CNN: Return of Netanyahu Brings Scary ‘Right-Wing Government’

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 29, 2022
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The term “right-wing” has become a slur the liberal media sling around to describe politics they don’t like in an attempt to turn off the public to right-of-center politics. As an example, just look at how CNN reporter and fill-in anchor Sara Sidner chose to talk about the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister during Thursday’s CNN Newsroom.

Coming back from a commercial break, Sidner announced that “18 months after being ousted from power, Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister for the sixth time” and warned viewers that he would bring with him “Israel's most right-wing government in its history.” An obvious talking point circulating in the industry since CBS used a very similar string of words.

And to back-up her doomsaying, Sidner noted that “thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the swearing-in ceremony to protest his return to office.”

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