{"id":2019718,"date":"2023-09-01T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-narrative-broken-as-humiliating-object-floats-through-weathermans-live-broadcast\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:13:41","slug":"cnn-narrative-broken-as-humiliating-object-floats-through-weathermans-live-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-narrative-broken-as-humiliating-object-floats-through-weathermans-live-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s narrative shattered as embarrassing object interrupts weatherman&#8217;s live broadcast."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-narrative-broken-as-humiliating-object-floats-through-weathermans-live-broadcast%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=2019718&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--><h2>Weatherman&#8217;s\u200b Live Broadcast Interrupted by Inflatable Duck\u2062 During Hurricane Coverage<\/h2>\n<p>Weather-related reports from the establishment media convey two messages.<\/p>\n<p>First,\u2064 every severe weather event stems from climate\u200b change. And second, \u200cthis should make \u2063you afraid.<\/p>\n<p>How wonderfully refreshing, therefore, when \u2063establishment media reporters see their live weather broadcasts interrupted by \u200dpeople\u200c acting without fear.<\/p>\n<p>This happened Wednesday during CNN\u2019s \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tebow-im-grateful-my-mom-gave-me-a-chance-at-life\/\" title=\"Tebow: I\u2019m grateful my mom gave me a chance at life\">live coverage<\/a> of Hurricane Idalia\u2019s landfall in Florida, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/tampa-residents-float-through-cnn-live-shot-on-camouflage-duck-during-hurricane-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a>, \u2062as two young men floated past on an inflatable camouflage duck.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men used a paddle to row the duck through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/several-people-dead-after-boats-crash-near-us-coast-officials\/\" title=\"Several People Dead After Boats Crash Near US Coast: Officials\">knee-deep water<\/a> down \u2064the streets of Tampa. To heighten the scene\u2019s absurdity, the duck sported large sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re going to step away from the seriousness of\u200c the storm for just one second,\u201d meteorologist Derek Van Dam said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got\u2063 to bear with me because\u2063 this \u2064is something you\u2064 don\u2019t see every \u200dday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Dam paused and tried to interview\u200d the two boatsmen. They\u200b kept floating.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, the meteorologist seemed \u2064amused by the situation. He lightheartedly described it as a \u201cnew way to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-narrative-broken-as-humiliating-object-floats-through-weathermans-live-broadcast\/\" title=\"CNN's narrative shattered as embarrassing object interrupts weatherman's live broadcast.\">beat rush-hour traffic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other\u2063 hand, Van Dam sounded almost apologetic for interrupting a report that he knew\u2064 CNN viewers would expect \u200dto contain\u200d much \u201cseriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to minimize the serious nature of this storm, but this is\u2062 what people \u2064are dealing with in Tampa as we speak,\u201d Van Dam said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meanwhile in Tampa \u200b\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Idalia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Idalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HurricaneIdalia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HurricaneIdalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcTsfYpu1H\">pic.twitter.com\/CcTsfYpu1H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount \u200b(@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1696859303213158602?\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Critics of CNN&#8217;s Narrative<\/h3>\n<p>Critics of CNN object \u2062not to the idea of taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/apocalyptic-scene-reported-idalia-makes-landfall-category-3-hurricane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hurricane<\/a> seriously \u2014 no one \u2063needs reminding that large storms pose dangers \u2014 but to the\u200c network\u2019s relentless, \u2064simplistic and apocalyptic narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2022, for instance, then-CNN host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-returns-tv-surprise-new-look-inability-tell-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Lemon<\/a> repeatedly \u200dtried to coax the acting \u200bdirector of the\u200b National\u2064 Hurricane Center into blaming Hurricane Ian on climate \u200bchange.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Rhome did not bite. \u201cI\u2063 don\u2019t think you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-don-lemon-tries-to-blame-hurricane-ian-on-climate-change-noaas-hurricane-director-shuts-him-down\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Don Lemon Tries To Blame Hurricane Ian On Climate Change. NOAA\u2019s Hurricane Director Shuts Him Down.\">link climate change<\/a> to any one\u200b event,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/national-hurricane-center-director-shuts-don-lemons-attempt-use-ian-push-climate-change-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, \u200cdevastating hurricanes plagued the Western Hemisphere\u200c long before the industrial era.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 31, 1772, \u200bfor instance, 17-year-old Alexander Hamilton survived a \u201cdreadful\u201d hurricane on the Caribbean island of St. Croix.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the future Founding Father <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Hamilton\/01-01-02-0042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> \u201cthe roaring\u200b of\u200d the sea and wind, fiery meteors flying about\u2063 it \u2062in the air, the\u2062 prodigious glare of almost perpetual lightning, the crash of the falling houses, and the ear-piercing shrieks of the distressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This kind of historical perspective should serve as an antidote to narratives\u200d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/expert-tells-climate-alarmists-pump-brakes-maui-fire-narrative-published-warning-years-ago-predicting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alarmism<\/a> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-abbott-all-sources-of-power-in-texas-have-been-compromised\/\" title=\"Gov. Abbott: All sources of power in Texas have been compromised\">weather events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the silly inflatable duck reminds\u2064 us never to surrender to fear.<\/p>\n<p>In 1948, legendary Christian author C.S. Lewis wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/livingbulwark.net\/wp-content\/bulwark\/april2020p7.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> entitled, \u201cOn \u2064Living in an Atomic Age.\u201d Only three years earlier, \u2063atomic bombs had destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and\u200c Nagasaki. \u200dThe end of World\u2064 War II thus marked the \u2063beginning of an era in which many people feared nuclear annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis advised readers not to pretend \u2064that the atomic bomb created\u2064 a new \u2064situation in human \u2064affairs. Everyone will die eventually. This must not change how we\u200d live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are all going to be destroyed \u2062by an atomic bomb, let \u2064that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things \u2014 praying, working, teaching, reading, listening\u2063 to music, bathing the\u200b children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over \u2064a pint and a game of darts \u2014 \u200bnot huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs,\u201d Lewis \u200dwrote.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, far better we should ride on floating\u2063 ducks \u2063than live as frightened sheep.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-narrative-broken-humiliating-object-floats-weathermans-live-broadcast\/\">CNN Narrative Broken as Humiliating\u200d Object Floats Through Weatherman&#8217;s Live \u200dBroadcast<\/a> appeared first\u2063 on \u200c <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment media often links severe weather events to climate change, aiming to instill fear. However, it was a pleasant surprise when CNN&#8217;s live coverage of Hurricane Idalia&#8217;s landfall was interrupted by fearless individuals. This occurrence challenges the narrative and offers a refreshing perspective on weather-related reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2019719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019718","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}