Wow, S.E. Cupp actually got CNN’s wannabe media critic Brian Stelter to admit that he’s just gonna let the Parkland kids lie all the time about guns, because what the hell why not? As long as they’re leftwing, he’s good.
From los Newsbusteros:
Stelter’s admission came after host S.E. Cupp questioned him about the wisdom of the media’s obsession with elevating only the kids pushing gun control. “Brian, we as a business have been giving these kids a lot of coverage. All the networks have in some way or another,” she explained, noting boringness of nuanced policy. “But the policies is the tough part. Do you think in showing these kids so often, as often as we all do, we’re doing actually them a disservice because the policy is actually what’s going to change this?”
And with no sort of trickery from Cupp, Stelter just blurted out that he let the gun control advocate get away with lying to CNN’s viewers. “A disservice is a strong word, but when I was interviewing David Hogg only ten days after the massacre, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and say let’s correct that fact,” he said.
Cupp immediately wanted to know if Stelter ever corrected the record. According to Stelter, he let most of the lies stand as truth and just tried to make excuses. “And at one of the times I did and other times I did not. There’s always that balance, how many times you’re going to interrupt,” he argued. A blatant double standard that would not fly if Hogg was from the right or someone on Fox News.
Mind you, this is like, his effing JOB – he purposely goes after media figures who lie and exaggerate, like Sean Hannity, but here he is admitting he does it too.
And here’s his absurd excuse:
Stelter then tried to defend Hogg’s misinformation by speaking positively for his passion for the issue, but in the process spewed his own lies about gun violence. “I think we have to recognize where David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are coming from. There has been an increase in the lethality of mass shootings in recent years in this country. The so-called top ten list of horrors is very, very ugly and very recent,” he asserted. “I do think they are trying to raise awareness of that.”
Notice how careful he is with his words – it’s not that there are more shootings or more dead by shootings, it’s in the “lethality” of shootings. Well that can be measured in all sorts of ways, but in fact, gun crime is down.
And the idiot wonders why no one believes CNN.
Here’s the video: