Green Greenwald has a few tweets about the CNN fake news bombshell story from last month, including a video showing how CNN first introduced, that I thought you should see.
First, CNN has responded to the scandal and he points out how they won’t address the big lie:
The newsletter from CNN's media reporters pretends to address the scandal surrounding its "blockbuster" Cohen debacle, but it entirely ignores – like the network itself – the key problem: their reporters outright lied when they said Lanny Davis (their source) refused comment. pic.twitter.com/0PinUAlhl4
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 29, 2018
It is pretty amazing that they said Lanny refused to comment in their article, when he was the source behind it.
Greenwald believes CNN is trying to make it seem like this just a scandal on the ‘right’ – and nothing to see here:
CNN's strategy here is as obvious as it is lame: pretend it's just a scandal among the "right." That's 1) not true & 2) an indictment of non-conservative journalists if it were true. It's a huge deal that CNN outright lied about a key issue on its biggest story & won't address it
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 29, 2018
Lastly, he gets video of when the ‘blockbuster’ scandal was first announced on-air by CNN, pointing out just how significant this CNN scandal is, especially for those trying to downplay it.
For those suggesting the CNN scandal is insignificant – that CNN getting caught telling an outright lie to the world about its sourcing, and now refusing to acknowledge it, is trivial – watch how they described the importance this story when they first unveiled it: pic.twitter.com/CKp8tDCoAH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 29, 2018
They certainly gave it the blockbuster treatment and suggested that not only had Trump lied, but that Trump Jr. had also lied to Congress!
Again, I can totally get why Trump is pissed about this.
Also, if you remember, the Washington Post admitted as well that Davis was their anonymous source for their version of the Trump Tower story. Lyin Lanny gets around!
What’s crazy about all of this is that this is the actual fake news that Trump has been talking about from day one. Sure, he lumps in a lot of other stuff, but this kind of false reporting just bolsters his claims that CNN is out to get him and the leader in the Fake News Media.