See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
Sometimes, the jokes and stories write themselves, folks. On Monday morning’s MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle turned to none other than fake news anchor Dan Rather to decry President Trump’s tweet calling for a “FAKE NEWS TROPHY” and smugly defend the news media as the one “red beating heart of freedom and democracy.”
Ruhle returned from a commercial break to bewail “President Trump taking a direct aim at American journalists” and quote his tweet about the faux trophy contest between all the networks except Fox News for which “is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me).”