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It’s no secret CNN has a great disdain for Fox News and right-wing media in general, so it was no surprise that during Sunday’s so-called Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and his panel (made up of largely liberal and anti-Trump commentators) blamed both for the political violence and death from the past few days. Only one, the Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis, dared to admit that blame for the super-heated rhetoric, hate, and violence belonged on all sides and called out the cable news hate machine.
The program began with Stelter touting the good people trying to comfort and give aid to those touched by the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “But then there are these darker forces as well,” he warned. “We have to look closely at the poison being spread sometimes on television, sometimes out of the mouths of political leaders and oftentimes on ugly, dark corners of social media.”
Soon after, Stelter drew viewers’ attention to internet posts the shooter made and tried to tie it to right-wing media:
He posted, “I noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’, that now say ‘invaders’. I like this.” What’s he talking about there? He's talking about the migrant caravan. He’s talking about the migrant caravan portrayed by far right-wing media as an invasion.
The first panelist Stelter called on was Weekly Standard founder and anti-Trumper Bill Kristol who railed against Fox News helping to cause the shooting with their “their coverage of the caravan and the danger of these immigrants.” “I'm blaming the management of Fox and the investors in Fox and some of the other talent who are decent people at Fox for saying nothing,” he decried.
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