In an energized appearance on the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday to talk about the pompous White House Correspondents Dinner, Westwood One-syndicated talk radio host Chris Plante blasted the liberal media for their hypocrisy in how they covered the Obama and Trump administrations (and considering each regime's record on the First Amendment).

On top of that, he described how he left his job at CNN because they were “tube feeding” lies and deceit to America.

Plante talked about how he grew up in “a media household, a news household,” which taught him to believe and respect the First Amendment and journalism. “It’s one of the reasons I had to leave CNN and journalism, because I really believed in facts. I believe in the truth,” he explained.

He added: “The truth, it's a crazy idea. And the lies that were being tube fed – the American people are being tube fed on a daily basis are truly an outrage. And these are the people that are tube feeding us the lying. You listed several of them, there are many more.”

Circling back around to the WHCD, Plante mocked the liberal media for the ridiculous rewards they give themselves:

Covington Catholic. CNN hilariously was given an honorary mention the other night at the correspondence dinner for their coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. I'm not making this up. They were given honorary mention because they couldn't get it one of the big awards. They were given an honorary mention and the big award went to a Washington Post reporter for reporting the story – and they were talking about how brave he was to report this story Durbin told him about where President Trump used a bad word in a closed-door meeting with adults in a secure room in the White House.

“When Trump is gone, it will be clear that there is nothing left of the media. Really, they have destroyed themselves,” host Tucker Carlson responded.

Earlier in their discussion, Plante reminded viewers of how horrible President Obama was to the press and the First Amendment, despite the media’s infatuation with him. “But for eight years, President Obama racked up what has to be, and what the ACLU described as one of the worst First Amendment records and presidential history,” he said. “The ACLU described him as a terrible First Amendment president, all right. A terrible First Amendment president.”

Plante recalled how the Obama administration tried to force Fox News out of the press pool by denying them interviews and the same access to information as the other news outlets. He also recounted how Obama targeted the Associated Press and a Fox News reporter (click “expand”):

The Obama administration also spied on the Associated Press because there was a leak that they were not happy with. They liked to control their leaks. So, phones used by at least 100 reporters with the Associated Press were taped. The records were – Listened to the conversations, but they got the phone records to see who they’re talking to. The Associated Press called it an unprecedented intrusion, and it was, in fact, an unprecedented intrusion. They spied on James Risen at The New York Times because he reserved a leak. They spied –and phone records and other communications and so on. And at The New York Times and his work and home email and phones were targeted. James Rosen, who you know, formerly of the Fox News Channel now. They spied on – you mentioned— They spied on his parents, who live in New York. They got phone records.

And the media’s response to all that? According to Plante, “for eight years, they cheered him, they toasted him, and they had tears in their eyes and nobody mentioned it.”

The transcript is below, click “expand” to read: