"Does Macy's Tell Gimbels?" Gimbels is no more, but back in the day, it was a fierce Macy's rival, and the phrase stood for the notion that competitors don't help each other. But it seems that for MS NOW's Morning Joe, liberal-media solidarity trumps competitive instincts. Today's episode devoted a long segment to defending CNN against President Trump's critical comments about the network, and his desire to see CNN sold to new ownership. Joe Scarborough was fiercely critical of Trump telling a CNN reporter that she works for the Democrats, and that CNN is "basically an arm of the Democrat party."  "Preposterous," sputtered Scarborough! But can anyone honestly doubt it? Here at NewsBusters, we document--day in and day out--CNN's slavish parroting of the Democrat party line. Let's have a look at some recent NewsBusters headlines demonstrating CNN's bias. Amid Chuckles, CNN Dumps Out Early From 'FIFA Peace Prize' Presentation To Trump CNN's Tapper, NPR's Martin Pamper Ilhan Omar, Skip Her Connections to Huge Somali Fraud OOPS: Jake Tapper Claims Black Pipe Bomb Suspect Is a ‘White Man’ CNN's Hunt And Guest Ignore Tom Cotton's Military Service During 'Ship Strike' Segment CNN Sports Reporter Compares U.S. ICE Operations To Russia and Qatar CNN's Cornish: Dems Can Win In Places Like Tennessee By Running to The Left of Mamdani! Case closed! And, contrary to Morning Joe's claim, Trump isn't trying to "destroy" CNN—he'd simply like to see it move into more fair 'n balanced hands. Funny, we don't remember Morning Joe moaning when in 2009, Brian Stelter [!] reported that Obama communications director Anita Dunn said of Fox News [emphasis added]: “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” And in September 2009, "When the White House booked Mr. Obama on a round robin of Sunday morning talk shows, it skipped Fox and called it an “ideological outlet,” leading the “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace to appear on Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time show and call the administration “the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington." Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 12/11/25 6:10 am ET MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And President Trump is inserting himself even further into the current drama surrounding the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying its cable network, CNN, should be sold off as part of any deal.  PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people that are running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent. I think any deal, it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it.  . . .  CNN REPORTER: Mr. President, has Secretary Hegseth told you why he hasn't released the video of the second strike?  TRUMP: No, he hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you're bringing it up. You must be CNN.  CNN REPORTER: Lawmakers are still talking about it on the Hill. TRUMP: Are you CNN? I don't know about lawmakers? Which lawmakers? Are you CNN?  CNN REPORTER: I am with CNN. The lawmakers are still talking about it on the Hill.  TRUMP: Well, I'll tell you, I don't know about lawmakers. Which lawmakers? I mean, the people you work for: the Democrats? You know you work for the Democrats, don't you? You're basically an arm of the Democrat party.  JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, you know, it's so outrageous what he does there. And what a bubble he's put around himself where a basic question that every reporter is asking suddenly is an excuse for him to strike out at a young reporter and say, nobody's talking about that anymore. Again, when everybody is, you must be with CNN. You work for Democrats.  And again, it's preposterous. The question is, what are the regulators going to do? What are Republicans in Congress going to do? What are the courts going to do? Are they going to allow a president to destroy a news organization simply because he doesn't like what they say about him? Because that's the direction he's headed.  . . .  JONATHAN LEMIRE: This idea to try to push, try to hijack CNN. The Wall Street Journal has reported that David Ellison has promised the White House that if he indeed does take control of Warner Bros. Discovery, that he would make lineup changes to CNN, like replace the leadership there, and their, we presume, new on-air talent as well, new shows. Because we know President Trump doesn't like some of the voices on that network, which, again, in itself is a gross overreach . . . It is a tell, as Willie said. He lashes out at reporters. There's been a whole bunch lately, we should note, mostly female reporters, and there is a sense here in that building that things are off track.