Harry Truman Is Dead. Unfortunately.

The great Harry S Truman once famously said "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

 

CNN will interview genocidal maniacs like Randy Fine and John Fetterman and allow them to say the most vile, disgusting things with zero pushback, but they got all this energy for Angie Nixon? Very interesting. https://t.co/t5U2mW78FD

— Jamarrius (@YungxJayy) August 21, 2026

To be fair, Angie Nixon, Democratic nominee from Florida for the U.S. Senate, was able to stand the heat and calmly answered Kasie Hunt's questions. However, the candidate's supporters are insistent that the temperature be turned down. 

Hasan Piker, the infamous anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah anti-American streamer evidently has seen few progressive black women interviewed in the liberal or centrist media, whether by white interviewers or by progressive black women themselves:

- i’ve never seen kasie hunt treat a white republican man like this. the way black progressive women get treated in media is shameful.

Keep it classy, fellow:

god damn this pissed me off let her fucking speak

On the basis of one portion of one interview:

- CNN is anti-journalism. You ask a question and cut the person off after 7 seconds.... toxic corporate media slop

Not many CNN journalists have the honor of being referred to as "MAGA".  Hunt is not the second coming of Edward R. Murrow or Dan Rather but not this, either:

- This is corporate maga media now.  It’s not the news and it’s not journalism that’s for sure.

And my "favorite," the fairly prominent anti-Semitic podcaster Emma Vigeland, momentarily turning her attention from the Jews and Israelis, who are bringing the downfall of society. However, as with the others, she does believe anti-establishment radical leftists should go unchallenged:

- This is a shockingly rude and unprofessional interview. Hunt doesn't let Nixon get a word in about the substance of Medicare For All or her policies for millions of Floridians. She interjects to ask a DC-brained question about party leadership as soon as she begins to answer.

And on and on and on. There is political benefit to be seen fighting the system and in promoting extremist views. But there also is a downside to being controversial, in which there will be many questions, some of them confrontational.  That is how news should be done.

News networks are more interested in politics than in doing deep dives into issues. Even on Sunday nights, when CNN programming tens to longer shows, they conspicuously refuse to investigate important topics such as Medicare for All. It's frustrating and unhelpful, but not a conspiracy against progressive politics, blacks, women- or even Democrats (not for the most part, anyway). The bills have to be paid and the network believes it has the formula.

Of course, the corporate media generally does have its preferences, often Republicans who are not conspicuously hostile to blacks, immigrants, or the LGBTQ+ community.  But that is a generalization, a bias that is not consistent or uniform. CNN does not exist to amplify the voices of the ultra-progressive wing of the Democratic Party, as those tweeters wish. It is not an echo chamber, and should not be.   

 

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