Following a week where the liberal media suffered an arguably crippling blow to their credibility by the Special Counsel investigation finding no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN offered little reflection on their role in pushing and generating fake news and conspiracy theories. And during their program dedicated to the worshiping the media, so-called Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter once again obsessed about what Fox News was doing and how the network was called out his colleagues.

Shortly after Stelter brought on CNN global affairs analyst and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser complain even more about Fox News’s reporting on the media’s collusion conspiracy snafu. Or as they called it: the “anti-journalism” message.

Of course, Stelter had to bring up Trump’s personal relationships with Fox News prime time hosts, acting as though it was completely unprecedented. “But the existence of Fox as a repeater of his narrative, over and over again, I think those clip I was playing in the intro underscore how powerful it is for him, that he has the megaphone,” he decried.

There was no mention of how the Obama administration worked with and hired from friendly media outlets, or the CNN folks caught parting it up with accused shakedown artist Michael Avenatti, or the recent case of an NBC editor intimidating a reporter on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.

“He fills in as a Fox News PR person. He really does,” Stelter added. But that was false. There was no evidence the President had ever or “really does” fill-in for any PR person that works for Fox News. So much for “facts first”.

Stelter’s real concern about Fox News? How their reporting about the liberal media’s massive two-year screw-up was hurting the media’s credibility. “Do you think with these anti-media, anti-journalism messages coming out of Fox's prime time line up every day to 3 to 5 million people, is it doing damage to the press's credibility,” he asked Glasser.

“No question,” Glasser blurted out before admitting that slide predated the President. “Conflating investigative journalists with idiot resistance tweeters is a time-honored tactic of the President’s media allies. It’s cynical. It's ridiculous but effective for them,” Stelter proclaimed, offering no clarification on who those idiots were.

It’s no surprise these liberal media talking heads refused to take responsibility for their politically motivated and overzealous reporting. Just looking back at the last week, we can see why the media’s credibility was in the toilet. Throughout the week, CNN’s own prime time hosts continuously pushed the debunked conspiracy that the President was a Russian agent.

Those conspiracy theories also flourished on the broadcast networks were ABC seemed to suggest Attorney General William Barr was lying in his summary letter of the investigation’s findings. And shortly before Stelter’s show, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator, Chuck Todd claimed Trump was only “technically exonerated of a crime.”

So, clearly, Fox News was to blame.

Shortly after pivoting to whining about Fox News, to begin with, Stelter made hay out of an innocent chyron error where Fox News that morning had an on-screen headline read: “Trump cuts U.S. aid to three Mexican countries”, instead of Central American countries.

“The network apologized several hours later, said the banner never should have appeared. Obviously, that's the case. But I don't know what is going on over there,” Stelter literally huffed (pictured above).

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