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CNN boss Jeff Zucker sent out his liberal media dung-shovelers over the weekend to try to clean up the mess they made by buying into the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory. During Saturday’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp and media correspondent Brian Stelter took to bashing Fox News for boasting about their proper neutral stance for the last two years. At one point, Cupp equated Fox News to a date rape drug and suggested they were knocking people out cover-up the story.
After describing President Trump’s latest criticisms of the fake news media as a “bloodlust”, Cupp seemed to admit, through quotes from other outlets, that the media was invested in an outcome from the Special Counsel investigation:
This from National Review's Rich Lowry, "Rachel Maddow did the left no favors with Trump coverage." From Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, "WMD damaged the media's reputation, Russia gate may have destroyed it." From McKay Coppins in The Atlantic, "The resistance media weren't ready for this." From where you sit, any lessons that we should learn from this?
At the start of his comments, Stelter immediately leapt to create his own definition of “resistance media”. “Well, when we say resistance media, we mean liberal bloggers, commentators, hosts who - you're right, were rooting for an outcome who did want to find proof of an elaborate plot between Trump and Russia,” he claimed.
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