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Over the weekend, the Biden administration rolled out his Ministry of Truth under the Department of Homeland Security called the Disinformation Governance Board. This clearly Orwellian (1984) machination has rightly been the subject of scrutiny, but on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host and chief media apologist Brian Stelter suggested the real problem was the “right-wing uproar” and how they’re getting angry at something that they don’t have a clue about.
Despite the fact the story appeared on CNN’s State of the Union a couple of hours prior in which host Dana Bash pressed DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the issue, Stelter claimed it was “mostly a Fox-world story.” A fact he had to admit to later.
He was speaking to Moira Whelan of the “non-partisan” National Democratic Institute, who said she was “aware” of the concerns but dismissed them. She insisted “it’s a board, exactly as we say.”
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