You used to have to pay good money for a therapy session like the one CNNâs self-indulgent crew just had for itself.
Frankly, for the cash-strapped CNN, an on-air team cope mightâve been their only recourse.
On Thursday night, a group of CNNâs talking heads convened to lament the current state of Twitter after Elon Musk suspended a gaggle of journalists and pundits. The panel included senior media reporter Oliver Darcy, correspondent Donie OâSullivan (who was actually part of those suspensions), as well as anchors Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.
It was chock full of the usual drivel youâd expect from the âworldwide leader in news.â
You can view the segment below:
âWhat did you do that was so bad, Donie?â asks Camerota, after claiming that Musk banned various journalists and pundits âwith no explanation.â
âWe reported on Elon Musk,â OâSullivan snidely replied. OâSullivan then attempted to take a potshot at Musk, correcting himself from calling Musk the richest man in the world. OâSullivan made a point of clarifying that Musk is the second richest man in the world, as if thatâs a stinging insult.
Of note, OâSullivan did not crack Forbesâs top 2,668 richest people in the world.
âHeâs been annoyed that thereâs been this account, which has been active for years now, which tracks the movements of his private jet,â OâSullivan explained.
Given that the account, which has been exposing his real-time location, paved the way for his Muskâs young son to be harassed by a total stranger, itâs more than understandable that Musk took action.
âHe is claiming on social media that I and other journalists shared the precise live location of his jet,â OâSullivan said. âAnd therefore thatâs why he kicked us off, because we caused danger to him.â
OâSullivan was trying to make a point that Musk was âsupposed to be the guy whoâs the free speech absolutist.â
âAre you saying that Elon Musk is saying something that isnât true?â Berman interjected with some big âI have nothing to actually contribute to this conversationâ energy.
The conversation then quickly devolved into the type of whiny, narcissistic and, frankly, pathetic nonsense youâd expect from CNN in 2022. For a ânewsâ organization, they sure do love to delve into petty personal opinions, especially regarding Musk.
Musk, for his part, brilliantly responded to CNNâs hand-wringing with a simple tweet:
So theyâre saying itâs really bad to suspend people from Twitter
â Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
And Muskâs tweet might be the most poignant lesson to be learned from this live therapy session: CNN is chock full of raging hypocrites who have the long-term memory span of a goldfish.
Exhibit A:
According to @cnn, a threat to safety occurs when you criticize someone they like, but not when you publish real-time assassination coordinates of someone they donât. pic.twitter.com/OaxZ3NrLmA
â David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 15, 2022
In the above tweet, entrepreneur David Sacks pointed out the vastly different language used for two remarkably similar stories.
âTwitterâs former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Muskâs campaign of of criticism against him, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.â
Breaking that down, from the loaded language of someone having to âfleeâ their home to the fact that this was flimsily sourced by âa person,â itâs pretty clear CNN needed to make a point about the dangers of what Musk was doing.
And yet, when it happened to Musk, CNN could barely muster a shoulder shrug, simply writing, âElon Musk has suspended the Twitter account tracking the location of his private jet.â
Pathetic, but not nearly as pathetic as Exhibit B:
Twitter banned conservatives at will every day for years and the media didnât care. A handful of libs get temporarily suspended last night and itâs a leading story on every corporate media site. The only appropriate response to this spectacle is simply to laugh at these clowns. pic.twitter.com/9wrTRq0AfE
â Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 16, 2022
Conservative pundit Matt Walsh correctly points out that the mainstream mediaâs utter hypocrisy knows no bounds, given that there was nary a peep regarding the âTwitter Filesâ exposing conservative accounts being wantonly suspended or de-amplified.
But when some of the wildly protected âjournalistâ class (seriously, how soon before theyâre added to the LGBT alphabet soup?) suffers a tad bit, with some suspensions, itâs all the talking heads want to discuss.
Itâs pathetic. Itâs disingenuous. Itâs hypocritical.
And apparently, itâs CNN.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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