Congratulations to former Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores who was just hired by CNN as a political editor:
WHAT? Ex-Jeff Sessions spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores is joining CNN as a political editor. https://t.co/7WXuOnbMce
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 19, 2019
LOL. Her background as DOJ spox and campaign manager for Carly Fiorina is not sitting well with some, but as Josh Baro points out, they should just chill out:
People are reading a lot into this "political editor" title for Sarah Flores. CNN has a political director overseeing its coverage and then quite a few people under with editor titles.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 19, 2019
It’s still early, but we’re already seeing some liberal blue-checks have a meltdown at the news. Here’s former Hillary spox Jessie Lehrich who posted some of Isgur’s old tweets which, amusingly, criticize CNN:
.@CNN your political director called you the Clinton News Network pic.twitter.com/CZdejic3fF
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) February 19, 2019
And here’s one where she went after Chris Cuomo:
does Sarah still think @ChrisCuomo is a Planned Parenthood propagandist? pic.twitter.com/ivWK56YCPl
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) February 19, 2019
Media Matters’ Parker Molloy is worried that CNN will now end up giving away “free Trump ads”:
But back to Sarah Isgur Flores and CNN for a second: Remember that she *pledged loyalty to Trump* in order to get her last job. But hey, sure, have her coordinate your 2020 coverage, CNN. Sure that'll be fair and not full of empty podiums/free Trump ads. https://t.co/c8mhZzVpSZ
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 19, 2019
And Media Matters’ Simon Maloy doesn’t like that she doesn’t have a background in journalism:
CNN's new political editor has worked for every Republican but hasn't done any journalism pic.twitter.com/2q1oAgj7dB
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 19, 2019
Erick Erickson likes the move, so Media Matters is against it:
AWOOGA AWOOGA AWOOGA pic.twitter.com/QFBRw6t8Ww
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 19, 2019
And we will point out that the politics-to-press pipeline is pretty common:
A lot of people go into press from politics. Tim Russert was an aide to Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Mario Cuomo. No reason CNN shouldn't hire an ex-Republican operative as part of a team covering politics.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) February 19, 2019
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