Editor's Note, 8:28 p.m. Eastern: Late Tuesday afternoon, Playboy admitted in a tweet that Karem is also at the White House as their correspondent. “Yes, that’s Playboy’s White House Correspondent @briankarem, having his 'Network’ moment—and giving 'em hell,” it wrote. So, take from that what you will.

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An anti-Trump journalist on Tuesday suffered a total meltdown, screaming at Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Brian J. Karem, a reporter for a local Maryland paper The Sentinel, lost it after Sanders fought back against a “barrage of fake news.” Sanders lectured the assembled journalists: “If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off, it is just an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room. But news outlets get to go on, day after day, and cite unnamed sources.”

Karem, who wasn’t called on, interrupted and yelled, “Come on! You're inflaming everybody right here right now with those words!” He exploded, “You're here to provide the answers and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country...”

Apparently dismissing the concept of media bias, Karem complimented the other journalists in the room: “Everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.”

Sanders quickly shut Karem down:

First of all, I think if anything has been inflamed, it's the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media and I think it is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to his question.

Earlier in the briefing, Sanders offered another complaint about liberal journalists:

Things like the success at the VA barely get covered. They may get covered for an hour at a time, but this story gets covered day in, day out, and I think America is frankly looking for something better. They're looking for something more. And I think they deserve something better from our news media.



A transcript is below: