CNN’s Chris Cillizza is under fire after tweeting an image of a sniper’s crosshairs over a picture of President Donald Trump.
The CNN editor-at-large tweeted then deleted the image of the green sniper’s scope over Trump’s face in a tweet captioned, “Donald Trump, pointing to heavens to commemorate police officers killed in the line of duty.”
Here we have CNN’s Chris Cillizza posting an image of crosshairs around the president of the United States of America.
This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/Q0gdAbkgLw
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 15, 2018
The GIF caught the attention of many on social media and prompted Cillizza to delete the tweet and blame the software program he used at CNN.
Um, why is there green crosshairs over trump? https://t.co/CSFsvfIkk0
— LaurieAnn ? (@mooshakins) May 15, 2018
oh, really? pic.twitter.com/XsTXK2ZoUS
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 15, 2018
“I’ve deleted a GIF about President Trump. We use @GifGrabber to make our GIFs and it defaults to the image below as a first frame. To clear up any unintended confusion, I’ve removed the tweet,” Cillizza explained.
I’ve deleted a GIF about President Trump. We use @GifGrabber to make our GIFs and it defaults to the image below as a first frame. To clear up any unintended confusion, I’ve removed the tweet. pic.twitter.com/x6PCKoiW16
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 15, 2018
Some Twitter users claimed to have difficulty reproducing Cillizza’s tweet with GIFGrabber.
I just used GIF grabber to make a GIF of Chris Cillizza’s twitter timeline.
Strangely, there were no crosshairs inserted. pic.twitter.com/N1CvwgGq7d
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 15, 2018
Others were happy to save the tweet despite it being deleted, since liberals have such short memories.
CNN’s Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) tweeted a GIF that had crosshairs on President Donald Trump.
Archive: https://t.co/v03QVs6Ppm pic.twitter.com/4vQ4LqdIav
— Ryan Saavedra ?? (@RealSaavedra) May 15, 2018
.@CillizzaCNN Hi. You deleted it but don’t worry, I saved it for you. Along with a reminder. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/1CQhbDJKng
— LaurieAnn ? (@mooshakins) May 15, 2018
I believe Cillizza, here, but I’m joyously laughing. https://t.co/RMRRTfqiyR
— Gen JC Christian, Presidential Advisor (@JC_Christian) May 15, 2018
Add to short memories the double standard on the left when it comes to calling out what they think is objectionable.
Their silence in the face of Cillizza’s tweet is deafening considering the brouhaha over a map of political opponents under crosshairs posted by Sarah Palin who was accused of inciting violence and even blamed for allegedly inspiring the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, a claim surprisingly denounced by CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Factchecker: The bogus claim that a map of crosshairs by Sarah Palin’s PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords’s shooting
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 15, 2017
Accident or not, Cillizza’s tweet is another fine example of violent rhetoric from the liberal media.
White House correspondent April Ryan recently implied that White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders wanted to ‘physically fight’ during a press briefing, while MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace was so exasperated with Sanders she wondered how someone wouldn’t “wring her neck.”
So far, there have been no calls from their own camp to tone down the hateful rhetoric by liberals. But that is a surprise to no one.
Imagine the outrage had this been done to Obama
— Francesca DAbruzzo (@RougePappillon) May 15, 2018
Double standards all day. That’s how they live. Act as I say, not as I do. So tired of this BS.
— Preston White (@PrestonWhite12) May 15, 2018
Delete the tweet is NOT an apology https://t.co/RUnA4n3MDc
— KawaC (@aspen4521) May 16, 2018
Bogus excuse. Cillizza’s original tweet advocated sedition, and so does @CNN by not speaking out against his tweet. #firecillizza https://t.co/ZAXnkKtg0F
— Katherine Cogger (@KatCogger) May 16, 2018
@CillizzaCNN @CNN how come a gaffe like this never happened when Obama was president and I’m sure would not have happened if Hillary had won #MAGA #CNNisFakeNews #AwfulRatings
— StandForTheFlag (@Stand4Flag8) May 15, 2018
@CillizzaCNN , meet Secret Service.
— Don Fredrick (@Colony14) May 16, 2018
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