On Sunday morning’s Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter opened his show like he always does by whining about conservative media coverage of whatever issue or controversy he’s particularly exercised about. Such was the case this Sunday when he brought on CNN media analyst Bill Carter to complain about how conservative media was initially skeptical about the rape of a ten-year-old girl from Ohio who wanted an abortion.
After enough reputable sources went public to confirm the story and the illegal alien who raped the girl was arrested, conservative media like everyone else believed what happened.
Stelter started off kvetching how in the “last four days MSNBC’s talked about abortion three times as much as Fox.” Turning to Carter, Stelter bemoaned “in the wake of this story being confirmed, Fox has sort of moved away from it and there’s focus on it from left-wing media.”
In response, Carter wailed:
Fox and the whole right-wing media do not want to ever acknowledge that they're wrong. Ever! Their audience will not accept that. They’d never acknowledge that they're wrong. And in this case, you had an attorney general in Ohio who couldn't do the same work that a local reporter did. He said he couldn't find a scintilla of evidence that there was something going on despite the power that he had.
Continuing on his rant, Carter claimed Fox News “put him on to spout this and it really speaks to the idea that everybody shoots from the hip now. There was no thought involved in that. They didn't bother saying well, this case could this possibly be true?”
Stelter then jumped in and falsely claimed “some conservatives say the pro-abortion media picks out the worst cases, the most horrible crimes in order to make the argument for all abortion all the time. But actually, this is not a rare case.”
For Bill Carter to go on CNN and accuse another network of not admitting when they get their reporting on is the height of hypocrisy and irony. CNN spent the entire presidency of Donald Trump pushing the Russia collusion hoax, and they still haven’t apologized even after it’s been proven to be a complete lie.
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CNN’s Reliable Sources
July 17, 2022
11:13:25 a.m. EasternBRIAN STELTER: Yeah in the last four days, I checked closed captioning transcripts, last four days MSNBC’s talked about abortion three times as much as Fox. So Bill in the wake of this story being confirmed, Fox has sort of moved away from it and there’s focus on it from left-wing media.
BILL CARTER: Well, that’s the thing, Fox and the whole right-wing media do not want to ever acknowledge that they're wrong. Ever! Their audience will not accept that. They’d never acknowledge that they're wrong. And in this case you had an attorney general in Ohio who couldn't do the same work that a local reporter did. He said he couldn't find a scintilla of evidence that there was something going on despite the power that he had.
So they put him on to spout this and it really speaks to the idea that everybody shoots from the hip now. There was no thought involved in that. They didn't bother saying well, this case could this possibly be true? They automatically suspected the timing and went after it even though if you looked at the record, 50 cases in Ohio last year of this exact situation of a young girl who had been raped who had an abortion. That's amazing.
STELTER: That’s the thing, Bill. Some conservatives say the pro-abortion media picks out the worst cases, the most horrible crimes in order to make the argument for all abortion all the time. But actually, this is not a rare case.
CARTER: Not rare.
STELTER: Unfortunately It's not a rare case. The folks who wanted it to seem like a hoax, they just may not want to face the reality of what these laws say.
CARTER: You know, the great piece that your other guest wrote indicated in Ohio there was 50 cases last year. The year before there was 63. The year before there was 50 something. The year before there was 70 something. This has happened all the time. All you have to do is look at that and say well, this certainly could have happened. Let's not jump to the conclusion that it's a hoax.
STELTER: Yeah, I'm going to borrow what you said in an email. You said this isn't about right and left it’s about right versus wrong! It’s about crimes.
