Soledad O’Brien Slams CNN, “You have normalized’ white supremacy with shoddy Trump reporting”

by | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog | 0 comments

Ex-CNN Host Soledad O’Brien had some extremely harsh words to say about her former employer and their handling of the Presidental election season. She basically told them that because of their terrible and imbalanced Trump reporting that white supremacy has been normalized.

She said:

“I’ve seen on-air, white supremacists being interviewed because they are Trump delegates,” she noted. “And they do a five minute segment, the first minute or so talking about what they believe as white supremacists. So you have normalized that.”

“And then Donald Trump will say, ‘Hillary Clinton, she’s a bigot.’ And it’s covered, the journalist part comes in, ‘They trade barbs. He said she’s a bigot and she points out that he might be appealing to racists.’ It only becomes ‘he said, she said.’ When in actuality, the fact that Donald Trump said she’s a bigot without the long laundry list of evidence, which if you looked at Hillary Clinton’s speech, she actually did have a lot of really good factual evidence that we would all agree that are things that have happened and do exist. They are treated as if they are equal.”

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She said journalists should be asking if Trump was,

“softening the ground for people — who are white supremacists, who are white nationalists, who would self-identify that way — to feel comfortable with their views being brought into the national discourse to the point where they can do a five minute interview happily on national television?”

Watch her eviscerate CNN below.

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