CNN used to use the tag line “facts first” in their advertisement campaigns, and on Tuesday’s NewsNIght, host Abby Phillip demonstrated why they stopped. In their discussions about racism and President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., Phillip shouted down commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon when she attempted to cite facts and statistics.
Spurred on to talk about racism in America because of a viral moment that happened on the show last week involving Jillian Michaels, Phillip kicked off Tuesday night’s episode with a monologue about slavery before going to her panel to discuss Trump’s new focus on the Smithsonian’s African American History Museum.
“[H]e's focused on one thing, and that is that there's too much slavery being mentioned in the United States of America. That's very odd, Batya, honestly,” she directed the conversation to Ungar-Sargon.
Ungar-Sargon started by noting she was honored to be part of the discussion and proceeded to recall what sociologists called “Great Awokening” where “white progressives suddenly start obsessing over race in a way that was actually far to the left of where Hispanic and Black Americans were on this issue.”
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