CNN’s Stelter Demands 'Outrage and Backlash' for Dancing Sean Spicer

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 22, 2019
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With former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer set to cut a rug on the new season of Dancing With the Stars, cue the Trump Derangement Syndrome from the liberal media. CNN media janitor Brian Stelter perfectly encapsulated the media’s over the top reaction during a Thursday afternoon appearance on Right Now with Brianna Keilar, where he called for “outrage and backlash” to the story.

Despite admitting that “there’s many examples of this”, such as George Stephanopoulos bounced from the Clinton White House to eventually become the chief anchor for ABC News, Stelter was still suggesting it as appalling that Spicer and his fellow former Press Secretary Sarah Sanders would get jobs in the media.

NewsBusters had extensively documented the revolving door between the liberal media and Obama administration, yet Stelter continued to push the false CNN narrative that it should be considered unusual for Trump aides to go work at Fox News:

Obviously, Sanders going to Fox is not surprising. There's been a revolving door between Fox and the Trump White House for several years. But it should still be surprising that someone who misled the public and defended a man who calls the press the enemy would land these kinds of jobs.

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