CNN slammed as 'highly misleading,' 'irresponsible' after painting GOP activists as average voters
CNN is under fire for an “Anderson Cooper 360” segment that portrayed a group of women as simply “Republican voters” while failing to disclose that they are reportedly GOP activists with deep ties to the Republican Party in South Florida.
It’s unclear if CNN intentionally misrepresented the women or if the network itself was duped. CNN did not respond to numerous requests for comment.
Cooper set up the segment on Thursday by referring to the group as “a group of Republican women in Florida,” and the ladies immediately declared they believed Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh amid claims that he sexually assaulted a woman when they were both in high school. One of CNN’s panelists pointed out that all of Kavanaugh’s associates seem to think he’s an “altar boy,” while another said, “My goodness, there was no intercourse. There was maybe a touch.”
“Republican voter” Gina Sosa then asked, “What boy hasn’t done this in high school?”
The women went on to declare that they would support Kavanaugh regardless of whether or not the allegations are true. Following the focus group, Cooper welcomed political pundit Kirsten Powers and Judicial Crisis Network counsel Carrie Severino to discuss what the women said – never identifying the participants’ roles in the GOP or their political activism that would eventually be revealed on Twitter.
Twitter sleuths eventually pointed out that one of the women that CNN identified as a “Republican voter” apparently ran for Congress, one is apparently a member of the Republican National Senatorial Committee and hosted a ritzy Ted Cruz fundraiser, another is reportedly a community council member in Dade County and the other two have seemingly run for state representative and sat next to President Trump during a roundtable on small business tax cuts, respectively.
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