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In kicking off Sunday’s un-Reliable Sources, host and liberal hack Brian Stelter tried to distract from the corrupt FBI officials exposed via the revelations in the General Michael Flynn case by suggesting: “right-wing” coverage of the case was an attempt to “downplay” and “normalize” the massive death toll from the Chinese Coronavirus.
“The data is important. The numbers are important. The death toll isn’t something that just -- be -- downplayed, it’s not something we can hide from, even if it is gut-wrenching to hear about every day,” he lamented, as he pretended as though he was unable to find the word “downplay.”
After comparing the tragic death toll from the virus to a daily Hurricane Katrina or daily 9/11, Stelter declared that “It's so disappointing to look at what we're seeing from right-wing media these days, where there's such an obsession with the deep state and these revelations about the Russia probe and the decision about Michael Flynn.”
Clearly peddling unsubstantiated hyperbole, he insisted: “They're treating the Michael Flynn story like it a bigger deal than the deaths of 2,000 Americans a day.” Of course, he blamed it all on his favorite hate object: Fox News.
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