CNN AND ITS COMMENTATORS

                                                          

                                   BY BILL JUNEAU 

                                        CNN has become an enthusiastic receptacle for politicians and government employees who have been axed. It has also turned into a safe landing spot for TV "talking heads" who have found fresh comfort in a job  where they can promote a "woke" philosophy as well as push the theory that the United States is a systemically racist nation. 

                           The hiring of special contributors and commentators at CNN continues to grow even though the lame cable station created by Ted Turner in 1980 is in a popularity freefall, with viewership as low as it can be and still allow the cable station to exist.                                           The latest addition to the CNN staff is former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger, 44, who has been hired as a Senior Political Commentator. 

                           The weasley-acting Kinzinger will be taking his CNN chair alongside contributors who include fired and disgraced FBI agents  Andrew "Andy" McCabe, and Peter Strzok;  and ex CIA Director John Brennan, the born-again Muslim who speaks fluent Arabic, and whose fealty to the United States has always drawn questions.   

                          Commentator Kinzinger and contributors have been given mikes to call for gun control, laud the LGBTQ movement and all things "woke;" promote socialism and open borders and to vilify  President Donald Trump, who is threatening to run for President in 2024.  

                             Kinzinger, from a downstate Illinois district, made the jump to television after 12 years as a congressman.  He garnered a  personal reputation as an ineffective politician, and he leaves the People's House with few accomplishments to point at.  

                          In recent months as a GOP Representative, Kinzinger, and the angry Liz Chaney, from Wyoming, were the lone Republican members invited to sit on the special January 6  Committee created as a vehicle by Democrats to blame President Trump for the riot in the Capitol. Chaney, daughter of a powerful former Republican Vice President,  was soundly defeated in her Wyoming primary bid for reelection principally because of her badmouthing of President Trump, and her submission to  Democratic Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

                              When exiting the chamber, Kinzinger delivered a dull  farewell  speech, which was devoid of recapping his good deeds since there were none to speak of.  He got misty-eyed for the cameras as he bid his goodbys. But there is good news ahead for him, so long as CNN stays around.  Reportedly, his salary will now be in the millions, dwarfing his annual $175,000 as a congressman. 

                              It is anyone's guess when he will start "commenting." Perhaps he is in seclusion these days, studying books and TED Talks on how to be commentator for liberal causes or pondering the meaning of "woke." 

                              Kinzinger is being welcomed onto the CNN team of liberals by the Caucasian-hating Don Lemon and the bearded wiseman, German-born Wolf Blitzer, whose comments are always pleasing to the Democratic Party.  For legal questions, Kinzinger can consult with Jeffrey Toobin who has been reinstated, following a six month suspension, to his place in the CNN sun after the station forgave him for being caught masterbating during a live zoom session to relieve tensions. 

                          Also applauding Kinzinger's coming aboard are Chris Wallace,75, and Shepard "Shep"  Smith, 58, former Fox News reporters who left the station in recent years to hang together with their left-wing brothers and sisters. Wallace and Smith have cast aside their conservative masks, and now follow the CNN mantra singing the praises of open borders, gender ambivalence  and the bumbling Joe Biden.                                                                                                                 Wallace,  like his late father, Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" fame, is a registered Democrat. Former President Trump has said that Chris is a "wannabe" of his late father, and is a "nasty and obnoxious reporter" delivering "fake" news.                                           Smith had been a reporter and anchor for Fox for 23 years when he left in 2019.  He was an impatient critic of President Trump and wanted more room to make his far-left voice heard.  At CNN, reporters are encouraged to inject their opinions into political news stories. 

                                    Yet for some reason, hiring disgraced politicians and lying former government employees has not improved CNN's sagging ratings, down to 21 among all basic cable groups in 2022. Meanwhile, arch nemesis Fox News was the top rated cable news network in 2022 for the seventh consecutive year, more than doubling CNN's viewership numbers. 

                                 Obviously, CNN needs some fresher faces. How about Hunter Biden, he always seems to need a job, 
or maybe Sam Bankman-Fried, the deposed crypto king who seems to be out of work and in need of a big infusion of cash. 

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