Conservative commentator Mark Steyn weighs in on the controversial decision by CNN to withhold the real life identity of a Reddit user who created the Trump-CNN wrestling gif if he apologized for his history of racism on the internet.



"A major news organization is policing some no-name schlub's internet content and threatening to reveal his identity if he transgresses their particular standards. That's completely nuts," Steyn told Tucker Carlson on his FOX News program Wednesday evening.



"Wolf Blitzer has basically put a horse's head in this guy's bed," Steyn remarked.



"I don't know how this happened. CNN was like the world's most boring cable network just a month ago. Now, it's behaving more and more nuttingly each day," he also said.



"This guy got the message," Steyn said of CNN's decision to hold back on his name. "He understands that CNN is watching him. So that if he were to make another anti-CNN gif, another anti-CNN tweet then they would release the fact that he has a $500 lien on his home for unpaid property taxes or that his car was seen last Tuesday night parked outside Madame Fifi's bondage parlor."



"This is a ridiculous way for a news organization to behave," he added.



"The idea that reworking a joke that everyone knows is a joke is a threat to Chris Cuomo's safety is the most narcissistic, solipsistic act of navel-gazing by a profession that is already so self-obsessed nobody who isn't in the media can stand the media," Steyn finished.