Aug. 21, 2022 RIP Reliable Sources

Sunday, August 21, 2022 was Brian Stelter's last day on the Compromised News Network, aka CNN. His show, Reliable Sources is gone and Stelter is now unemployed, but if he plays his cards right, he might just find a spot with the ladies of  The View.

To his credit, in all of his time at CNN, starting in 2013, he never was accused of having an inappropriate sexual encounter, not with a man nor a woman, and not even with himself, as his colleague, Jeffrey Toobin had done on a Zoom call.

His words were powerful and clearly annunciated, and also quite humorous:

 "I believe America needs CNN to be strong, I believe the free world needs CNN to be strong, and it will continue to be because all of us are going to help make that happen. The free world needs a reliable source. So, for ‘Reliable Sources,’ for the last time, I'm Brian Stelter, thanks for being with us." 

America needs CNN like a blowfish needs a cigarette. His show, Reliable Sources, was an oxymoron. His so-called 'sources' were often anonymous and anything but reliable. Stelter was an extremely far-left potato whose journalistic integrity was nonexistent.

During his last show, he thanked his wife, who presumably is female, and several others involved in the progressive programming behind the scenes. He also thanked his former boss and CNN president, Jeff Zucker, who, like Toobin and Chris Cuomo, had to leave CNN due to sexual improprieties.  He even thanked the guy who fired is wide angle butt, Chris Licht.

"Thank you to Jeff Zucker for believing in me, for having the back of this organization for so many years, for having my back through everything, even through the death threats," Stelter said without mentioning Zucker's inappropriate sexual behavior to certain staff.

He added that while it "might sound weird," Stelter thanked Licht for "letting us say goodbye." And he blew Licht a kiss off camera, my reliable sources tell me.

At the outset of the show, Stelter mentioned that Licht was making big changes to CNN and that he was sad that he would not be around to cover it. He was joined by Carl Bernstein who said that Stelter's exit from the network was "bigger than Watergate," and that Brian would be sorely missed, adding, "We won't have Trump to kick around anymore."

"That is the watch word here. Accountability," Stelter jokingly said. "We need to have room for media criticism and debate and discussion, and we will. So much of the media ecosystem in 2022 is garbage, but so much of it is spectacular. The hard part is sorting out the treasure from the trash. These are thorny complicated things. I know I never had all the answers. I didn’t even always have all the questions. But it was the gift of a lifetime to get to confront these issues on international division with the backing of CNN."

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Stelter's final words were that the media "is the people," but much like his reliable sources, he was lying to the people. As far as he is concerned, the media is for leftist ideology and the leftist messages they want the people to hear.

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CNN's Stelter fails to cover 2 blockbuster stories

The Communist News Network's (CNN) Brian Stelter hosts an oxymoron of a show called "Reliable Sources." 

The only thing reliable about the show is that the only sources they use are the ones that go along with their agenda. In fact, "Reliable Sources" failed to cover several news stories of high importance in his weekly newsletter.

On Friday, Stelter did not, in his newsletter, cover at least two major stories that are of national significance, as his job description prescribes.

The first failure to report regarded the nomination of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson. He withdrew his nomination after being accused of professional misconduct by CNN. 

Yes, by CNN.

Katie Pavlich of Townhall said:

CNN reported earlier this week, on anonymous sourcing, [my italics] that during an overseas trip in 2015 Jackson got drunk and belligerently banged on a female colleagues' hotel door. CNN also reported the Secret Service stopped Jackson and that agents were worried he might wake up President Obama.

The Secret Service subsequently disputed the anonymous source's  claims, writing: "The Secret Service has no such record of any incident; specifically, any incident involving Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson."

But the damage was already done by CNN and the bald-headed geek, Stelter, never mentioned that Jackson was absolved of guilt. He also refused to respond to member of the media who wanted clarification from him about why he didn't include the update.

Stelter's biggest omission that he hid from his naive readers was the revelation that James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under the Obama administration, leaked information about the anti-Trump dossier to CNN's Jake Tapper and then was awarded a contract with CNN!

This development backed up Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist who reported that CNN helped orchestrate a setup of President Trump that eventuated the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Stelter again refused to answer the media over this issue.

Then, to prove just how biased Stelter and CNN are, he suggested that Republicans who didn't trust the media suffer from an "infection."

This remark was made in response to Ryan Struyk, who tweeted: "Only 37% of Republican voters say the news media is "an important part of democracy' vs. a majority, 51%, who says it's 'the enemy of the people,' via new Quinnipiac poll today."

Stelter was raked over the coals over his response to that tweet even more than the stories about CNN that he refused to address.


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