It’s ironic now, but years ago CNN did a segment entitled “Tracking America’s Pedophiles.”
Apparently, the network should have started with its own production team.
Some are drawing this conclusion with news that, as Fox News host Tucker Carlson put it this week, there’s a “pedo outbreak” at CNN. It’s yet another shot in the gut for a network that has been hit by numerous scandals in recent years, among them the revelation that it has peddled fake news.
RT reported on the pedophilia story Tuesday, writing:
During a fiery segment on Monday, titled “CNN Pedo Outbreak,” Carlson noted that there was “something very strange going on” at the network. He quipped that there were “more accused pedophiles at CNN than Americans who have died of the so-called Omicron variant.”
The first scandal involved veteran producer John Griffin, who was arrested earlier this month and charged with three counts of attempting to lure underage victims to his house to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
A Justice Department statement revealed how Griffin used instant messaging apps to coax the parents of minor girls into “[allowing] him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive.”
Describing the allegations as “horrifying,” Carlson said Griffin — who has been suspended by CNN pending an investigation — had bragged about “working shoulder-to-shoulder” with the network’s disgraced former host Chris Cuomo, who has also been hit by sexual misconduct allegations.
Note, too, that Griffin was caught on drone video clad in underwear and standing next to a naked nine-year-old girl.
As for the “submissive” bit, note that leftists such as this man are the same people who publicly tout feminism and women’s “empowerment” at every turn. One reason for this is that some men justify in their minds their private abuse of the feminine sex with public support for feminism (the Bill Clinton phenomenon). Besides, feminism frees you from the obligation to be a gentleman, as that supposedly implies “female inferiority.”
On the heels of the Griffin revelation, and making some perhaps wonder if pedophilia is a résumé enhancer at CNN, came the second story. As the Post Millennial tells us:
Project Veritas has released the name of the latest CNN producer to be embroiled in a pedophilia scandal. Rick Saleeby, the staffer in question, is a producer on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
… According to the outlet, one text exchange featured the producer telling the source how his fiancé’s daughter was “wearing very closely cut bottoms at the pool,” before graphically describing how he could see the outline of her genitals.
Saleeby allegedly solicited sexually explicit photos of the source’s underage daughter.
The messages and videos were allegedly obtained by a woman who was involved in a relationship with the CNN producer for over a decade, Janine Banani, a case manager for human trafficking victims, as well as those of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The source claimed to have obtained the information for authorities but contacted Project Veritas when she was worried that action might not be taken.
The Post then provided many more salacious details, which I’ll spare you for propriety’s sake. This was not the reason, however, why Twitter suspended Project Veritas’s account (tweet below) for merely reporting the Saleeby story (because it’s not as if Big Tech bias is real or anything).
Below is the Tucker Carlson segment on the CNN pedophiles, which, thankfully, is still on YouTube.
Of course, this isn’t the first we’ve heard of leftists behaving badly. For example, ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo preceded his brother, Chris, in having his career scuttled by credible sexual-misconduct allegations. And lest you think it just runs in the family or is a NY or CNN phenomenon, consider that by my calculations (here), approximately 90 percent of the individuals caught up in #MeToo scandals were leftists. This is possibly why the liberal-driven #MeToo movement fizzled: Leftists didn’t anticipate it ravaging their own ranks almost exclusively — and they couldn’t let that continue.
Even many conservatives would find this claim, that libs have largely cornered the sex-scandal market, extreme. “This has nothing to do with ideology!” they may aver. This may be in a sense true. But also true is that the ideology is, just like the sexual depravity, merely a symptom of the deeper cause of both.
The correlation between ideology and its adherents’ moral stature has even been borne out by science, as illustrated in the 2008 article, “Don’t Listen to the Liberals — Right-wingers Really are Nicer People, Latest Research Shows.” What is the connection?
Question: If you were back in 1938 Germany, would you expect relatively virtuous, or vice-ridden, people to be more likely to gravitate toward Nazism? It’s fairly obvious that people immersed in evil will be attracted to manifestations of evil.
It’s certainly no different today. But what of the specifics? Well, while I often write about the “relativism” of the Left, for now I’ll keep it simple and relate the insight I had into this matter as a young, 20-something man: People embrace liberalism to justify their own misdeeds.
Think about leftism’s message: You’re not responsible for what you do (e.g., kid-glove “justice”), you don’t have to pay for what you get (e.g., government handouts), it can’t be wrong if it’s consensual (e.g., sexual perversion). The only homage you must pay is to bow at political correctness’ altar. But that’s fine because it’s actual morality leftists want a dispensation from — not faux “morality.”
Why do you think leftists continually attack (traditional) sexual morality? While there can be more than one reason, the dominant one — remember that people are governed by emotion more than reason — is that they themselves have an affinity for behaviors that this morality condemns. So they condemn it.
So it’s an old, and very human, story: People seek to justify themselves. They attack what threatens their power. They attack what threatens their wealth. They attack what threatens their status. So what would you conclude about the group that most attacks what threatens sin?
