“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  judgment.’  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.
                            ‘It’s  so disappointing to look at what we’re seeing from right-wing media these days,  where there’s such an obsession with the deep state and these revelations about  the Russia probe and the decision about Michael Flynn,’ the  human Weeble groused. ‘They’re treating the Michael Flynn story  like it a bigger deal than the deaths of 2,000 Americans a day.’
                            Continuing  his sermon, Stelter chastised FOX for asking the President  about a developing story ‘for 20 minutes before he was asked about the  pandemic.’
                            Curiously,  Brian never did talk about the Flynn case in any meaningful way on his own  show, nor did he mention the talking heads, many of whom are colleagues on the  payroll at CNN, who spent the last 3 years knowingly lying to their audience  while testifying to the exact opposite in private. 
                            You’d think a guy who rests  the homemade crown journalistic sanctimony on his pointy head would be  interested in the news that his profession and employer have been soiling their  audience with falsehoods would rate a segment on a show about the media, maybe  even wrestle with the concept of accountability for those who lied. 
                            You’d be  wrong.
                            So  what did the Potato dedicate limited and precious air time to instead? He did  an interview segment with a mother who, along with her 2 daughters, discovered  how use WordPress and started a blog during quarantine. I kid you not. 
                            After starting his show lamenting  how anyone in media would ask the President about major developments in a story  that has dominated his entire administration while people are dying, Stelter  did a puff piece about people blogging about their families.
                            Did  no one on staff, and there are a lot of people, notice the disconnect?
                            Down  the dial, and a couple of hours earlier, Meet the Press ran another dishonest  smear against Attorney General Bill Barr. Host Chuck Todd showed a clip of Barr  speaking Friday with CBS News saying, ‘history is written by the winners so it  largely depends on who’s writing the history,’ when asked how the DoJ’s  decision to drop the Flynn case would be viewed by history.
                            The  Ginger Avenger was indignant ‘by the cynicism of the answer,’ telling the MtP  audience, ‘He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. It  was almost admitting that, ‘Yeah, this is a political job.’’
                            The  only problem is if Chucky has played another 10 seconds of the Barr clip he  would’ve heard exactly what he claimed wasn’t said. ‘But I think a fair history  would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It upheld  the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice,’  Barr continued in the whole clip.
                            The  clip of Barr wasn’t tossed on the cutting room floor, it was broadcast in its  entirety on CBS News. You had to stop the tape in order not to see it.
                            So  why did Todd stop the cut he used where he did? There are only 2 options: he’s  either lazy or a liar. If he’s lazy, a producer brought him the cut and he  expressed no curiosity about what Barr said immediately after and had no  interest in the context. The other option is he knew and didn’t care, his  narrative was fed with the partial clip, the whole story was just an  inconvenience.
                            Meet  the Press, not Chuck Todd, offered something masquerading as an apology…10  hours later. 
                            
                              ‘Earlier today, we [cough] inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a  video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and  analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney  general that we missed, and we regret the error,’ they  said on the show’s Twitter feed.”
                            
                             
                          
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