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Amid the less-than-shocking news that post-Chris Licht CNN is bringing Brian Stelter back as "Chief Media Analyst," we at NewsBusters insist that the sequel Stelter 2: Electric Boogaloo be accompanied by some small measure of repentance. In his first "Reliable" newsletter of his second term, Stelter wrote "[t]he media industry has matured, CNN has evolved, and I have changed a lot since I signed off two years ago." Does anyone expect a different Stelter? If he's "changed a lot," he should confess all of the remarkable arrogance that made him the poster boy of the philosophy that leftist tilt is mandatory, and at the same time, crusading anti-Trump journalists are somehow not on "one side of the aisle." Here's a small list. Yes, it could on a long, long time.... 1. The Steele Dossier of Russian Disinformation CNN and the rest of the leftist press began the Trump presidency by trying to claim that a dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele for the firm Fusion GPS (and funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign) was going to end Trump's term prematurely. Steele claimed Trump colluded with the highest levels of the Russian government to steal the election away from the Clintons. Stelter wrongly claimed "much" of the dossier was verified. It wasn't.  Throwback to when @BrianStelter claimed in 2017 that @KellyannePolls was spreading "misinformation" when she called the Steele dossier "completely unverified" — with Stelter arguing "much" of the dossier was verified. The Steele dossier was total bullshit.pic.twitter.com/3gV20j5iZL https://t.co/LY2cyJxTvZ — Jerry Dunleavy IV ?? (@JerryDunleavy) September 3, 2024   2. Fraudster Michael Avenatti, a Plausible Presidential Candidate? As CNN and MSNBC relentlessly granted hours of free air time to ambulance-chasing attorney Michael Avenatti and his porn-star client Stormy Daniels, Stelter bizarrely suggested that just because Avenatti's incessant presence on cable news made him a plausible presidential contender. Avenatti went to jail in 2020, so it should be easy for Stelter to confess his enthusiasm was hilariously overwrought.     “I don’t know if it’s a good thing that star power and TV savvy is required for the job, but I think it is. And by the way, I think President Obama also had a lot of TV star power and that helped him pre-Trump. But Trump is more evidence of this. And looking ahead to 2020, one reason why I’m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.”— Host Brian Stelter to Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti on CNN’s Reliable Sources, September 16, 2018.   3. New York Post's Hunter Biden's Laptop Story 'Does Not Add Up' On October 18, 2020, Stelter went into "disinformation" mode against the New York Post scoops on Hunter Biden's laptop. Like many pro-Biden journalists, the didn't trust any of this: The Post claimed that the e- mails were found on a laptop computer that was brought to a repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019. And a shop employee saw the e- mails and then was worried about getting in trouble or getting in danger and he made copies of them. There's a lot about the story that does not add up. And the employee has not helped matters. He has contradicted himself in interviews with reporters. And I mean, for all we know, these emails are made up or maybe some are real, and others are fakes. We don't know. But we do know that this is a classic example of the right-wing media machine. I get pretty fired up about how this works because, look, I mean, if the New York Post tells you your mom loves you, you should check it out. We are not talking about fully reliable sources here. HOW A STORYLINE IS MANUFACTURED - BY BRIAN STELTER ?? October, 2020. Stelter explains how Trump, Fox, Rudy, and the Russians created and spread the "fake" Hunter Biden Laptop story. In 2023 Stelter hosted a forum in Davos about the dangers of disinformation.? pic.twitter.com/4iZwTAneh2 — MAZE (@mazemoore) June 16, 2024   4. Trump Will Kill More People Than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao?? The most aggressive misinformation about Trump may have come in a 2019 segment psychoanalyzing Trump with leftist experts who've never met him. Dr. Allen Frances claimed "calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we're crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist. Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were." Stelter did absolutely no "fact checking in real time" for that ridiculous nonsense. He later claimed he didn't hear it and moved on to talking about "name-calling."     5. Ridiculous Denials Like "We're Not Anti-Trump, We're Pro-Truth"  The most frustrating lie emanating from Stelter and his ilk has been the notion that "we're not on one side," as he claimed to Kellyanne Conway. He has claimed "we're not anti-Trump, we're pro-truth." Obviously, Stelter has championed a lot of misinformation while claiming to be "pro-truth." Someone who put truth first wouldn't always end up on the Trump Must Go hard line on every controversy. Here is a quick montage of Stelter’s ludicrousness by NewsBusters senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino:   

