There must be a shortage of journalists for
CNN to hire because in lieu of hiring journalists, they've decided
to hire more former Trump administration officials or campaign workers.
The latest example is Alyssa Farah, who worked in Trump's,
I'm sorry specifically was working for Mike Pence and
the Pentagon before serving as Trump's communications director
from April of 2020 to December of 2020.
Now she was somehow later rejected from Trump World because
she started to become a little more critical after I don't
know his bigoted, homophobic and racist statements.
No, not because of that.
Was it because of him wanting to avoid providing disaster relief funds
to various states, he didn't like, no, not because of that.
Was it because of all the other issues that Trump was involved in,
including his impeachment?
No, not because of that.
She waited until the riots happened in our nation's capital like
the final hour to decide, yeah, maybe Trump is not such a great guy.
And since she is now critical of Trump, CNN's like I jump in it right,
because as long as you don't like Trump, we will hire you.
Even if you enable Trump in the entirety of his administration so.
>> And I just want to jump in one quick correction.
>> I'm sick of it, garbage, it's all garbage, but go ahead correct me, sure.
>> As you're about to see in the quote here, she criticized Trump on January 6,
but left in December before it happened.
But overall, I billion percent agree with Anna.
So she was there all the way to December of 2020 and noticed that after Trump lost,
then all of a sudden, golly gee, look at what I found, my conscience.
>> She's so bold, so brave.
>> Well, if you stayed in power, well, then I would have continued working for
you even though I know you're a monster.
You lost power.
I will do the standard Washington thing now of being brave and
coming out against you on some small issues.
And then I will be rewarded by CNN or
other mainstream media who want to kiss Trump fans asses, right?
Now you say, wait a minute she came out against Trump.
Come on it's all a ruse, okay?
They wanna hire right wingers.
They're desperate to hire right wingers.
All you have to say is the bare minimum.
Yes doing an attack of Congress in order to try
to overthrow a democratic election is bad.
Good enough, come on, right winger hurry up, hurry up.
We love you, journalists.
We don't care about that.
You were lying for Trump all that time,
you were his main communications person for a big stretch there.
Great, come on in, we love it.
Who cares about the truth?
>> Let me just be clear about something, okay?
I don't care if it's a former Trump official.
I don't care if it's a former Biden official.
The whole point of journalism is supposed to specifically
hold people in positions of power accountable,
not hire people who worked for or are part of these positions of power.
So they can then come in and essentially provide a pro power perspective.
We don't need the pro power perspective.
Look, if CNN comes out with a statement, they're like, listen,
we don't actually do journalism.
We do infotainment, and we provide or run interference on behalf of
people in positions of power, awesome then I have no problem with CNN.
At least they're being clear about what their actual role is in society.
But they pretend to be journalists.
They pretend to want to hold people in positions of power accountable.
And then, at the same time, investigative journalists get laid off.
Or don't get honestly, the priority or
the necessary attention to break the stories that actually matter.
And instead they fund this garbage.
Does CNN understand why people hate them so much?
That's what I wanna know.
>> No, I know for a fact they don't,
anytime you ask about a real critique of them.
Or either from a progressive perspective or just,
hey, you guys are corporate media and you seem to support the status quo of 24, 7.
They're just flummoxed by it.
They're like, what we thought the only critique was from the right wing,
and so we were just telling right wing but we love you.
We love you we'll hire you a spokesperson who lied to us 24,
7 cuz we love Republicans and as long as they are corporate Republicans.
And so I should do my own correction.
They're not necessarily kissing the hands of Trump supporters cuz now that she said
something slightly critical of Trump, she's lost that camp.
They're kissing the ass of corporate Republicans, right?
>> The establishment period.
>> Exactly corporate Republicans corporate Democrats.
If you're part of the establishment, CNN will do marketing for you.
>> Exactly, exactly.
And by the way Cenk, as you correctly pointed out, thank you for
the clarification.
She left the Trump administration in December but
hadn't even decided to criticize Trump until the Capitol riots happened.
Now, during an appearance on CNN, Farah said this, I'm sorry,
she was on The View, not CNN.
She said, I left because I was afraid of where these myths could take us.
>> You realize that in December of 2020, Muslim ban, awesome, okay,
discrimination against transgender people, yes,
calling Mexicans criminals and rapists, awesome, right?
All those things were awesome and you're getting paid and you loved it, and
you are part of Goebbels team.
But now, CNN says, she's not working for Goebbels anymore, and so
she probably still hates Mexicans and Muslims and transgender people,
gay people and all of those other folks, right?
But she tweaked Trump after she left to get a job with us, well played Alyssa,
well played, and we do journalism here at CNN.
