VULGAR – AT 8:31 A.M. ET:  Anyone watching CNN's coverage of the death of the Ebola patient in Dallas knows that the network has gone all in with charges that the passing of Thomas Duncan was due to racism – that he didn't get the same care that white victims of the disease have gotten.  It is absolutely disgraceful.  No evidence of racial bias has been presented at all.  Indeed, the hospital involved in Mr. Duncan's treatment has a multicultural history and treats patients of all backgrounds.  From Breitbart: 

Minutes after news broke of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield suggested racism might have contributed to the Ebola patient's death.

While talking with her guest about the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, Banfield said, "You cannot rule out the notion that he had no Social Security number when he went to the hospital, and had a strong, thick West African accent. And his partner even said he's from Liberia."

Banfield is referring to reports that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital sent Duncan home on September 20 with antibiotics.

Later in the segment, Banfield said that she didn’t believe "malice" had anything to with the hospital's actions, which completely contradicted what she suggested just a few minutes earlier.

Without a hint of evidence, CNN seems to have decided that the tragic death of Mr. Duncan and this unspeakably awful West African Ebola outbreak is gist for racial-hatred mill. While Texans and Americans worry about the possibility of an outbreak on our own shores, CNN doesn't seem to think that's a sexy enough story; so let's throw some unfounded racial speculation on the fire.
Banfield mentioned nothing about any reporting to back up her race baiting.

During CNN's Jeff Zucker-era, which is about 18 months old, this kind of irresponsible racial taunting has become the new standard at the failing leftwing cable news outlet. With no evidence, or even a completed investigation, CNN spent more than a week ginning up racial division in Ferguson, Missouri, over this past summer.

COMMENT:  That is correct.  CNN's ratings are below abysmal, despite the fact that the network employs some fine journalists.  But it has a history of reporting from the left, a history started by CNN's founder, Ted Turner, a major flake who burnished his left-wing credentials by marrying Jane Fonda.  CNN has never shaken that history.  Although it claims to be "the first name in news," and does a decent job with spot news, the overall premise of CNN is a liberal view of the world. 

If CNN would correct its bias, its ratings would be much higher.  As it is, it loses half its potential audience the minute it goes on the air.

October 10, 2014