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Speaking of propaganda, no one had a worse week than CNN.


After the president tweeted a video of him body slamming the CNN logo, the once-great (OK, passable) news network expended more journalistic energy hunting down the maker of that clip than it did investigating anything to do with the Obama administration for the last eight years.


Derek Hunter

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