CNN’s Mary Katharine Ham Torches Her Own Network in Viral Rant

CNN political commentator Mary Katharine Ham slammed her own network on Friday over the way that it covers certain topics while apparently ignoring others.

The drama started over remarks that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) made this week about how the media covered the events of January 6 this year, saying, “This is their Christmas: January 6. They are going to take this and milk this for anything they can to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump.”

“I just look back and compare when I was in Congress. One event that we faced was the attempted assassination of Republican members of Congress on the baseball game. I actually was on the field,” DeSantis continued. “If you do not have the Capitol Police there, you probably would have a dozen people assassinated. That was like a one-day, two-day story. That was not something that the Capitol-based press wanted to talk about. Why? Because it totally undercut their preferred narratives.”

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman responded to the remarks from DeSantis by writing: “He’s arguing the shootings didn’t get much coverage? Pretty sure they were a huge story.”

This is where Ham jumped in.

“I lived a block from the baseball field. Under 48 hours, the news vans were gone. I was on TV, live from the baseball field where they played the game a day later, after almost being canceled by mass murder, but my topic was ‘Mike Pence reportedly hired a lawyer,’” Ham wrote. “You’re welcome to talk yourself into idea that a similar murder attempt on an entire team of Democrats would have gotten the same treatment. I think the shooting of Gabby Giffords is pretty analogous and disproves that theory. Even without that data point, it’s just not true.”

 

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