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel returned from his summer vacation on Tuesday by welcoming former GOP congressman-turned CNN talking head/Democratic National Convention speaker Adam Kinzinger to his show to discuss that experience as well as to omit the most vital detail of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery: that he was there at the invitation of Gold Star families. Kimmel began by wondering, “Did you ever imagine, as a lifelong Republican, that you would ever speak at the Democratic National Convention? And be embraced wholeheartedly there?”     Claiming it was “quite an experience,” Kinzinger added, “no, I never, never imagined. I would say maybe a year, two years ago, it kind of -- if you'd told me, maybe this makes sense, because my party has just gone off the rails and they no longer defend democracy and it's like, that's what my calling is, to defend that.” Kinzinger likes to claim that his problem with the GOP is that it has given way to election conspiracy theorizing, January 6 apologia, and Putinphilia, but in previous late night appearances he has repeatedly compared House Speaker Mike Johnson to the Taliban for saying he gets his worldview from the Bible. That’s not standing for conservatism, that’s just leftism. As it was, later in the interview, Kimmel turned to recent headlines, “This photo op situation that he concocted at Arlington National Cemetery, you've been there. You're a veteran, you know, you've served. You've been in the -- I mean, explain why that's so -- that's such a vile thing to.” Trump was there at the invitation of Gold Star families who lost loved ones during President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. They were also in the photo Kimmel referenced. Finally, the campaign insists they were allowed to have a photographer. Like Kimmel, Kinzinger ignored these vital details as he ranted: To go there, to have one of his staff members push a worker, who probably was pretty angry because she saw what was happening. Which is, these people that she's been committed, probably her life, to honoring, he's going to go there and make a mockery of it. And he went in and turned it into a campaign event. Got his picture. Smiled with his thumbs up, for God's sakes. And what -- so what you can do is now, if you politicize Arlington National Cemetery, everybody running for Congress, everybody running for the Senate, is going to have to go there and get their picture taken at Arlington to show that they're a good, solid American. You cannot politicize fallen American soldiers, come hell or high water. That is a red line you can't cross. He crossed it happily, and he's defending himself and not just defending himself. Going after the worker that one of his people shoved. And that is just so beneath the presidency.  Yes, he’s defending himself against people like Kimmel and Kinzinger who do not give their audience all the facts surrounding the visit. Apparently, Kimmel's team of fact-checkers took the day off. Here is a transcript for the September 3-taped show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 9/4/2024 12:23 AM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Did you ever imagine, as a lifelong Republican, that you would ever speak at the Democratic National Convention? ADAM KINZINGER: Nope, nope. KIMMEL: And be embraced wholeheartedly there? KINZINGER: Yeah, yeah, it was quite an experience. Like, no, I never, never imagined. I would say maybe a year, two years ago, it kind of -- if you'd told me, maybe this makes sense, because my party has just gone off the rails and they no longer defend democracy and it's like, that's what my calling is, to defend that. … KIMMEL: This photo op situation that he concocted at Arlington National Cemetery, you've been there. You're a veteran, you know, you've served. You've been in the -- I mean, explain why that's so -- that's such a vile thing to. KINZINGER: It's one thing for a sitting president or even a candidate to go on an official visit, to go, not to take pictures, to honor the fallen who have died for this country. It is like the last vestige of nonpartisanship that we have to hold in this country, and we have to hold it in a very, kind of, religious way, almost. People that gave everything.  To go there, to have one of his staff members push a worker, who probably was pretty angry because she saw what was happening. Which is, these people that she's been committed, probably her life, to honoring, he's going to go there and make a mockery of it. And he went in and turned it into a campaign event. Got his picture. Smiled with his thumbs up, for God's sakes. And what -- so what you can do is now, if you politicize Arlington National Cemetery, everybody running for Congress, everybody running for the Senate, is going to have to go there and get their picture taken at Arlington to show that they're a good, solid American. You cannot politicize fallen American soldiers, come hell or high water. That is a red line you can't cross. He crossed it happily, and he's defending himself and not just defending himself. Going after the worker that one of his people shoved. And that is just so beneath the presidency. 

The biggest impediment to Caitlin Clark’s ascension to athletic immortality is not the gaggle of angry and jealous black women determined to diminish the WNBA star’s rookie season. Angel Reese, Sheryl Swoopes, Diamond DeShields, Chennedy Carter, Teresa Weatherspoon, Lisa Leslie, Dawn Staley, and the last remnants of black Twitter are no match for Clark’s basketball prowess. They are the Seven Dwarfs. You need to use Google to remember their names. Sleazy Reese. Grumpy Swoopes. Dopey DeShields. Angry Carter. Bashful Leslie. Weave-y Weatherspoon. Staley, of course, is the Evil Queen of women’s hoops. She’s the puppet master secretly pulling the strings of bigotry that denied Clark a spot on the Olympic team and fuels the petty commentary surrounding the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year discussion. But Staley and the Dwarfs are largely powerless and ineffectual. Clark can handle the haters. Her stellar play has exposed the bitter as frauds. Clark’s real obstacles are her lovers, the mob of fans triggered by Dwarfs. They want to turn their idol into a victim. A victimhood mentality could derail Caitlin Clark’s historic season. It could prevent Clark from reaching her full potential this year. Clark has a chance to put together the greatest rookie season in the history of professional sports. Show White must stand in front of the Magic Mirror and evaluate her play. If she does that, she’ll dwarf Jackie, Gretzky, Brown, Wilt, and Iron Mike. Read it again: Clark's could be the greatest, most impactful, most impressive rookie season in the history of pro sports. She could do what Michael Jordan couldn’t. What Magic Johnson and Larry Bird did not do. Neither did Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Babe Ruth, or Tiger Woods. If Clark leads the Fever to the WNBA title in October, she will have completed the most impressive rookie season in the history of pro sports, snatching the distinction from Jackie Robinson or Jim Brown or Wayne Gretzky or Wilt Chamberlain or Mike Tyson. Here’s how I rank the greatest rookie seasons. Jackie Robinson: At age 28 in 1947, Robinson hit .297, finished fifth in MVP voting, won MLB Rookie of the Year, and the Dodgers lost the World Series 4-3 to the Yankees. Wayne Gretzky: At age 19 in the 1979-80 NHL season, Gretzky led the league in scoring (51 goals, 86 assists), won the Hart Memorial Trophy (MVP), and led the expansion Oilers to the playoffs. Jim Brown: At age 21 in 1957, Brown led the NFL in rushing, won the MVP award and NFL Rookie of the Year, and lost the championship to the Lions. Wilt Chamberlain: At age 23 in the 1959-60 NBA season, Chamberlain led the league in minutes, scoring (37.6), and rebounding (27), won the MVP award and NBA Rookie of the Year, and lost in the second round of the playoffs. Mike Tyson: At age 18 and 19 in 1985, Tyson fought 15 times in a 10-month span, winning all the fights by knockout or technical knockout. He single-handedly reignited the sport of boxing. The Indiana Fever finished 13-27 a year ago, the third-worst record in the WNBA. The Fever stand at 17-16 this season with seven games to play. They’re the hottest team in the league since the Olympic break. They can win it all this season, if — and only if — Clark continues to elevate her efficiency and basketball IQ. Despite averaging 18.7 points and leading the WNBA in assists (8.4), Clark hasn’t come close to peak performance yet. A victim mentality would prevent her from making the necessary improvements. Her fans could give her that mentality, if they continue to cry about things that don’t really matter and shield Clark from objective criticism. Clark is lazy on defense, spends way too much time whining to the referees, loses focus with her ball handling and passing, and lapses into chucking the ball up from deep early in the shot clock. Clark’s shortcomings need to be discussed publicly. It will force her to address them. But it’s difficult to do in the current environment. Her supporters interpret any and all criticism as unfair bigotry or jealousy. It’s a natural reaction. You see someone you love mistreated, and you leap to protect them. The problem is Clark doesn’t need protection. She’s not fragile. She’s not weak. She’s prepared and strong. She buried Angel Reese in Chicago last week. The Fever blew out the Sky on Friday. On a night when Dopey DeShields delivered three cheap shots, Clark posted 31 points and 12 assists in a 19-point victory. Show White exited the game to a round of applause and then sat and watched Sleazy Reese pad her stats in the final 90 seconds. Sleazy, Dopey, Angry Carter, and their coach, Weave-y Weatherspoon, have lost eight of their last 10 games. The Sky are tied for the last playoff spot with Atlanta. Caitlin Clark does not need our protection from Chicago, not from the Sky, and not from Lisa Leslie, who posted on Sunday that Clark and Reese should share rookie of the year. It’s a ridiculous contention. Reese is an elite rebounder whose rebounding has not made Chicago a better team. Clark is an elite basketball player who has made the Fever significantly better. Clark’s transformation of the Fever into the best offensive team, the best passing team, and the No. 6 seed for the playoffs tells the whole story. We don’t even have to