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Title: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: 240B on July 05, 2017, 07:38:23 pm

Constitution
By Andrew West
July 5, 2017


CNN has breached every possible avenue of trust they had remaining by threatening to blackmail a private American citizen this week.


The network, which has been mercilessly lambasted by the President of the United States for their obvious liberal slant, recently became incensed at a silly .gif file floating around the internet that was retweeted by Trump himself.  In the clip, Donald Trump’s short-lived wrestling career is on display as the now-Commander in Chief is shown beating on WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin with a CNN logo superimposed over his face.  It’s a funny use of poor digital editing, meant to symbolize the President’s concern over the legitimacy of the doomed “news” agency.


CNN, however, took their reaction too far.


In the aftermath of the clip being retweeted by the President, CNN worked tirelessly to uncover the .gif’s creator, and eventually tracked them down via social site Reddit.  CNN then did the unthinkable, threatening to reveal the personal information of the currently-anonymous American; a move that would open this clever individual up to harassment and possible violence in the face of an increasingly radicalized left.  Due to this absurd and unacceptable abuse of power, CNN has become the focus of an enormous backlash.


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Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: XenaLee on July 05, 2017, 07:44:10 pm
This is all coming straight from Zucker, IMO.  It's all agenda-driven.

I think someone should send the guys in the white coats to take him away before someone gets hurt or before he hurts himself...lol.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: 240B on July 05, 2017, 07:49:45 pm
This is all coming straight from Zucker, IMO.  It's all agenda-driven.

I think someone should send the guys in the white coats to take him away before someone gets hurt or before he hurts himself...lol.


I have heard from commentators on TV, and have read a few articles that say that is what is going to happen. Zucker will be out soon enough. He has all but destroyed the CNN brand name. People well above his pay grade want him fired and replaced, as soon as possible. This latest controversy could be the tipping point that makes it happen.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: SunkenCiv on July 05, 2017, 07:55:00 pm
Clintoon Non-News -- adios.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: driftdiver on July 05, 2017, 08:03:58 pm
Turns out CNN has the wrong guy - http://www.dailywire.com/news/18286/breaking-cnn-may-have-targeted-wrong-reddit-meme-ben-shapiro#
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: 240B on July 05, 2017, 08:11:38 pm
OMG! LOL, the plot thickens. HaHaHaHa. This is insanity.


CNN is so screwed.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: ABX on July 05, 2017, 08:25:34 pm
Bread and circuses. CNN screwed the pooch going after an individual Reddit user, the mob army will turn on them. It is like telling the internet masses they arent supposed to say or do something.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Wingnut on July 05, 2017, 08:41:17 pm
Bread and circuses. CNN screwed the pooch going after an individual Reddit user, the mob army will turn on them. It is like telling the internet masses they arent supposed to say or do something.

It's like the Dan Rather deal all over again.   Never stir up the collective hive that is the interwebs!
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: ABX on July 05, 2017, 08:43:46 pm
It's like the Dan Rather deal all over again.   Never stir up the collective hive that is the interwebs!

This is even worse because with Rather, the circle of influence was rather small and that was pre-social media. Now, they are hitting not just politically active, but going against the Reddit masses. They wont see this as political opposition but on opposition to their internet privacy.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: skeeter on July 05, 2017, 08:49:40 pm
It's like the Dan Rather deal all over again.   Never stir up the collective hive that is the interwebs!
Like it or not, with a 'presidential' president this would've never happened.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Wingnut on July 05, 2017, 09:17:18 pm
Like it or not, with a 'presidential' president this would've never happened.

Seriously?   It just shows CNN's true colors.  A hactivist news channel.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Silver Pines on July 06, 2017, 12:01:22 am
Seriously?   It just shows CNN's true colors.  A hactivist news channel.

@Wingnut

I get what @skeeter is saying.  This was originally a Trump screw up, but CNN went and stepped on a rake and made it all about them. 

I was just checking out CNN's Twitter feed.  Man, they're getting roasted to hell and back.  It's entertaining, lol.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: skeeter on July 06, 2017, 12:21:41 am
Seriously?   It just shows CNN's true colors.  A hactivist news channel.

I'm saying that having a somewhat erratic, non-traditional president is causing all of the usual players in our political kabuki show, where the outcome has been preordained ('progressives' gaining while conservative minded take it in the backside) for years to go completely out of their minds for everyone to see, Cap't Queeg style.

Whether you like Trump or not this IMO is a very good development.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: MajorClay on July 06, 2017, 12:22:28 am
Good!
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: catfish1957 on July 06, 2017, 12:29:18 am
Good!
Man....I would love to see Don Lemon lose his job.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: 240B on July 06, 2017, 12:30:19 am
That is why they call Trump 'The Roadrunner'. Media = coyote


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dolgaac4wU
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: truth_seeker on July 06, 2017, 12:34:44 am
Like it or not, with a 'presidential' president this would've never happened.

So do you blame Trump, for the media being like it is?

I blame the media for being like it is, and I credit Trump for standing up to them, like no other has.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: anubias on July 06, 2017, 12:35:57 am
This is all coming straight from Zucker, IMO.  It's all agenda-driven.

I think someone should send the guys in the white coats to take him away before someone gets hurt or before he hurts himself...lol.

"The Meme Police" is no longer ear bugging me.  I now hear "They're coming to take me away!"  Thanks @XenaLee
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: skeeter on July 06, 2017, 12:38:24 am
So do you blame Trump, for the media being like it is?

I blame the media for being like it is, and I credit Trump for standing up to them, like no other has.

#12
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: ABX on July 06, 2017, 01:33:51 am
So do you blame Trump, for the media being like it is?

