© www.thedailybeast.comCNN: Censorship Nationwide Now
There may be a good reason
CNN is referred to in some circles as the "Clinton News Network." During a recent live broadcast, the cable news network
cut off one of its own reporters when she began explaining how Hillary Clinton helped contribute to the current problem of mass incarceration.
The clip begins with a Clinton campaign speech in Springfield, IL, as CNN overlays a banner saying, "Clinton rips trump over his constitution gaffe." As is usual with mainstream media infotainment, they're
reporting on trivial sniping instead of issues that matter.Clinton is going on about how Trump mentioned a non-existent "Article 12" of the Constitution, gloating as the crowd chuckles. CNN allows Clinton to deliver her punchline — "
Article 12. Not even close" — and then cuts to senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar. Keilar, however, does not appear amused and
attempts to inject some actual perspective into the circus sideshow being paraded as "news."
"But largely Hillary Clinton's comments today, John, were based around the recent violence that we have seen—the police-involved shootings of black men in Minnesota, in Louisiana, and then the killing of white police officers by a black gunman in Dallas. That was really what she based her comments on around today. And remember, Hillary Clinton has some vulnerabilities herself. Even as she calls for criminal justice, because of her support in the 1990s for anti-crime legislation that ultimately helped contribute to this era of mass incarceration that she now speaks out again—"
This is the precise moment when
CNN cuts off video and sound—just as Keilar was beginning to explain one part of Hillary Clinton's unscrupulous political history. Hillary was instrumental in advancing the 1994 crime bill that helped secure the presidency for her husband, and then ushered in the era of mass incarceration.
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