CBS News exec said the network is hiring more Republicans because 'we know' they'll take over
Source: Yahoo/Insider
A CBS News executive told staff earlier this month that the network was hiring more Republicans as analysts because he believed there would "likely" be a Democratic wipeout in the 2022 midterm elections, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a leaked recording it obtained.
Neeraj Khemlani, a CBS News copresident, made the remark just before the announcement that the network had hired Mick Mulvaney, who briefly served as President Donald Trump's chief of staff, as an analyst. The decision sparked internal backlash, The Post reported.
In February 2020, Mulvaney accused journalists of exaggerating the impact of the coronavirus to damage Trump. Mulvaney also played a key role in the campaign to pressure Ukraine to smear Joe Biden, which resulted in Trump's first impeachment.
In an apparent attempt to lay the groundwork for the announcement of Mulvaney's hiring, Khemlani told morning-show staff members that hiring Republicans would give the network better coverage, The Post reported.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-exec-said-network-121236821.html
(Full title: "A CBS News exec said the network is hiring more Republicans because 'we know' they'll take over after the midterms: report" )
Craven abdication of neutral reporting, in favour of access. This is How Democracy Dies. Mulvaney was a part of the blackmailing of Ukraine, and CBS wants to pay him to get access to Republicans.
elleng
(130,145 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,749 posts)Lets just get a head start and begin hiring our new nazi overlords. CBS you are dead to me.
mitch96
(13,817 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts).... democratic party are very popular with the vast majority of Americans, and the republican party
is filled with traitors to America. (See below) Let the GOP run with Trump, C-19, and Putin around their
necks.
Look @ all of them who voted to let Donald Trump off the hook about blackmailing Zelenskyy and Ukraine
to rat fuck our elections by withholding military aid. They put party over our country and standing up
to Vlad Putin. Only Romney voted to hold Trump accountable.
This was Mitch McConnell right after blocking the American people and members of Congress
from seeing the evidence of Trump's trying to blackmail Zelenskyy by blocking military aid to
the Ukraine.
Republicans
Senator Article I Article II
Lamar Alexander, Tenn. No No
John Barrasso, Wyo. No No
Marsha Blackburn, Tenn. No No
Roy Blunt, Mo. No No
John Boozman, Ark. No No
Mike Braun, Ind. No No
Richard Burr, N.C. No No
Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va. No No
Bill Cassidy, La. No No
Susan Collins, Maine No No
John Cornyn, Texas No No
Tom Cotton, Ark. No No
Kevin Cramer, N.D. No No
Mike Crapo, Idaho No No
Ted Cruz, Texas No No
Steve Daines, Mont. No No
Mike Enzi, Wyo. No No
Joni Ernst, Iowa No No
Deb Fischer, Neb. No No
Cory Gardner, Colo. No No
Lindsey Graham, S.C. No No
Chuck Grassley, Iowa No No
Josh Hawley, Mo. No No
John Hoeven, N.D. No No
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Miss. No No
Jim Inhofe, Okla. No No
Ron Johnson, Wis. No No
John Kennedy, La. No No
James Lankford, Okla. No No
Mike Lee, Utah No No
Kelly Loeffler, Ga. No No
Mitch McConnell, Ky. No No
Martha McSally, Ariz. No No
Jerry Moran, Kan. No No
Lisa Murkowski, AK No No
Rand Paul, Ky. No No
David Perdue, Ga. No No
Rob Portman, Ohio No No
Jim Risch, Idaho No No
Pat Roberts, Kan. No No
Mitt Romney, Utah Yes No
Mike Rounds, S.D. No No
Marco Rubio, Fla. No No
Ben Sasse, Neb. No No
Rick Scott, Fla. No No
Tim Scott, S.C. No No
Richard Shelby, Ala. No No
Dan Sullivan, Alaska No No
John Thune, S.D. No No
Thom Tillis, N.C. No No
Patrick Toomey, Pa. No No
Roger Wicker, Miss. No No
Todd Young, Ind. No No
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/trump-impeachment-vote-count-senate-
ificandream
(9,196 posts)CBS is smarter than that, hopefully.
Ford_Prefect
(7,822 posts)They've been headed down FOX alley for the last decade.
As noted elsewhere they seem to want a GOP win and have predicted a Rightward shift in American life. Now it would seem they're going to help both become true.
