CNN Cuts Away From Donald Trump's Republican Convention Speech - Deadline
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As Donald Trump addressed delegates at the Republican National Convention on Monday, CNN cut away from his speech, with anchor Anderson Cooper explaining that the president's speech was "the most recent greatest hits and false statements."
MSNBC and Fox News stayed with the address, the first appearance that Trump plans to make on each of the four days of the convention this week.
Some of the broadcast networks also interrupted daytime programming to carry the speech. CBS News interrupted at about the same time as CNN to do a fact check.
The decision to cut away from Trump — as he made debunked claims of widespread mail-in voter fraud — comes amid questions of how CNN and other networks will handle fact-checking of Trump's inaccurate statements as the convention proceeds in the primetime hours starting on Monday night.
Last week, CNN and MSNBC carried most of the Democratic National Convention pool feed with little interruption during the two hours per night of coverage, while Fox News went with Hannity during the first hour and with convention coverage in the second. That puts pressure on the networks to do the same for Republicans this week.
Already, Trump is blasting media outlets for not covering the main piece of business at the convention in Charlotte on Monday morning: the roll call of delegates. He called out CNN for not covering the delegate roll call vote, criticized MSNBC for going to a congressional hearing on the postal service, and chided Fox News for having anchors speaking during the tally.
He said that in his trip to Charlotte on Air Force One — which "has more televisions than any plane in history" — "I turned to CNN and they didn't have this. Can you believe it? They didn't have it. CNN didn't have our roll call."
He said that MSNBC — which he refers to as "MSDNC" — did carry it, but also showed the "very boring" post office hearing.
"Fox had it on, but unfortunately Fox wasn't showing it too much because they had the announcers talking, talking talking." So he said that he had to switch "over to C-SPAN or OAN or somebody."
The outcome of the roll call, obviously, was not in doubt, save for casting aside long-simmering rumors that Trump would dump Mike Pence from the ticket for Nikki Haley as his running mate. Instead, Pence was present to deliver remarks to the delegates in Charlotte as well.
In his speech, Trump also went on extended riffs about his rival, Joe Biden, for now drawing the same level of enthusiasm from voters, while spending a great deal of time casting doubt on the legitimacy of large-scale mail-in voting in some states.
Originally, Trump planned a large-scale convention in Charlotte, then shifted plans to Jacksonville, FL, when North Carolina's governor, Roy Cooper, indicated that Republicans would have to scale back their plans. But then Trump canceled plans for a large-scale Jacksonville gathering as coronavirus cases began to rise again in that state.
Instead, Trump's Monday appearance was before a greatly reduced number of party delegates, and in a ballroom, not an arena.
After CNN cut away from the speech, Cooper ran through a fact check of Trump's remarks, saying that he "falsely accused Democrats of wanting to shut down the country to hurt the economy, and somehow help them at the ballot box. Unclear how angering the entire country by shutting down would help them at the ballot box."
After MSNBC aired the entire speech, Chuck Todd said that what Trump delivered was a "grievance-filled informal acceptance speech" that was "filled with so many problems about mail-voting that if we were to air only the truthful parts, we probably could have only aired only a sentence, if that much."
CBS News' Major Garrett, in fact checking Trump, told viewers that election officials "are not going to be sending out millions of ballots blindly. Which is what the president alleged. That's not going to happen."
Trump seemed to relish the appearance, particularly a moment when those gathered began to chant "four more years." "Now if you really want to drive them crazy, you say 12 more years," he said.
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Aw, the widdle baby had his widdle feelings hurt. Bwa Bwa.
Who cares? Hardly anyone watches the leftist garbage on CNN and MSNBC anyway.
The Trumpster tried to pull a fast one and have his coronation roll call during the day time and thus get bonus live network coverage which they wouldnt get by having it at night like the Democrats did and has been traditional for both parties like forever.
The tv networks werent falling for it.
They'll cover it all later anyway, in their usual derogatory way
Of course they did. CNN isn't a news organization, it's a a p.r. wing of the DNC.
What do you think about Trump having his nomination roll call at noon time? As far as I remember over the past 20 conventions or so this was always done in the evening so it would be included in the tv coverage.
Trump tried to pull a fast one and get some bonus network time so they can use the evenings for more Trumpist propganda. We do have to listen to Lara Trump babble on about her father in law after all.
As far as CNN goes, Trump was blatantly lying about voter fraud so they cut him off. Good on them.
I don't think it matters. Conventions don't matter. All modern conventions are just propaganda shows devoid of any real purpose so I don't really care what happens when. The only recent convention that was in any way interesting was the 2016 Republican convention because of the Cruz drama. Otherwise, it's just a scripted pageant. . I didn't watch the Democrats and won't watch the Republicans.
But if a network wants to be an actual objective reporter of news, it should show the speeches in their entirety and then offer editorial afterwards.
Well, there was no reason to show it at all. The Democrats had their convention at night, as both parties do nowadays. Trump tried to get some extra coverage by having the roll call during the day. Most of the tv networks had the good sense to not show it.
As far as letting him lie and then commenting afterwards, a lot of people will have changed the channel or walked away from the tv by then. I do think CNN should have to explain, on air, why they cut him off and then if their reasons arent good enough they will get bad press for it.
I think it's up to each network. When it comes to traditional conventions, I rather search for Three Stooges reruns
or Perry Mason.
Good for one or two networks to release the public from being forced to watch preordained BS.
Good. Less on-air pollution.
That's right . The DNC was completed last week.
Comment pollution
(Exemplified by 4.1 above)
Nothing a little dose of Raid won't cure though...
Anderson Cooper explaining that the president's speech was "the most recent greatest hits and false statements.
Gotta protect the talking points. Especially with the false narrative CNN has pushed for the past 4 years.