In their warped definition of journalism, liberals present a parade of left-wing guests who get softball treatment as they reinforce a leftist narrative. On the rare occasion that someone from the other side is allowed to muddy their waters, they can count on a very different encounter, and sometimes those guests push back, as on Wednesday's The Situation Room on CNN. Several times during an extended interview, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y,) didn't just sit there and take it from co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, as she went after CNN more than once. They wanted to talk Trump vs. Pope Leo.  BLITZER: The war has divided not only countries, Congresswoman. President Trump and Pope Leo are also split right now on several of these issues. You're a proud Catholic, as we all know. Is it appropriate for a wartime President to repeatedly attack the first American Pope because the Pope has been speaking out against this conflict? STEFANIK: I'm proud that we have the first American Pope. I don't want to see the Pope as a politician. And you know the President, we know his leadership style. He is going to stand strong for the American people. And the president of the United States is a political figure. Of course, he's going to be engaged in politics when he's politically attacked. I don't want to see the Pope get involved in domestic politics.  So Blitzer switched to the Jesus meme:  BLITZER: We've also seen the President post that AI generated image of himself as the Pope and as Jesus, if you will, which he later deleted and said portrayed him as a doctor. In your view, were those posts blasphemy? STEFANIK: Certainly the President made the correct decision in taking it down. And look, I know CNN loves to focus on the tweets and memes of President Trump. I look at his record of results. He has strong support from Catholics like me, and I've been proud of our record. The media can continue talking about the tweets. I talk about the results.  Brown then inserted more of the same argument:   BROWN: But it is notable he's attacking the first American Pope.  STEFANIK: The Pope from my perspective, should not be engaging in political attacks....So I was disappointed to see that attack from the Pope. And I know CNN wants to continue to focus on these tweets, what's been happening for the past ten years. Look at the results. BROWN: This isn't about CNN trying to focus on it, it is notable. It's always annoying when CNN pretends its partisan "news judgment" is always the definition of what's "notable." Stefanik then noted how Brown -- the daughter of the late Democrat Gov. John Brown -- stuck on one topic: STEFANIK: You just asked how many questions on it Pam? One after the other, after the other. BROWN: I asked follow-up questions because they were warranted. There she goes again with "my judgment is flawless." But she's not always interrupting guests. In March, Brown sat back and allowed Marjorie Taylor Greene to trash Trump, Israel and Fox News. She didn't find anything "notable" that "warranted" pushback.  As the interview turned to the topic of Eric Swalwell, Blitzer managed to put Trump right in the middle of it, going back to underline that a jury of Manhattan Democrats found him civilly liable for a 27-year-old claim of sexual misconduct.  BLITZER: Critics, including Democrats, argue there's a double standard right now when it comes to sexual misconduct. Back in 2023, a Manhattan federal jury found in a civil lawsuit that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in the spring of 1996 and awarded her $5 million for battery and defamation. Trump denied all wrongdoing in that case.... Do you give any credence at all to this question of whether there's a double standard? STEFANIK: Absolutely not a double standard. If anything, the media is not focused on holding Democrats to account. That set off Brown, who brought up the story she and her CNN team broke last Friday, of four women claiming sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including a former staff member who claimed rape. But Stefanik's point seemed to be that Swalwell has been given a liberal media pass for quite some time on various issues, with the opposite for Trump. STEFANIK: Eric Swalwell is a protege of Nancy Pelosi, ran for president of the United States, has an FEC report that's public about all these expenditures with these women and the fact that there was no media scrutiny whatsoever....There has been a history of weaponized lawfare against President Trump.  One media pass given Swalwell, was his association with Christine Fang, who is a suspected Chinese intelligence operative. The FBI is reportedly ready to release documents from that investigation. As for Stefanik, she may not be back on CNN any time soon.