Topic: CNSNews.com
As much as CNSNews.com loves to post article after fawning article about Mark Levin, it also engages in hate-posting -- writing about people's opinions of people it despises for the purpose of holding them up for ridicule for its right-wing audience. For reasons so far unexplained, the chief recipient of that is entertainer Bette Midler.
Since February, CNS has posted a whopping 29 articles on Midler opining on things political -- 20 of which have appeared since June:
- Bette Midler Takes Trump’s Video Seriously: ‘If He Wins Again, He Will Rule You Until He Dies, You Die, Or Both’
- Bette Midler on Trump: ‘He Did a Worse Job Than Every Other Government on the Entire Planet’
- Bette Midler: “Listen, You Dumb F***, @DonaldJTrumpJr ‘America Is So Sick of the Word ‘Trump’ They…”
- Bette Midler on Mike Pence: ‘Does Mother Make Him Wear a Sleep Mask So He Can’t See Other Women in His Dreams?’
- Bette Midler Reprimands Trump for His ‘Queens-Tinged Banshee Larynx Farts’
- Bette Midler Tweets Out Image of Abe Lincoln Flipping Off Trump and First Lady: ‘I’m With Abe’
- Bette Midler: ‘Powerful Interests…Have Infused a Very Large Part of American Culture With the Belief That ‘Freedom’ is Literally More Important Than Life’
- Bette Midler: 'We Sleep Most of the Day, Mope Around the House Looking for Something to Eat’
- Bette Midler: ‘Are Police Departments Magnets for Sadists the Way the Church Was a Magnet for Pedophiles?’
- Bette Midler: ‘Trump’s Attack on Peaceful Protestors in D.C.’s Lafayette Square Marks the End of His Presidency’
- Bette Midler: ‘Right Now, Our Nation is Engaged in a Battle for Its Soul…a Battle Against Fascism’
- Bette Midler on Trump Rally: ‘If a Little Cough Spreads Covid-19, Imagine What Happens When You Blow a Racist Dogwhistle That Hard’
- Bette Midler: ‘During the 1940s the US Manufactured 3 Million Condoms a Day…But Sadly None Ever Founder Their Way to Fred Trump’s…’
- Midler: ‘Our Methods to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus Keep Growing…Now the Latest—Closing the Lid Before We Flush’
- Bette Midler: ‘Trump is Already Laying the Foundation to Dispute the Election Outcome’
- Bette Midler: ‘I Can Only Imagine That Donald Wishes It Had Been His Knee on Floyd’s Neck’
- Bette Midler: “Mitch ‘I Like’em Rich’ McConnell Looks Like He Hasn’t Passed G** in 47 Years”
- Bette Midler: ‘More People Have Died on #DonaldTrump’s Watch Than Died in the Bombing at Hiroshima’
- Bette Midler: ‘Trump is Now in a Tear-the-Country-Down Rage’
- Bette Midler to Trump: ‘Shut the F**k Up, You Nitwit. YOU Are the Enemy of the People’
- Bette Midler: “Trump’s Thinking of Something Nuts to Throw Out…Tomorrow May Be the Day He Tweets a D**k Pic!’
- Bette Midler to Trump: “B*tch, Please, God’s…Looking Forward to Biden Beating You So He Can…”
- Bette Midler to Trump on Kamala Harris Pick: ‘You Must Be Sh*tting Bricks!’
- Bette Midler: ‘What’s Trump’s Vision for His Second Term?...He’ll Find a Way to Jail the Disloyal’
- Bette Midler Comments on Melania: ‘Get That Illegal Alien Off the Stage!...She Still Can’t Speak English’
- Bette Midler Retreats--Partially--from Attack on Melania Trump
- Bette Midler: ‘The Endgame Will Be Tragic, the Death of Our Republic, as He Installs Himself as Dictator-for-Life’
- Bette Midler: ‘…Before You Get Hit on the Head With Someone Else’s Sex Toys’
- Bette Midler to Trump: ‘You Are a Cancer on Our Country and Constitution’
Lest it wasn't clear that the goal here is to attack Midler's views, an Aug. 26 article by Susan Jones omplained that "leftist celebrity Bette Midler was particiularly vicious" in responding to a speech by Melania Trump at the Republican National Convention.
That's a lot of digital ink to spill on a relatively minor celebrity.
The vast majority of these Midler post are anonymously written, carrying only the byline of "CNSNews.com Staff." But a quirk of CNS' search engine shows the content managment system account from which articles are placed, and the anonymous Midler posts are almost all being posted from the account of editor in chief Terry Jeffrey.
Strangely, Midler isn't the only past-her-prime liberal celebrity CNS has fixated on in recent months Since April, CNS has posted 14 articles on the political opinions of Cher:- Cher on Trump: ‘From Behind a Podium He Yells, Bullies, Threatens, Casts Blame, is Incoherent’
- Cher on Trump: ‘HE’LL TRY & STOP ELECTION’
- Cher: ‘But 4 trump “White Is Right”, ALL OTHERS R Expendable’
- Cher: ‘Why do ppl keep expecting trump to act like a Human’
- Cher: ‘Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned. Trump Golfed While 100 Thousand Americans Died’
- Cher: ‘trump’s responsible 4 The Excruciating Deaths Of over 100 Thousand’
- Cher: ‘trump,Mitchell,GOP aren’t Smart,JUST Willing 2 do ANYTHING 2 HOLD ON2 POWER &$,EVEN MURDER’
- Cher: ‘Trump’s NEO-NAZIS,R DANGER”2 EVERY AMERICAN’
- Cher: ‘IF trump FORCES CHILDREN 2GO BACK 2 SCHOOL…AMERICANS WILL COME FOR trump,DRAG HIS AS* OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE’
- Cher on Trump: ‘HES RESPONSIBLE 4 ALMOST 1000 DRS & NURSES DEATHS’
- Cher: ‘NOTHING & NO ONE CAN PROTECT US FROM TRUMP’
- Cher: ‘vicious mf,TR[image of virus]MP WILL DO NOTHING AS 100’s OF THOUSANDS DIE’
- Cher: ‘DON’T YOU JUST HATE trump…F**k Those Heartless Republican Gutter’ [Rats]
- Cher: 'Step By Step We Go Closer 2 Dictatorship’
Again, most of these pieces are anonymously written but come from Jeffrey's account. His goal here appears more toward straight ridicule by featuring her random capitalization and penchant for substituting numbets for words in the headline, even though those are common across Twitter and social media. And, again, there's no explanation of why CNS cares so much about Cher's political opinions.
That's a bizarre fixation you got there, Mr. Jeffrey.
