The general decline of standards at CNSNews.com over the past year or so, plus its determination to be a pro-Trump stenographer, has led to embarrassing things no real “news” operation would ever publish — like a Dec. 15 “news” article that’s more political rant than news. Jones huffs:
Impatient to get President Trump out of the office to which the American people elected him a year ago, media liberals on Monday re-introduced some of the women who have accused Trump of harassing them sexually years ago.
The women first spoke to Megyn Kelly on her cable show, then they held a news conference organized by a group called Brave New Films, which produces liberal propaganda on issues such as “justice,” “inequality” and “gun violence.”
The re-emergence of Trump’s female accusers fits neatly into the script written by Democrats, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who said after the complainants’ news conference that President Trump simply must resign.
We don’t recall anyone at CNS or its Media Research Center parent similarly portraying the emergence of the women who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment and worse as stunts to drive the Republican political agenda. Indeed, MRC chief Brent Bozell and Tim Graham used them to deflect from Trump’s offenses when they first surfaced before the 2016 election.
So, apparently, it’s OK for only one side to exploit sexual harassment charges for political purposes as far as Jones and Bozell are concerned.
Still, Jones continued to whine, grumbling on the Trump White House’s behalf that “Trump’s female accusers were among the topics at the White House press briefing on Friday, as spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders fielded questions she’s answered before.” She concludes that the story is being pushed by reporters “biased against trump” for the sole purpose of trying to get Trump on something since the Russia scandal purportedly isn’t panning out:
One biased-against-Trump reporter insisted that Sanders answer her question about Trump’s accusers, “because this is spinning and it’s focused on him now and–“
Sanders interrupted, noting that Trump has already addressed the issue directly with the American people.
The reporter persisted: “But will he — it’s coming up new and afresh and more people are now speaking out. Will…the president address the nation on this? This is a huge issue, Sarah,” the reporter insisted.
As Trump himself noted, that other huge issue — the special counsel’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible coordination with Russia — so far has produced no clear evidence implicating the president, which seems to be the point of the investigation.
So cue the Trump accusers…
Again, the complete opposite of the way CNS and the MRC has portrayed Clinton’s accusers, which it has never accused of being political pawns though they were certainly no less so than CNS and the MRC accuse Trump’s accusers of being.
Being a CNS reporter, it seems, means never having to be held to journalistic standards.