Fired Brian Stelter Now Rehired as CNN Gives Up On Trying to Be Objective, with Glenn Greenwald

on the subject of Russia Russia Russia Russia guess who CNN just hired back the hall monitor Brian stelter's going back to CNN because CNN apparently looked at its dumpster fire ratings and thought to itself H what would be the solution to this I've got it Mr Potato Head that's what people called him Mr Potato Head what movie is that from name that movie audience members email me Megan Megan kelly.com Mr potatoe head anyway here is I guess why they look back fondly and thought we want yeah we want Brian stelter for this critical period in American history some of his Greatest Hits right here Trump might have committed treason you say the president is using mind control what does Putin have on Trump the US president possibly working for the Russians is President Trump a racist is the Trump presidency a criminal presidency there's no way to tweet yourself out of impeachment impeachment impeachment impeachment impeachment uh what I hear on Fox is that the media is obsessed about impeachment impeachment impeachment impeachment impeachment impeachment entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden d a Milbank cares his column for the post this weekend and he says he has data to show that the Press has turned more negative against Biden than the Press was against Trump what do you think about that Trump and some of his allies are promoting a hate movement against the American press all right so he's back which I really see as a clear Surrender by CNN to its year and a half long mission of trying to convince us they had gone back to straight news middle of the road reporting it was in the context of that goal that he was fired to begin with Glenn yeah but before I say that I just want to use this opportunity to recall one of the funniest things ever to happen in Media news which was CNN decided that even though nobody was watching their Network that it would be a good idea to create a CNN plus streaming service where for people were forced to pay to watch the very people that no one wanted to watch for free and then it opened and 21 days later it closed and died because nobody had any interest in it and that was the Brian stelter era but what you said is so important which is that one of the reasons CNN has way even less viewership than MSNBC let alone Fox is because it's like an MSNBC light version that kind of pretends to be neutral but everyone knows it's not that's why even step kar's audience laughed at the idea that there was something objective about CNN and as you say when Executives decided what can we do to save CNN to make people watch it again oh we have to get rid of the perception that it's a purely partisan Network and they had so many people to choose from who are pure partisans but even at CNN Brian stelter stood out as an obsessive DNC anti-trump hack and that was why he ended up getting fired and as you say I guess they figure well it doesn't really work that way either so why not just bring him back and I think obviously part of it is to bring him back before the election as well to let him do his constant drum beat of criticizing the media for somehow being insufficiently uh Pro comma and anti-trump this he's never been a journalist he's never been a journalist all he's been is a little critic a little armchair critic who wants to be taken seriously and now you've got CNN's current CEO Mark Thompson from The New York Times who says I'm very happy to welcome Brian back to CNN in this new role Brian is one of the best Global experts in media commentary he is Mark did you ever actually watch Brian here's the thing he probably did but since he was at the New York Times he was like yes nailed it again you go guy and when he got to see and he said you know we're missing we're missing that important objective voice of Brian stelter and now he's been brought back and what he says is I've changed a lot I'm thrilled that I'm returning as the lead author of CNN's reliable sources newsletter the media industry has matured CNN has evolved I'm quoting here and I have changed a lot I've changed my habits and tuned out for a bit he says he moved to a farm uh I've changed my vantage point going from Manhattan to a horse farm near one of Donald Trump's golf clubs that makes you fair and balanced you see I can see his golf club from my house I experiened the news more like an everyday consumer and in doing so I learned a whole lot I'm looking forward to sharing what I learned with you and so now we will see whether Brian stelter is going to try to convince us that he is now Fair and open-minded and and sees Donald Trump and his supporters as something other than what he said for all those years which was very different than what CNN wants to believe it's you know saying right now we're gonna get the rural farming Brian stelter he's goingon to show up like in a cowboy hat and he's gonna give up his suit for something like corduroy jeans and plaid shirts really excited to see that I'm sure that's going to come off very a atically the problem is in all these Life Changes these profound life changes that Brian stelter made one of the things he forgot to do was to stop sitting on Twitter and commenting all day long so if anyone can show me a single change between anything Brian Stalter now thinks and anything he thought before I would defy anyone to do so the thing that always amazed me Megan is that just to show you how much of a alternative Universe people in media are of living in I promise you this really is true that when you look at what are called the top media critics the self and it's true like where did Brian stelter ever get his credentials to talk about journalism he's never reported on anything he's wrote little media essays and mostly it's to complain about Fox News but their Central View and it's I know it's shocking for people to hear that it really but I'm not I'm not exaggerating their real core belief is that the biggest failure of the media is that they don't do enough to show people the evil of the Republican party and the benevolence of the democratic party they just on the ground set Democrats are so objectively better that the if you want to be an objective journalist you have to go on the air every day and only focus on promoting the Democratic party and the Republic and bashing the Republican party that Brian stelter is one of the leaders of that philosophy a term I'll use very Loosely and there's nothing that's changed about it as evidence by his daily Twitter feed from his farm I know that you were calling attention to I mean it's so hard to pick but one interview he did with Jens saki uh in his role and of course she was with the Biden white house before she went over to MSNBC and I don't know was this do you remember where where this was in her in her path whether she was still at the White House where was this she was the pre she was the she was the press secretary for the Biden White House it was maybe like three or four months into her tenure and Brian stelter got one of the first interviews with her so he had the opportunity to question the representative of the president of the United States on anything he wanted to ask okay we have and we have a little bit CED up of where he went with that watch what does the Press get wrong when covering Biden's agenda when you watch the news when you read the news what do you think we get wrong so I want to know what the job is like versus what you expect it to be like more more likely the things that get under my skin are when a question the premise of a question is based in inaccurate information misleading information uh that can be frustrating I know a lot of liberals don't want Fox News to get called on I think they should be but I know a lot of liberals a lot of Democrats don't want it so why do you call on Fox News and Newsmax for journalists who watch what you do what's your advice for them about trying to stay close to the truth in this world of Lies I know this is often serial but it also has to be functional is the relationship between the White House and the Press Corp now at least functional in ways it wasn't in the Trump years I think so yeah do you there's Dora the Explorer that's who she reminds me of to dance the kitty cat dance we need to scratch our Kitty paws stomp our feet and wag our kitty Tails now we got the mermaid free yay yeah we'll show you the clip but she's a but she's lying unlike Dora she's lying and that's his tough cross-examination so he treated her as though she were the same kind of highlevel expert on journalism as he was like critique the Press when her whole life has been serving as a spokesperson for the US government which everyone knows is not a job or you're supposed to tell the truth it's supposed to be what you spin on behalf of the government but the worst thing Megan and I found it so creepy at the time was that that first question was basically saying to her please please Jen tell us how it is that we can better serve you what is it that we're doing that's insufficient to advance the interest of the Biden White House what are you angry us with with us about and even she was kind of uncomfortable with that question like I don't really think I should be telling you how better to behave it was it was such a obsequious kind of creepy I want to Almost Say psychosexual attempt to create this dynamic between him and her where she got to lecture him and again you're a journalist uh at least in theory being able to question the spokesperson for the most powerful politician on the planet and that is what you spend your time doing please tell us how we can better serve you how we can better behave but before I forget I want to mention that that clip of stelter was put together by NewsBusters so good on them he also asked her uh do you ever worry like I do about how the GOP is ruining the country and I think to myself what what kind of country is this going to be when they are our 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