{"id":1222604,"date":"2022-01-18T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222604"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:54:34","slug":"cnn-hires-cartoon-network-host-unapologetic-content-thief-who-regurgitates-witless-conservative-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-hires-cartoon-network-host-unapologetic-content-thief-who-regurgitates-witless-conservative-bashing\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN+ Hires Cartoon Network Host, \u2018Unapologetic Content Thief\u2019 Who Regurgitates \u2018Witless Conservative-Bashing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-hires-cartoon-network-host-unapologetic-content-thief-who-regurgitates-witless-conservative-bashing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN\u2019s subscription-based streaming platform, CNN+, has hired former NBA star Rex Chapman to anchor his own show when CNN+ debuts in the coming months, the network announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman, whose most recent TV experience is <a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/18\/rex-chapman-joins-cnn\/\">hosting<\/a> \u201cBlock or Charge\u201d on the Cartoon Network\u2019s Adult Swim, has been caught spreading factually incorrect information and, when confronted, he has refused to correct the record. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1473484803483873290\">believes<\/a> hospitals should turn away unvaccinated COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>National Review\u2019s David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/cnn-hires-content-thief\/\">greeted<\/a> the news by calling Chapman an \u201cunapologetic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exjon\/status\/1274031077535805442\">content thief<\/a>\u201d regularly caught \u201cregurgitating the most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/sarahd-313035\/2021\/12\/22\/inexplicably-popular-content-thief-rex-chapman-says-it-would-solve-a-lot-of-problems-if-hospitals-just-stopped-treating-the-unvaccinated\/\">predictable and witless<\/a>&nbsp;conservative-bashing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chapman, a former University of Kentucky basketball great who overcame opioid addiction,&nbsp;poured gasoline on the fire of racial strife by falsely claiming that the police officers who shot 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in her apartment had gone to the wrong door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuys, never forget that Breonna Taylor\u2019s killers were at the wrong house,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1308896021326557184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308896021326557184%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2020%2F09%2F24%2Fbusted-ex-nba-player-rex-chapman-caught-spreading-a-debunked-hoax-about-the-breonna-taylor-arrest-warrant%2F\">tweeted<\/a> on September 23, 2020. \u201cThe wrong house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Jeff Cawood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/myths-misconceptions-about-the-breonna-taylor-case\">reported<\/a>, the idea that the Louisville, Kentucky, police force arrived at the wrong address before opening fire is \u201cperhaps the most prevalent false belief\u201d about the March 2020 fatal shooting. In reality, police had a warrant to arrest a suspected crack dealer named Jamarcus Glover at any of the multiple addresses they believed he used for cover. One of them belonged to Breonna Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor\u2019s name, birth date and social security number are listed on the warrant,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2020\/06\/16\/breonna-taylor-fact-check-7-rumors-wrong\/5326938002\/\">fact-check<\/a> performed by the Louisville Courier-Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The myth that law enforcement had no right to enter her apartment originated with a message that attorney Ben Crump, who represented the family, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttorneyCrump\/status\/1259867794239258628\">posted<\/a> on Twitter. (As of this writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttorneyCrump\">Crump\u2019s Twitter profile<\/a> still sports a blue checkmark.)<\/p>\n<p>A follower tried to correct Chapman that he had repeated an error that had been widely debunked months earlier, only to be rebuked by the star. \u201cRex I love you. But they had the right address and apartment. Her name was on the warrant,\u201d Chapman\u2019s fan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lavrinski\/status\/1308933545310728192\">stated<\/a>. \u201cUnfollow please,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1308933632443248640\">replied<\/a>, Chapman, the future employee of the CNN family, which bills itself as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/can-partisanship-and-profanity-save-cnn-from-its-ratings-collapse\">the most trusted name in news<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guys, never forget that Breonna Taylor\u2019s killers were at the wrong house. <\/p>\n<p>The wrong house.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rex Chapman\ud83c\udfc7\ud83c\udffc (@RexChapman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1308896021326557184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unfollow please<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rex Chapman\ud83c\udfc7\ud83c\udffc (@RexChapman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1308933632443248640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chapman also falsely suggested that U.S. Postal mailboxes had been disabled to prevent mail-in voting during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn your entire life have you ever seen a LOCKED mailbox at the USPS?\u201d Chapman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1295153823078592512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">asked<\/a> in August 2020.&nbsp;\u201cNow you have,\u201d he said, tweeting a picture of mailboxes in Burbank, California, locked shut.&nbsp;He called the situation a \u201cdisgrace and immediate threat to American democracy. Shame on them. Shame on the GOP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, local post officials had locked the front of the boxes, because \u201cstealing mail, has become so common that postal officials have been retrofitting boxes around the San Fernando Valley and other areas to make them more tamper proof,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2016\/04\/23\/thieves-raiding-valley-mailboxes-prompt-postal-service-to-take-action\/\">reported<\/a> the Los Angeles Daily News \u2026 in 2016, when the locks first went on the boxes.<\/p>\n<p>After reading the article, Chapman replied with an agrammatical and evidence-free assertion: \u201cIt\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman then drove to the location, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zandywithaz\/status\/1295211951417462784\">shot a video<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zandywithaz\/status\/1295213568720134145\">posted a picture<\/a> showing that while the front of the boxes were locked, the mail drops had smaller slots to deposit mail on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1295153823078592512\">deleted the embarrassing tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s not<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rex Chapman\ud83c\udfc7\ud83c\udffc (@RexChapman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1295210187465412613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is where people can mail their letters at the Burbank P.O.. They lock the other side and the lobby is locked when the Post Office is closed. It\u2019s very dangerous to post misinformation. It panics people, especially during this scary era. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aYPlJqzEP0\">pic.twitter.com\/aYPlJqzEP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 haunted dog (@zandywithaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zandywithaz\/status\/1295213568720134145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chapman also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1351668986291875845\">doctored video<\/a> purporting to show a military band playing the Ray Charles classic \u201cHit the Road, Jack\u201d on President Donald Trump\u2019s last day in office. A follower <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phil1p7\/status\/1351670176538877952\">posted the real clip<\/a>, originally <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1351268470458109958\">shared<\/a> by CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perfect. Trump\u2019s last day.<\/p>\n<p>The Military Band right outside the White House \u2014 \u201cHit The Road Jack\u201d\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B0kXDgqggB\">pic.twitter.com\/B0kXDgqggB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rex Chapman\ud83c\udfc7\ud83c\udffc (@RexChapman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1351668986291875845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is doctored. Here\u2019s the original clip <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HGedlb6aKR\">https:\/\/t.co\/HGedlb6aKR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 phil (@phil1p7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phil1p7\/status\/1351670176538877952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>CNN adding Rex Chapman to CNN+. So they\u2019re going for MSNBC, but even more stupid. Okay then. Suddenly Joy Reid won\u2019t be the stupidest person on television,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1483456332288167947\">tweeted<\/a> Erick Erickson.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors continue to circulate that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/she-will-scream-racism-pretty-soon-twitter-reacts-to-rumor-msnbc-will-fire-joy-reid\">Joy Reid has an uncertain future at MSNBC<\/a>, but to date the network has offered no confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s subscription-based streaming platform, CNN+, has hired former NBA star Rex Chapman to anchor his own show when CNN+ debuts in the coming months, the network announced on Tuesday. Chapman, whose most recent TV experience is hosting \u201cBlock or Charge\u201d on the Cartoon Network\u2019s Adult Swim, has been caught spreading factually incorrect information and, when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}