CNN once was a respected news agency. It seems that this was a long time ago. Any objective reason has been thrown under the bus. It has now become an insufferable, shallow sack of some thing, looking for ratings to survive.
The network’s year has been closing out badly. Chris Cuomo was fired after he defended his brother’s sex accusations. He was then accused of sexual harassment. He was their most popular anchor, although to be fair, that’s like saying blue paint drying is more popular than green paint drying. Blah is blah.
A Cuomo senior producer was then arrested on allegations of sex with minors. On top of that, a second producer — this one who worked on Jake Tapper’s show — resigned and is now being investigated regarding accusations of crimes involving children.
CNN has a New Year’s Eve show every year but it has now devolved into just a festival of how drunk their anchors can become, debasing and embarrassing themselves. This year, Comedy Central’s Andy Cohen did-in Mayor Bill de Blasio with a completely out of control drunken rant.
.@AndyYou can’t believe it, but I was drunk as I was ranting about it. @BilldeBlasio! pic.twitter.com/sFUcQUcJNp
— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) January 1, 2022
He later claimed he was “overserved,” which I guess is a way of trying to absolve himself for being drunk.
🌧Good Morning! 🌧. Um, I was a bit overserved last night…. 🥴
— Andy Cohen (@Andy) January 1, 2022
While he claimed that Bill de Blasio had been in office for four years and we suffered from him for eight, he was absolutely right. Eric Adams has replaced de Blasio. As they have terminal liberal-ness, it remains to be determined if this will help New York City in its future.
But it’s clear that the network encourages drunkenness from the hosts since it happens every year. They had other “moments.”
👏👏👏@andersoncooper is…all of us?#CNNNYE @PattiLuPone @Andy @CNN pic.twitter.com/44Mhi87zyf
— Zoë Hall (@starbop) January 1, 2022
Don Lemon, drunk, asks his host “were their Black or Negro?” while Anderson Cooper (and Andy Cohen) look horrified. This is how to close 2021 #CNNNYE pic.twitter.com/zs8yzahFFD
— Dana (Store Name) #AmplyBlackVoices (@sagesurge) January 1, 2022
Now, I’m all for New Year’s Eve fun, but how bad is CNN?
One of the trolls took them in, and they started running fake twitters on their Twitter chyron. This was during their live countdown until 2022. Different fake names ran for some time, and CNN didn’t pick it up. CNN was taken in by things like “Dixie Normus” and “Ben Dover.” Seriously, guys? Bart Simpson, paging!
Attention to graphic language
An intern who works on NYE merits a raise @cnn pic.twitter.com/JOAGDgJEPV
— TikTok Investors (@TikTokInvestors) January 1, 2022
Thank you for your support @CNNTonight’s producers highlighted tweets by Bo Nehr (Mike Oxlong), Ben Dover (Ben Dover) and Bo Nehr (Bo Nehr). These are your true heroes. pic.twitter.com/iYaof23281
— brian braiker (@slarkpope) January 1, 2022
Now to be fair, that’s pretty funny.
The Daily Beast determined that several of the accounts were connected — Anita Dump, Ben Dover, Dixie Normus, Harry Cox, Hugh Jass, Mike Oxlong, and Seymour Butts — and that they had promoted the hashtag #CNNNYE to get noticed by CNN. They were all created to be trolling accounts, as most of the accounts only had tweeted yesterday night.
Were there also any drunken people behind the cameras? Perhaps this is a good example of just how closely CNN monitors and cares about their operations. I guess they’re so used to not checking, it’s become a habit. But on the other hand, looking at their on-air “talent” and their producers, maybe this isn’t so bad, by comparison. It’s a new year, but CNN is still stuck on stupid.
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