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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota: It's Time to Stop Putting 'Delusional' Trump Supporters on Air
CNN's Alisyn Camerota is no longer interested in interviewing supporters of President Donald Trump who spout baseless conspiracy theories or unconditional loyalty.
"Now, at the end of Trump's term and after the deadly Capitol insurrection, I think the time for listening to present-day Trump supporters is over," she wrote in a new CNN.com op-ed published Friday. "There is nothing that anyone in this destructive and delusional group can teach the rest of us about being open-minded and tolerant."
She pointed to the Trump voter panels she regularly convened for the network's morning show, "New Day." Since she started doing them five years ago, some of Camerota's panels have gone viral because participants have said blatantly untrue things or vowed fealty to Trump with shocking verve.
"Since 2015, I've listened closely to Trump supporters' feelings and motivations. I've drawn insights from every one of my panelists on the appeal of Donald Trump as a disruptor, how they believed he was 'a fighter' for them, how they believed his success in business would translate into lifting the US economy." she wrote. "I hoped the panels could model civil discourse and how to hear each other. But a week after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, I'm rethinking my position."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/cnn-anchor-alisyn-camerota-its-time-to-stop-putting-delusional-trump-supporters-on-air/ar-BB1cMTMG?li=BBnbfcL
Anyone who believes Donald Trump is a successful businessman doesn't know anything about finance, business or Trump's multiple business failures.
Wounded Bear
(64,324 posts)Wednesdays
(22,602 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)He's just so dumb.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)flying_wahini
(8,275 posts)He is a spineless sap that I would rather never see or hear again.
flying_wahini
(8,275 posts)He is a spineless sap that I would rather never see or hear again.
Kid Berwyn
(24,395 posts)
meadowlander
(5,133 posts)Stop handing these people the megaphone.
iluvtennis
(21,497 posts)trumpians. nt
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Bev54
(13,431 posts)The media has been giving these assholes all the attention for 6 years and it sickens me.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)ffr
(23,398 posts)But you have to realize that television is about ratings and selling advertising to generate revenue.
Controversy sells and our society has built up a craving for it on a daily basis. Boring news, like what we're going to get watch Joe Biden doesn't sell ads. Policy wonks out to make people's lives better is truly boring to watch, because there's no controversy.
Personally, I'm so looking forward to boring policy wonks on TV for the rest of my life. But I'm in the minority.
RVN VET71
(3,192 posts)Rachel Maddow used to -- so long ago -- offer recipes for cocktails on her show at the end of the week. It was a fun way for her to fill up the time! I love the memory of those days and want to get back.
But its going to take time. Trump will be gone and possibly out of politics forever (if there are enough spine-bearing Republican Senators to find him guilty), but the aftermath of Trumpism is still to come. He will continue to influence the demented right as long as he lives. Even in prison -- where I hope he ends up -- he would maintain control over the minds of his ratiocinatively diminished followers -- and those genuine fascist supremacists who relish the support from even so disgraced a man as Trump. So Trumpism is going to do a slow fade and could well come back if the Democrats blow the power theyve recently been given by voters.
(I know ratiocinatively is a snobby, Sam Johnson word. But I like it. I hope yall can indulge me this weakness. Please?
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Raven123
(7,797 posts)SWBTATTReg
(26,257 posts)them on the air?
Blue Owl
(59,103 posts)Tarc
(10,601 posts)One of the reasons I prefer MSNBC nowadays, not a second of time spent talking to crazies. Rachel, Joy, etc... have no probs inviting sane conservatives like Michael Steele, but the rest can fuck right off.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)For at least a half hour saying Congress should not impeach Trump! Go away, Comey!
MagickMuffin
(18,318 posts)EVER
I wonder why that is?
Why do you support President Obama?
Why are you supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
Do you think they will listen to you?
Were you motivated to vote for Joe to unelect trump?
You know the other half of Americans who never get to have our voices heard unless we're protesting, but you even fail at that because you rarely talk to anyone other than trump supporters. You ARE a huge part of the problem.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)I have never heard a Biden or Obama panel.
NNadir
(38,045 posts)Traildogbob
(13,018 posts)Santorum and Navarro should only be interviewed in Federal Prison studios, to prisoners.
Navarro on Fox yesterday still spewing Trump won a landslide. Fuckin enough.
murielm99
(32,988 posts)Those people may not be as involved in conspiracy theories, but they are brain dead and delusional as well. Stop going to coffee shops!
stopdiggin
(15,463 posts)"Rethinking" my position -- after 5 years and a deadly insurrection. Hold on now -- wouldn't want to be too hasty! (Thank you for the "service" you have provided to the community ... We've all benefited so much ....)
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GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)He claims to be for Jesus, against Abortion. End of argument.
not fooled
(6,680 posts)that supporters of this con man criminal were delusional, yet NYT, CNN, etc. bent over backwards to let crazy maggots spew their nonsense into the public discourse, lending it undeserved credibility.
Meanwhile, were were all the interviews discerning the feelings of legitimately disappointed Hillary supporters?
Oh well, better late than never.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)After he left the White House? Are we still interviewing Bush supporters? What the hell makes these terrorist Trumpers think they will be the center of the universe forever? Time to move on.
seta1950
(968 posts)Its a bit late , after giving them free air time since 2015, to worry about the lies, that drivel is imbedded in the mind of his basket of deplorables.
marble falls
(71,926 posts)... of a mess to clear. I have no more patience or time for these self deluded self-pitying fools.
pazzyanne
(6,759 posts)about finance, business or Trump's multiple business failures."
They also did not do any research on djt before supporting and voting for him!
BobTheSubgenius
(12,217 posts)...is not going to end well.
Nitram
(27,749 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,911 posts)ailsagirl
(24,287 posts)I'm so sick of their GUFF
Karadeniz
(24,746 posts)Starting 5 years ago, putting Trump, his lying spokespeople, his delusional, ignorant rallygoers on air... Legitimizing the evil drivel.
LittleGirl
(8,999 posts)and agree with this change going forward.
I never want to hear from trumpers ever again.