James Carville Goes On CNN and Attacks Network for Not Airing Trump’s Speech Live: ‘Mistake Was Made’

Veteran political operative James Carville attacked CNN during an appearance on the network for failing to air President Donald Trump‘s election fraud speech live, saying it was the only way to show voters that the president is “literally crazy.”

Appearing Friday on The Situation with Wolf Blitzer, Carville told Blitzer flat out that “a mistake was made.”

ABC, NBC, and CNN did not air Trump’s Thursday night speech to the nation live on their networks, while CBS aired most of it and Fox News included heavy disclaimers.

Carville said voters deserved to see for themselves “just how far this man has gone down the road to insanity” and said the networks should have given the speech “blanket coverage:”

JAMES CARVILLE: I would advise them to attack CNN, attack ABC, attack NBC, attack MS NOW, because they didn’t air the speech. And I think the President of the United States acting loonier than a tune is newsworthy.

I don’t think we should have hidden that from the American people. I think it should have been blanket coverage of it. He, he’s literally off his rocker, and there’s there’s no other way to describe this.

WOLF BLITZER: So you think we should have given him more publicity? Is that what you’re saying?

CARVILLE: Absolutely saying that, I’m absolutely saying that. I think the decision not to air that speech by CNN and other and other networks, is not being what’s really newsworthy and that this guy’s he’s gone.

He was advised by his own staff in a story that I read. It was a Daily Beast and Politico, that: don’t be crazy. When you got to advise the president of the United States not to be crazy, of course, he didn’t take that advice for sure.

But this is very newsworthy, I think. I do think, Wolf, and I think the more people see this, the more they’ll understand that. I really do. And I believe that.

The speech showed there’s “nothing normal” about Trump, Carville added:

I have no idea what he was trying to accomplish. And, but if we run, if you run excerpts from it, they’ll say ah, they just edit stuff. There, I, I think the mistake was made by the networks to not show it in its entirety so people could see him in full and understand just how far this man has gone down the road to insanity.

I was, I would say it was nothing normal about that. And you can do it with clips and you can get, you know, people on, but there’s nothing like people sitting there watching the whole thing to tell them what’s really going on.

Fox & Friends on Friday morning failed to mention the speech at all, while other networks dissected it.

Watch above via CNN.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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