Joe Biden saved Chris Licht's life.

[Beautiful Disaster]

https://nypost.com/2022/06/27/cnn-boss-chris-licht-biden-saved-my-life-after-aneurism/

According to the memoir, Biden called the hospital that was treating Licht and arranged to have him evaluated by a top neurosurgeon.

The neurosurgeon is reported to have examined Licht in order to assess the severity of his condition. Shortly afterward, the doctor is said to have made treating Licht a top priority, according to the memoir.

Licht writes that Biden periodically checked in on him and his wife.

Months later, Licht attended at a party at the vice president’s residence at the US Naval Observatory in the capital. It was there that Licht credited Biden with saving his life, according to the memoir.

“He is a great and kind person, and the photo taken that day of Jenny and me being embraced by the vice president of the United States will live on in our family forever,” he said.

[Bev54]

1. Guess money overrides any gratefulness for saving ones life.

[plimsoll]

35. It's too bad the best gratitude quote is from Stalin.

Gratitude is a disease of dogs.

Still a good authoritarian.

[Goodheart]

2. Talk about stabbing somebody in the back.

[tavernier]

3. No good deed goes unpunished.

I guess that was true in this case.

[Celerity]

37. Beat me to it!

[TheProle]

4. Licht should repay him by leveraging all the machinery of CNN

towards aiding Biden?

Do you folks even listen to yourselves?

[dchill]

7. No one is advocating leveraging anything.

Do you ever listen to yourself?

[TheProle]

10. Sometimes

The subtext of the messages certainly seems to be that Licht somehow owes President Biden that he is not delivering because of CNN's current scope of coverage.

[dchill]

12. Under Licht's leadership, CNN is doing everything...

...they can to promote both-siderism. They've taken several steps down. That's what I see. Licht owes Biden nothing, I'm sure.

[Scrivener7]

22. Please do show what part of the message you are responding to

had a subtext that said that Licht owes the President something.

[TheProle]

23. LOL! Really?

[Scrivener7]

24. Lol! Yes, really! Where do you see that in that post?

[TheProle]

26. Okay.

Months later, Licht attended at a party at the vice president’s residence at the US Naval Observatory in the capital. It was there that Licht credited Biden with saving his life, according to the memoir.

“He is a great and kind person, and the photo taken that day of Jenny and me being embraced by the vice president of the United States will live on in our family forever,” he said.

The above quote for context; Licht is appreciative and gracefully so. So, in light of this:

Guess money overrides any gratefulness for saving ones life.
Talk about stabbing somebody in the back.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Ingrate is as ingrate does.
Karma is coming for you, dude.
But Trump-promoting Licht today to Biden: "but what have you done for me lately?"

All of these comments suggest (to my reading) that the baseline appreciation for President Biden's life-saving help is not sufficient; that somehow he should be looking to give President Biden something more than appreciation.

You are obviously entitled to your opinion if you think the collection of comments above doesn't indicate the same subtext to you. But I stand by my comments.

[Scrivener7]

27. Ahh. So you're yelling at the OP for things said by people who are not the OP.

I see.

Interesting approach.

[TheProle]

29. Yeah I could have done a better job directing my comments correctly.

Thanks for pointing that out so I can do better in the future.

I take exception to the notion that I'm "yelling" at anyone, though.

@BeautifulDisaster - apologies for not correctly replying where I should have.

[Caliman73]

33. Nope. You are adding the "subtext".

I read the OP as saying how Biden helped to save Licht, and simply complaining that Licht is using his new found life to do bad things like promote Trump.

If you choose to read more into the statement, then perhaps some self reflection?

[TheProle]

34. Always more self-reflection, thanks.

[paleotn]

32. You seem awfully transactional. I didn't get that from the story at all.

Then again, I'm not very transactional.

[bluesbassman]

8. Wher exactly did you see that proposed? n/t

[NJCher]

9. I didn't get that message

I don't see where anyone is saying the CNN machinery should be leveraged for Biden. Such as it is, that would be no BFD.

You're engaging in hyperbole.

[TheProle]

11. "You're engaging in hyperbole."

Yes. Yes I am.

[Beautiful Disaster]

14. lmao what

[Scrivener7]

18. Sock drawer is open!

[FSogol]

41. LOL. n/t

[Silent Type]

5. trump's performance Wednesday is the start of Biden stomping him, maybe

even knocking him out of GOP nomination.

