Speech Steeped in Hypocrisy

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4. CNN scrambles to glorify Las Vegas speech

By Erik Wemple
October 2 at 1:58 PM

... "Look, pitch perfect from the president right there," said John King, anchor and chief national correspondent for CNN. "I'm sure already there are some people out there because of the polarized environment we live in who won't like something they heard or won't trust something they heard or won't find truthfulness or credibility in something their president just said. I would hope that they would take a breath and let the president have his piece here, in the sense that he came out, he said he wanted to unify the country.”

There was no asterisk on King’s words to indicate that he was grading on the curve. Nor does the "polarized environment" bear the blame for the president’s lack of credibility. His lies and untruths do ...

Jeff Zeleny, when his analytical turn came up, said, "The president clearly, as John said, striking a pitch-perfect tone."

And analyst David Chalian: "That's everything you would want to hear from a president of the United States, everything that you wanted to hear there. I agree with what John and Jeff were saying — this was certainly pitch perfect" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/02/pitch-perfect-cnn-scrambles-to-glorify-trumps-las-vegas-speech/?utm_term=.93dfaf2e4c8a