Delusional: Hannah-Jones Complains Media Aren’t Biased Enough Against Republicans

On Wednesday’s Neue DayCNN had a race obsessed reporter New York Times MagazineReporter Nikole Hannah Jones to join the conservative-hating network and twist news reports about Republicans trying to take controversial books out of Texas school libraries. Hannah-Jones was prodded absurdly by Erica Hill (fill-in host), to complain that the media is not biased enough in favor of Republicans.

Referring To a deranged, pre-recorded piece by CNN reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro, Hill began by fretting over a massive strawman about “accurate history” being targeted by Republicans and parents calling for bans of books from schools:

As you look at where we are right now, what do we stand to lose as a country by going down this road of banning books, by ignoring accurate history, and by vilifying people who are simply trying to make reading and history and accuracy available?

Hill and McMorris/Santoro insisted on reading from the book portions that were not suitable for screen.

It’s also ironic that Hannah Jones, the CNN host raised concerns regarding historical accuracy since Hannah Jones was infamous. 1619 ProjectIt was heavily criticized for its accuracy. And, more recently, she was even caught wrongly claiming that Japan had been on the verge of surrendering before the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hannah-Jones repeated some of her assertions from a recent interview with the Associated Press, insisting “we are in very dangerous times.” She soon added that “our democracy is on the brink right now” because of “the assaults that we are seeing on voting rights, on the attempts to ban books, on these memory laws — which they’re calling anti-critical race laws, but they’re really anti-history laws.”

Without a shred of irony, she added: “These are all means of stoking division and resentment, and I don’t think we quite know where we’re going to go at this moment.”

As Hill followed up, she asked her liberal guest to critique the journalistic profession and lamented the supposed delusion and hate emanating from the right:

And, sadly, they seem to be working in certain communities, right, as we’re seeing it. Also, in your interview you mentioned the need for journalists to question themselves as storytellers and narrators if the “alarm bell is ringing in the correct way”. Are we doing it right?

Hannah Jones complained about the inequalities of the media despite MSNBC and CNN tilting significantly to the right and spending almost all their time attacking conservatives and promoting liberal causes.

While I believe there are many political journalists who do try to cover the events, I feel that far too many people in this profession are attempting to normalize them. Now, in an attempt to say, “Well, we’re going to treat both political parties equally when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas. We just saw how Kyle Rittenhouse got a standing ovation, and he’s a young man who killed two people, so I think that we, as a profession, have to step up. This democracy is dependent on us, and we are our firewall. I don’t believe the firewall holds right now.

In the setup piece, McMorris-Santoro highlighted liberal teachers in Texas who were defending the inclusion of books on questionable topics popular with the left — some of which have been the subject of concern by conservatives for decades. Note again that CNN has not shown or read any of the inappropriate material with which parents are concerned.

Lincoln partially sponsored the self-aware left-wing journalistic example. You can find their contact information here.

The transcript follows. To read the transcript, click “expand”.

CNN’s Neue Day
December 22nd, 2021
Eastern: 7:46 AM

ERICA HILL: A recent interview with The Associated Press. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and founder of The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones warned about the decline of American democracy, saying “We, as Americans, are going to be severely tested in the next year or two to decide, what are we willing to sacrifice to be the country that we believe that we are?” Joining us now, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is the creator of The 1619 Project. Thank you so much for joining me this morning. I think it’s such an important, thought-provoking question — both that, and I hope you could hear Evan’s piece. That Texas librarian, at the very end when she said what — you know, we talked about what do we stand to lose. As you look at where we are right now, what do we stand to lose as a country by going down this road of banning books, by ignoring accurate history, and by vilifying people who are simply trying to make reading and history and accuracy available?

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: Thank you so much for having me on. That was a deeply disturbing piece and very important. I’m grateful that you all ran it because we are in very dangerous times. When you have librarians — librarians are one of our greatest public goods. These are spaces, you know, I wouldn’t be where I am today without my public library, which allowed me as a child to go in and read about all of these different people and all these different places, and gain a different understanding of the world and my place in it. And to think that that is now a dangerous profession, I think really — it really is demonstrative of the warning that I and others are trying to call out right now, which is our democracy is on the brink right now. I don’t know that our institutions are going to hold with the assaults that we are seeing on voting rights, on the attempts to ban books, on these memory laws — which they’re calling anti-critical race laws, but they’re really anti-history laws. These are all means of stoking division and resentment, and I don’t think we quite know where we’re going to go at this moment.

HILL: And, sadly, they seem to be working in certain communities, right, as we’re seeing it. Also, in your interview you mentioned the need for journalists to question themselves as storytellers and narrators if the “alarm bell is ringing in the correct way”. Are we doing it right?

HANNAHJONES: While I believe there are political journalists who try to do so, I feel that far too many people in the profession are normalizing current events in order to appear objective. Now, in an attempt to say, “Well, we’re going to treat both political parties equally when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas. We just saw how Kyle Rittenhouse got a standing ovation, and he’s a young man who killed two people, so I think that we, as a profession, have to step up. This democracy is dependent on us, and we are our firewall. I don’t believe the firewall holds right now.