Journalist Mark Halperin took a sledgehammer to the media this week, slamming their coverage of Dr. Fauci and his testimony before Congress, and accusing them of following the same playbook they used to protect Joe Biden as people began to question his mental acuity.
Halperin reserved most of his ire for CNN’s Brian Stelter, who decided to focus on the reaction of ‘MAGA media’ instead of the media at large.
FOX News has details:
Halperin compares Fauci diary media coverage to Biden’s mental decline, calls it another cover-upJournalist Mark Halperin, host of “2Way,” likened the mainstream media coverage of Anthony Fauci’s diaries to the press’ coverage of former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity on Wednesday, and said they were present at the creation of the cover-up.”I could spend this entire hour talking to you about the media coverage of this thing,” Halperin said during a conversation with Larry O’Connor and Kevin Walling during “The Morning Meeting” podcast. If you read the stories in the so-called mainstream press about the Fauci Diaries, you will see an exact parallel to the Biden acuity situation. They were present at the creation of the cover-up. They were present, engaged in non-stop bias, pro-Fauci, anti-Trump, and they’re — they’re just sustaining it.””There’s no consciousness raising,” he continued. “There seems to be no awareness. And this goes across a range of things. It goes across the question of whether Dr. Fauci lied, whether Dr. Fauci helped fund the gain-of-function research, and it also goes to Dr. Fauci’s insane obsession with fame and celebrity. There’s no other way to describe it.””There’s so much rich stuff here and — and Fauci’s obsession with celebrity,” Halperin said, again calling out Fauci’s seeming obsession with celebrities. “He’s obsessed. He talks about Julia Roberts. He talks about Cher. He talks about covers. He talks openly in his diaries about how people blocked him from TV. And he acts like being blocked from a TV appearance is like someone trying to strangle him underwater. OK, this guy has a problem. And, by the way, if you’ve covered him in the last 50 years when he’s been in Washington, this comes as no surprise.”Halperin specifically called out CNN’s Brian Stelter and his note about the news in his “Reliable Sources” newsletter.
Conservative talk host Larry O’Connor, appearing as a guest on this segment, joins Halperin in criticizing the media.
Watch the whole thing below:
Halperin is right about all of this. The media’s predictably partisan take on everything is so tiresome.
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