This week’s Liberal Media Scream features one of the craziest claims yet by the anti-President Trump press corps — that there aren’t any media outlets dedicated to “tearing down Trump.”
It came on CNN during a discussion of the anti-Joe Biden theme on some conservative radio shows, especially the bigs: Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.
During his Sunday show, Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, asked: “Is there an equivalent to that on the left, tearing down Trump?” His guest, Errin Haines, editor-at-large of the news site the 19th, answered, “There really isn’t.”
The exchange came after Stelter played audio clips from Limbaugh, Levin, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Savage. “Vile Anti-Biden Rhetoric On Right-Wing Talk Radio” was displayed on the screen.
Brian Stelter: “Errin, your view of this, when you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left, tearing down Trump?”
Errin Haines: “There really isn’t. And, you know, what I would say is it’s really a diet of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting. A lot of the voters that I talk to, I can — when I interview them, I do hear them saying a lot of the talking points that sound very familiar from some of these shows, which I try to listen to when I’m out on the campaign trail or when I’m home watching TV. You can hear these comments being echoed by voters. You know that this is the diet that they’re on: AM radio, conservative talk. Also, social media.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Stelter has become a parody of himself with this unintentionally, very funny exchange, which so well displayed his total lack of basic self-awareness. On a show dedicated every week to denouncing President Trump that airs on a network, which devotes hours every day to denigrating Trump’s policies and character, he seriously wonders if there’s a media outlet as anti-Trump as some radio talk shows are anti-Biden.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