[dchill]

6. Ingrate is as ingrate does.

Mama always used to say.

[Joinfortmill]

13. Karma is coming for you, dude.

[hlthe2b]

15. Trump-promoting Licht today to Biden: "but what have you done for me lately?"

Last edited Fri May 12, 2023, 05:14 PM - Edit history (1)

[Lovie777]

16. NY Post is owned by Murdoch.....................

could be true or not.

[MagickMuffin]

17. I guess you can read the memoir to verify

Whether it’s true or not

[TwilightZone]

19. It's not new - it happened in 2011.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/joe-biden-goes-into-action-for-tv-producer-battling-a-brain-hemorrhage/2011/05/05/AFqjNv1F_blog.html

[TwilightZone]

20. Here's a link to a story from 2011 talking about it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/joe-biden-goes-into-action-for-tv-producer-battling-a-brain-hemorrhage/2011/05/05/AFqjNv1F_blog.html

[Cha]

21. Jesus.. Again.. you can't

make this shit up!

Link to tweet

[agingdem]

25. Yes, but what has Biden done for Licht lately???

When Tucker Carlson's son wanted to go to Georgetown University, Tucker reached out to Hunter Biden and asked if he would write a letter of recommendation and Hunter did..and in true asshole fashion Tucker had no problem turning on Hunter...

[Sky Jewels]

28. And Tucker has lied his ass off by saying that he urged his kids to not attend college

(ya know, cuz it's just a bunch of liberal fancy book lernin propaganda).

[Celerity]

38. The tragic thing is, millions of slack jawed yokels actually believe uni is

just a bunch of liberal fancy book lernin

Troglodytes who will book-burn at the drop of a hat.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. Guess Licht likes the taste of jackboots more these days.

The decision to show Trump unhinged and unchallenged on CNN was IMO a profound case of poor judgement.

[dlk]

31. Someone has a very short memory

And it’s not Joe Biden

[ancianita]

36. Perhaps what Licht got for Biden is a lot of footage for his campaign ads. And for Jack Smith,

four new pieces of evidence right out of Trump's mouth, according to Andrew Weissman.

Maybe it could even be seen that Trump took CNN's bait and hoist himself by his own petard.

[dlk]

39. Possibly, although any admissions would need to weighed against the damage to the country as a whole

Providing free airtime to this monster and normalizing him is harmful, regardless

[ancianita]

42. Not really. Jack Smith getting rid of not just Trump but Meadows and the 34

Republicans he texted with on Jan 6 can take the weight of the damage off the country as a whole.
In addition to all the other aiders and abetters like Flynn and the rest at the Doral this weekend. This massive DOJ project has gotten no overturned convictions, 100% on every seditious conspirator they've 'due processed,' and that's what will work in the next 19 months.

I can list the aiders and abetters list if you like.

Media want a horserace. The voters proved that they didn't normalize Trump in 2020, and those, and even more voters for Biden, will prove it again.

Don't believe the fear hype. It's part of the horse race that anti-Biden corporate media run.

Jack Smith's going to outrun media. Once he files, he'll be all that media can carry on about.

[dlk]

43. The media is addicted to Trump and to the horse race

After 8 years, they haven’t figured out that using normal journalistic methods completely fail with him, and he rolls them every time.

In the meantime, Trump is given an enormous microphone to blast out his toxic ignorance and hatred to a willing audience of millions. This is very damaging and we see the ugly roots of fascism taking hold across our country.

I have every confidence in Jack Smith and Merrick Garland. However it will take much more than the DOJ to protect us from the oncoming wave of fascism in America.

We are at war and giving the enemy any advantage at any juncture is never a good idea .

Given the media’s ongoing failures with Trump, I’m not betting on them. They they can be counted on to put profits ahead of our democracy. The CNN debacle is only the most recent example and you can bet they will do it again.

[ancianita]

44. It is.

Not only for its profitability but for its tendency to present drama to humans who also love drama over boring rational data, or reality. So yeah, I'm not betting on them, either. This event just hardened the opposing audiences, and it reminded other media of how toxic drama isn't good business or good journalism.

You're probably right that CNN & trump have made a win-win pact for short term gain. I just thought that Licht also brought some unintended good in this particular event.

[Takket]

40. Oops

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. President Biden saved this man's life

Link to tweet

[Xoan]

46. This won't save Chris Light.