While this isn't exactly a news story or a publication, it is still a journalist doing some of the dumb stuff that dumb journalists do. This comes from the Des Moines, Iowa Democrat debate that was a joke on many levels but this particular one takes the cake.
Her name is Abby Phillip (and no, i didn't spell her surname wrong) and she works for CNN - so that was a pretty strong indicator that something dumb was going to happen but not necessarily at the level that we saw the other night.
There was some controversy created when it was reported that Bernie Sanders said that "A woman can't with the U.S. Presidential election." Phillip had a question for Bernie and it went exactly like this
“CNN reported yesterday, and, Sen. Sanders, Sen. Warren confirmed in a statement that in 2018 you told her that you did not believe that a woman could win the election. Why did you say that?”
Bernie responded with "I did not say that."
Philip then turns to Elisabeth Warren and says... and again, this is exactly what was said in the debate
“Sen. Warren, what did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”
The audience and Bernie Sanders laughed at this point.
This ended up devolving into a new feud between these two as they really want to be the person who gets screwed over by the DNC's nomination process that decided 2 years ago that Joe Biden was going to be the nominee.
This debate was a rather pointless spectacle in the eyes of people who realize that yes, the system is rigged and virtually none of the answers given during these debates are actually "answers" at all. The various politicians dodge the question and give non-answers as they go about making personal attacks on one another.
There is one thing that we can take away from this that is actually a good thing: CNN was once again exposed as a group of hacks who are not trying to report the truth or even find it, they want to create the truth.
The laughter of the crowd after such an absurd line of questioning by an obviously biased moderator is now facing heavy backlash. For me, I don't feel as though CNN (or most of the other networks in existence) have much credibility remaining but this action has been noted, and that chips away at their name even more.
