Reactions to CNN’s New Hampshire town hall event continue to pour in, with responses generally falling along party lines. 77 WABC host Sid Rosenberg was not impressed by the job CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins did Wednesday night, and had many harsh statements about the host.
“I thought Kaitlan Collins was disgraceful,” said Rosenberg during a discussion with WABC host Frank Morano on Sid and Friends in the Morning Thursday. “I thought she was nasty, to Donald Trump’s point. This was an agenda-driven, biased hitjob for 60 minutes.”
“I’m glad it happened, and I think it was a smart thing for CNN to do and a smart thing for Trump to do,” Morano said. “I agree there was a level of snarkiness that was completely unnecessary. I think on the whole, she had an impossible job. Donald Trump is the kind of a guy — even on the best of circumstances — is tough to keep up with for an hour.”
“He’d eventually raise his voice after she asked the question six or seven times, but he sat there very deliberate, very measured, and she would ask him the same question 10 times,” Rosenberg countered. “It was almost like a cop in a coerced confession. Don’t tell me ‘For the most part, she had an impossible job’. Ask the question, let Trump answer the question, and if it doesn’t go your way, move on.”
Former President Trump joined Rosenberg for a phone interview Thursday morning. The host called her “disrespectful” before he asked the former President how he thought the evening went.
“It turned out well,” Trump said. “We’re getting rave reviews. She’s not. This was not Barbara Walters I was dealing with, let’s put it this way. This was a person who was put there by CNN to do some damage, and she did. She did it to CNN…they tried to go for home run balls and it was really disgraceful.”