compare individual statistics. Clark beats Reese in every category except rebounding. The Dwarfs are bigoted and jealous. Grumpy Swoopes is the worst. Instead of riding Clark to relevance, she’s riding Clark to career suicide. The former WNBA star-turned-broadcaster has talked her way off the Clark gravy train. The league removed Grumpy from the broadcast of Sunday’s Indiana-Dallas game. Swoopes is so filled with jealousy she can’t be trusted to call Clark’s games in a fair manner. Nancy Lieberman replaced Swoopes and immediately called BS on the contrived Clark-Reese rookie battle. “By far, she’s going to be rookie of the year, if anybody thinks she’s not, feel free to call me or hit me on Instagram or Twitter,” Lieberman said. In the aftermath of Swoopes’ latest Clark controversy, Swoopes blasted Lieberman on X, posted screenshots of a February text exchange between herself and Clark, and lashed out at Clark’s fans. Look at these posts: “Now here you go! I get what you trying to do with ya boy Stephen A. Smith but it ain’t working. You know good and well what happened. And ditto ... my life is good without you too (and him). You wanna go there?” “FYI, I was never supposed to do the game. Also, I do not hate Caitlin. It’s a lot of her fans that are just flat out mean and evil.” “I appreciate that. Please know that I do not dislike or hate her. I like her game too. It’s all of the ugly fans that I don’t care for. Thank you.” This is a catastrophic meltdown. She’s throwing away her reputation and friendships. It’s Caitlin Derangement Syndrome. It’s unchecked bigotry and jealousy. It’s Sheryl Swoopes’ problem, not Caitlin Clark's. Swoopes’ derangement will not stop Clark from reaching her full potential. Show White must stand in front of the Magic Mirror and evaluate her play. If she does that, she’ll dwarf Jackie, Gretzky, Brown, Wilt, and Iron Mike.

UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad endured a bizarre interview with a local news outlet in which the anchors seemingly had no idea who he was. Muhammad recently achieved champion status with a dominating victory over Leon Edwards at UFC 304. Taking a literal victory lap, Muhammad stopped by WGN News in his home city of Chicago for an interview that quickly became awkward. The painful interview started with anchor Tonya Francisco reading off the teleprompter to introduce Muhammad and co-anchor Amy Rutledge then positioning a question around Muhammad being the first UFC champion from Chicago. After Muhammad explained where he was raised and what schools he went to, Francisco replied by saying, "That's so awesome." Francisco then quickly revealed her stunning lack of knowledge on the subject. "Is that how you got involved in U— is it ... not UFC fighting, it's mostly just street fighting, or ..." the anchor strangely asked. "It's mixed martial arts," Muhammad explained. "Is that how you got involved? Did your coach get you into it?" Francisco then asked, not realizing his coach is indeed his MMA coach. Muhammad politely explained how his training has always been MMA-focused and that he combines the different disciplines involved. 'She had no idea who I was. She didn't do [any] research.' However, Francisco wasn't finished with her out-of-left-field questions. "So how do you train differently from boxing and from wrestling to become a mixed martial artist fighter?" This line of questioning forced Muhammad to essentially repeat the fact that he trains for all the different aspects of MMA. Relentlessly, Rutledge soon asked if Muhammad was "involved" with any of the amateur "boxing clubs for young people" around the city. "No, I've never done any boxing," Muhammad reiterated. The interview will be reminiscent of the early 2000s for many UFC fans, when the majority of the public and even the sporting world was largely unfamiliar with MMA. At the time, fighters spent most of their time in interviews trying to explain what MMA is and why it should be allowed to exist. Muhammad expressed this feeling on Joe Rogan's "MMA Show 162" after he and the host discussed old UFC fights that involved headbutts. Headbutting was banned in the UFC in 1997. "It's funny how you say the 'headbutt days,'" Muhammad said. "I did an interview yesterday with Chicago news, and the lady ... she had no idea who I was. She didn't do no research because she was like 'You're the champion of street fighting, right?’" the champion recalled. "Imagine that," Rogan responded, flabbergasted. "You're the world champion, and this person hasn't even done five minutes of research on the sport you do." "It was wild. People still think that," Muhammad replied, before Rogan started joking. "You should have just started making s**t up," the comedian said, before suggesting Muhammad should have claimed fighters meet in alleys and fight with rolls of nickels in their hands. Rogan went on to say that some people in the news aren't even human. "They're like robots. All they want to do is be on TV. They have no opinions, no personality." Muhammad later revealed that the Chicago network actually has a sports anchor, who wasn't used to interview him. Instead, the champion said it felt like the anchors were only capable of reading a teleprompter. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The San Diego Sheriff's Department determined that no crime was committed after a large group of illegal immigrants attempted to board a school bus carrying young children last week.The sheriff's office told KGTV that none of the individuals forcibly stopped or entered the vehicle and therefore, no criminal charges were filed.'It was simply a frightening situation because it was unfamiliar to us.'However, Nicole Cardinale, whose 8-year-old son was sitting at the front of the school bus when the incident occurred, explained that she "doesn't believe the men never made a move to get on the bus," the news outlet wrote.Last Tuesday, three illegal immigrant males walking along Highway 94 allegedly tried to stop a Jamul-Dulzura Union School District school bus, forcing the driver to go around them, KSWB-TV previously reported.The following day, 20 individuals allegedly attempted to board another school bus along a different Jamul-Dulzura Union School District route while it was picking up children. Local reports claimed the parents at the bus stop helped the driver prevent the illegal immigrants from entering the vehicle.In a letter to parents, Superintendent Liz Bystedt noted, "Both incidents involved people either trying to stop or board a bus at a bus stop."Cardinale called the encounter "really scary" for her son."[My son] said these adults — they weren't kids — had backpacks on and they were trying to get on [his bus.] … He said there was a lot of them," she told KSWB. "It's just scary that these kids are put into this situation. If those 20 people would have gotten onto the bus and tried to take over the bus, these kids and the bus driver could have been in real danger."She noted that the men were "standing in the doorway" of the bus."I'm assuming they were communicating with the driver, trying to get a ride," Cardinale said. "Why they thought it was okay to get on school bus? I know there is a language barrier, but they also [need] to have some empathy. … Those are children, and how frightened they possibly were."The sheriff's department investigated the incident, concluding that no crime was committed."It is not uncommon for community volunteers and charitable organizations to provide resources in these parts of the county, some of which operate vehicles similar to school buses," the sheriff's office told KGTV.A letter from the superintendent read, "It appears that while several individuals approached the bus, there never appeared to be any intent to take over the bus or harm anyone. At no point in time did anyone other than the students enter the bus, or even get close to entering a bus.""It was simply a frightening situation because it was unfamiliar to us. The Sheriff's office will continue to remain vigilant to this issue and provide extra patrols along the bus routes," Bystedt added.Border Patrol officials reported that "several were detained" for being in the United States illegally. Those individuals are facing removal processes.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

RFK Jr.’s former running mate, Nicole Shanahan, has endorsed Trump following Kennedy’s decision to suspend his campaign. She joins Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to discuss her decision to voice support for Trump despite being “a lifelong California Democrat liberal.” - YouTube www.youtube.com Despite the distinct differences between Glenn's and Nicole’s beliefs on policy, they agree on something much broader and more important: the Bill of Rights. Nicole says she was “very comfortable within the Democratic party for many years,” but “something happened in 2016 that started a cascading series of events” that have turned it into an entity that is “immoral,” “unprincipled,” and lacking in “honesty,” “transparency,” and “competence.” “They feel entitled to throw away very, very important principles – principles like the Bill of Rights, principles like our First Amendment free speech, principles like not using sabotage in democratic processes,” she tells Glenn, adding that “all they have left as a policy is not Donald Trump.” “My last response in the weeks before I left the party was: That is not a policy; that is not leadership. You can't run on a platform of 'not Donald Trump,'” she explains. Kamala Harris, as “a woman of color,” is “selling that for everything it's worth right now, and that to me is the kind of thing that goes against the very liberal principles that I was raised with.” Shanahan goes on to explain that the Democrats’ decision to exchange meritocracy for the idea that "if you can check a box of a minority on a sheet, that is enough” is actually “a form of racism … because it creates a hierarchy based on race.” What she’s seen happen in the Democrat Party “rings more closely to what [her] mother grew up with in communist China, which is this single-narrative totalitarianism.” Glenn thinks the average Democrat voter thinks a lot like Shanahan. “The average person that lives on my street that votes differently – I don't think they want totalitarianism,” he says. “How do we talk to them to get them to wake up?” he asks. Shanahan’s answer is brilliant. To hear it, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Foreign election interference isn’t coming just from Russia, and it isn’t all aimed at helping one party.