This clip of Kaitlan Collins from her Daily Caller days is incredibly damning. Good work CNN!

[Bleacher Creature]

Link to tweet

[Iggo]

1. Not only that, but that Trump guy seems to be kind of a bad egg as well.

[cilla4progress]

2. Wow.

[brush]

3. God, she's a magat.

[GenXer47]

4. oh gross

I knew it! THANK YOU!

[underpants]

5. I said the words. Can I have money now?

[allegorical oracle]

6. She's been on a fast track. Wondered if tfg requested her, perhaps on T. Carson's

say-so, especially as trump and tucker likely wanted some TV event to occur that would get higher ratings than Fox. Payback that also could presumably help djt.

[IronLionZion]

7. So much for the "liberal media"

with people like her on CNN, who needs Fox News?

[agingdem]

8. Kaitlan Collins is CNN's shining star only because

she has the far right racist/antisemitic (George Soros is code for JEW) bonafides via Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller and frequent FOX appearances Chris Licht needs to transform a once venerable network into a no pushback safe haven for today's GOP....

[AnotherMother4Peace]

9. If Chris Licht's goal is to make CNN an untrusted news source, he's doing a great job. Once trust is

lost, it's hard to get it back. I used to switch back and forth between MSNBC and CNN. Now I'm not inclined to get my news from CNN. AND I was so offended/saddened that trump was allowed to laugh/mock sexual assault victims and to verbally attack his female host to the laughter of his crowd. That, quite frankly, is what I associate CNN with, and what makes it difficult to watch.

[live love laugh]

18. It's the Elon Musk business model.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Worked for Sneering Dick Cheney.

Failing at every stage of his career, he’d get kicked up a level. Nixonian.

The Curse of Dick Cheney

The veep's career has been marred by one disaster after another

By T.D. ALLMAN

Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.

This pattern of misplaced confidence in Cheney, followed by disastrous results, runs throughout his life -- from his days as a dropout at Yale to the geopolitical chaos he has helped create in Baghdad. Once you get to know his history, the cycle becomes clear: First, Cheney impresses someone rich or powerful, who causes unearned wealth and power to be conferred on him. Then, when things go wrong, he blames others and moves on to a new situation even more advantageous to himself.

"Cheney's manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities," says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush's father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision -- but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass."

Cheney's record of mistakes begins in 1959, when Tom Stroock, a Republican politician-businessman in Casper, Wyoming, got Cheney, then a senior at Natrona County High School, a scholarship to Yale. "Dick was the all-American boy, in the top ten percent of his class," Stroock says. "He seemed a natural." But instead of triumphing, Cheney failed. "He spent his time partying with guys who loved football but weren't varsity quality," recalls Stephen Billings, an Episcopalian minister who roomed with him during Cheney's freshman (and only full) year at Yale. "His idea was, you didn't need to master the material," says his other roommate, Jacob Plotkin. "He passed one psych course without attending class or studying, and he was proud of that. But there are some things you can't bluff, and Dick reached a point where you couldn't recover."

Cheney might have been flunking in the classroom, but he excelled at making connections. "Dick always had this very calm way of talking," recalls Plotkin, now a retired math professor at Michigan State University. "His thoughtful manner impressed people." Forty years before the son of a U.S. president picked Cheney to be his running mate, the son of a Massachusetts governor picked him to be his sophomore-year roommate. Mark Furcolo, whose father, Foster, had been elected governor as a Democrat, invited Cheney to Cape Cod for a visit. "Dick came back enraptured," Plotkin says. "He was fascinated by the official state cars and planes. The trappings of it got him."

CONTINUED...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/rnd/1094003520950/pageid/rs.Home/has-player/true/pageregion/single7/id/6450422?rnd=1115752030585&has-player=true

Know your BFEE: Sneering Dick Cheney, Superturd-Superrich-Supercrook

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3627538

[live love laugh]

28. I think failing up must be a Republican thing.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

10. Disgusting! Nt

[Catherine Vincent]

11. So she's a right winger

That figures.

