Liberals right now are trashing CNN — plot twist! — over this segment on alleged Republican women voters who believe SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh over that of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford:
CNN asked women if they believe Judge Kavanaugh.
This was not the response they were expecting.
Wow. pic.twitter.com/RCgZBBzpDF
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 21, 2018
But it now seems these weren’t just regular GOP voting women:
1. CNN's framing of this segment was really irresponsible. This purported to be a focus group that would show what "Republican women" think of Kavanagh now. So each woman is identified as a "Republican voter." https://t.co/sV5eFUWTRL
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
They’re a collection of political operatives and actual GOP candidates:
2. But in fact the two women who dominated the discussion are not average voters – they're better described as GOP political operatives.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
3. The woman in the white sweater, Lourdes Castillo de la Pena, has served on the Republican National Senatorial Committee, and hosted a $1000-a-plate fundraiser for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign at her home.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
4. Gina Sosa, who made the now-infamous comment about how all 17-year-old boys have done something like this, was a congressional candidate in the GOP primary this year.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
5. Angela Vazquez is a Community Council member in Kendall, in Dade County. In other words, these were not GOP voters plucked off the street. They were, in large part, members of the GOP establishment in Miami-Dade.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
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6. It's also odd to assemble a panel of largely Latina women in which most (all?) of the women are Cuban-Americans, who are far more conservative, and more supportive of Trump, than Latinx voters generally and than Latinx Republicans specifically.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
7. In effect, the focus group was stacked to produce the result it got: lockstep support for Trump's nominee, and unswerving fealty to the conservative line.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
CNN can’t even be helpful to Republicans without effing it up:
8. What's surprising about that segment is not that those women said what they said – they were, in effect, handpicked to offer that line. What's surprising is that CNN thought this was a good way to show what average GOP women voters think.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 23, 2018
“A collapse of editorial standards” even:
Jeez. What a collapse of editorial standards at CNN, which also contributes to polarization. https://t.co/AF6Xjvpo4z
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 23, 2018
And George Takei accused CNN of interviewing “crisis actors”:
Crisis actors… https://t.co/9hcqnL46F5
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) September 23, 2018
Over to you, CNN as the libs are PISSED:
.@CNN HEY! Anybody home? This is all over the Internet, with everyone wondering WTF was on the station’s mind.
Explanations? Apologies? A lotta lotta lotta people are asking. https://t.co/2dOsijozIm— Evan Handler (@EvanHandler) September 23, 2018
Time to fire some producers, they said:
if this happened to the other side, CNN would have fired 14 producers by now https://t.co/8KIhHJbTZS
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) September 23, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 21, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 20, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 19, 2018
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