CNN’s live Saturday night telecast was a stage production of Good Night, and Good Luck, the Broadway adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney film.
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec took a jab at CNN after finding that footage of him was featured during the network’s live broadcast of the Broadway adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck.
“Thank you to George Clooney and @CNN for my Broadway debut last night!” Posobiec wrote on X, posting a screenshot that showed his image projected on stage, taken from his time as a correspondent for One America News Network (OAN).
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View on XThe post sarcastically thanks CNN, followed by another post where he wrote that he can now say he worked with George Clooney.
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View on XPosobiec has long slammed CNN and other mainstream outlets for their bias and coverage of events that heavily favor the Democrats.
CNN’s live Saturday night telecast was a stage production of Good Night, and Good Luck, the Broadway adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney film. The play recounts how famed CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow publicly challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy during the height of the Red Scare in the 1950s. It is considered to be a celebration of journalism and the fourth estate's role in speaking truth to power.
In airing the play, CNN appeared to be drawing a not-so-subtle parallel between McCarthyism and President Donald Trump—casting itself, and other media figures, as the modern heirs to Murrow’s journalism supposedly fighting the power.
Critics on the right viewed the broadcast as a self-congratulatory spectacle.
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