When there isn’t any news to report, you invent it, right?
That should not be the directive for any news director, but that is exactly what is happening at CNN.
Let’s Invent a Negative Narrative
This weekend has been a little slow on the news front, so every media outlet is rehashing old news or doing extra op-eds to fill the white space.
CNN has chosen to dedicate an entire section of its website to a completely made-up narrative about health problems that Trump is covering up.
Now, we already know CNN journalists have a standing order by management to go after Trump at all costs, but this is truly ridiculous.
Damn the Facts…
Leading the narrative for CNN is Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Today, he penned an article to try to cast doubt that Trump’s doctors are writing reports to say exactly what Trump wants them to say.
He also more than makes it clear he thinks there are some real health problems for Trump that we do not know about and that both Trump and his doctors are hiding.
Here are just a few excerpts from Dr. Sanjay’s column:
“We know that Trump is 73 years old, has heart disease and is clinically obese. For any man of that age and medical history, an unexpected visit to the hospital is concerning.”
“Also striking: the fact that the president’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, rode with Trump in the presidential motorcade. Typically, the doctor rides separately from the President for security reasons. A former White House doctor told me it had never happened during their time there.”
“I’ve reported in the past about doctors who seemed to cater to Trump’s whims. One doctor who treated the President signed his name on a letter he later said Trump dictated. Another doctor said that he might live to be 200 years old.”
It is just an embarrassing testament to how low CNN has sunk these days.
The most worrisome attacks, though, is the very last paragraph of the article, when Dr. Sonjay clearly questions the integrity of the doctors treating trump…
“The greater concern here isn’t whether the White House medical team is being honest with the public. It’s whether the team is being honest with the President himself. If they are simply following the patient’s orders instead of acting independently, they are treating the President’s whims as much as they are treating his health.”
To take a line from Joe Biden, I am embarrassed for CNN since the network has so clearly lost its way.