Every time you think CNN can’t possibly go any lower, that’s just what they do.
On Wednesday, while most people were somberly remembering America’s loss after the attacks on 9/11, CNN was playing politics and attacking so-called right wingers.
FOX News reports:
CNN commentator claims right-wing terrorists are ‘deadliest’ kind, excludes death toll from 9/11
On the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, CNN political commentator John Avlon provided a “reality check” in which he claimed that right-wing terrorists are more dangerous than jihadist terrorists.
In doing so, he used a study that excluded the 9/11 victims while to comparing the death counts from terrorist attacks by those two groups.
Behind Avlon, a massive screen showed the think tank New America’s headline reading, “Right-Wingers Are America’s Deadliest Terrorists.”
The New America report, published on Aug. 5, claims that, since 9/11, right-wing terrorism resulted in 107 deaths on U.S. soil compared to the 104 that resulted from jihadi terrorism. “So why is the government’s focus still on Islamic radicalism?” the report asked.
The think tank’s report excluded the attacks on 9/11 which were carried out by Islamic terrorists and resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.
See the video below:
CNN: Right-wingers are America's deadliest Terrorists pic.twitter.com/J11WjQQVL4
— TrumpPatriot🇵🇱🇺🇸 (@TrumpPatriotPL) September 11, 2019
Check out some Twitter reactions to this:
i just…i can't. this is the worst. the absolute worst.
— sarah (@sarahbellumd) September 11, 2019
actual quote: “Here's a startling statistic: since 9/11, right-wing terrorists killed more people in the United States than jihadist terrorist.”
Ah, yes. they are the worst if you discount the worst.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) September 11, 2019
it's like a competition to see who can be the worst.
— sarah (@sarahbellumd) September 11, 2019
Hmmm… What happens to that statistic when you start counting on Sept 10, 2001???
— nikita khrushchev Ⓜ️ (@YaComradeNikita) September 12, 2019
CNN should be ashamed.
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