CNN Accused Of “Sanitizing” Trump’s Fascist Ways Over Greenland & Canada Coverage
Written by djfrosty on December 28, 2024
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For all of the MAGA world’s griping about the ills of “left-wing media,” supporters of Donald Trump really should be thanking some of these supposedly left-leaning networks and publications for using soft language to water down the (alleged) consistent lies, blatant bigotry, idiocracy and general absurdity of the president-elect. From the Washington Post to the New York Times, there are a number of news outlets that are reviled by conservatives that also get blasted from the other side for needlessly normalizing Trump and his ilk by refusing to call a spade a spade, or, in Trump’s case, they refuse to call a diet fascist white nationalist idiot a diet fascist white nationalist idiot.
CNN is no different.
Over the weekend, Trump expressed renewed interest in acquiring Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, which he had talked about wanting to purchase back in 2019.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Trump also wants to violate a 1977 treaty by taking over the Panama Canal to reduce the high costs of ships passing through, and he recently told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada should become a new “state” of the U.S.
Is it wild that Trump is out here talking about taking over other countries and territories (against the wishes of the leaders of said territories) in order to preserve “National Security and Freedom” in America? Hell yeah — or at least it would be if certain media outlets didn’t insist on treating Trump like he’s the new normal.
From Raw Story:
In reporting on these remarks, CNN was accused of “sanitizing” the story and “sane washing” it by reporting it as follows: “The president-elect has suggested a territorial extension into Panama, Greenland, and Canada. If he’s serious, it would rival the Louisiana Purchase.”
Election lawyer Marc Elias took to Blue Sky on Tuesday to shame the network and call it “hopelessly broken.”
“1. This ‘expansion’ would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law. 2. It would violate several treaties. 3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations,” he said.
“So Trump wants to annex Greenland, Canada, and Panama, and invade Mexico. A whole lot of gullible people were telling me he was the antiwar, anti-imperial candidate,” remarked digital strategist Robert Cruickshank on X.
Melanie D’Arrigo of the Campaign for New York Health called out CNN for “manufacturing consent for Trump to attack and invade our allies.”
Film and television editor Michael Tae Sweeney said on Blue Sky that CNN is guilty of doing this over several years. It’s all an effort to “try to help Trump and fool their audience by lying to them.”
USA Today opinion columnist Michael J. Stern told CNN, “When one country tries to take over parts of another country it’s not ‘expansion,’ it’s an illegal act of war.” He linked it to another CNN story with the headline, “Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada.”
Part of the reason Trump is about to be president again is that major media outlets and prominent lawmakers and other elected officials keep treating him and his antics like they are normal and acceptable. His supporters keep pretending their MAGA messiah is “anti-establishment,” but, honestly, it’s the “establishment” that they have to thank for his continued existence.
It’s not even irony, it’s just pure hypocrisy.
And it’s the American way.