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http://www.thedailybeast.com/watch-seb-gorka-baffles-anderson-cooper-with-alternative-realityby Matt Wilstein at the Daily Beast
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Gorka called the idea that there is a bunker mentality or crisis in the White House laughable, calmly stating: We are pushing the Make America Great Again agenda. The president is a steam locomotive that will not be stopped. Its just fake news. Im sad to see CNN fall to this. I know you want salacious, sensational coverage for your ratings, so your corporate sponsors and owners will have more money. But thats not media, thats not reportage, its just fake news.
Im just going to ignore the insults, because I dont think it gets us anywhere, Cooper replied, attempting to move on to a discussion about the presidents claims that any media report that contains anonymous sourcing is fake news. Im wondering how the president can make that claim when all the reporting by The New York Times about the meeting his son held with the Russian attorney have been proven by his sons own emails, Cooper said, which he only released after the Times was going to publish the contents of them.
Instead of responding to the question, Gorka cited an unrelated instance in which CNN got some reporting wrong that was based on anonymous sources. Pressed by Cooper on whether he denies that the Times reporting in this case was accurate, Gorka said, No, I deny the fact that theres anything here thats untoward. But he would not break with the presidents fake news assertion, saying, I stand by what the president and his son said. We are incredibly impressed by Don Jr.s transparency and the fact that he actually published these emails.
Gorka also refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump Jr.s explanation for why he took the meeting with the Russian lawyerevolved repeatedly over the past several daysas the Times reported more facts about it. At first, he said it was only about adoption issues and only later admitted that the pretext for the meeting was allegedly damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Everything is either squishy blue butterflies and giant orange flowers or demons dancing across the ceiling.
But nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it actually is.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Why are the cable networks giving this asshole a chance to speak?
Atticus
(15,124 posts)open-mike hour.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)except for gish galloping gaslighters. They want to diminish CNN by sending creeps.
littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)♡ eom
applegrove
(118,696 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)Auto correct sucks too!
Alliteration: For the Spelling police. I know you are out there...
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applegrove
(118,696 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)Thanks. I'm terrible at spelling.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)True Dough
(17,306 posts)Can't stand his lies and deception, but Gorka is not easily rattled at all. And he did have that "stick it to 'em" line about CNN's ratings slipping and now being 13th behind Nick at Nite.
The right-wingers will eat it up, but it is unfortunate that CNN doesn't have more traction in the ratings.