***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters***
The liberal media have been itching to pin a death of a journalist on President Trump given his tough words and criticism for the American political press. And with the apparent murder, and reported dismemberment, of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi Arabia, there were a few members of the liberal media looking to exploit it. One such person was CNN media reporter Brian Stelter.
In the midst of interviewing Washington Post editorial editor Fred Hiatt about Khashoggi and his disappearance, Stelter wanted to know if Hiatt felt that Trump had something to do with the murder. “I wonder if you look at what’s happened in the last 12 day, and you wonder if ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric,” he asked noting that such rhetoric also came from the world’s dictators.
But Hiatt didn’t take Stelter’s bait. The Washington Post editor told his host that when looking at an “actual crime” it was important “to keep focused on the actual criminal.” “And you know, The Washington Post, we’re very focused saying, ‘we have to get the facts and then there has to be accountability and there has to be consequences,’” he added.
(...)