{"id":12154,"date":"2020-01-23T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:18:59","slug":"progressive-petards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressive-petards\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Petards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since at least 2016, CNN has mostly ceased being a news agency, but that hasn\u2019t stopped it from being an active participant in #TheResistance. The network is so caught up in the fervor of this movement that many of its guests and regular hosts have been fired, reprimanded, or apologized for threats to the president or general obscene references (e.g., Reza Aslan, the late Anthony Bourdain, Kathy Griffin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of its marquee reporters have resigned, were fired, or reassigned for fake-news bias (e.g., Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris), or came under fire for false reporting (Jim Sciutto, Marshall Cohen, and Carl Bernstein) or have had to offer retractions and\/or apologies (Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper, and Brian Rokus.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its anchors have apologized for obscenity (Anderson Cooper) or simply making up false statements (Chris Cuomo), while analysts have been caught in a number of contradictions about their own role in on-going scandals (James Clapper).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The common denominator has been the new journalistic ethos that aborting the Trump presidency justifies any means necessary to achieve such noble ends. Throughout CNN\u2019s descent into parody, progressives still smiled at the usefulness of CNN for the larger project of delegitimizing the Trump presidency. Few understood the Thucydidean concept that once nihilists destroy norms and protocols of ethical behavior for perceived short-term advantage, they usually rue the loss when they themselves become victims of their own biased zealotry and are in dire need of the civilizational help they recently ruined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/01\/19\/progressive-petards\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Since at least 2016, CNN has mostly ceased being a news agency, but that hasn\u2019t stopped it from being an active participant in #TheResistance. The network is so caught up in the fervor of this movement that many of its guests and regular hosts have been fired, reprimanded, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3a2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12041,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-military-intelligence-complex\/","url_meta":{"origin":12154,"position":0},"title":"The Military-Intelligence Complex","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. 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