CNN’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Airing Exposes Unapologetic Media Bias Against Trump

In a stunning display of self-congratulation, a major cable news network aired a live telecast of Broadway’s "Good Night, and Good Luck" this past weekend, drawing a not-so-subtle parallel between their own journalistic valor and the legendary Edward R. Murrow’s battle against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s red scare tactics in the 1950s. The metaphor was as heavy-handed as a sledgehammer at a tea party: they are the noble truth-seekers, and President Donald Trump is the modern-day McCarthy, a menace to democracy.

But let’s peel back the curtain on this theatrical charade. The network’s resident media pundit penned a column tying McCarthyism to Trump’s current lawsuit against CBS News’ "60 Minutes" over an edited interview with Kamala Harris—an edit so generous it could’ve turned gibberish into Shakespeare, allegedly influencing the 2024 election. Conveniently, the column skipped over the messy details of that editorial sleight of hand. Why bother with inconvenient truths when the narrative is so much tidier?

Post-show, a "60 Minutes" anchor took the stage with the gravitas of a Shakespearean actor, declaring that courage in speech saves nations, while silence dooms them. Inspiring words—if only they weren’t dripping with irony. This is the same legacy media that peddled the Russian collusion story for years during Trump’s first term, then turned a blind eye to President Biden’s glaring unfitness during his tenure. Where does this moral high ground they’re preaching from even come from?

And then there’s the star of the show, George Clooney, who played a key role in the original film. This is the same Clooney who stayed silent on Biden’s declining capacity until it was politically safe to speak up. Lies about Russiagate, edits to Harris’s interviews, and silence on Biden’s fitness—all seem justified to some as long as they target Trump. Contrition? Not a whiff of it. Instead, we get a parade of self-proclaimed heirs to Murrow’s courage.

After the play, a panel of journalists patted themselves on the back before an audience of students, touting their bravery and enlightenment. The closest thing to a counterpoint was a token conservative voice, more placeholder than challenger. Meanwhile, the network’s audacity shines through—mere weeks after revelations confirmed Biden’s incapacity and the media’s complicity in hiding it, they don this heroic costume. It’s not just tone-deaf; it’s a full-blown orchestra of denial.

What this spectacle reveals is a deeper truth: this network, and much of the liberal press, hasn’t learned a thing from eight years of missteps. There’s no reckoning here, no introspection about failing to report Biden’s state honestly. If they’d managed to prop him up for another term, would we ever have known the extent of the cover-up? Doubtful. When they show you who they are, believe them—and this weekend, they showed us an unapologetic, unreliable face of journalism.