Brian Stelter just can’t help himself, desperately going after his competitors over on Fox News Channel for getting more interviews with the President than his network ever will. The bitter CNN host and senior media correspondent attacked Fox and Friends host Ainsley Earhardt on Twitter, for her interview with President Trump that aired this morning and blew up the media today for the President’s comments on the Manafort trial and whether or not he could be impeached. But Stelter was more outraged by the Fox News host’s interview style, heckling her in a tweet and a blog post about her “softball” questions to Trump. Unfortunately for Stelter, he doesn’t have the greatest record on giving hard hitting interviews with Democrats.
Stelter started the food fight by tweeting this out:
I made a list of all 18 questions @AinsleyEarhardt asked President Trump on @FoxAndFriends.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 23, 2018
Let's play softball! https://t.co/2jBYxJsDZY
In the accompanied article he whined that Fox failed to do its journalistic duty in grilling the President during the “most important” season of his presidency. Stelter quickly admitted that Earhardt did ask Trump about the Manafort and Cohen trials, but “in the gentlest possible ways.” (Maybe Stelter would’ve found it more appropriate if Earhardt yelled out the same questions repeatedly like his network’s reporters like to do?)
Stelter then listed Earhardt’s questions, revealing that the Fox News reporter did ask the very same questions that many of her liberal counterparts in the media have asked, but that apparently wasn’t enough for Stelter.
After Stelter shared the article, he immediately received backlash for his glaring hypocrisy. User after user reminded Stelter of the softball questions President Obama received from the press, not just from his network but the majority of them.
Others pointed out that Stelter himself has given plenty of softball interviews to liberals, just recently with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Parkland’s David Hogg. In that last interview, he actually admitted later that he let Hogg get away with spreading lies about the NRA and guns.
Not to mention that CNN leaked questions to the Clinton campaign before one of the election town halls. So Stelter really has no sound footing to stand on going after Fox for their more friendly tone towards President Trump.
Stelter also retweeted New York Times culture writer David Itzkoff who shared an image of Earhardt smiling with President Trump and the snarky caption, “adversarial journalism.” Conservatives took him to task, sharing pictures of the CNN reporter smiling with the Obamas:
Brian Stelter, the king of lacking self awareness. pic.twitter.com/OBQTzvxB51
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 23, 2018
But complaining about Fox is his shtick. Just a month ago the CNN host spent an entire segment slamming his competitor’s “love story” with the President.
