CNN: Hamilton Burger showing real strength against Perry Mason. "Evenly matched adversaries"

[BlueStreak]

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And in sports, CNN panelists agree the Washington Generals are showing signs of a surge against the Harlem Globetrotters.

[spockeye]

1. I don't know why...

...but these CNN posts are cracking me up.

[BlueStreak]

3. Because that is how they operate. CNN = Corporate Narrative Network

They define their narrative, then they cherry pick the data that fits with the narrative and ignore the other 90%.

We know Faux is just a propaganda machine. Nobody takes them seriously as a news network. But CNN really thinks they are a news network. It is sad, really.

[Chipper Chat]

2. CNN:

"Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins were equally respectable men."

[dballance]

4. You may have to supply the background on those two

I think there may be lots of younger DUers who don't know it was a TV series called Perry Mason and Perry only lost one case to Hamilton (the DA) during the whole series.

Well, guess I just did it

[BlueStreak]

7. Right, and the Washington Generals are/were the doormats for the Harlem Globetrotters

Their job was to lose every game in a way that seemed like they were actually trying to win.

They won 6 games and lost 13,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Generals

[longship]

5. Ham Burger was a drug addict!

Scandal in the fifties. I remember something about it, but I cannot recall what it was about. It involved the actor who played Hamilton Burger.

But, CNN is not reporting that, due to insane network "post modernist" equal balance rules.

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[BlueStreak]

8. It *IS* a discussion of politics -- specifically the coverage of politics by CNN.

While the discussion is light-hearted, I think most people understand that there are important issues at stake here when CNN fundamentally misrepresents the state of the election.

This is far more important than the 1000 posts a day obsessing about irrelevant changes to irrelevant national polls.