In a disgusting show of simply how little the liberal media loves the US, CNN has lumped America with China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran on the subject of human rights abuses. The foul comparisons got here in a New Day phase on the information that, in a protest over Chinese language human rights abuses, the US is not going to ship any authorities officers to the Chinese language Olympics, though American athletes might be permitted to take part.
That led panelist and former ABC correspondent Mara Schiavocampo to make use of “human rights” organizations on the left to smear the US right into a kinship with a few of the world’s worst human-rights abusers:
After we’re speaking about the US’ position within the international neighborhood, it’s price noting there are a variety of worldwide organizations that proceed to name the US out on our personal human rights abuses, together with issues just like the demise penalty, which places us within the firm of Saudi Arabia and Iran, the very best incarceration charges within the nation [sic, world?].
So, I feel if we’re speaking about our place within the international stage, holding others to account is extremely essential. However directing that very same vitality at defending [sic] the US’ human rights abuses can also be essential.
If the demise penalty is prima facie a “human rights abuse,” does that imply CNN opposed executing Timothy McVeigh for blowing up a authorities constructing full of individuals? Is it actually a “human rights” platform to empty out the prisons?
However that is CNN, so there was no debate to be held. Co-host John Berman and CNN commentator S.E. Cupp simply piled on. Berman responded “proper” to Schiavocampo’s slur on the US.
Cupp mentioned defending America would put U.S. Olympians in a troublesome state of affairs. “If you’re overtly vocal as a authorities concerning the host nation’s human rights abuses, then in fact the highlight goes to be then on the athletes who go.”
No nation is ideal. However to even broach American shortcomings in the identical breath as these of China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia is beneath contempt and displays each deep ignorance and deep disdain for our nation.
Observe: Schiavocampo has been across the MSM block many occasions, with previous gigs at ABC Information, CBS Information, NBC Information, MSNBC, Present TV, Yahoo!, NPR, Ebony Journal, The Oprah Winfrey Present, The Dr. Oz Present, and Uptown.
Maybe Schiavocampo is now auditioning for a CNN slot. Along with her New Day look this morning, she was additionally a visitor on Brian Stelter’s CNN present yesterday. Schiavocampo’s anti-American shot this morning ought to swimsuit the CNN fits to a T.
CNN lumping the US with China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia relating to human-rights abuses was sponsored partly by Liberty Mutual, Dell, Lincoln, VRBO, and Zales.
This is the transcript.
CNN
New Day
12/6/21
6:01 am ETJOHN BERMAN: In main diplomatic information in a single day, a diplomatic boycott of the Olympic video games in China. Sources inform CNN the Biden administration is anticipated to announce this week that no U.S. authorities officers will attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. That’s simply a few months from now. The transfer would permit the US to ship a message on the world stage to China about its human rights abuses, with out stopping athletes from competing. Becoming a member of me now, CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp, and journalist and host of the Run Inform This podcast, Mara Schiavocompo.
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And this predates, simply so individuals know, this predates the difficulty with Peng Shuai, the tennis participant who disappeared after which appeared in that video, perhaps underneath duress. This has far more to do, Mara, with the therapy of the Uighers, the Muslim minority, which some individuals name a genocide, flat out.
MARIA SCHIAVOCAMPO: Yeah, so the problems that the US are calling to be addressed are extremely vital, and it is essential for them to be addressed. And one factor that it’s good to see is the US take that place on the worldwide stage the place they’re holding international locations to account for these human rights points.
However I feel, once we’re speaking concerning the context of the Olympics particularly, it’s essential to remember that some of the essential, some of the well-known, Olympic protests in historical past was Tommy Smith and John Carlos with that black fist within the air in 1968.
So once we’re speaking about the US’ position within the international neighborhood, it’s price noting there are a selection of worldwide organizations that proceed to name the US out on our personal human rights abuses, together with issues just like the demise penalty, which places us within the firm of Saudi Arabia and Iran, the very best incarceration charges within the nation [sic, world?].
So, I feel if we’re speaking about our place within the international stage, holding others to account is extremely essential. However directing that very same vitality at defending [sic] the US’ human rights abuses can also be essential.
BERMAN: Proper. To begin with, China will completely say that. They may say, get your individual home so as earlier than you inform us what to do in our personal inside politics. That, in reality, is a part of their assertion: don’t meddle in our inside politics there.
However, once more, this can be a present that China very a lot desires to go on and not using a hitch. It now has a significant hitch. And now, there will be quite a lot of concentrate on what do athletes do after they win a medal? Do they resolve to protest? It’s a good query.
S.E. CUPP: It’s. And it places them actually on the spot. And we noticed this within the final Olympics. If you’re overtly vocal as a authorities concerning the host nation’s human rights abuses, then in fact the highlight goes to be then on the athletes who go.
And they won’t solely have to speak about what China has accomplished, however what the U.S. has accomplished. And perhaps even be ready to defend that. And I do not, I’m undecided that’s why quite a lot of athletes get into the enterprise of being athletes.
