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With Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh newly sworn into the Supreme Court, CNN host S.E. Cupp wanted to discuss how “the media has played a starring role” in tearing down the Judge during her Unfiltered program. CNN media reporter Brain Stelter joined her Saturday evening where they defending the media’s antics and downplayed their anti-Kavanaugh fervor as simple “sloppiness”.
“[F]rom capturing that elevator confrontation on video for all of us to see, to grilling Senators, even revealing their own stories every sexual assault in numerous cases,” Cupp touted the liberal media smear machine as she introduced Stelter. “Let's start with the obvious question, was the media biased against Judge Kavanaugh?”
According to Stelter, there were very few journalists actually smearing Kavanaugh but more partisan commentators were. “I think the weight of that commentary made it seem like there was a big chunk of the media out to get him, out to take down his nomination,” he suggested, downplaying the truth. “I don't think editors and bosses in newsrooms were trying to tank his nomination, but there were a lot of individual journalists who were really disturbed by the allegations.”
Of course there were more commentators than journalist tearing down Kavanaugh, that’s because those people the liberal media claimed were journalists were actually politically-invested commentators. If what Stelter suggested was true, then there were very few (if any) journalists at CNN at all. All one needed to do to realize that was to go see what their coverage was like. CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon spent most nights commiserating and assailing the Judge with lies.
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