Twitter users mocked CNN for a new advertisement campaign, where the Atlanta-based news network insisted it is a “facts first” outlet with an awkward fruit metaphor.
WATCH:
“Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana.” #FactsFirstpic.twitter.com/LbmRKiGJe9
— CNN (@CNN) October 23, 2017
AND WATCH DC’S VERSION (MUCH MORE ACCURATE):
In the new ad, CNN showed a photo of an apple and insisted that even though people might try to convince you that it is a banana, it is still an apple.
“This is an apple,” the video voiceover begins with soft piano music in the background. “Some people might try to tell you it’s a banana. They might scream ‘banana banana banana’ over and over and over again… You might even start to believe that this is a banana.”
“But it’s not,” CNN confirms. “This is an apple.”
The video ends with the text “Facts First.”
If only CNN were this accurate about firearms https://t.co/YYmIPnsYAZ
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 23, 2017
Funny. I don’t recall CNN running these ads when Pres O talked re shovel-ready jobs, keeping your Dr., keeping your plan or Syrian red lines https://t.co/39VEWZbX7K
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) October 23, 2017
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 23, 2017
.@CNN seems to be subtweeting themselves with this ad about#FactsFirst https://t.co/YpnE8YQ1CW
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) October 23, 2017
CNN begging for mockery/attention today…
— Pete Kasperowicz (@PeteKDCNews) October 23, 2017
Literal theft of Apple’s ad style and CNN even used an apple as an example? Humiliating. https://t.co/Btjiqcsz8Z
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 23, 2017
Now let’s see if CNN would be equally as willing to state that someone with XY chromosomes is always and forever male. Because science. https://t.co/2yY2lpMCaq
— Andrew T. Walker (@andrewtwalk) October 23, 2017
Shall we also apply this to gender dysphoria? #FactsFirst https://t.co/Few9t61l4j
— Allie Stuckey (@conservmillen) October 23, 2017
This is an apple #FactsFirst pic.twitter.com/YVBRqpdWWx
— David Uberti (@DavidUberti) October 23, 2017
Some people might tell you men & woman are the same. They might scream it over and over or put it in all CAPS. But they’re wrong #FactsFirst https://t.co/zOMoeaSne8
— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 23, 2017
Ooh! Ooh! Now do “man” and “woman” https://t.co/MFD5JCra5v
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) October 23, 2017
#factsfirst pic.twitter.com/bY8F9M7ooP
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 23, 2017
“Some people might tell you this is a bump stock” #FactsFirstpic.twitter.com/8sRYXOSrzX
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 23, 2017
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