{"id":77035,"date":"2017-07-06T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77035"},"modified":"2017-07-06T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:45:15","slug":"cnns-jeff-zucker-a-clearcut-case-of-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77035","title":{"rendered":"CNN’s Jeff Zucker: A Clearcut Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN President Jeff Zucker: “Trump Is Trying To Bully Us”<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

CNN President Jeff Zucker, rather than apologize for publishing\u00a0fake news story<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0fake news story<\/a>\u00a0all in an effort, by his own admission mind you, to\u00a0drive ratings for for his network<\/a>, has decided to take a play from the ‘disaffected liberal” playbook and pretend to be the victim in his rather public scuffle with President Trump.\u00a0 In a new interview with the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0published yesterday, Zucker never once apologized for his network’s credibility-crushing mistakes over the past several weeks but instead said that Trump “is trying to bully us.”<\/p>\n

\n\u201cHe\u2019s trying to bully us, and we\u2019re not going to let him intimidate us.\u00a0<\/strong>You can\u2019t lose your confidence and let that change the way you conduct yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to remind everyone that they need to stay focused doing their job,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which we have one simple observation, courtesy of the eloquent Maude Lebowski,\u00a0you, Mr. Zucker, are most definitely the perpetrator here and not the victim.<\/strong>\u00a0 You can’t intentionally pursue a story you know to fake day after day in a crusade intended to take down a political figure with whom you disagree and pretend to be the victim.\u00a0 You can’t\u00a0extort a random American citizen<\/a>\u00a0for having the ‘audacity’ to poke fun at you and pretend to be the victim.<\/p>\n

\"Zucker\"<\/p>\n

So why does Zucker think he’s the ‘victim’?\u00a0\u00a0Apparently he’s convinced that Trump targets his network because of it’s unbiased reporting<\/strong>…unlike MSNBC which has an “ideological bent.”<\/p>\n

\n\u201cTelevision is his preferred medium,\u201d Zucker said.\u00a0\u201cAnd he knows our viewers can be swayed because they\u2019re not watching Fox or MSNBC\u201d \u2014 networks with an ideological bent in prime time.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Zucker again raised concerns that Trump’s bullying could end up getting a CNN reporter hurt.\u00a0\u00a0It’s almost as if they want it to happen…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nOne challenge Mr. Zucker has thought about: safety.<\/strong>\u00a0The level of threats against CNN employees, he said, has spiked this year. Mr. Trump, he said, \u201chas caused us to have to take steps that you wouldn\u2019t think would be necessary because of the actions of the president of the United States.\u201d
\nOn Wednesday, CNN found itself facing another backlash \u2014 and additional online threats \u2014 after it posted a story about a man who created a version of the wrestling video that was later tweeted by Mr. Trump; it did not identify him but said it reserved the right to do so if he resumed his activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you can bet your last dollar that the moment some CNN reporter breaks a nail while pounding a table in reaction to reading the latest Trump tweet, that CNN will cover the ‘tragedy’ on a 24-hours loop as evidence of the harmful consequences of Trump’s hate speech.<\/strong>\u00a0 Here, we’ll even try to speed up the process to get this over with:<\/p>\n

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#FraudNewsCNN<\/a> #FNN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WYUnHjjUjg<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n