{"id":601839,"date":"2021-07-24T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601839"},"modified":"2021-07-24T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:06:05","slug":"graham-cnns-lemon-of-a-town-hall-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-cnns-lemon-of-a-town-hall-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: CNN\u2019S Lemon Of A Town Hall Meeting"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fgraham-cnns-lemon-of-a-town-hall-meeting%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=601839&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BD1B7579-737B-4C66-B168-E3DF95B4DC7D-scaled-e1627076588936.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN became apoplectic whenever former President Donald Trump called them \u201cfake news,\u201d but on July 21, they offered President Joe Biden a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described as a \u201cfake town hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A real town hall would sell tickets in a city like Cincinnati and let the locals mix it up with the president and ask him whatever was on their minds. That\u2019s not what CNN did. It was an \u201cinvitation only\u201d audience, which means nobody boos or laughs at inappropriate times. CNN was talking over the video, but when Biden waved goodbye at the limited crowd, they gave him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>The questioners were typically tilted: eight Democrats and three Republicans, plus a mother who lost a son to opioids. Questions are clearly pre-scripted. The network knows exactly what\u2019s going to be asked on what topic. CNN.com had a preview article telling viewers the night\u2019s topics in advance. Airing it live doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s lively.<\/p>\n<p>Those inquirers described as Republicans were very polite \u2014 almost objective in their questions. Several Democrat questioners let loose. A black woman complained bitterly about how Democrat plans \u201care held hostage by the utopian need to gain bipartisan support.\u201d A recent college graduate demanded we \u201cget rid of the filibuster so we can protect our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there was \u201cmoderator\u201d Don Lemon, who could be expected to ask eight or 18 questions like a Democrat. As usual, he was more activist than journalist. After the college kid demanded we shred the filibuster, Lemon went on a rant about how his grandmother had a fifth grade education and couldn\u2019t read but \u201cwould tell me stories about people asking her to count the number of jelly beans in the jar, or the soap in \u2014 so why is protecting the filibuster \u2014 is that more important than protecting voting rights, especially for people who fought and died for that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, Lemon was trying to claim that Republicans were going to insist black voters in 2022 will have to count jelly beans as a \u201cliteracy test.\u201d This is CNN, which claims to hate \u201cgaslighting\u201d and \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Biden also made false claims that Lemon didn\u2019t check. Early on, he insisted more people have died from COVID-19 \u201cthan in all our major wars combined.\u201d The Department of Veterans Affairs said there are more than 650,000 \u201cbattle deaths\u201d before you even count 300,000 other deaths in theater. As Biden was speaking, PolitiFact tweeted, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t seem right. Our last tally of all war deaths was 1.3M.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also claimed: \u201cThey aren\u2019t saying Joe Biden is anti-police. Cops are not saying that about Joe Biden. They know me. Period!\u201d In fact, cop unions endorsed Trump in 2020, and at the Republican convention, Michael McHale, president of the National Association of Police Organizations, said, \u201cYour choices are the most pro-law-enforcement president we have ever had or the most radical anti-police ticket in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden came up \u2026 but not his corrupt \u201cart\u201d auction that\u2019s upcoming. No, Lemon gushed, \u201cYou\u2019ve been very open about your son Hunter\u2019s problems with addiction.\u201d Biden replied, \u201cI\u2019m so damn proud of my son,\u201d and touted Hunter\u2019s book about being an addict.<\/p>\n<p>CNN held the event at Mount St. Joseph University, and the local bishop insisted he would not have permitted the allegedly devout president to speak at a Catholic school. None of that came up, despite the Catholic League saying Biden has violated core Catholic teachings 32 times as president.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Biden special loudly signaled that the people who pose as saviors of democracy don\u2019t want any actual dissent to break out on their network.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN became apoplectic whenever former President Donald Trump called them \u201cfake news,\u201d but on July 21, they offered President Joe Biden a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893751,"comment_status":"close","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/601839","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=601839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}