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Are They Stupid Or Do They Just Think That We Are?
Derek Hunter
Journalists have long held their audiences in contempt. Not active contempt of the hatred variety, but condescending contempt – the belief that we’re all so far beneath them as to be insignificant and unworthy of their genius. They’re better than us, just ask them. That attitude was on full display over the weekend on Meet the Press and the ironically named “Reliable Sources,†when the personalities that host those shows committed arrogant and hypocritical frauds on their audiences that can only happen when you’re marinated in the ignorance of your own body odor.
Brian Stelter, the talentless Democratic Party mouthpiece with a face for radio and a voice for print, started his show with a lecture about priorities and “news judgement.†Stelter’s show, “Reliable Sources,†usually contains more clips of Fox News than original content or independent thought, and this week was no different. Where he usually whines about what was said, this monologue was about what wasn’t, or at least what wasn’t said soon enough.
Choking back tears less sincere than OJ shed over Nicole’s murder, Stelter was angry that Fox & Friends dared ask President Donald Trump Friday about the Department of Justice moving to dismiss the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn before asking him about the coronavirus pandemic. The Flynn news had just broken the day before, along with the release of transcripts Democrats kept hidden from the public showing Obama administration officials were telling Congress the exact opposite of what they were saying on cable news because one venue offered large paychecks for bombast and narrative-feeding and the other charges of perjury.
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