It’s no secret CNN has a great disdain for Fox News and right-wing media in general, so it was no surprise that during Sunday’s so-called Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and his panel (made up of largely liberal and anti-Trump commentators) blamed both for the political violence and death from the past few days.

Only one, the Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis, dared to admit that blame for the super-heated rhetoric, hate, and violence belonged on all sides and called out the cable news hate machine.

The program began with Stelter touting the good people trying to comfort and give aid to those touched by the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “But then there are these darker forces as well,” he warned. “We have to look closely at the poison being spread sometimes on television, sometimes out of the mouths of political leaders and oftentimes on ugly, dark corners of social media.”

Soon after, Stelter drew viewers’ attention to internet posts the shooter made and tried to tie it to right-wing media:

He posted, “I noticed a change in people saying ‘illegals’, that now say ‘invaders’. I like this.” What’s he talking about there? He's talking about the migrant caravan. He’s talking about the migrant caravan portrayed by far right-wing media as an invasion.

The first panelist Stelter called on was Weekly Standard founder and anti-Trumper Bill Kristol who railed against Fox News helping to cause the shooting with their “their coverage of the caravan and the danger of these immigrants.” “I'm blaming the management of Fox and the investors in Fox and some of the other talent who are decent people at Fox for saying nothing,” he decried.

“Can we talk about the fact he's helped create an environment that made this possible,” Kristol chided the President as he ripped into right-wing media in general as non-conservative.

Stelter then turned to Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan and praised her analysis of the Democratic bombing targets from last week, disgustingly suggesting it “reads like a list of Sean Hannity’s pre-broadcast crib notes.” After Stelter asked her point-blank if she blamed people on the right like Hannity for the violence, she said we needed to call like it was:

SULLIVAN: Well, I think they have a share of sort of this revving up of hatred without regard for what its affect might be and without much regard for the truth. I mean the way things are being pitched on Fox and in pro-Trump right-wing media is dangerous, and it's destructive. So I think we need to call it what it is.

The only one to deviate from the anti-right talking points was The Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis who balled them up and threw them in the trash. “We have a megaphone and we're all responsible for helping create and foster what is a very toxic, political environment right now,” he argued.

Lewis called out politicians and cable news who had “perverse incentives” to “gin up anger and anxiety and passion for ratings” and for elections. “Same thing with websites, with clicks and tweets,” he added.

“The only thing I would add is, tomorrow it could be Sean Hannity who is targeted or a Republican congressman who is targeted,” Lewis worried possibly citing the panel’s focus on Hannity. “I think all the cable networks engage in this sort of fostering this anger and this toxic environment.”

Stelter didn’t want to hear it and asked Lewis if he was drawing a “false equivalency between Fox and others?” “No, I don't think it's a false equivalency. I think that it is an equivalency,” Lewis declared before tearing into the media again:

I think we have a pervasive problem that has to do with our politicians who have perverse incentives to gin up anger and a toxic environment. And I think we have a media environment that needs ratings. Cable new is very toxic.

“I do think that in this case there's a problem on both sides. We had a Republican congressman a year ago who was shot. This is a problem. This could happen tomorrow to a Republican politician,” Lewis cautioned.

Stelter might argue that he didn’t accuse Fox News directly, but the focus of the conversation was on Fox and their host. Stelter kept it on track, had tweets about Fox News queued, and named no other right-wing media outlet.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: