{"id":76329,"date":"2017-06-27T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76329"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:31:35","slug":"76329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76329","title":{"rendered":"Project Veritas catches CNN with their pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>American Pravda: CNN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Project Veritas<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Pravda: CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative \u201cbullsh*t&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdP8TiKY8dE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>CNN &#8220;ratings are incredible right now,&#8221; President Trump &#8220;good for business&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>John Bonifield, CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative &#8220;Mostly bullshit right now&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Get back to Russia,&#8221; Says CEO Jeff Zucker<\/h3>\n<h3>President Trump is Right About Witch Hunt, &#8220;No real proof&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>Comes in Wake of CNN&#8217;s Russia-Gate Retraction &amp; New Rules on Russia Coverage<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>(NEW YORK)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN&#8217;s Russia narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s mostly bullshit right now,&#8221; Bonifield says. &#8220;Like, we don&#8217;t have any giant proof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He confirms that the driving factor at CNN is ratings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssssss&#8230; All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you&#8217;re just like, that&#8217;s adorable. That&#8217;s adorable. This is a business.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the CNN Producer, business is booming. &#8220;Trump is good for business right now,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Bonifield further goes on to explain that the instructions come straight from the top, citing the CEO, Jeff Zucker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we&#8217;re done with that, let&#8217;s get back to Russia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonifield also acknowledged: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.&#8221; He continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;I just feel like they don&#8217;t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;To report not on facts, but instead on narratives that yield high ratings, is exactly the definition of fake news,&#8221; said James O&#8217;Keefe. &#8220;We said we are going after the media, and there is a lot more to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veritaslive.com\/06-26-2017\/americanpravdacnn.html\">http:\/\/www.veritaslive.com\/06-26-2017\/americanpravdacnn.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Pravda: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}