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During Sunday’s edition CNN’s Inside Politics, host John King was frustrated with President Trump’s supporters, both in the media and elsewhere, for what he suggested was their double standard on lying politicians. But in doing so, he exposed CNN’s own shifting standards for what they would and wouldn’t hold Democratic leaders accountable for.
After accidentally playing back-to-back clips of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson and former Congressman Darrell Issa downplaying the infamous “Trump Tower meeting” instead of a clip of Trump, King was eager to knock around his supporters. “The President's supporters often say there's Trump Derangement Syndrome, they call it, among his critics and the media. Well, that's an example of Trump Can Do No Wrong Syndrome among his supporters,” he sneered.
Zeroing in on Issa, King chided how doggedly the former Congressman pursued accountability for the deaths of American diplomats in the terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. “Darrell Issa did not say, ‘Well, she's a politician. Hillary Clinton, she didn’t get it exactly right. Susan Rice, she's great. Give her some grace, she didn’t say— ’” he huffed as he trailed off.
While Kings was trying to mock Issa for not holding Trump to the same standard, it actually demonstrated how CNN didn’t have the same desire to hold the Obama administration to the standard they were now applying to Trump’s. The Benghazi attack led to the deaths of four Americans yet CNN and rest of the liberal media often chastised Congressional Republicans for demanding and seeking accountability.
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