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CNN reporter slams own network for hosting Ramaswamy town hall

2023-12-16 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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CNN's Oliver Darcy blasted his own network, claiming its decision to host a Vivek Ramaswamy town hall helped to "legitimise" the GOP primary candidate's "dangerous lies."

Mr Darcy, the network’s senior media reporter, made the comments in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter. He said the network was "helping to legitimize the dishonest GOP presidential hopeful who has spewed dangerous lies and injected poison into the national discourse at every chance."

He pointed to Donald Trump's massive lead in the GOP primary polling, and noted that Mr Ramaswamy is not even among the few Republicans who are polling at a distant second to the former president.

“The notion that the infotainer, who CNN has reported ‘struggles for relevance’ as he polls in the low single digits and remains exceedingly unlikely to be the Republican Party’s nominee, deserves an hour-long national platform to sell his personal brand and insidious talking points to the masses taxes the imagination.” he wrote.

He also noted that the network did not offer a similar town hall to independent candidate Robert F Kennedy, Jr, who is polling higher than Mr Ramaswamy.

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He suggested that if the network felt the need to highlight Mr Ramaswamy, it should have done so with a pre-recorded interview, and not a live platform.

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