CNN's most embarrassing flub ever? The ISIS dildo gay pride flag, explained.

 

"I wish I were exaggerating here even a little but I am not. CNN dedicated an entire six and a half minutes to covering, in a tenor of total seriousness and extreme gravity, what they said was an ISIS flag being waved at a gay pride parade, when in fact it was readily and painfully obvious that the "ISIS flag" was in fact a joke flag covered with images of dildos and butt plugs.

The correspondent relayed with concern that London police had not even known of this danger in their midst, until CNN's correspondent brought it to their attention.

Malveaux, the anchor, expressed alarm that London authorities were not tracking the flag-waving culprit, especially after "these terrorist attacks that we saw on three different continents just in the last several days."

She pointed out, her voice rising, that London authorities had not given "any follow, in terms of trying to find this guy."

Poor Peter Bergen, a respected figure who has written several books and in 1997 actually interviewed Osama bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan, was made to spend the first several minutes of the segment waiting patiently on the line to give his analysis of the situation.

But that flub was totally consistent with the network's approach to terrorism, which for years has over-hyped threats, blasting viewers with hysterical warnings of imminent and omnipresent danger. It is a network whose terrorism coverage has been not just clumsy and irresponsible but cynical, exploiting people's earnest fears and the bloodshed of real victims in order to create a more titillating TV viewing experience."

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CNN's most embarrassing flub ever? The ISIS dildo gay pride flag, explained. - Vox