I blame the media for being like it is, and I credit Trump for standing up to them, like no other has.

I blame the media for being what they are. Trump for being what he is. Both of them for playing off each other. But mostly, the public for feeding those monsters over and over and over, giving them attention, and encouraging them to continue to reduce society to Idiocracy.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: XenaLee on July 06, 2017, 01:51:13 am
"The Meme Police" is no longer ear bugging me.  I now hear "They're coming to take me away!"  Thanks @XenaLee

Lol!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: bigheadfred on July 06, 2017, 02:24:51 am
The most busted name in news.

Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: anubias on July 06, 2017, 02:44:21 am
Lol!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4

  ****slapping  I just HAD to play it.  LOL!
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 02:54:01 am
I blame the media for being what they are. Trump for being what he is. Both of them for playing off each other. But mostly, the public for feeding those monsters over and over and over, giving them attention, and encouraging them to continue to reduce society to Idiocracy.

Nuthin but lying trash on both sides.

Start watering the plants with gatoraide because that's the kind of wizardry we're dealing with.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: ABX on July 06, 2017, 03:02:12 am
(http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=270419.0;attach=3480;image)
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: anubias on July 06, 2017, 03:02:14 am
Nuthin but lying trash on both sides.

Start watering the plants with gatoraide because that's the kind of wizardry we're dealing with.

You might want to be careful about "lying trash."  I may be trash, but I'm not a liar as you attempted to call me earlier today.  I never saw your response to the replies of proof, btw.  ;)
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Silver Pines on July 06, 2017, 03:08:07 am
I blame the media for being what they are. Trump for being what he is. Both of them for playing off each other. But mostly, the public for feeding those monsters over and over and over, giving them attention, and encouraging them to continue to reduce society to Idiocracy.

Precisely.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 03:16:04 am
Precisely.

Funny thing is that its not trending worldwide and the {Insult Redacted} are busy declaring that twitter is trying to help CNN by "silencing" their screeching.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: anubias on July 06, 2017, 05:46:36 am
Funny thing is that its not trending worldwide and the {redacted} are busy declaring that twitter is trying to help CNN by "silencing" their screeching.

#CNNBlackmail has indeed been trending worldwide today.  1.3 million tweets the last time i looked.  Twitter did indeed remove it from the trending column while it was at its peak.  Numbers are numbers that can be easily verified.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 06, 2017, 05:49:53 am
Remember, folks,

Angry people do stupid things.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Frank Cannon on July 06, 2017, 05:50:29 am
#CNNBlackmail has indeed been trending worldwide today.  1.3 million tweets the last time i looked.  Twitter did indeed remove it from the trending column while it was at its peak.  Numbers are numbers that can be easily verified.

You will find that there is a certain class of poster that makes shit up as they go along hoping that there are one or two uninformed rubes to believe it....until someone lays a truth bomb to blow up the stupidity.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Frank Cannon on July 06, 2017, 05:51:50 am
Remember, folks,

Angry people do stupid things.

Does that mean stupid people do angry things?
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 06, 2017, 05:53:33 am
Does that mean stupid people do angry things?
Sometimes.

Some of them are too stupid to be offended.

Even when Liberals go and get all offended for them, they just don't get it.  :smokin:
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: anubias on July 06, 2017, 06:51:24 am
You will find that there is a certain class of poster that makes shit up as they go along hoping that there are one or two uninformed rubes to believe it....until someone lays a truth bomb to blow up the stupidity.

 :beer:
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 10:36:50 am
Lying alt right trash.

(http://i.imgur.com/nvS1efP.png)
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 10:55:18 am
Neo Alinskyite alt right pigs.

(http://i.imgur.com/51vAMmN.png)

and still liars

(http://i.imgur.com/RUPtrog.png)

The pig doesn't like the answers Johnson got so she calls for more alt right backup.

(http://i.imgur.com/8iDknBt.png)

Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: driftdiver on July 06, 2017, 11:00:28 am
Neo Alinskyite alt right pigs.

(http://i.imgur.com/51vAMmN.png)

and still liars

(http://i.imgur.com/RUPtrog.png)

The pig doesn't like the answers Johnson got so she calls for more alt right backup.

(http://i.imgur.com/8iDknBt.png)

Is there anyone you don't think is a liar?  You were throwing that around yesterday and were proven wrong.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: bigheadfred on July 06, 2017, 11:04:23 am
Ah, Twitter. @roamer_1  said he felt this earthquake last night @Cripplecreek . I found this headline looking for the story this morning.

Yellowstone earthquake causes Twitter users to predict apocalypse
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: GourmetDan on July 06, 2017, 06:34:05 pm
Like it or not, with a 'presidential' president this would've never happened.

Unfortunately for the media (esp CNN), they have failed to recognize that huge numbers of people are tired of 'presidential' presidents...

Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Hondo69 on July 06, 2017, 07:12:07 pm
Like it or not, with a 'presidential' president this would've never happened.

Thanks for the humor, I needed a laugh.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: roamer_1 on July 06, 2017, 07:57:41 pm

Yellowstone earthquake causes Twitter users to predict apocalypse

@bigheadfred
Folks have no idea how big this country is.
There was an eruption, but I changed my shorts and everything was fine.
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on July 06, 2017, 08:37:04 pm
Sometimes.

Some of them are too stupid to be offended.

Even when Liberals go and get all offended for them, they just don't get it.  :smokin:
Could that also pertain to Forrest Gump, one of my all-time favorite movie characters?
Title: Re: Outrage Grows After #CNNBlackmail Begins to Trend Worldwide, Network Imploding
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 06, 2017, 08:50:08 pm
Could that also pertain to Forrest Gump, one of my all-time favorite movie characters?
"Stupid is as stupid does."