[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 21 September 2014 edition of Reliable Sources, CNN's Brian Stelter touted a disgraced former politician as a non-partisan pundit and as an expert on media bias: "Now, I could bring in two partisan commentators now to argue about the media, but I'd rather from someone who's been in the glare of the news media – someone who's all too familiar with what happens when you go from darling to bad boy – then, maybe, back and forth. That's former Congressman Anthony Weiner."
Weiner went out of his way to hype CNN's supposed neutrality over competitors MSNBC and Fox News:
ANTHONY WEINER: I kind of think that the media is like a Rorschach test for consumers, right? They can find whatever viewpoint they want – easier than ever. They can just go to Fox for conservative; maybe go to MSNBC for liberal. Be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth. But the fact is that it's become – the media and politics have almost become interwoven in people's minds in a lot of ways – that, you know, if they think the thing isn't on the level, they're likely to think it just as much about politicians as they are about the media – and that's something interesting.