'Does this surprise anyone'? Look what CNN failed to disclose about audience members at their Bernie Sanders town hall

Sarah D | 1:13 PM on February 28, 2019

CNN is Real News, Mr. President. They just like fake town halls:

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— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 28, 2019

CNN failed to disclose the political connections of audience members who questioned 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during his town hall on the network [on February 25], per a report from Paste Magazine.

The leftist outlet found that CNN described Baltimore County Democratic Party Chair Tara Ebersole as a “former biology professor,” Charles County Democratic Central Committee Chair Abena McAllister as “an active Democrat,” a Public Policy intern at DC Cassidy and Associates — a large lobbying firm — as an “American University student,” and an intern at the Katz Watson Group fundraising and consulting firm as a “George Washington student.”

And from the New York Post:

Yunjung Seo was introduced as a college student, but neither host Wolf Blitzer nor the on-screen chyron mentioned that she is an intern at Democratic fundraising outfit the Katz Watson Group, according to her LinkedIn page.

And Shadi Nasab was also presented as a college student, even though her LinkedIn page says she is an intern at DC lobbying firm Cassidy and Associates.

"Failed" to disclose. How many years have they been passing off partisan operatives as random people in these scripted town halls? How many times have they been caught? Too many times to count, it's a predictable feature at CNN, not a bug.

— Neverevernever, nope – not ever! (@leilanitexas) February 28, 2019

That's one heck of a news organization they have there. How'd they not know we knew this already. They did it to everyone. "CNN, for all of your insulated bubble needs".

— undoubtable_tom (@438cce3aa39940a) February 28, 2019