CNN Anchor Mistakes Star Spangled Banner for French National Anthem

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Oh come on now. President Donald Trump is on a diplomatic mission to further friendly relations with France and President Emmanuel Macron — and CNN is busy bungling it up.

Get this — a gradeschool mistake: A band played the U.S. National Anthem at the same time Trump met with Macron, in the leadup to Bastille Day celebrations. And what did CNN’s illustrious on-air anchor announce?

This: “Let’s just listen in to the French National Anthem for just a moment.”

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No wonder the American people have little-to-no respect for the media. And now France is clued in on the cluelessness of U.S. journalists as well.

Thanks, Poppy Harlow with your exclusive Blake School education and prestigious Columbia University training and pedigreed CNN title. Thanks a lot for making America look stupid.

Thanks, Poppy Harlow.

It took some time for Harlow to correct the error.

Whispers could be heard in the background of her broadcast, and shortly after, Harlow issued a correction.

But too little, too late. The mistake played on the international scale like a mocking of America.

Guess CNN got bit a little too hard by the Fake News bug — can’t even think clearly enough to recognize the U.S. National Anthem and differentiate it from another country’s.

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john
john
6 years ago

she needs Mark Dice

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Maybe they are so busy cooking up fake stories they did not have time to get some basic facts right !

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Meoldfart Fartme
Meoldfart Fartme
6 years ago

AND, the pres is giving the proper SALUTE!! – give LSM and the comm new(?) network a double dip of stupid –

SRN99
SRN99
6 years ago

For a fake news company, employees don’t need to be so smart.

UnderzogD
Underzog
6 years ago

.Thesed morons don’t know our national anthem (since 1031, that is) whist I can sing all four stanzas of the “Star Spangled Banner (The defense of Ft. McHenery)”. I sang this at a campfire type rally

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

When it comes to being stupid, it goes to cnn. Their comedians are a disgrace to the American eduction system, no one can deliberately be as consistently stupid as lame stream media barkers. They have dedicated idiots as script writers.

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6 years ago

CNN also confuses Jay-Z’s noise for Beethoven as well !!
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IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

That’s good.

conan_drum
conan_drum
6 years ago

Most likely a slip of the tongue but these people are paid very large salaries NOT to make such mistakes.
I think these female news anchors are chosen more for their beauty than anything else, and of course ability to read! That does not apply to Quest of course. CNN means Continuous Non News

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
Reply to  conan_drum

Agreed. She is a graduate of Columbia and doesn’t know “The Star Spangled Banner” from “La Marseilles” yet still thinks sex will clear her complexion.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Q: What are the qualifications to work at CNN?
A: There aren’t any.

Gordon Miller
Gordon Miller
6 years ago

False. You must have been dropped on you head before you were two years old.

Edward Cline
Edward Cline
6 years ago

Poppy Harlow is an upper class twit.

Ichabod Crain
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago

It’s fake news again.

JeromefromLayton
JeromefromLayton
6 years ago

It’s possible that she wasn’t able to hear the background noise, including the two anthems, so she would have been relying on cue cards or electronic notes to guide her presentation. Even if that is the case, normal protocol is to play the guest’s National Anthem first, then the host nation’s. So, it’s still a CNN screw-up.

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6 years ago

Perhaps the fake news corporate types need to start testing ?!?

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Bruce Atchison
Bruce Atchison
6 years ago

This sounds like a joke. What sort of idiots do CNN and other lame stream media hire? These people are supposed to know what they’re talking about. They aren’t smart like they’d love us to believe.

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