AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Charles Barkley rips CNN and the two-party system in blunt on-air rebuke
Charles Barkley used a sit-down interview with Smerconish to tear into CNN's partisan programming format and a political system he says has left Americans "brainwashed", a critique that landed harder because he works for the network. The former NBA star and current sports personality didn't hold back. Barkley, who has previously voiced support for Democrats […] The post Charles Barkley rips CNN and the two-party system in blunt on-air rebuke appeared first on American Almanac .
Charles Barkley used a sit-down interview with Smerconish to tear into CNN's partisan programming format and a political system he says has left Americans "brainwashed", a critique that landed harder because he works for the network. The former NBA star and current sports personality didn't hold back. Barkley, who has previously voiced support for Democrats and whom CNN recently trusted to lead a primetime talk show, turned his frustration on the very network signing his checks, and on a political culture he says forces Americans to pick a side whether it makes sense or not. His core complaint: the entire system is rigged to benefit the people already at the top, while ordinary Americans get sorted into partisan teams that serve no one's…Open