“The show is an embarrassment and @CNN should be embarrassed to air it,” he added.
Erickson noted the show’s broadcast the night before, saying, “the roundtable again piled on Scott Jennings because the panelists claimed Donald Trump wanted to use the American military to round up American citizens.
“Trump has not said that,” he added. ”His comments have been about illegal aliens. But even, again, Abby Phillip who regularly likes to correct conservative panelists, including Scott Jennings, seemed absolutely confused about basic facts that never penetrate the leftwing echo chamber.”
“In fact, Abby Phillip again tried to correct Scott Jennings and, again, was wrong,” he added.
Phillip soon responded to the statement with a lengthy social media post of her own:
Erickson wasn’t finished, offering another post along with a clip from the show to bolster his point:
And plenty of other social media users were quick to jump on the bandwagon:
Variety recently reported on the makeover Phillip’s show has received, which has made the on-air discourse noticeably more combative:
“NewsNight,” which launched in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Israel in October of last year, looked at first like most other programs on CNN and its main rivals, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Phillip sat alone on set, always spoke directly to the audience and interviewed experts, analysts and newsmakers about the most important headlines of the day. Earlier this summer, CNN remade the program — which shares its title with a primetime show anchored by Aaron Brown on the network in the early 2000s — and it has quickly become the loudest thing on the schedule. The program operates at a volume that has almost become unrecognizable in these days of ownership under risk-averse Warner Bros. Discovery.
Since Discovery snatched the former WarnerMedia from AT&T in April of 2022, CNN’s tone has moderated. Gone are shows like “New Day,” which counted on morning co-anchors like Alisyn Camerota or Chris Cuomo to put newsmakers on the morning grill, and vanished are anchors like Don Lemon, who finished off the CNN schedule with hot talk about topics such as racism. Under the new corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN has frowned upon anchors displaying passion, offering a personal view on the news or raising up the holy cause of journalism against those who might thwart it. New corporate overlords feared such stuff gave CNN the perception of having a liberal bias — and made it unattractive to viewers with conservative leanings.
Of course, this isn’t the first time CNN and its personalities have faced accusations of political bias:
