Holy crap on a cracker. We’ve always known Brian Stelter was a hack, but this level of shameless sycophancy is appalling, even for him.
As Twitchy told you, during his self-aggrandizing midterm campaigning speech today, Barack Obama actually said this:
"I complained plenty about Fox News. But you never heard me threaten to shut them down. Or call them enemies of the people," former Pres. Obama says. https://t.co/aWVh9wX5Fe pic.twitter.com/TUFe5UZziZ
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 7, 2018
Pretty ballsy statement coming from the president who used his DOJ to spy on journalists.
"I complained plenty about Fox News, but I never threatened to shut them down," -Obama, but he did have his Justice Department spy on them, in addition to the AP. Oh, and named a reporter as a criminal co-conspirator
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
Reminder: Obama's administration prosecuted more journalist sources than any other administration combined
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 7, 2018
But CNN’s Brian Stelter is evidently not only content to ignore that fact; he’s openly praising Obama as some kind of truth warrior:
Obama telling the truth about his media criticism versus Trump's criticism: "I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them enemies of the people."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 7, 2018
Shorter Stelter: Thank you, sir! May I have another?
Holy crap. https://t.co/J558BmZDHB
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) September 7, 2018
Yeah, all he did was tap their phones. https://t.co/pTXb8PHaU2
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) September 7, 2018
"I only tapped their phones." https://t.co/uAveHX6k4T
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) September 7, 2018
— Dan Hecht Blockchain (@hecht_dan) September 7, 2018
He and his subordinates said Fox was not a news organization and tried to shut them out of WH events, leading to a backlash from the rest of the WH press corps and leading to the Axelrod-Ailes peace summit. https://t.co/uNeiBQ6mMY
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) September 7, 2018
Oh for God's sake, have a clue Brian. James Rosen, Sharyl Attkisson would beg to differ.
— Eileen (@CatDogPerson) September 7, 2018
"When Fox News's State Department correspondent, James Rosen, reported accurate information about North Korea leaked by a member of the Obama State Department, Eric Holder ordered his movements to be tracked, his phone records seized …"
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2018
You can't be serious. The Obama admin tried to exclude Fox News from interviews and named James Rosen as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job.
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) September 7, 2018
Remember when Brian Stelter kinda cared about that stuff?
Do you even read your old stuff anymore Brian?https://t.co/kpo7rRFduC
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) September 7, 2018
I don't know where we go from here. Please click the link so you understand why the below Tweet is horrible. https://t.co/AAlM8Q15Fg https://t.co/uHFoGKXute
— Nathan the Wurtzelhearted (@NathanWurtzel) September 7, 2018
.@BrianStelter meet Brian Stelter pic.twitter.com/UG580iuK3z
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 7, 2018
Brian Stelter in 2009 fact-checking Brian Stelter in 2018 is amazing stuff.
— Nathan the Wurtzelhearted (@NathanWurtzel) September 7, 2018
Once he was drafted into CNN's war on Fox things took quite a turn https://t.co/gr3FADCDKw
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) September 7, 2018
If there’s a bigger hack in media right now than Brian Stelter, you’d be hard-pressed to find one.
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