[Walleye]

12. So sick, and for so long. What kind of brain actually can believe this stuff

[orthoclad]

13. All I see is "Link to Musk"

Would someone be kind enough to describe what she did?

Thanking you in advance.

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. In a Fox Spews appearance

She called George Soros a forgein born leftist that wants to change the nature of this country. For context it's about imigration.

[orthoclad]

25. Ah. Those billionaire commies.

I should have known.

(thanks)

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. You're welcome

Apparently only rich righties can be involved in politics.

[druidity33]

27. You can change your settings for that. nt.

[orthoclad]

29. No.

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I won't disable my net hygiene in order to monetize a fascist.

[Lulu Latech]

14. Trump had lots of control over who would do the interview and who was in the audience

Otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to do it on CNN. He knew Collins from her White House Correspondence days and I wouldn't be surprised if she had contacts with people in his campaign. I also wonder if CNN had to throw her a bone after the Don Lemmon incident with her. (Pure conjecture on my part)

[Paladin]

16. See Evan Hunter's SAVAGE take-down of Collins in today's Wonkette.com.

She is unworthy of any praise from liberals.

[dchill]

17. "Good work CNN!" Tongue said to cheek.

[Warpy]

19. George Soros is 93

What in the HELL are those screeching fearmongers on the far right going to do when he dies? They have no other bogeyman, most of the remaining billionaires belong to them (well, they belong to the billionaires but they don't know that). Without that evil mastermind cutting paychecks for everybody on the left to try to disrupt their smooth transition to a perfect white Christian theocracy, whatever are they going to blame for the fact that they're outnumbered?

After all, they couldn't possibly be WRONG about anything.

[SunSeeker]

20. Nice little conspiracy theorist anti-semite you got there CNN!

[Caliman73]

21. Giving right wingers what they want.

In what universe can a Billionaire ever be "left wing"?

This shows either a fundamental lack of understanding of what "left wing" actually is or an outright lie. Maybe a bit of both.

People on the actual left wing (not liberals or progressives, or even social Democrats), will usually at their core, though to varying degrees, reject the idea that capitalism and democracy are compatible. People on the "left wing" (again, not center or center left but real left wing) think that capitalism is the engine driving the problems we face. Capitalism is a hierarchical system, and while it can be restrained to the extent that democratic systems can co-function, when left to its natural conditions, people will begin to accumulate capital and assets into fewer and fewer hands and those people will then have much more power to control policy. The more that you value Capitalism, the less you will tend to value democracy because the needs of various constituencies will cause inefficiencies in markets and may interfere with the accumulation of capital.

Soros is a Holocaust survivor as well as a survivor of the form of authoritarian Stalinism that chased him and his family out of Hungary. He is driven by a desire not to have something like the Holocaust happen again and the people likely to engage in that kind of behavior are typically right wing. Stalinism is a different beast created under ostensibly left wing ideology, but seemingly corrupted by authoritarianism and Stalin's own psychopathy. Soros is not a friend of Socialism or Communism either. He would never have become a billionaire under either economic/political system.

He is likely a Progressive or Social Democrat. He is using some of his money to prop up more democratic and free societies like in many Western European countries after WWII (after the reconstruction) where as a result of the horrors, they decided to restrain capitlism and spread the benefits of society more equally. Where they restrained extremist thought regarding Nationalism and race. He doesn't want open boarders. He wants countries to treat their citizens well, and barring that he wants immigrants to be accepted safely and treated well by those countries in better situations.

Soros is portrayed as this evil mastermind who wants to destroy societies when at best he is a wealthy man who wants to use some of his wealth to stave off the worst human behavior.

[senseandsensibility]

22. Wow

Very illuminating.

[Cha]

23. I didn't watch the "town hall" massacre..

just read about it.. But I was pissed that she Groveled to the Domestic Terrorist by calling him "mr president".. WTAF!

[Midnight Writer]

24. "Rupert Murdoch is a foreign-born, right-wing guy who essentially wants to change

the nature of this country."

Worse, he's has been very successful at doing exactly that.