CNBC has poured gasoline on the theory MSM is deliberately marginalizing certain 2020 Democratic candidates, swapping photos of businessman Andrew Yang and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard with bizarre substitutes.
The candidates got an unwitting makeover during the network’s “Squawk Box” program on Monday, as the show was covering fourth-quarter fundraising totals. Yang’s face was replaced with a similarly-named Asian businessman, founding partner of Redpoint Ventures Geoff Yang. Gabbard was replaced, even more confusingly, by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – once a primary candidate herself, until she dropped out of the race in August.
One could chalk both up to chance mistakes – Geoff and Andrew Yang have the same last name, so perhaps their headshots are sequential in the network’s files? Gabbard and Gillibrand were sequential in the alphabetical list of candidates, perhaps they forgot to remove the blonde, decidedly un-Gabbard-like congresswoman when she called it quits six months ago? But the fact that both candidates, each with a decidedly anti-establishment bent, have been noticeably shafted by mainstream media in the past led their supporters to cry foul.
Hardly anyone believed the “innocent mistake” hypothesis. “This has to be intentional malice,” one user observed.
If this happened one time. I could believe accident. If it happened to other people, that would make it believable. But it's only ever Tulsi or Yang, and it's constantly.Burn down the establishment media, rebuild, hopefully it's better. But what we have now is warmongering trash
— Zack of All Trades (@TheIceMonkey72) January 6, 2020
There's no way this is just a mistake. This has to be intentional trolling by @CNBCGiven how the @SquawkCNBC team is always being ridiculously negative towards @tesla & @elonmusk I knew they were a bunch of biased buffoons.But this is taking it to a new level of clownishness.
— HAYLEY