CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings was unconvinced — and amused — when fellow panelist Brian Stelter claimed on Tuesday that the hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; had opted to meet with President-elect Donald Trump out of fear of &#8220;retribution.&#8221;
Stelter and Jennings sparred briefly on the topic during &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip as they discussed the fallout from a Friday meeting between Trump and &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>&#39;s reactions are priceless as Brian Stelter ‘reports’ that Joe/Mika met with Trump because they feared retribution:
&quot;I mean, isn&#39;t it possible too that they&#39;re just two people who are so full of themselves, so full of self-aggrandizement that they would feel… <a href="https://t.co/Ecr6QItBq3">pic.twitter.com/Ecr6QItBq3</a>
&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1859236824415166673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Scarborough and Brzezinski announced during their Monday morning broadcast that they had met with Trump, explaining that they had felt the need to reopen the lines of communication ahead of a second Trump administration. But according to Stelter, the meeting had been requested at least in part because the longtime morning show hosts were concerned that the Trump administration might &#8220;target&#8221; them for harassment or even prosecution.
&#8220;Right. Detente, appeasement. I don’t know what to call it. You know, Joe and Mika didn’t say much about it today, but according to my sources, they believed … they credibly were concerned that they faced governmental and legal harassment with this incoming administration, essentially, that they feared retribution. And that’s partly why they sought out this meeting,&#8221; Stelter said.
&#8220;And to be fair, to Brzezinski and Scarborough, they’re not the only MSNBC hosts or the only – the word journalists is complicated because they’re more like personalities – but there are a number of journalists at places like the [Associated Press] and other big news outlets that are concerned about retaliation in the coming months. Anything from IRS audits to lawsuits and things like that. There are media outlets bulking up on lawyers, thinking about having more libel insurance, those sorts of things,&#8221; Stelter continued. &#8220;Now, I don’t know exactly what the specific concern Joe and Mika had was or wasn’t. But they’re not the only MSNBC personalities worried about retaliation. However, they are the only ones to go down to Mar-a-Lago and have a meeting.&#8221;
Jennings wasn&#8217;t buying it, however, and he said so: &#8220;I mean, isn’t it possible too that they’re just two people who think [they] are so full of themselves, so full of self-aggrandizement, that they would feel like that they would be personally —&#8221;
Stelter interrupted, arguing that the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts were not alone in their fears.
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&#8220;Well, I just, first of all, I can see why. Second of all, if that’s what happened and if that’s what they truly believed, why didn&#8217;t they go on TV and say that? ‘We went down there to meet with the president to tell him that, hey, anyone who’s been critical of you, you know, you should treat us like journalists and not like the enemy,'&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;They didn’t go on TV and say that, they went on TV and portrayed it much differently. So what I hear you saying in your reporting is they had a motive that they weren’t willing to disclose to their audience, which I think should get them more scorn today than they were already getting to begin with.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-hosts-blistered-over-attempt-to-restart-communications-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scarborough and Brzezinski</a> caught flak from both sides of the political aisle for meeting with Trump, with many on the Left claiming that such a meeting would legitimize the incoming administration. On the right, critics asked why Trump would give them the time of day after Scarborough and Brzezinski had happily joined the other media talking heads who called him a fascist, a Nazi, and worse.
&#8220;Hitler getting a lot more meeting requests than I would’ve thought,&#8221; Jennings said at the time.

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CNN Panel Goes Sideways Over Claim That ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Feared Trump’s ‘Retribution’

CNN Panel Goes Sideways Over Claim That 'Morning Joe' Hosts Feared Trump's 'Retribution'

