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CNN: Bring in the Clowns

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With CNN taking a lot of flak for mocking 63 million Americans, Inez Stepman of The Federalist reports on Don Lemon “moderating” a discussion with “strategist” Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali. The self-labeled elitists “viciously mocked American voters as idiots and rubes.”

CNN and other media outlets might want to meditate on why trust in the media is in the toilet – and was so long before Trump ever came down the escalator – before they unwittingly create any more perfect Keep America Great commercials. Also, if you’re going to make super-offensive jokes, you should at least ensure that they’re funny.

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Debbie Young

Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.