CNN's Brianna Keilar Shreds Rupert Murdoch Over 'Ultimate Moral Crime'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

CNN’s “New Day” anchor Brianna Keilar on Wednesday slammed Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch for allowing personalities on the widely watched conservative network to continue to peddle disinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines.

Murdoch was one of the first people to get the first dose of a COVID vaccine in December 2020, when he thanked the “amazing scientists” who developed it and urged others to get the shot, Keilar noted. But hosts and guests on the network have repeatedly dabbled with or entered into anti-vaccine territory.

“Again, the daily double question is why is Rupert Murdoch, who was one of the first to get vaccinated, allowing this anti-science B.S. on the air?” Keilar asked, adding, “Because it is killing people. But, you know, ratings. And that is the ultimate moral crime.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-brianna-keilar-shreds-rupert-145632820.html

[Boomerproud]

1. Nothing else needs to be said.

[Moostache]

2. A fundamental misundertsanding of vaccines, immune system function and disease

People who say things like "its my choice to not be vaccinated" or "I refuse to live in fear" are so woefully misinformed and deluded that it is nearly impossible to reach them. The USA has been at approximately 60% vaccinated status for nearly 9 months now and is not going towards the mid-90's necessary for true herd immunity and eradication of an infectious pathogen.

Allowing stupid people to say stupid things and do stupid things - treating imbeciles as disagreeing experts of equal validity - is proloning this pandemic and creating a society where much worse is coming if it is not ended.

Being an illiterate moron is NOT A GODDAMN BADGE OF HONOR and having a social media page or app and an opinion does not trump EXPERTISE OR EXPERIENCE OR REAL KNOWLEDGE.

Morons should not be allowed to feel comfortable spewing their putrid, rancid nonsense in public...they should be highlighted, MOCKED, RIDICULED and made to wear the stupidity of their words like a modern day Scarlet Letter, only instead of the historical red "A", make it an "M" for moron.

[ificandream]

9. Every word you wrote ....

... is true.

[patphil]

14. Being an illiterate moron is not a goddamn badge of honor.

We know that, but it appears that they see quite the opposite.
They don't see themselves as morons, because, well...they're morons and incapable of realizing that they are.
They embrace stupidity as if it had great intrinsic value. They won't ever see otherwise since they lack the cognitive function needed to measure the actual value of truth versus their stunted beliefs.
I agree that they need to be called out for it, but that won't change them. However it may help keep other people from wandering down that path into the stupid.

What bothers me more than the morons who say this shit is the greedy people who enable them as a means of gaining money and/or power.

[calimary]

27. Indeed.

[StarryNite]

18. Wow! Well said!

[aggiesal]

26. She was looking kind of dumb ...

with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
...

[plimsoll]

28. Welcome to America!

We have customs you may not be familiar with. People who scream the loudest are always right. Rich people are morally superior to the poor. Making jokes about throwing your political opponents out of helicopters is funny when they're liberals. And my cousins ignorant comments are just as relevant as a Phd because my cousin is a real American, not an elitist.

If you just go to the back of the bus and don't raise any commotion I'm sure you'll adapt eventually.

(And that was sarcasm.)

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Disinformation Drives Division

That’s what Rupert The Alien Murdoch is all about, because the money and the power.

[budkin]

4. Damn I love her

Preach it girl!

[Mr. Sparkle]

5. I'd like to see her replace Rachel Maddow on Msnbc when she semi-retires

[Pas-de-Calais]

10. Or the Chuckie doll NOW!!

[mwooldri]

13. I'd be happy for her to stay at CNN

But prime time. No reason for Anderson and Don to pull 2 hour stints.

[Moebym]

6. Murdoch has never started a single war

But boy, has he caused some serious damage and casualties to this country. All to enrich himself.

He'd have caused less damage to us if he had the ability to launch a military invasion.

[IronLionZion]

23. They don't seem too concerned with losing their own viewers

[malaise]

8. If that shit was being spewed by Muslims

would she show us these clips?

All of M$Greedia repeats this shit over and over

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. Moral crimes ARE crimes, human rights crimes...right to life and liberty etc...

Why are there no criminal charges? Absolutely nothing in the criminal Codes of all of America that possibly covers this kind of high crime….mass murder by malicious disinformation?

No? Defamation lawsuit, perhaps..Scientist v. Fox News, Rupert M., Carlson, etc.?

Like a modern Scopes trial, if that’s what it takes.

No? Then somethings real fked up.

[Lonestarblue]

12. I've been thinking recently that our hallowed First Amendment is the thing that may bring us down.

Our right to free speech is a hallmark of our democracy, and yet malignant forces are using that right to undermine our safety through lies about Covid and vaccines, our government through lies about Trump and Republican plans to steal elections, our democratic principles through lies about the current administration that contribute to a loss of faith in democracy, and recently through lies supporting a foreign enemy of the US that have resulted in polls supporting Russia over the US.

I wish I knew how to stop this madness. It is ripping the country apart.

[monkeyman1]

15. deport Rupert !!

[OMGWTF]

16. Follow-up question: Why is this propaganda network still allowed on the air? It's banned in AU & NZ

[maxsolomon]

19. Because 1st Amendment

Because it serves 1 of the 2 viable political parties in this country

Because the FCC is toothless

[ShazzieB]

25. Exactly.

This is it, in a nutshell.

[Wednesdays]

30. Because the FCC can't regulate cable TV

Having said that, I would bet the farm that the FCC or some other federal entity would act REAL fast if a cable network decided to broadcast porn!

[maxsolomon]

31. Or there was a Socialist channel.

Best reason to cut the cord to basic cable are the fees it pays Fox.

[GB_RN]

17. Asimov Said It Best

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

[dalton99a]

20. Murdoch should be tried for crimes against humanity.

[IronLionZion]

21. People who are "done with COVID" are causing more COVID

What exactly are they done with? They just don't want to hear about the deaths each day and overworked hospital workers. I bet plenty of healthcare workers would love to be done with it and get some rest or a vacation or anything after 2 years of COVIDiots refusing to do even the bare minimum.

[SergeStorms]

22. Isn't Lachlan Murdoch...

the CEO of Faux and Newscrax as well? I don't think Rupert makes day to day decisions about the Murdoch holdings anymore.

Like Darth Cheney, he's too busy making sure no one pulls his plug to worry about business decisions.

[maxsolomon]

29. Right. IIRC, James Murdoch was sidelined

because he wasn't comfortable with the propaganda being catapulted.

I didn't know Newsmax was Newscorp-owned. Makes sense.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. bringing to mind Jesus' timeless camel and the needle

https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm

I also wonder where the mega church pastors wind up after shedding their mortal coil...