Corporate media has already normalized it.

Writing a new book bashing Democrats.

I didn’t buy the book he’s hawking now. And won’t EVER.

CNN not only normalized the manhandling of anyone who asks a question at a public meeting, they obviously went out of their way to do so. How revoltingly sycophantic!

I hereby present CNN with the coveted SYCOPHANT award for this astounding act of toadying to the Trump regime!

says or does anything, it's SOLE PURPOSE is to stage a video or soundbite for Fox Radio, and the plethora of other Major Republican Mass Media...

said that? I've been watching a lot of cnn, msnbc and don't recall that. Maybe I missed it.

I don't have links to videos, but I did review a couple of transcripts from the shows I was watching when the Padilla news broke. I quickly found these examples:

- Jake Tapper, The Lead with Jake Tapper (6/12/25): "He's being criticized by Republicans and the White House for staging a stunt and lunging at Secretary Noem."

- Kasie Hunt, The Arena (6/12/25), did a long segment with a "security analyst" who was very critical of Padilla's actions, brought up a lot of rightwing talking points, placed the blame on Senator Padilla.

- On Hunt's show, Kristen Holmes, CNN Senior White House Correspondent, said: "We just heard from Stephen Chung, who posted on X basically having Kristi Noem's back saying that this was a freak out on the part of Senator Padilla and saying shows the public what a complete lunatic Padilla is by rushing towards Secretary Noem and disturbing the informative press conference."

There's probably more, but I don't have the time to look for video links. As they always say on internet forums, "Do your own research."

It was a stunt or staged? Of course cnn will have white house, republican people saying it was a stunt or staged. I put little to no credence in what they say.

Their "journalists" ask questions on their "news" shows, elicit the answers they're looking for from selected guests, and then create their narratives. Jake Tapper isn't going to say it was a staged stunt, he'll quote someone else who does. The words were spoken by CNN hosts and guests on their programs.

all I really care about is getting an accurate reporting of events. I have found certain reporters on cnn to be fair and objective. My son has argued your views with me, but I don't believe that's necessarily true. Both sides of a story should be reported, accurately, and the viewer can decide what he/she believes. For CNN not to report what, in this case, the white house or its spokesperson says, is not balanced reporting.

I haven’t watched CNN in years and this kind of reporting is the reason why.

From shooting dissenters on sight.

but they’re gradually turning up the heat to try to get us there.

Kik

Rec

(Assange, Manning, Snowden, Hersch, Hedges, Greenwald, et al.):

:crickets:

At least nothing I could find by googling. Happy to be proven wrong.

liberal promoter of the US war and occupation there.

https://fair.org/home/kristofs-moralistic-journalism-was-often-full-of-holes/

You're not wrong about him, unfortunately.

And it’s even more appalling that a US Senator of California was assaulted.