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As CNN continues to flounder far, far behind Fox News in viewership, the network seems to be facing a reality check knowing that Trump helped them to the highest ratings in years in 2016, but with Trump now settled in office, CNN no longer has access to the Golden Goose of TV ratings.
Trump has already demonstrated his extreme disdain of CNN by refusing to take a question from a CNN reporter at his only news conference since getting elected. Fear not, while throwing bad taste and sheer idiocy to the wind, the CNN producers decided if they could not stop Trump from being elected, and they could not stop Trump from being certified as winner, they might as well kill him off.
So the following program was aired on the eve of the Trump inaugural in one of the worst examples of journalistic lack of ethics and integrity, and poorest taste on behalf of a radicalized cable television network, in television history.
If CNN ran the same program on the eve of the Obama inaugural in 2009, the entire network would have been in jail for civil rights violations, bias, and perpetrating HATE crimes, before being crucified in the court of public opinion by the progressive radicals.
In today's age of ethical violations and lack of journalistic standards, no other member of the Establishment Media even bothered to note the ill-timed effort for last ditch ratings by a quite desperate cable news network.
CNN Wonders About Trump, Pence
Assassination Leaving Obama Administration in Charge
Bizarre, incredible, irresponsible, shocking -- you
could run out of adjectives describing this CNN segment before you exhausted
your outrage.
Apparently, the network thought that, in the interest
of informing the public, they should posit a scenario where Donald Trump, Mike
Pence, Speaker Paul Ryan, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Orin Hatch,
would all be assassinated before 12 noon on inauguration day.
Since no Trump cabinet members have been confirmed,
the presidency would go to the highest ranking Obama administration cabinet
member left alive.
Isn't that fascinating?
“On the day of the inauguration,
as a precaution, a Cabinet secretary called the designated presidential
successor will not attend the inauguration, ready to step in if something
happens,” Todd said. “But, it won’t be a Trump Cabinet secretary, since none of
them have been confirmed yet. It will be an Obama appointee.”
He said there was “no word from the White House on
who that will be.”
Todd then asked an expert if the line
of succession switches to the new presidency at noon.
The former director of the Continuity of Government
Commission, John Fortier, explained that there are two lines of succession, one
that is already in place and one that will not be in place until the
inauguration is over.
” … And one which really won’t be in place until
Donald Trump is inaugurated, comes into office, and actually formally nominates
and the Senate confirms his people,” Fortier said. “You might actually end up
with a president from the prior administration because of a tragedy.”
Since Secretary of State John Kerry will be officially
out of office on Friday by noon, and Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee to head the
State Department, will not be confirmed by then, the person to take over the
position could be Obama appointee Tom Shannon, the undersecretary for political
affairs.
He is the highest ranking non-political official.
Todd said Former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman
was the designated survivor during one of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union
addresses.
“In 1997, during an address by President Clinton to
Congress, he [Glickman] was the designated survivor,” Todd said.” He left Washington and went to his daughter’s apartment in Manhattan but he wasn’t
alone. The role is a serious one and he says he was accompanied by a doctor, a
military officer with access to the nuclear codes, and the Secret Service.”
Question: If Fox News had run a similar segment on
January 19, 2009, the reaction of Democrats and the media would have been
....(fill in the blank)?
What was the purpose of this little exercise in
Constitutional impossibilities? There's a better chance that President Obama
will appear before the press tomorrow morning and apologize for being such a
royal screwup as president than there is that the Republican leaders in
government will all go down in a hail of bullets or a massive bomb blast before
noon.. This is a daydream by desperate,
stupid people who have convinced themselves that the end times are upon us
because Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States. They have talked
themselves into hysteria because, of course, all their friends are hysterical
about Trump and this reinforcing feedback loop gives certainty to their
delusions.
Are they ever going to snap out of it? Or are we doomed to being treated to four
years of every move Trump makes being a step toward fascism or Armageddon
depending on the issue and the day of the week?
Hopefully, the press will lose interest and
eventually move on to playing up a more conventional GOP hate. Meanwhile, pop
some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy watching the meltdown.
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