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CousinIT

(12,489 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 02:53 PM Yesterday

Pete Hegseth just confirmed what the Ellison takeover of CNN is actually for.

https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-patriotic-press

Pete Hegseth held a press briefing at the Pentagon on Friday morning, and he had some thoughts about CNN.

He was responding to a CNN report published Thursday that cited multiple sources saying the administration had misjudged Iran’s willingness to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. The New York Times had published similar reporting days earlier. Hegseth called CNN’s story “fake news” and “fundamentally unserious.”

And then: “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
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Pete Hegseth just confirmed what the Ellison takeover of CNN is actually for. (Original Post) CousinIT Yesterday OP
Everyone still consuming and passing on CNN content is complicit in their own subjugation. RockRaven Yesterday #1
Control the media, take rights away, take descent paying jobs away.................. Lovie777 Yesterday #2
What is the most surprising is that no enterprising billionaires... Hugin Yesterday #3

RockRaven

(19,185 posts)
1. Everyone still consuming and passing on CNN content is complicit in their own subjugation.
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 02:59 PM
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Lovie777

(22,800 posts)
2. Control the media, take rights away, take descent paying jobs away..................
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 03:00 PM
Yesterday

no affordable healthcare, block learning history, books, and only teach the ideology preferred by the elites, et al..............

Dictatorship 2.0.

Hugin

(37,810 posts)
3. What is the most surprising is that no enterprising billionaires...
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 03:13 PM
Yesterday

Have seemed to realize that there's a very real growing thirst for the truth and a more open information conduit in the US.

Come on! There's money to be made!

Pathetic.

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