Rebl2
(13,309 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,501 posts)Magoo48
(4,659 posts)CBS, like its brethren, are little more than the propaganda arms of an Oligarchy where representative government is being held together by a few Federal Courts and state Courts.
Collective majorities are being overruled at every level of American government by minorities led by bought and paid for elected officials.
One can still find the truth of things only if they are willing to search around for it.
Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)Neeraj Khemlani is a Singaporean-born American serving as the co-president of CBS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeraj_Khemlani
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (/ˈlɒklən/;[3] born 8 September 1971) is a British businessman and mass media heir.[1][4] He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, co-chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation,[5] and the founder of Australian investment company Illyria Pty Ltd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch
All foreign-born corrupt to the core decided to promote the fascist propaganda of the extreme (and criminal) right to line their pockets...
Isn't that special?
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)He and that POS that use to be in power have blood on there hands he reinforced the BS during at the height of the pandemic called Covid and the ensuing deaths now at over 950,000 he helped in the BS with the blackmailing of a president in Ukraine...so CBS is a fucking enabler.....of BS....they like to walk around and hire people that have blood on there hands....time for billboards......and then there is the BS about Les Moonves, remember him saying trump would be good for ratings......what the fuck....
And then they are broadcasting that my vote basically does not mean shit.....why don't you just call yourself TMFSN II ( The More Fucking Shit Network II) also known as Fox News......merge with them and really show how much you hide behind the first amendment....by spewing shit from a enabler of shit trying to still over throw the government ........
Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)To see exactly what their corporate name say$.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)walking behind him with shackles on with there own balloons.....
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)... to remind them we Never Forget.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017717108
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)perfect
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Escurumbele
(3,340 posts)These people lack principles. Principle people are a thing of the past, at least on the republican side, they will hire a serial killer if they feel it will improve their ratings, or help them politically.
There is a push to promote trash, ignorance, dishonesty from the right, they don't care about anyone but themselves, that is why when they get caught they always blame someone else, there is no loyalty amongst thieves.
LymphocyteLover
(5,601 posts)VOTE BLUE TO SAVE AMERICA!!!
FUCK CBS!
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Runningdawg
(4,494 posts)As a boomer far too many friends tune in just because their parents and grandparents did. I think network TV will die with us boomers.
zuul
(14,615 posts)An operator will answer. Tell him/her that you want the complaint department. You will be connected to a line where you can leave a recorded message.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)next up billboards on Time Square, maybe they can show them on the morning show....for news....of the day...
AllaN01Bear
(17,376 posts)as we know they are going to take ove. thats @#$%^&*( you can fill in the lines .
bucolic_frolic
(42,673 posts)Just wondering if it fits the mainstream media
AllaN01Bear
(17,376 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)He seems like the the type that would be snorting lines of Coke off a stripper's rears with other GOP 'rs.
SuperCoder
(300 posts)This is messed up.
burrowowl
(17,606 posts)3825-87867
(827 posts)they may reign him in on his monologs.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)We won't notice the difference.
Or, Steve Bannon. One "Steven" is as good as another, right?
3825-87867
(827 posts)Now known as the Conservative Broadcast System.
AllaN01Bear
(17,376 posts)pox cbs.
darosky
(16 posts)The dominance of right wingers in the media continues
wishstar
(5,267 posts)otherwise their reports would be even more Republican- slanted if Repubs take over Congress.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)This is more of an analysis/opinion piece which goes against LBN's SOP. Sugguest reposting in GD.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)We considered your petition and did a revote. After careful consideration we've decided to unlock this thread.
LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)I need to renew my passport, just in case I need to leave the country in a hurry sometime in the next 2 - 3 years.
Not doomsaying...just being smart.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)What happened to them?
donte
(36 posts)Okay! I understand CBS wants to have feedback from a republican perspective. So does that mean they have to hire Liars and people who would not know the truth if it fell on their head! Mulvaney is not intellectually honest about things that happen that the rest of us see with our own eyes. He is always on a different universe or planet. Democrats are on EARTH 1 and republicans are on EARTH 2!
Emile
(21,901 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Corporate McPravda as make-work for lazy and corrupt bastards.
SouthBayDem
(31,961 posts)Trump may not be good for America, but its damn good for CBS.