CNN's Stelter, a non-essential liberal arts dropout doesn't understand federalism

Comedy News Network's Brian Stelter, the man whose head could light up a room, was blasted this weekend for a tweet he posted that displayed his lack of basic understanding of how the United States works.

As required by all CNN non-essential "reporters," President Trump must be attacked for anything and everything. In doing so, Stelter showed his ignorance in grand fashion.

The ignoramus tweeted:

"Admin officials 'say the White House has made a deliberate political calculation that it will better serve Trump’s interest to put the onus on governors — rather than the federal government — to figure out how to move ahead,' Let that quote sink in..." 

If you let it sink in, you see that Stelter is calling for the office of the president to power-grab from the governors of every state and make the federal government all powerful.

The ignorant host of "Reliable Sources," a show pretending to be a fact checker for other media sources, shared his thoughts as a quote from unidentified, anonymous, make-believe "admin officials," but was immediately corrected on social media.

"Yes, the U.S. Constitution is a hundreds-year-long plot to help Trump win re-election. Excellent take," said legitimate journalist Mollie Hemingway. "Also, it's not a 'quote' but an unsupported assertion based on reporters' dubious and unverifiable interpretation of what they claim anon sources told them."

"Sources say" should be a warning whenever you hear a so-called journalist or reporter use the sentence starter that the "source" is the person writing the piece. The sources to which Stelter quoted to "admin officials" was actually a quote from the "journalists" from the Washington Post article.

Stelter's tweet linked to an article from the leftist canary cage liner Washington Post which was also critical of Trump's handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic but chided what they perceived as the president's lack of a plan, not his yielding power to state and local government.

Trump's top advisers have focused mostly on plans to reopen the economy by the end of April, but they haven't explained how they would do it without triggering a second spike in a coronavirus outbreak. President Trump has been particularly focused on creating a second coronavirus task force aimed at combating negative economic ramifications of the virus.

The WaPo article did not criticize Trump for having local legislation and governors to choose their own regulations and do their own risk assessment in local communities. You know, allowing the philosophy of federalism to determine locally how unique situations need to be dealt with rather than having federal government power grabs.

But Twitter users didn't allow Stelter to get away with his bloviating. Some of the responses can be seen in a screen shot [below].

Sometimes you just gotta love Twitter.  Here's another:

And this:

It should concern even people who used to watch CNN before catching a flight. To think that CNN is a reliable source of unbiased reporting is laughable.


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