MEDIA LOSER: Club for Growth
Club for Growth put out an ad on Wednesday going after CNN, hitting the network for not being tough on President Joe Biden and even mentioning the serious scandal surrounding Chris Cuomo. The ad features a montage of people on CNN making positive and/or laudatory statements about the president, but it also includes emotional comments from correspondent Amara Walker: referring to remarks from Biden as being a "cathartic moment." The clip doesn't include context and, significantly, the chyron is blanked out in the ad, but those were comments Walker made in response to the president rebuking anti-Asian attacks after the shootings in Atlanta. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski called out the ad, saying, “This ad features an Asian-American correspondent getting emotional talking about the spa shootings but they erased the chyron and blurred out the spa name so people wouldn’t know that.” The clumsy editing was obvious and stood out, making the cynical use of the moment all the worse.
Rather than serving as an indictment of the press, the video indicts the Club for Growth for a truly low blow. |