>> And I just wanna remind CNN of who they just hired.
Okay, here is a video of Alyssa Farah,
their new hire talking about fraud in Georgia during the 2020 election.
>> What is the GOP doing to ensure fair elections in January?
>> Well, good morning, Sandra, and thanks for having me.
So the Georgia Republican Party has been taking efforts.
They have efforts underway to ensure that we have signature verification,
that we have poll watchers.
But what we're really trying to convey to voters and listen understanding that
millions of Americans have concerns about irregularities and
fraud that we saw in the 2020 elections.
What we're conveying to Georgia voters is, if you care about if you don't want
a rigged election, you absolutely have to get out and vote.
>> There was no fraud in Georgia, none, none.
She just perpetuated that live.
CNN has decided to hire her now.
In fact, there were multiple recounts in Georgia, which ended up doing what?
That's right.
Turning up dozens more votes for Joe Biden,
who won that state fair and square, period.
>> Look, this isn't about defending Chris Cuomo.
He is long, and I don't want people to misinterpret it.
It's just that when Cuomo was being attacked Chris, not Andrew.
What I couldn't stand was all the other people at CNN pretending that they
had journalistic ethics.
>> So ethical.
>> Yeah, Jake Tapper's of the world who were looking down their nose like,
dude, UCLA.
He was working with a politician they say, a politician.
Well, that is frowned upon here.
You were working with Trump and doing his propaganda for him.
Come on in the water's warm.
What ethics?
You guys are a joke, total utter joke.
You don't do news.
You do marketing for corporate rule, keep it real.
>> And real quick, look, this is not an isolated incident.
CNN has a habit of doing this.
So, for instance, there was Sarah Isgur,
who was originally hired as a political editor before the 2020 election.
She worked for Jeff Sessions under the Trump administration.
After backlash CNN's like, alright, fine I guess she won't be one of the editors in
covering the 2020 election we'll have her focus on other roles within CNN.
But to give you some other examples.
Sean Duffy, a former GOP congressman and
Trump loyalist was hired by CNN as a political commentator.
You also had Corey Lewandowski, Trump's 2016 campaign manager.
Jeffrey Lord- >> Hes a total nut.
>> Author of What America Needs, The Case for Trump.
And, by the way, he was fired for tweeting Sieg Heil.
Jason Miller, communications director for the 2016 Trump campaign.
Marc Short, former White House legislative affairs director for Trump.
I mean, not all of these people are still working for CNN, but
my point is CNN hired these people.
Individuals who enabled Trump's terrible behavior while he was in office with no
problem.
CNN found no problem with that.
>> Well, CNN gave us Donald Trump to begin with.
They gave him nearly a billion dollars in free advertising during the 2016 run
because Jeff Zucker thought he was great for ratings.
I remember Jeff Zucker was the executive producer of The Apprentice with
Donald Trump.
And then when he was running CNN he's like, yeah, Donald Trump, man,
he'll be great for ratings and Zucker worked closely with Trump.
He knows that Trump is a monster, and he knows that Trump is incompetent.
The producers have to nearly staple notes on people's foreheads cuz Trump's such
an idiot, he couldn't do anything right at The Apprentice.
They had to highly produced them, right?
So he knows that Trump's an idiot, incompetent and a terrible person.
>> But he's got good for ratings.
>> Good for ratings, we do news at CNN.
Get out of here, man.
Total and utter frauds, frauds and all they ever do is this.
And by the way, CNN you hired all those trump supporters, did that help?
Does it look like Trump people are now watching you, and then they like you.
No, you're the first ones that they attack because their job is to tear down anything
that would slightly criticize Trump.
And you invite those ghouls and
goblins into your own organization cuz you're so greedy for ratings.
Say, Republicans watch us.
Corporations advertise with us.
You give the same money to Republican politicians and Democratic politicians.
And by the way, it's super last thing.
We gave you all those Republicans and former Trump guys, but
they hire former Democratic goons, too, right?
And you think that former Democratic spokespeople are any more honest.
They might be more decent.
They might not hate Mexicans and other groups.
But they also work for corporations then they also work for corrupt politicians.
And they also lie for a living.
>> Heidi Heitkamp, right, MSNBC.
>> No, Claire McCaskill.
>> I always mix them up, sorry,
Claire McCaskill [LAUGH] >> No,
Heidi Heitkamp goes on CNBC all the time.
Goes on all of these cable news.
They're like, genius Heidi Heitkamp.
What does she do?
She lost in North Dakota and
Claire McCaskill hired by MSNBC after she lost in Missouri.
And they pretend that they're experts,
no they're experts at taking corporate cash and being corrupt.
That's your main qualification to get on cable news.