In CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter on Wednesday, the network’s senior media reporter harshly criticized his employer’s decision to air a live town hall for Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who at one point continued to push conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 insurrection over the protests of host Abby Phillip.
Oliver Darcy wrote that he disapproved of “helping to legitimize the dishonest GOP presidential hopeful who has spewed dangerous lies and injected poison into the national discourse at every chance.”
“The notion that the infotainer, who CNN has reported ‘struggles for relevance’ as he polls in the low single digits and remains exceedingly unlikely to be the Republican Party’s nominee, deserves an hour-long national platform to sell his personal brand and insidious talking points to the masses taxes the imagination,” he explained.
