See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
Not surprisingly, CNN’s post-Al Smith Dinner analysis did not take kindly to Donald Trump on Thursday night as the assembled crew didn’t object to the crowd booing Trump and applauded Hillary Clinton’s remarks as “self-deprecating,” “singeing,” and “traditional” since she’s so familiar with dinners like this along with the elitist Gridiron Club.
CNN senior political analyst and former Clinton administration official David Gergen received the first crack at it and he couldn’t recall there ever being boos at the dinner before warning that “there's such a risk here of sounding partisan, but I must tell you, there was a real difference between the two” candidates.