Stelter Tries Jedi Mind Trick on #ExposeCNN Tapes -- 'No There There'

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Stelter Tries Jedi Mind Trick on #ExposeCNN Tapes -- 'No There There'
By Tim Graham | October 19, 2019 11:25 PM EDT

CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter completely dismissed the Project Veritas tapes exposing CNN in a podcast with Charles Sykes of the Trump-hating site The Bulwark. In response to a softball from Sykes 22 minutes into the chat, Stelter touted CNN spokesman Matt Dornic simply tweeting "Yawn" in reaction. "I don't think O'Keefe has published anything surprising or newsworthy," he claimed. "There's no there there to the claims O'Keefe is promoting."

By contrast, Stelter started the interview by trying to claim Shep Smith stepping down from Fox is a "severe blow" to that channel, somehow, because "news has been squeezed out." Even Stelter admits it was one poorly-rated hour in a cable-news day.

Wishful thinking? In every day's ratings, CNN takes a "severe blow" from Fox.

https://www.newsbusters.org/print/248657

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Lincoln once asked: "How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?"  The answer:  Four, since calling a tail leg doesn't make it so.  In Stelter's case, denying the truth doesn't make the truth wrong just because he claims it is.