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Conservative Pundit Sparks CNN Host’s Wrath After Calling Her Show ‘An Embarrassment’
CNN’s coverage might not be as blatantly far-left as that of MSNBC, but there’s still plenty of bias on display for conservative commentators to critique.
Most recently, radio host Erick Erickson took note of a recent “NewsNight” episode featuring host Abby Phillip.
As The Hill reported:
“The tag line for NewsNight on CNN is, ‘Abby Phillip delivers a smart, sharp approach to the day’s biggest stories,’” Erickson said Wednesday in a lengthy post. “I have been invited to be on the show several times and have had scheduling conflicts that made it impossible for me to travel for the show. I’m glad. This morning, I told my assistant to politely decline all further invites.”
“The show is an embarrassment and @CNN should be embarrassed to air it,” he added.
Erickson noted the show’s broadcast the night before, saying, “the roundtable again piled on Scott Jennings because the panelists claimed Donald Trump wanted to use the American military to round up American citizens.
“Trump has not said that,” he added. ”His comments have been about illegal aliens. But even, again, Abby Phillip who regularly likes to correct conservative panelists, including Scott Jennings, seemed absolutely confused about basic facts that never penetrate the leftwing echo chamber.”
“In fact, Abby Phillip again tried to correct Scott Jennings and, again, was wrong,” he added.
Phillip soon responded to the statement with a lengthy social media post of her own:
@EWErickson I take it you did not actually watch the show last night and there’s a lot to address in this mostly incorrect tweet. But I’ll start with the most simple one: the discussion last night was, in part, about whether Trump has threatened to used the military to address…
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) December 4, 2024
Erickson wasn’t finished, offering another post along with a clip from the show to bolster his point:
The problem here, Abby, is that you like to chime in and correct conservatives who often are not wrong in what they’ve said, but you do it less often with progressives. See, e.g., the Ferguson effect, which you seemed baffled by, but had written about. As, again, last night,… https://t.co/Zl3AlgKI0v pic.twitter.com/xcMafNVFwg
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 4, 2024
And plenty of other social media users were quick to jump on the bandwagon:
You’re an embarrassment. Sad thing is, you’re too stupid to realize it.
— JWF (@JammieWF) December 4, 2024
You should be thankful Scott is on your show, or nobody would watch you.
— DJ~I STAND W/DJT (@KekNative) December 4, 2024
“Mostly incorrect tweet” — how about you address the correct parts? Are you or are you not an honest broker? The ample evidence seems otherwise.
— Teri (@TeriChristoph) December 4, 2024
Stop gaslighting. You knew Scott was right. You knew.
It was plain on your face. You guys are fear mongerers. You blatantly lie to the American people.
The crazy-eyed woman was blatantly lying. You helped her.
You are doing evil to this country.
The saving grace is you’re…
— TrashDragon (@TrashDragon06) December 4, 2024
Variety recently reported on the makeover Phillip’s show has received, which has made the on-air discourse noticeably more combative:
“NewsNight,” which launched in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Israel in October of last year, looked at first like most other programs on CNN and its main rivals, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Phillip sat alone on set, always spoke directly to the audience and interviewed experts, analysts and newsmakers about the most important headlines of the day. Earlier this summer, CNN remade the program — which shares its title with a primetime show anchored by Aaron Brown on the network in the early 2000s — and it has quickly become the loudest thing on the schedule. The program operates at a volume that has almost become unrecognizable in these days of ownership under risk-averse Warner Bros. Discovery.
Since Discovery snatched the former WarnerMedia from AT&T in April of 2022, CNN’s tone has moderated. Gone are shows like “New Day,” which counted on morning co-anchors like Alisyn Camerota or Chris Cuomo to put newsmakers on the morning grill, and vanished are anchors like Don Lemon, who finished off the CNN schedule with hot talk about topics such as racism. Under the new corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN has frowned upon anchors displaying passion, offering a personal view on the news or raising up the holy cause of journalism against those who might thwart it. New corporate overlords feared such stuff gave CNN the perception of having a liberal bias — and made it unattractive to viewers with conservative leanings.
Of course, this isn’t the first time CNN and its personalities have faced accusations of political bias:
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