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Normally, HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered can be counted on to push back against the liberal media when they get stirred up into one of their nonsensical frenzies, as it did during the gun control debate. But on Tuesday, Cupp parroted the CNN company line by condemning Sinclair Broadcast Group as nothing more than state-owned propaganda. She even took it a step farther and compared them to Heaven’s Gate suicide cult.
“You remember the Heaven’s Gate Cults, they were the ones that believed there was a spaceship following a comet passing close to the Earth and committed mass suicide in order to board it,” Cupp asked after cutting away from the YouTube campus shooting. “Well, if they had a television network, they may have aired something like this…”
Cupp played the highly edited video produced by Deadspin, which compiled clips of Sinclair own stations promising to be factual in their reporting. “You may have seen that chilling compilation of local news anchors around the country all reading of the same script about fake news and journalistic integrity,” she scoffed. Ironically, she was essentially mimicking HBO’s John Oliver who suggested something similar about them being in a cult.
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