Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-fuck-cnn.1135533/

I had been listening to their Saturday roundtable this morning.

Even with the commentators agreeing that Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is illegal, that Khalil's rights are being violated, pointing out how he hasn't been charged with a crime, that this is a trampling of the Constitution, that this is a dangerous segue into authoritarianism, they still couldn't help themselves but to point out how "evil" Khalil is, how "abhorrent" his views are, his "hatred" of Jews, how CUAD is an evil organization, and repeating the claim that he wants "the West to be slaughtered", while asking why he came to America if he wants the West to die.

Basically doing the exact same thing Chuck Schumer did earlier this week.

They're basically buying wholesale into the smear from the Trump admin that this person is an antisemite and that he was a supporter of Hamas, claims that the Trump admin themselves have still up till now failed to substantiate.

They even compared him to the KKK and neo-nazis to point out how those groups still have their rights to say what they say without pushback from the government.

Ironically, an interview from CNN last year has him displaying the OPPOSITE of these sorts of views:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/us/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-green-card-hnk/index.html

If Khalil manages to get out of this mess, he definitely needs to launch a suit against both the government and media companies for smearing/libel.

There are no left-leaning news outlets in America. There are far right and slightly right. MSNBC is maybe the best we've got and even that one is at the very most center.

America is absolutely fucked as long as people let shit like this slide on a daily basis.

If somehow the courts manage to stop the deportation, I hope Mahmoud takes CNN and others all to the fucking cleaners for defamation

The so-called "liberal media" are dead, and have been dying ever since wealthy corporate interests were given the green light to start buying up media organizations during the 90s.

As others have pointed out. This is not a Trump talking point. It's a Zionist talking point and they have funding/ political sway on both sides of the line.

Yep, Zionists will equate you with the KKK when you criticize apartheid, it's hasbara trash that is heavily funded and pushed to both parties.

I've been saying this since the early 2000s. No pushback from any media, including CNN, over anything the Bush admin did. Particularly in regards to war and CNN also actively courted anti-Muslim rhetoric by giving Glenn Beck a job for years and they allowed that insane birther Lou Dobbs an hour on a primetime spot to rant.

Its always been the same company and they should have gone under decades ago.

1. This is not remotely defamation or libel.
2. All these were owned by "wealthy corporate interests" well before the 1990's and most haven't even changed owners.
3. Glenn Beck was not on CNN, he was on Headline News for like a year and a half, nor was his rhetoric on there approaching anything like he would become on Fox (in fact this is why Fox poached him) and Lou Dobbs was fired from CNN for his birther and anti-Latinx comments setting him up for his job at Fox.
4. Seeing some conspiracy theories on a forum that doesn't allow members to post them.