CNN Spinning Like Mad Over Its Terrorism Apologia

Earlier today, I wrote about CNN’s appalling bit of propaganda that almost romanticized the terrorist attack in New York City by two Islamists, who were radicalized by ISIS. 

It is kind of mesmerising. You could read it multiple times and never know that CNN was referring to an attempt by Islamic State loyalists to massacre protesters. https://t.co/jKUCeQZSVj

— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) March 10, 2026

The lede of the story and the tweet they produced were so embarrassingly bad that CNN had to delete it and kinda sorta maybe apologize a little bit. 

It didn’t fail to reflect the gravity of the situation. It failed to accurately communicate who was responsible, who the intended victims were and where the blame for the attempted terrorist attack lay. In other words you didn’t accidentally downplay the seriousness of it, you…

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) March 10, 2026

It didn’t fail to reflect the gravity of the situation. It failed to accurately communicate who was responsible, who the intended victims were and where the blame for the attempted terrorist attack lay. In other words you didn’t accidentally downplay the seriousness of it, you deliberately misrepresented what happened to conceal the truth from the public.

But only sorta. Brian “Potatohead” Stelter explained that the story, whose lede was exactly the same as the tweet’s content, was actually quite good, while CNN didn’t apologize for the actual content, but for its lack of attention to the seriousness of the crime. 

This morning’s @ReliableSources newsletter has the context >>> https://t.co/v9NLjgs75l pic.twitter.com/S5pR7kirMB

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 10, 2026

Uh, yeah, right. I suppose you could say that, in the same way that a Babylon Bee story isn’t serious. The difference is that the Bee is supposed to be satire, and CNN pretends that it reports “news.”

Most journalism school grads are no better. Established outlets still have some older editors who will occasionally re-frame unhinged coverage, but at some point the nuts are going to take over. https://t.co/y2Mslr52b3

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) March 10, 2026

The story was written by a “journalist” with the education and attitudes you would expect these days. Pronouns, woke studies, left-wing history. It wouldn’t surprise me if “They” were a gender studies major. 

“The majority of the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based….Wolf, that sure sounds a lot like CNN!”

– Brian Stelter, two weeks agopic.twitter.com/8cTd1Bjn2C https://t.co/2D2GrHytTf

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 10, 2026

For God’s sake. 

As your copy editor I’m gonna need you to not mention their names

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 10, 2026

Two young flight students – Abdulaziz al-Omari and Wail al-Shehri – boarded a plane to enjoy some spontaneous hands-on cockpit experience in a Boeing 767 on a crisp, picturesque September morning.

Little did they know that only a few minutes later, their lives would be tragically cut short when a skyscraper would suddenly leap out in front of their plane.

CNN doesn’t even try to hide its bias anymore, because they are rightfully certain that anybody who gets their news from them lives in a media bubble so impenetrable that they will never discover the truth. 

Just got back from the gym.

Was talking to some friends there… they had literally NO IDEA about the New York City bombs being a radical terrorist.

Absolutely zero clue.

They didn’t even believe me, so I just pulled out my phone and showed them the video on my account.

This… pic.twitter.com/wcWnmbX9Q8

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 10, 2026

Just got back from the gym.

Was talking to some friends there… they had literally NO IDEA about the New York City bombs being a radical terrorist.

Absolutely zero clue.

They didn’t even believe me, so I just pulled out my phone and showed them the video on my account.

This has happened so many times now, it’s truly incredible.

The same thing happened when I called my dad and told him about Nick Shirley’s Somali daycare fraud story.

He had no idea and couldn’t believe he hadn’t heard about it at all.

It’s so frustrating. 

I remember it well though, it never feels like indoctrination because it comes from everywhere at once.

CNN in the morning at the gym. 

Scrolling Instagram over coffee. 

A podcast on the commute home. 

They have their different tones, but they all keep arriving at the same places.

The same things were important. The same people were credible. 

Literally ANY OTHER CONCERNS were paranoid or fringe or evidence of the kind of thinking that TRULY EDUCATED people had moved past long ago…

I took this convergence, everyone, everywhere telling the same stories with the same angles… as proof.

When you hear the same thing from ten different sources, your brain does something TOTALLY RATIONAL… it registers confirmation.

Five witnesses describing the same event is better evidence than one. 

This is just how evidence works.

The lie, the nefarious, sadistic like…

…is that ALLLLLLLLL your sources were never independent

When I discovered this for the first time, it made me want to vomit it was so horrifying.

The convergence I took as proof of truth was only proof of a shared bias.

The most nefarious part of all is that the media doesn’t try to convince you of an outright lie.

Outright lies are often detectable.

What’s far more effective, what’s essentially invisible until the moment it isn’t, is SELECTION.

The stories they choose to run.

Which deaths become national tragedy and which aren’t even told.

Which government failures get a monster investigative series and which get 1 sentence.

Which protests are worthy and which are dangerous.

Which experts are credible and which are fringe.

My dad, my friends at the gym don’t want to dive deep into these stories, they have 5 minutes and are just trying to live a normal life… trusting that if something is TRULY important, someone will tell them.

The legacy media know this. 

That’s why they make sure you never hear the truth.

Once you see that, you can’t unsee it.

It changes everything.

Of course, it’s not just CNN. The entire media complex is doing everything it can to create a Truman Show where all bad things are Trump’s fault, and all of Trump’s actions are bad. That is the secret to their continued success with convincing Democrats and some normies that the world has gone to hell under Trump. 

Yesterday I was speaking with a young kid who went to Harvard

I asked him if he knew about the bomb attack by two young radical Islamists

He said

“you mean the one trying to kill Zohran Mamdani?”

Our media is doing great harm

Even this correction is misleading https://t.co/8MDA9Utdnf

— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) March 10, 2026

It’s all they hear. So they believe The Narrative™.

Sam Harris sits quietly as Bill Maher calls out the NYT for pushing readers toward an opinion on the “Iran War.”

“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”

“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the… pic.twitter.com/nxfXpZ5LX9

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) March 9, 2026

“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”

“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the people are thrilled that the Ayatollah is gone, what picture did they put? Picture of people mourning the Ayatollah…”

“I can’t believe that somebody at the desk didn’t get, ‘I’ve got a great picture of people dancing in the streets.’ Yeah, we’re gonna go with the 10% who are sorry the Ayatollah is dead because that’s gonna funnel the thought of our readers toward, ‘Oh, this is a bad war to get into.’”

“That, to me, is the difference in what the media does now and what they didn’t used to do. You’re funneling me toward an opinion, whereas I would love it if you just told me what happened.”

CNN is still trying to save its reputation, at least as much as it has, by claiming that the story was fine. 

Remember just like, a week ago when CNN personalities had a meltdown because new ownership is taking over and might make some changes at the company?

Hard to imagine why anyone would want to change this pic.twitter.com/DMTpXnGAr5

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 10, 2026

No, it was a whitewash, and the fact that millions of people STILL don’t know that ISIS-inspired Islamists committed a failed terrorist attack in the heart of New York City proves that whitewashes work with much of the population. 

A lot of people still think that Mamdani was the target, which is insane, but exactly what the media wants you to believe. 

To put this in context, CNN gave fairly glowing coverage to two Islamic terrorists. Remember what they did to Nick Sandmann?

Imagine a world where Elon Musk hadn’t bought Twitter and turned it into X. Kamala Harris would be president, the EU would be censoring every social media platform, and there would be a Disinformation Governance Board run be a nutcase. 

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