As Twitchy told you, Ari Fleischer called out the media for their flaming double standard with regard to coordinating messages that advance a particular agenda. Brian Stelter was one of several journalists who took umbrage to Fleischer’s rebuke, telling Fleischer to put down his “broad brush”:
It's actually quite different. The papers are CHOOSING to do it, they have different owners, each is writing its own editorial, etc. And most of the country's papers are NOT participating. Maybe put down your broad brush?
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2018
Stelter’s tut-tutting is obnoxious on its face. But in light of this? It’s even more ridiculous:
Trump and his media boosters live in a hall of mirrors | Analysis by Brian Stelter https://t.co/FD4KOZbdwr pic.twitter.com/2V07ms4xXL
— CNNMoney (@CNNMoney) August 15, 2018
Trump willingly walked into this house of mirrors. In fact, he helped build it. But does he know how to get out? https://t.co/4fGooK6u7w
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2018
Stelter writes:
If you’ve ever been in a Mirror Maze attraction at an amusement park, you’ll know that it’s disorienting and repetitive. You’re seeing the same thing over and over again, but some of the reflections are distorted and confusing, making it difficult to find your way out.
That’s what it’s like to step inside President Trump’s hall of mirrors.
See, Trump’s media cheerleaders repeat what he says, and he relays the message back to them, and the mirror effect continues. You might start to feel dizzy.
Where to even begin? Stelter could just as easily be describing the media’s symbiotic relationship with Barack Obama. Also, the media obsessing over Trump’s awfulness today were the same media who gave him millions upon millions of dollars of free advertising during the election season. One could make a pretty convincing argument that liberal outlets like CNN were making a coordinated effort to ensure that Donald Trump would be the GOP presidential nominee. Talk about dizzying.
But here’s the money tweet:
The pro-Trump media world is often called an "echo chamber." I've never been in one of those. But I HAVE gotten lost in a Mirror Maze, and that's what I see happening here… https://t.co/eVzWbU1pHa
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2018
For a guy who claims to be hyper-aware of what’s happening, Brian Stelter sure seems oblivious to what he’s been up to.
— Jirass (@Jirass) August 15, 2018
Really dude? You and all the other anti- @realDonaldTrump media aren’t in your own echo chamber?
— Tom Chopper (@TomChopper) August 15, 2018
You don’t think you’re in your own echo chamber at @CNN?
— Scott Green (@ScottGreen30) August 15, 2018
You've never been in an echo chamber???? LMAO you work at @cnn!!!!! pic.twitter.com/0Rkxvu2aU4
— Craig (@toughbreak78) August 15, 2018
That’s why they call coastal elites and the Acela Corridor the liberal echo chamber. It really is telling that liberal media can’t see it due to being blinded by their own bias.
— Tim Stoner (@timothystoner) August 15, 2018
Brian the lack of self awareness is uncanny. Bravo, sir.
— hank (@BULLSBEARSBANE) August 15, 2018
Good old Brian should look in a mirror every once in a while. Just sayin
— Independent Stinker (@beauxtx1) August 15, 2018
How unbelievably ironic. Self awareness is a skill @cnn clearly doesn’t screen applicants for.
— Brian – #SkyKing is not forgotten (@BrianTheDoggo) August 15, 2018
Clearly.
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Update:
OMG! It takes just ONE photo to SHATTER Brian Stelter's 'hall of mirrors' hand-wringing https://t.co/wvOoroaUJW
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 15, 2018
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