Topic: CNSNews.com
The lengths CNSNews.com will go to remain a loyal, servile Trump stenographer is truly amazing.
CNS prepared for the Oct. 30 indictment of Trump campaign officials by parroting the Trump line that no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia took place and that even if it did, Trump was never involved. That resulted in stories by Susan Jones carrying the headlines "Collins: 'I Have Not Yet Seen Any Definitive Evidence of Collusion'" and "Gov. Christie Reminds Americans, 'The President Is Not Under Investigation'."
Once the actual indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates and the plea deal involving Trump adviser George Papadopoulos came down, CNS was slow to react. Its first post-announcement story, posted at 10:42 a.m. Eastern time, was the second taken from Chris Christie's Sunday show appearance, featured Chrstie complaining that "Whoever leaked news of the grand jury indictment in the Russia investigation to CNN could face criminal charges." The second -- and its lead story the rest of the day, posted at 11:04 a.m. Eastern time -- was another Jones piece repeating Trump's tweet falsely asserting (not that Jones bothered to explicitly point that out) that the conduct for which Manafort was indicted took place "years ago." It was not until 40 minutes later that Jones wrote a relatively straight story on Papadopoulos' plea deal.
Later in the afternoon, Melanie Arter did her usual stenography from the daily press briefing by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, dutifully regurgitating her talking point that the indictments of Manafort and Gates "have nothing to do with President Donald Trump."
That's exactly the kind of servile pro-Trump stenography Brent Bozell, head of CNS parent the Media Research Center, wants to see in the rest of the media.
