On Sunday, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo interviewed President Trump for most of her Sunday Morning Futures program about his challenges to the election results in multiple states. This caused an eruption of outrage hours later on CNN’s Reliable Sources, that Bartiromo would give the president softball questioning on such a controversial issue.
The president’s lawyers haven’t been winning in court, and as always, CNN attempted to discredit the competition to maximum effect. CNN host Brian Stelter said Bartiromo was "not a journalist at all." He summarized: "Fundamentally, that is what this is about, destroying trust in the election system. It’s about delegitimizing Biden's presidency."
Wow. No irony, at all. Given the leftist media’s four-year war on the President, and CNN’s own history with the Russia coverage, it is not Fox News that is destroying trust in our election system. CNN's been doing that for years.
Stelter brought on fellow CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy and Amanda Carpenter, a Ted Cruz aide-turned-Bulwark writer and CNN political commentator, who denounced this and Fox News: “They no longer see it as their job to deliver the news, to ask tough questions, but it act as a function of Trump's Republican Party.”
This projecting attack showcases CNN’s need to look in a mirror. Just in the past few months, Stelter has covered up the Hunter Biden scandal, copying Biden’s talking points, and outright praising the ‘peace’ of Biden.
It is laughable that Stelter and his guests are accusing Fox News of being partisan hacks and spreading misinformation given their recent history. Stelter hypocritically lamented Bartiromo’s “fall”: “it's sad that a journalist like Bartiromo, who had a storied career, is now not a journalist at all. She is now on there just teeing up the President to lie to the viewers.”
Carpenter piled on: “This is propaganda. If the RNC, if the Trump campaign produced a commercial, Brian, it would be more constrained by the truth to go on the airwaves than what transpired that hour.” This coming from the network that literally ran chunks of a Michelle Obama "closing argument" for Biden and called it a "news" show. Carpenter also previewed her Fox attack on Twitter:
This is especially ironic, considering that Stelter's weekly show is designed as a softball-fest for liberal journalists as they all agree that Trump is a dangerous menace to democracy and truth. Stelter puts on Dan Rather and always asks him softballs like an indulgent grandson.
A study done by MRC has shown that the media had a big influence on the 2020 election, largely due to them suppressing information. Yet, Carpenter remarked how Fox was damaging people’s trust: “When everyone cowers to [Trump] they give him more air time literally like we saw this morning to question the integrity of the election and destroy trust in government.”
Maybe if CNN could report on the news and not constantly pander to its own liberal audience and their passionate loathing of Trump, their claim that Fox News is "propaganda" would not sound like such a hollow attack.
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BRIAN STELTER: So we are going to blow up our original plan to start this program and bring in two experts who understand the media and understand Fox. Oliver Darcy is CNN's senior media reporter with Amanda Carpenter, CNN commentator and the author of Gaslighting America. So Oliver, I want to try to summarize this interview without repeating the lies that are being spread. Why don't you start off and tell us why this was so disturbing?
OLIVER DARCY: You know, history will not remember people like Maria Bartiromo very well. The interview with Trump, it's an example of why not. I was trying to think of a word that would describe that interview and I don't think there is a word in the English dictionary to describe how reckless and irresponsible and dangerous that in... (Read more)
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