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Since the so-called “fact first” Cable News Network was busy ignoring the bombshell report from Special Counsel John Durham finding evidence the Clinton campaign was spying on then-President Trump, they needed to fill their airtime with SOMETHING. That’s why they called up chief media reporter Brian Stelter to defend Whoopi Goldberg (stage name) and suggested it was the “wrong answer” for ABC to suspended her from The View over their anti-Semitic comments about the Holocaust.
After host Kate Bolduan played a soundbite of Whoopi announcing her return on The View earlier that hour, she brought on Stelter and wondered: “What else did she say and what did you think of this return?”
Stelter found it notable that “she didn't say anything specifically about her suspension or why she was suspended in the first place.” But he then pivoted to defending her, suggesting she was having the correct conversation at the time. “The context for this was the conversation about Maus, the comic about the Holocaust,” he argued.
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