CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was up in arms during Sunday’s Reliable Sources as he ranted about how the release of Nunes memo was a win for Fox News, more specifically Sean Hannity, and all the people in conservative media trying to create what he called an “alternative reality.”

Stelter began the show with a twist on his usual lead-in loaded with hollow catchphrases: "This is Reliable Sources, our weekly look at the story behind the story, of how the media really works, how the news gets made. And this week, how misinformation gets made. The right unleashed its version of Fire and Fury this week." It was rather odd that he would try to discredit the bombshell memo with Michael Wolff’s book since his network welcomed it with great fanfare and glorification for days on end.

“Let's be honest. This week, Sean Hannity won. And the rest of America lost,” Stelter ridiculously declared as he suggested that Hannity was in charge of all of conservative media. “They've distracted people about the truth involving Trump's Russia ties and they've done everything possible to destroy faith in Robert Mueller's probe.”

The CNN mouthpiece congratulated Hannity for his hard work in deceiving the American people. “Hannity gave a megaphone to the GOP congressman who said they had a smoking gun memo, proving a deep state conspiracy against Trump,” Stelter whined. “Hannity hyped it night after night after night in January, like a human countdown clock.”

“Now the current in vogue talking point is there is an important investigation going on, but it's not the investigation into Russian interference and election, it's the investigation into the FBI. That's that alternative reality,” Stelter continued to ramble. But he was on his own campaign of confusion by failing to mention that the FBI was actually under investigation for misconduct by their Inspector General’s office.

And it wasn’t just Stelter trying to discredit the Nunes memo as a right-wing fabrication. Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik lamented to his host about how he was “shocked at the traction this Hannity narrative has gotten. And here's what's shocking to me this week,” and tried to write off other serious concerns:

When you see Ron Johnson, the [Republican] senator from Wisconsin, out there talking about, “We have an informant, there's a secret meeting being held off-site.” That's a loop. It goes from Hannity to someone like Johnson and the President and that is gaining real traction in this country.

So according to Zurawik, Senator Johnson invented a non-existent informant on Fox News Chanel’s Special Report because Hannity had talked about the memo on his own show. Now, who’s creating an alternate reality?

The panel’s ire, led by CNN Business reporter Hadas Gold, then turned to Trump’s voters as they chastised them for wanting to create a constitutional crisis while stripping people of their rights:

GOLD: They voted to get these people out of office. So to some people, this might seem horrible– STELTER: You mean the concerns about a constitutional crisis, the concerns about our institutions eroding, it's actually a good thing to his voters? GOLD: To some voters, they wanted him to literally drain the swamp.

Later on in the show, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy slammed Stelter and CNN for acting like a Trump indictment was imminent for over a year without “one piece of evidence of collusion or a crime involving the President or his associates involving their campaign.”

“I think you're painting with a really broad brush when you say all of CNN has been doing something,” Stelter said, effectively generating his own alternate reality.

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click expand to read: