CNN discovers that combining Trump Derangement Syndrome with ignorant reporters leads to embarrassi

[rangerrebew]

August 18, 2019
CNN discovers that combining Trump Derangement Syndrome with ignorant reporters leads to embarrassing corrections
By Thomas Lifson

CNN’s Chris Cillizza tried valiantly to hew to the Party Line when writing about the story that President Trump is exploring the concept of acquiring Greenland from Denmark. We know that everything the 45th President does is bad, so the only question for CNN people is how to pick and present the data that tries to prove the point.

Alas for Cillizza (a graduate of Georgetown University), he chose (or more likely was assigned) the task of using the precedent of acquiring Alaska from Russia to comment on the possibility of a second Arctic acquisition, and he came up with this howler, caught by Ellie Bufkin and Jerry Dunleavy of The Examiner:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/cnn_discovers_that_combining_trump_derangement_syndrome_with_ignorant_reporters_leads_to_embarrassing_corrections.html

[PeteS in CA]

Quoted in the AT article:

    CNN stated that the 1867 purchase of Alaska by the United States "didn't work out so well" in an analysis article outlining potential problems if the U.S. pursued the purchase of Greenland.

    "One of the last times the United States bought land from a foreign country was in 1867, when Seward orchestrated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million," reporter Chris Cillizza wrote. "It didn't work out so well -- and has gone down as 'Seward's Folly' in the history books."

Even adjusted for inflation I suspect Alaskan gold and oil more than balance that $7.2M 1867 dollars. Why Cillizza thinks Russia (Czarist, Soviet, or Putinist) having a huge toe-hold in North America would be better than buying Alaska for $7.2M 1867 dollars is also difficult to understand.

Stooooooopid question ... has it been confirmed that Trump really seriously proposed buying Greenland? Or is this kerfuffle just annoymorous "inside sources"?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Stooooooopid question ... has it been confirmed that Trump really seriously proposed buying Greenland? Or is this kerfuffle just annoymorous "inside sources"? 

 @PeteS in CA   Here's a link to a little more information:

WASHINGTON – Yes, President Donald Trump is really considering purchasing Greenland.

"We're looking at it," top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-looking-trump-adviser-says-140902254.html

[PeteS in CA]

Thanks, @Right_in_Virginia. The MSM have published so much false nonsense from annoymorous "inside sources" that it's almost surprising there is truth to this report. Those "inside sources" often seem to be the "reporters'" rectum.

[Cyber Liberty]

@PeteS in CA   Here's a link to a little more information:

I didn't think it was for sale, and I imagine the inhabitants (or Denmark) don't like us much.  Nobody does.