CNN Hosts Twitter Troll Comfortably Smug, Who Peddled Hurricane Sandy Lies
CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday faced some backlash online for prominently featuring a conservative Twitter troll and podcaster who first rose to prominence by peddling disinformation during Hurricane Sandy.
During Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s Inside Politics, Bash welcomed the hosts of Ruthless, a conservative political podcast, to discuss the news that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will step down from GOP leadership this fall.
The Ruthless hosting crew consists of four political operatives, three of who have worked for McConnell: the GOP leader’s former chief of staff Josh Holmes, longtime GOP communications strategist Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook, their partner at conservative PR firm Cavalry. The fourth host is a Republican operative who goes by the pseudonym Comfortably Smug.