CNS Suddenly Loves Dem Tulsi Gabbard Now That She Supports Trump, Hates Hillary

It wasn’t that long ago that CNSNews.com treated Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard with the same right-wing disdain it has applied to all Democratic presidential candidates. For instance, Craig Bannister highlighted how Gabbard “boasted that she has forsaken the values instilled in her by her parents,” while Michael Morris gave a platform to its favorite right-wing radio host, Mark Levin, to bash her as a “clown,” “crackpot” and “moron” whose “propaganda on behalf of Syria & Iran is disgraceful.”

But supporting President Trump is Job 1 at CNS like it is at the rest of the Media Research Center, followed closely behind by Clinton derangement, and when Gabbard started sounded more like Trump — then got into a spat with Hillary Clinton — she was suddenly treated as a sane and credible candidate. 

A Sept. 26 blog post by Bannister promoted Gabbard’s opposition to Democratic impeachment efforts against Trump, adding that “Gabbard then cautioned that impeachment may well backfire on Democrats.”

When Gabbard echoed Trump’s call to remove U.S. troops from Syria during a debate, an Oct. 16 article by Melanie Arter touted how Gabbard claimed “The New York Times and CNN smeared” her for wanting to end “regime change war” — never mind that only a month earlier CNS was letting Levin declare her support for Syria as “disgraceful.”

Shortly thereafter, Hillary Clinton suggested that the Russians were grooming Gabbard to make a third-party presidential run, CNS rushed to Gabbard’s defense. Managing editor Michael W. Chapman touted Gabbard’s response that Clinton is the “queen of warmongers” and the “personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.” This was followed by an item by Susan Jones about another Democratic presidential candidate being asked about Gabbard.

Chapman returned to boost Gabbard’s “new video response to Hillary Clinton’s charge that she is being groomed by the Russians to be a third-party candidate,” in which she ranted that if you “stand up against Hillary” and the “war machine,” they will try to “destroy you.”

The same day, Chapman complained that “On the very day Democratic presidential contender Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said that The New York Times and CNN were smearing veterans like herself because she opposes the “regime change” war in Syria, CNN analyst Bakari Sellers told a panel of CNN reporters “there is no question that Tulsi Gabbard … is a puppet for the Russian government.” He added, “Clinton, like CNN and Bakari Sellers, presented no evidence to support her claim,” then weirdly moved to suggest Clinton is discredited because of the Mueller report: 

From late 2016 and through 2017, 2018, and part of 2019, Hillary Clinton and most of the liberal media either claimed or strongly suggested that President Donald Trump had colluded with Russia to win the presidential election.

The report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded, “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

That’s just Chapman repeating  the CNS/MRC pro-Trump corporate line.

Finally, Melanie Arter served up her usual stenography work by uncritically passing along President Trump’s mocking that Clinton “is accusing everyone of being a Russian asset, but her recent accusation against Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) probably helped the congresswoman like it ended up helping the Trump administration.”