balanced in CNN's eyes.

The problem there is that CNN saw how well it worked viewer-wise when FOX News ganged up on Obama/the Democrats and left guys like Alan Colmes and Bob Beckel to defend the other side.

The other problem for CNN is that liberals aren't consumed with all things political like conservatives are.