NewsBusters Podcast: The Third Failed Assassin Ruins the Media Dinner
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NewsBusters Podcast: The Third Failed Assassin Ruins the Media Dinner

A California man, Cole Tomas Allen, decided to shoot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, and ruined all the fun where President Trump was expected to unload about an hour of mockery on the elitist media. Does anyone expect this scare to change the longstanding hostility of the press corps? NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck and associate editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show, since they worked long into the evening after the dinner on Saturday. Just minutes before the violence, CNN analyst S.E. Cupp made some unfortunate remarks: “You just heard Brian Stelter say that the Correspondents Association was trying to sort of mend some fences with a guy who wants us dead -- figuratively, figuratively. He wants journalism dead.” Scott Jennings offered a rebuttal: “He may roast the press, and they spend 24 hours a day roasting him, and they need to have a little bit of thick skin and put on their big boy pants and take it.” CNN came into the big dinner with the usual trepidation of what insults might be thrown by the president, but Brian Stelter jumped in to report happenings from the dinner. Wolf Blitzer recounted being just a few feet from the shooter. Van Jones and Scott Jennings agreed with Trump that the event should go on to show resilience, but Van Lathan and S.E. Cupp agreed “this country is sick.” Stelter came out of his reporting in the aftermath of the shooting with the usual liberal spin. His special "Reliable Sources" newsletter reliably toe-tapped the line. The headline was "An all-too-common American story." The foiled shooting at this exclusive Washington party was "extraordinary," and yet, it's the latest example of Americans have too much access to guns. Despite the clarity of "progressive" viewpoint in the shooter's manifesto, it was annoying when some reporters were still pretending the motive was unclear. Even when they described the manifesto's contents, some were reluctant to identify it as on the Left. Reporters noticed that a truce of sorts broke out between the president and the press over their shared scare, but by the time CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell bonked Trump over the head by quoting the manifesto calling him a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor, the "truce" was over and Trump called O'Donnell "disgusting." The media love to pretend that all of the hostility and aggression is coming from the president, somehow ignoring their own hostility and aggression against Trump.  Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here.