CNN bends over backward to blame Bud Light's downfall on anything but the boycott — even suggests Cinco de Mayo



CNN tried on Wednesday to minimize the connection between Bud Light's partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney and its downfall as America's No. 1 beer.

Modelo Especial, a delicious pilsner-style lager, dethroned Bud Light as the best-selling beer in the U.S. last month. Interestingly, Anheuser-Busch InBev owns Grupo Modelo's beer portfolio — except in the U.S., where it is owned and controlled by New York-based Constellation Brands.

Bud Light's downfall — which includes cratering sales and a shrinking market cap — only began after its partnership with Mulvaney went public. But that did not stop CNN from blaming Modelo's rise on "changing tastes" and Cinco de Mayo.

"There are some changing tastes happening, and also, this is the month of May. There's Cinco de Mayo. There's also a really clever advertising promotion campaign from Modelo and changing tastes," reported CNN chief business correspondent Christine Romans.

"Analysts tell us that already there's been an affinity, a growing affinity, for Mexican beer and spirits for some time now," Romans added. "So, that's sort of a tipping point that you're seeing here."

Romans, in fact, minimized the Mulvaney controversy as just "one other kind of factor" at play in Bud Light's downfall.

"Sales for Bud Light down more than 24% in the month — that is kind of a staggering number here," she said. "And for Modelo, sales up 12.2%. So, these numbers are telling a story. You mentioned the transgender influencer who had one can, one customized can of Bud Light and did an Instagram post and conservative media and conservative social media went on a very full, full, forceful boycott of the beer. And so, that is one other kind of factor here at play."

At the end of the report, Romans circled back to changing taste buds, connecting Bud Light's downfall to "years of declining tastes for light beer," while adding Bud Light's "social media fail" as an afterthought.

The Washington Post also this week attempted to downplay the relationship of Bud Light's rapid demise to the boycott. Like CNN, the newspaper also attributed Modelo's rise to long-term market trends.

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'No smoking gun here': CNN host tries to downplay Twitter Files — but the look on her face says it all



On “The Rubin Report” this week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin shared a clip of CNN’s Christine Romans trying to convince her viewers that Elon Musk's “Twitter Files” don't actually reveal Big Tech censorship or election interference. In fact, the very idea that Big Tech would bury the "outrageous" Hunter Biden laptop story — which many in the corporate media dismissed as "disinformation" — just before a presidential election is hardly worth mentioning.

"What some want you to think is that this was censorship by Big Tech," Romans said during an appearance on "CNN Newsroom."

"What it sort of shows is a real struggle on an important platform for how to deal with something so outrageous, so explosive, and what to actually do with it," she added. "What 'Poynter' said, which is a media watchdog group, they said 'file this one, file the Twitter Files, under M for meh.' And the Washington Post said there is 'no smoking gun here.' We’ve known a lot of this, that Twitter really struggled with how to handle this explosive story that was published in the New York Post."

Dave said it's unfortunate that so many people who watch the corporate media will "buy the state line."

"If they hear something, that's how it is. Mainstream said it, so that's how it is," he noted. "Sure, six months later, two years later, '60 Minutes' will acknowledge that the Hunter Biden laptop is real after they told Donald Trump to his face that it's not real. But that's all right. That's why I keep saying the truth is a time-release pill these days. And that's what we're finding out."

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