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CNN media hack and host of the inaccurately named program “Reliable Sources”, Brian Stelter drew a lot of flak last week when he came out in defense of the Democratic National Committee’s ban on allowing Fox News to host debates for them. Then, during his show on Sunday, Stelter flashed his deep-seated hatred for his more highly rated competitor when he expressed confusion as to why D.C. reporters were stand up in solitary with Fox News.
Towards the end of the program’s A-block, which was dedicated to his unhealthy obsession with Fox News, Stelter was pitching a question to a guest when he shared his bewilderment.
First Stelter claimed he would support Fox News if they had a reporter banned from the White House as CNN did, and Fox News backed them up on. But then he slipped in his qualifier for not supporting them now: “Fox's fight is with the DNC, not the media. (… ) So many D.C. reporters were coming out supporting Fox, taking Jeff’s view, right, about out and going on Fox. There was a kind of -- I don't know what that was about.”
What?! Fox News is part of the media and they’re being banned by a major political organization. If it was the GOP banning CNN, he and his network would be calling it an “attack” on the First Amendment and claim it was putting their lives in danger.
But Stelter’s not fooling anyone. That fact that he’s not afraid to call Fox News “state-run TV” and encourages it from his guests proves it’s unlikely he’d defend them on anything. That’s not to mention his near-constant railing against them. It’s clearly a political fight for him and CNN.
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