I'm watching CNN right now and am absolutely dumbfounded at this special I am watching called "Right On The Edge". Basically, it's portraying young conservatives like Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe as heroes of the young generation. It's crazy. It's like CNN suddenly became Fox Lite overnight. I noticed it this morning when I was watching my usual Saturday Ali Velshi financial cotton candy as I did my laundry. They had two right wing pundits dissing all the economic policies that were happening and basically pushing taxcuts for the wealthy.
One guy was completely stating that our economic policies should all be revved back to the Republican policies that led us into the ditch and that the best way to start would be to privatize Social Security. I kid you not, all three of the talking heads boxes were nodding their heads in solemn agreement.
Great, now they are pushing Andrew Breitbart as a media genius. What the hell is going on? Is this because of the new CNN format trying to veer to the right? I am simply amazed at this "hot" reporting of all these young conservatives and in my opinion, trying to make them look cool. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on? I searched for this through comments and diaries and didn't see anything about this. I'm not a complete news junkie, but it seems to me as though CNN really has changed dramatically over the last couple of weeks. Maybe some of you out there have some thoughts on this.
They have anti-gay young conservatives, ambush-the-politicians young conservatives, anti-abortion young conservatives and holding these people up as cutting edge citizen journalists? When they lie and cross lines and are not only proud of disrespectful discourse but are now being praised for it by CNN?
I am disgusted but yet can't tear my eyes away from this trainwreck of CNN reporting.