In Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles pointed out the hypocrisy of CNN complaining about media bias.
After playing a clip of Brian Stelter complaining about Fox News’ focus on the migrant caravan instead of the government global warming report, Knowles points out the irony of the left-leaning anchor’s comments.
“Brian Stelter’s contention, his issue is not about the report itself, it’s that Fox News isn’t covering the Global Warming Executive Agency report with wall-to-wall coverage,” said Knowles. “Why not? Well, let’s think of some other stories. There’s a story that came out about Amanda Ferguson Weyant, a young teacher who was killed by an illegal alien, Joel Velasquez. He is 24 years old. He’s an illegal alien. It was a hit and run. This guy was out on bond already for an assault charge. He went and he killed this poor girl. He didn’t even stop. Eventually they caught up with him, thank goodness.”
“So let’s play that game,” Knowles joked. “Let’s play Brian Stelter game! Can we cut to CNN’s coverage of the Amanda Ferguson Weyant killing by the illegal alien? Can we cut to that coverage? No? We can’t, because there’s no coverage of it. None whatsoever. So we can play this game all day, can’t we, Brian Stelter? And, by the way, which story do you think is more important? The Sun Monster which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever? Now they’re predicting the world is going to end, and it never ends.”
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Brian Stelter’s contention, his issue is not about the report itself, it’s that Fox News isn’t covering the Global Warming Executive Agency report with wall-to-wall coverage. Why not? Well, let’s think of some other stories. There’s a story that came out about Amanda Ferguson Weyant, a young teacher who was killed by an illegal alien, Joel Velasquez. He is 24 years old. He’s an illegal alien. It was a hit and run. This guy was out on bond already for an assault charge. He went and he killed this poor girl. He didn’t even stop. Eventually they caught up with him, thank goodness.
So let’s play that game! Let’s play Brian Stelter game! Can we cut to CNN’s coverage of the Amanda Ferguson Weyant killing by the illegal alien? Can we cut to that coverage?
No? We can’t, because there’s no coverage of it. None whatsoever. So we can play this game all day, can’t we Brian Stelter? And, by the way, which story do you think is more important? The Sun Monster which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever?
Now they’re predicting the world is going to end and it never ends.
Or a real American woman, a real American citizen, a young teacher who was killed by a criminal who was not supposed to be in this country to begin with? A guy who was in this country illegally, out on bond, for an assault charge killed her and tried to drive away. Tried to flee the scene. Which is a more relevant story? Which story speaks more to people’s lives? Obviously, the story about illegal immigration. These are having real effects on people’s lives, on the economy, on their jobs, on their families, on obviously people who are injured or killed by illegal aliens.
That number should be a zero, because none of them are supposed to be in the country. Sometimes, the left will come out and say that rates of criminality among illegal aliens are lower than for the general population. First of all, that statistic is not true and it’s been refuted by a lot of different studies, but you have your statistics. I have my statistics. I’m sure you can find some surveys that show that that is true. The point is it’s illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is illegal. It’s as simple as that. The true number of people who should be injured or killed by illegal aliens is zero, because not a single one of them is supposed to be in this country. So, those are two issues.
Now, what does Brian Stelter make of this as his broader point? What is the actual CNN thesis for today? Take it away.
That’s a great point. Brian Stelter is actually making a perfectly correct observation. It is right now if you look at the news media, the mainstream media and, then the Daily wire or maybe Fox News or a couple newspapers, CRTV. There’s just the handful of new media right-wingers. It is true, they present different stories. That is media bias. What Brian Stelter would prefer is if we only had one perspective that was being put out there. What he wants is when it was only the left that controlled the news media. It’s like two different widths. It’s as though different Americans have different perspectives. Yes, of course.
What creates those two different worlds in the news media is the selection of stories and this is by the way where most of the bias is in the media. The trouble with the New York Times, even with CNN, frankly is not so much the caliber of the reporting. The Times still has pretty good reporters. Even the Washington Post sort of has good reporters. That isn’t the issue. The issue is which stories are being run and which stories are not being run.
When Sheryl Atkinson, one of the last journalists in America, left CBS, it wasn’t because they were yelling at her over something she wrote. It wasn’t because of anything like that. It was that the stories were being killed. They were being squashed. They wanted to talk about only stories that were favorable to the left. No stories that were favorable to the right. This is what a worldview is and Brian Stelter is right to people like him and to people at the New York Times.
This scary scary Sun monster, as Drew calls it, global warming, global cooling, whatever the hypothetical negative effects of climate change, none of which we are experiencing right now. None of which have been credibly and reliably proven to be happening in any short period of time. None of which have been proven, have been demonstrated to be caused by human beings and human efforts. They are so much more concerned and worried about that. That religion of environmentalism, that religion of global warming, than they are about illegal alien criminals killing Americans.
At least he’s honest. At least Brian Stelter is honest. My worldview is a worldview that prefers real to the theoretical, the near to the far, the tangible to the abstract.
And so when I see Americans having their livelihoods disrupted or ended by a major problem: 2000 illegal aliens crossing the border every single day at least. You’ve got a whole hoard, a whole Caravan marching through, threatening to storm across the border. That to me is a greater concern than the Sun is heating up and the atmosphere is trapping too much heat in and whatever worry they have today.