‘You’re nothing but a stooge’: C-SPAN callers go all in on Brian Stelter and trash CNN as ‘the enemy of the truth’ Spencer Neale
One of CNN’s top political commentators sat through a string of frustrated C-SPAN callers during a Tuesday morning segment on the network.
Appearing on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, two separate callers criticized Brian Stelter, decrying his anti-Trump obsession and accusing his home network of obfuscating the news cycle. One caller from Minnesota said Stelter’s new book, Hoax, is propaganda that would be used to divide the nation during unprecedented levels of tension across the political aisle.
“I don’t know if there’s any journalists left at CNN, but I know that if I were to estimate about 300 different distortions or misinformation that we get out of CNN … if you added all that up to 46 months, it comes out to be 300,000-plus distortions of truth,” the caller said. “This is how low you’ll go is that you went out, and you made lies, and you defamed a child, and then, you had to settle out of court to pay this child for distorting information about this young individual.”
“So, I would say, you know, if anything is happening at CNN and anybody who buys your book, it’s really just one of those things that is dividing our nation,” the man continued. “I don’t believe in dividing our nation, it hurts our great nation, so, CNN is really the enemy of the truth.”
Stelter said that he was “grateful” for the caller’s criticism before pivoting and saying that “there’s been a process of radicalization of media bashing that is absolutely unprecedented,” although he did not provide evidence of his claim.
Another caller poked fun at Stelter’s appearance, calling him “Humpty Dumpty” and attacking CNN’s credibility as a news network.
“There’s a couple comments, one about their chyrons that they put underneath while people are watching things, like the other day they put on ‘Fiery but mostly peaceful protests,'” said the caller. “Yeah, laugh there, Humpty Dumpty, we all know you’re not reliable. You’re nothing but a stooge.”
The caller was referencing a now-viral image from August’s riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during which a CNN reporter stood in front of burning buildings while the network’s chyron read, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests.”
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