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Media personality Brian Stelter, who was fired by CNN two years ago as his ratings had tanked, announced he will be returning to the network.
“I&#8217;m returning to @CNN in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst. I&#8217;ll be appearing on TV, developing digital content, and once again helming the Reliable Sources newsletter,” he wrote on X.
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I&#39;m returning to <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> in a brand new role as Chief Media Analyst. I&#39;ll be appearing on TV, developing digital content, and once again helming the Reliable Sources newsletter.
&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1831092849041096890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Stelter continued by citing “the sheer amount of talent at CNN covering media, tech, pop culture, infowars,” calling it “stunning.”
“We&#8217;re going to reimagine the digest and deliver what you value most. Everyone and everything is a source now. So what&#8217;s reliable?” he asked rhetorically.
“I&#8217;m coming back to CNN with a fresh perspective,” he insisted. “See, I always scoffed at people who said ‘getting fired was the best thing that&#8217;s ever happened to me’ — until it happened to me. After 20+ years as a news junkie, I changed my media habits. I tuned out for a bit &#8230; and I experienced the news more like an everyday consumer. In doing so, I learned a whole lot about the attention economy and the information ecosystem. So this time around will be different, because I am different.”
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In November 2021, Stelter stated, “So much of what might happen in the next three years is sadly predictable,” he said. “Reporters who try to counter Trump’s lies are jeered and smeared more than ever before. His verbal attacks against the media are so pervasive now that physical violence erupts more often: beatings at rallies, bombs in newsrooms&#8230; The bombs don’t explode, but that isn’t the point. Fear is the point: silence through force.”
In August 2020, Stelter defended Joe Biden from critics saying he showed signs of cognitive decline, saying, &#8220;Fox’s narrative and talk radio’s narrative for months has been that Joe Biden is falling apart. You just heard Ben Shapiro say it, falling apart. And there he is riding a bike, out for a bike ride. And Fox, of all networks, is the one that showed it happen.”
Shapiro responded to Stelter&#8217;s segment by writing on Twitter, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but &#8216;Biden rode a bike!&#8217; is not a good comeback to &#8216;Biden is falling apart.&#8217; My son also rides a bike. He is four, and not qualified to be president.&#8221;
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Look, look, he&#39;s fine, he&#39;s riding a bike! <a href="https://t.co/ZRJWoY0s3O">pic.twitter.com/ZRJWoY0s3O</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1292665137275387904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In 2018, Stelter&#8217;s &#8220;Reliable Sources&#8221; deceptively edited clips of NRA member Colion Noir and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch saying that the media loved mass shootings.
The show conveniently edited out how both Loesch and Noir specifically qualified their statements by stating they were not implying the media loved the tragedy of the shootings but that the media loved the ratings they gained from the shootings.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/propaganda-cnns-brian-stelter-deceptively-edits-ryan-saavedra">FAKE NEWS: CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter Deceptively Edits NRA Comments. Here&#8217;s What They Actually Said.</a>

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‘This Time Around Will Be Different’: Brian Stelter Returning To CNN

Former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter expressed his concern during a Tuesday evening interview on his old network, telling &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; host Abby Phillip that he expected media to be &#8220;punished&#8221; if former President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
The former &#8220;Reliable Sources&#8221; host was reacting to comments made by MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow about a second Trump term — namely that she worried Trump &#8220;plans to build camps&#8221; for his critics and political enemies.
Stelter referred to Maddow&#8217;s claim as &#8220;speculative non-fiction&#8221; but argued that it was reasonable to think that Trump — who has long had a contentious relationship with the press — might do something to retaliate against outlets with which he had a particular beef.
&#8220;We use the words that Trump and his allies have said, and we use them to talk about the future. Jail, of course, is an extreme part of the spectrum. Imprisonment is an extreme part,&#8221; Stelter said.
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MSNBC&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Maddow</a> is right to be thinking aloud about the possible repercussions of a second Trump term. Other media types and political veterans are doing the same thing. What might &#8220;retribution&#8221; look like? What are the pressure points that Trump could target? <a href="https://t.co/4M5hUAXUBB">pic.twitter.com/4M5hUAXUBB</a>
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1800841042926637099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He went on to argue that a second Trump administration might use other government offices to exact revenge on media outlets — in much the same way as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted conservative groups during former President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration.
&#8220;But think about IRS audits. Think about government pressure on media companies. Think about other forms of government interference. There are a lot of pressure points and frankly, Rachel Maddow is not the only member of the media thinking about this,&#8221; Stelter continued. &#8220;I’ve talked to the heads of news organizations, CEOs, and media companies that are thinking this through, not in dramatic fashion, not because they’re afraid of going to jail, but because they want to know what could Trump do to use his power in the second term to punish the media.&#8221;
Stelter was among the first let go when now-former CNN chief Chris Licht took over in the wake of Jeff Zucker&#8217;s abrupt exit from the network, and prior to that had often found himself at odds with the Trump White House.

