Steve Cortes, former CNN contributor and current co-host of Newsmax's Cortes & Pellegrino, told Breitbart News on Monday that CNN repeatedly provided him with inaccurate show notes prior to his appearances on the network during the 2016 presidential election season in order to undermine his political analysis and commentary.
"CNN is even worse off-air than on-air," Cortes stated in an interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Cortes replied, "Honestly? Terribly, just to put it bluntly. Yeah, terrible. They were as rude as could be, They are - believe it or not - CNN is even worse off-air than on-air in terms of their commitment to their narrative. They truly believe that they're on a sort of holy war against what they deem as xenophobic nationalistic racism, and that's really, truly what they believe we represent."
CNN's operators view their political mission as virtuous, Cortes held.
Cortes shared that CNN sent him fake show notes ahead of segments he was scheduled to appear on while sending proper show notes to other contributors and guests.
"Even though I worked for them, it was this weird situation where I was being paid by CNN, and yet they were constantly trying to make me look foolish," he added, "Constantly trying to fool me about the topic we were talking about. They never succeeded, thankfully. I just did my homework. Most of the time, by the way, could you could relatively well guess what they were going to talk about, whatever they thought was most embarrassing to President Trump that day. But the tactics behind the scenes were even more dishonest than what you see on screen, which is saying something because what you see on screen is pretty risible."
CNN markets itself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media outlet.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Steve Cortes: CNN Treated Me 'Terribly,' 'Even Worse Off-Air'
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