Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media correspondent, panned President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday evening from the Oval Office on the coronavirus outbreak, calling it “exactly what his Fox wingmen needed.”
Stelter, like CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, attempted to frame the address as xenophobic:
Trump’s Oval Office address was exactly what his Fox wingmen needed – now Sean Hannity et al can celebrate the new travel ban – while evading the real scourge of community spread within the US
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 12, 2020
Trump did, in fact, address the issue of “community spread,” instructing Americans to do their part to fight the virus: ““Wash your hands, clean often-used surfaces, cover your face and mouth if you sneeze or cough, and most of all, if you are sick or not feeling well, stay home.”
Stelter faced a barrage of criticism:
For your sake, and for the country’s sake, it would be amazing if you could take even a few short days off of this schtick.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 12, 2020
Get help dude.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 12, 2020
Yes, that’s the takeaway
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 12, 2020
CNN’s initial concern in January, after the White House first assembled its coronavirus task force, was that it allegedly lacked sufficient racial and gender “diversity.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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