It’s not often that CNN media reporter Brian Stelter is honest about his blatant biases when it comes to politics, just take his assertions about the President’s mental fitness and his denials of making such connections. But during an appearance on the Monday edition of HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, the Reliable Sources host appeared to let it slip that he let radical anti-gun activist David Hogg get away with making false claims about the guns and the NRA during a February 25 interview on his show.

Stelter’s admission came after host S.E. Cupp questioned him about the wisdom of the media’s obsession with elevating only the kids pushing gun control. “Brian, we as a business have been giving these kids a lot of coverage. All the networks have in some way or another,” she explained, noting boringness of nuanced policy. “But the policies is the tough part. Do you think in showing these kids so often, as often as we all do, we're doing actually them a disservice because the policy is actually what's going to change this?”

And with no sort of trickery from Cupp, Stelter just blurted out that he let the gun control advocate get away with lying to CNN’s viewers. “A disservice is a strong word, but when I was interviewing David Hogg only ten days after the massacre, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and say let's correct that fact,” he said.

Cupp immediately wanted to know if Stelter ever corrected the record. According to Stelter, he let most of the lies stand as truth and just tried to make excuses. “And at one of the times I did and other times I did not. There's always that balance, how many times you’re going to interrupt,” he argued. A blatant double standard that would not fly if Hogg was from the right or someone on Fox News.

The only time Stelter could recall correcting the raging anti-gunner was when he claimed NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch was the CEO of the organization. The instance was such low hanging fruit, he was really just picking it up off the ground under the tree. Interesting side note: That interview was conducted with Hogg sitting next to disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather, and he gave the young activist-reporter career advice.

Stelter then tried to defend Hogg’s misinformation by speaking positively for his passion for the issue, but in the process spewed his own lies about gun violence. “I think we have to recognize where David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are coming from. There has been an increase in the lethality of mass shootings in recent years in this country. The so-called top ten list of horrors is very, very ugly and very recent,” he asserted. “I do think they are trying to raise awareness of that.”

But CNN’s own reporting proves that to be false.

According to his network’s own “fast facts” updated on February 19 from its original 2013 publication, three of the top ten deadliest mass shooting in US history occurred pre-Bill Clinton era. And the numbers of people killed in those tragic events were greater than the Parkland shooting.

It’s unclear what about S.E. Cupp Unfiltered throws Stelter off of his game when it comes to hiding his liberal bias, but he has a habit of letting his facade fall away.

During a February 23 appearance, Stelter appeared to openly endorse and defend journalists becoming gun control advocates because all they wanted was to save lives. During Monday’s episode, he even got combative with Cupp because he felt she was discrediting the nationwide gun control rallies by noting they garnered the support of celebrities. “I think that was a cheap shot to say it was about celebrities,” he declared.

CNN and Stelter put a lot of stock into their so-called “#FactsFirst” campaign but when push comes to shove with their side, they’re more than happy to just let the lies slide on by.

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