How does CNN keep from broadcasting its bias against a Republican contender in a tight senatorial race? The answer, of course, is that it doesn’t. 

Early in the 10:00 Eastern hour Tuesday night, during live coverage of the close run between Alabama candidates Roy Moore and Doug Jones, Wolf Blitzer announced that Democrat Jones had gained the lead over the GOP's pick. 

“Look at this! Wow! Look at this!” Blitzer exclaimed, as Hale County’s votes were turned in. “All of a sudden, Doug Jones is taking the lead.” 

Inside Politics host John King echoed:

“Hale County just came in, which puts him back in the lead.”

As the men spoke, a “whoop” of excitement could be heard off-camera, not unlike cheers from a New Year's Eve celebration. 

This is not the sound of an unbiased news organization.

Even before the burst of excitement, CNN was already playing to the home crowd: 

“So, if you’re in the Jones campaign a little while ago, you were biting your nails. And now you're saying, ‘Okay — this math could work for us, but we’ll see’…Now, I’m going to check when the panel gets on the board here…again, 72 percent Jefferson County…we’ll keep an eye on the margin there.”

Stirring and commotion filled the background. King explained:

“They're getting excited across the room there, which tends to happen on election night.”

But only, of course, when the Democrats are winning. After all, this is the network that just recently misreported a would-be bombshell that wasn't, wrongly pointing toward President Trump's collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential race; this is the network whose Brian Stelter related being anti-Trump to being "pro-honesty," "pro-decency," and "pro-truth;" this is the organization that celebrated, "Let Hillary Clinton Roar." In those familiar words of James Earle Jones, "This is CNN."