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CNN host Brian Stelter really earned his ‘ridiculous figure’ moniker during Sunday’s edition of the so-called Reliable Sources, after he began his show by with a monologue asking if journalists should start questioning President Trump’s sanity and views on race. “Now, this is not a normal week so this is not a normal show,” he declared. “President Trump's actions and inactions in the wake of Charlottesville are provoking some uncomfortable conversations, mostly off the air if we're being honest.”
Stelter asserted that questions about Trump’s sanity and attitude towards race were happening in homes across the country and across everyone’s social media. He then admitted that the liberal media were asking the same questions, but not how you would expect them to be.
“These conversations are happening in news rooms and T.V. studios as well. It’s usually after the microphones are off, of after the stories been filed, after the paper has been put to bed, people’s concerns and fears and questions come out,” he claimed. “Questions that often feel out of bounds, off limits, too hot for TV.”
But Stelter was being far from honest. Although he claims that such questions were “out of bounds, off limits, and too hot for TV,” they’re not because his colleagues have been pushing them since before Trump was elected. They have even been pushed in front of Stelter on his own show several times and on CNN. He even hyped a Democrat bill that would require Trump to get a mental evaluation.
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