{"id":114,"date":"2019-11-26T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:37:02","slug":"cnn-labels-the-right-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"CNN Labels the <i>Right<\/i> a Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CNN: Trump Is Leader Of &#8220;Destructive Cult&#8221;; Using &#8220;Mind Control&#8221; On Americans<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Steve Watson via<br \/>\nSummit News<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stelter and guest say Trump supporters need \u2018deprogramming\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=vsjOD7G0\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=vsjOD7G0\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=D-hUrQzo 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=D-hUrQzo 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=D-hUrQzo 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=D-hUrQzo 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=D-hUrQzo 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg?itok=vsjOD7G0 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/280617stelter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"447740a3-3c4c-4352-8ab1-b31cb1b5e367\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN\u2019s resident lunatic Brian Stelter went above and beyond his regular whackery Sunday, wheeling out a \u2018cult expert\u2019 on his \u201c<em>Reliable Sources<\/em>\u201d\u00a0show, who claimed that President Trump is a \u201cdestructive cult\u201d leader, a la Jim Jones, and that he is using \u201cmind control\u201d to direct supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stelter introduced Steven Hassan, author of a book titled\u00a0<em>The Cult of Trump<\/em>, claiming that many prominent figures (read \u2018CNN talking heads\u2019) have been suggesting recently that Trump\u2019s America first movement is \u2018cultish\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan claimed that Trump supporters are \u201cnot being encouraged to really explore and look at the details and arrive at their own conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMuch of what they\u2019re hearing is emotionally driven, loaded words, thought-stopping, and thought-terminating-type clich\u00e9s.\u201d he added, citing \u201cfake news,\u201d \u201cbuild the wall,\u201d \u201cmake America great again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/545220\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stelter then brought up mind control, asking \u201cYou say the President is using mind control, but how is that provable?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cSo, we can start with the pathological lying, which is characteristic of destructive cult leaders.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Hassan claimed, again without providing any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaying things in a very confident way that have nothing to do with facts or truthfulness. The blaming others and never taking responsibility for his own failures and faults. Shunning and kicking out anyone who raises questions or concerns about his own behavior.\u00a0<strong>His use of fearmongering, immigration is a horrible thing.<\/strong>\u201d the guest continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stelter then chimed in with the stunning insight that \u201cIt is frightening to hear a cult expert say that you see all of these signs right now today in American politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair then remarkably suggested that Trump supporters need to be \u2018deprogrammed\u2019 by breaking them out of their \u2018bubbles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could there be a better example of the pot calling the kettle black?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The real cult is happening at CNN, where for four years talking heads and presenters have completely obsessed themselves with opposing anything Trump says or does, as well as a plethora of things he doesn\u2019t say or do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>63 million Americans are definitely not part of a mind controlled cult. However, a few thousand CNN viewers certainly seem to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/cnn-trump-leader-destructive-cult-using-mind-control-americans\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/cnn-trump-leader-destructive-cult-using-mind-control-americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Trump Is Leader Of &#8220;Destructive Cult&#8221;; Using &#8220;Mind Control&#8221; On Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}