Fired CNN Anchor Frets About How Trump Might ‘Punish’ Media If He Wins

Fired CNN Anchor Frets About How Trump Might 'Punish' Media If He Wins

NBC News correspondent Tom Costello worried on Tuesday that no one would be able to &#8220;police&#8221; former Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> if his show aired on Twitter.
Costello brought in ousted CNN anchor — and regular Fox News critic — Brian Stelter to discuss the situation, responding to Carlson&#8217;s announcement that he planned to bring a similar version of his popular show back to Twitter in the near future.
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NBC’s reaction to Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show announcement: “Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says or is this the point? It’s just a free for all?” 
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&mdash; ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1656135457506484224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Twitter was already under fire for misinformation, disinformation, all-out lies, anti-Semitism, racism before Elon Musk took over and now it’s gotten kind of crazy, right? Seemingly unmoored, if you will,&#8221; Costello began.
Pivoting to the direct question, Costello asked, &#8220;Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says? Or is this the point? It&#8217;s just a free-for-all?&#8221;
Stelter quickly agreed that having no rules appeared to be the point, saying, &#8220;It is a free-for-all, it’s what Elon Musk wants to provide. This move by Tucker may cement the idea of Twitter as a Right-wing website, and we see some users trying to go off to other sites instead.&#8221;
In his Tuesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-tucker-carlson-announces-new-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a>, Carlson said that he wanted to take his show to Twitter because he believed it to be one of the few places where free speech was truly allowed — and even valued — and because Twitter as a platform did not take political sides.
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Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-releases-statement-about-tucker-carlsons-new-show-on-twitter-we-have-not-signed-a-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> revealed after Carlson&#8217;s announcement that he had not been a part of any signed deal with the ousted Fox News host — but in the hours that followed, he reached out to former CNN anchor Don Lemon (who was fired by his own network the same day Fox announced Carlson&#8217;s departure) and suggested he come to Twitter as well.
&#8220;Have you considered doing your show on this platform? Maybe worth a try. Audience is much bigger,&#8221; Musk tweeted in response to Lemon&#8217;s April 24 tweet announcing his termination.
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Have you considered doing your show on this platform? Maybe worth a try. Audience is much bigger.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656151522408026113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NBC Correspondent Worries That Twitter Won’t ‘Police’ Tucker: ‘It’s Just A Free-For-All’

NBC Correspondent Worries That Twitter Won't 'Police' Tucker

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Legendary podcast host Joe Rogan mocked former CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter this week for being <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/fired-cnn-host-brian-stelter-slammed-hosting-world-economic-forum-panel-hate-speech">involved</a> with the World Economic Forum, saying he is &#8220;basically a prostitute.&#8221;
During &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; on Monday, Rogan interviewed the journalist that has been at the forefront of the Twitter Files series, Matt Taibbi.
As the topic of Stelter came up during their discussion, Rogan repeatedly used a mocking voice to slam Stelter, who was terminated by CNN last year.
&#8220;He&#8217;s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;That&#8217;s [sic] his bosses, he knows how to handle that kind of situation.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, and he&#8217;s not a guy that really is supposed to be in front of a camera, right? He&#8217;s supposed to be a journalist, but he&#8217;s not even good at that,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;So he&#8217;s, what he&#8217;s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hate speech policies nationwide, and, you know, centralized digital currency, and they want everybody to eat bugs, and you will own nothing and be happy. This is the f***ing people he&#8217;s working for now. He&#8217;s basically a prostitute. And, you know, they hired him to go over there and do that.&#8221;
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<blockquote>Joe Rogan (Mocking voice): Brian Stelter is now at the World Economic Forum, what can we do about these problems?
Matt Taibbi: You look very comfortable there. 
Rogan: Of course he does. He&#8217;s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world. That&#8217;s his bosses, he knows how to handle that kind of situation. 
Rogan (mocking voice): I&#8217;ve been around these evil lizard people. 
Taibbi: He looked, he looked as happy as maybe he&#8217;s ever been.
Rogan: Well, he&#8217;s probably very excited just to be working again, in any way, shape, or form. 
Taibbi: That&#8217;s true.
Rogan: You know, and he&#8217;s not a guy that really is supposed to be in front of a camera, right? He&#8217;s supposed to be a journalist, but he&#8217;s not even good at that. So he&#8217;s, what he&#8217;s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hate speech policies nationwide, and, you know, centralized digital currency, and they want everybody to eat bugs, and you will own nothing and be happy. This is the f***ing people he&#8217;s working for now. He&#8217;s basically a prostitute. And, you know, they hired him to go over there and do that. And he&#8217;s like (mocking voice), &#8216;What can we do? What can we do better? What can we do different to get everybody to stand in line? What can we do?&#8217;
Taibbi: And for a journalist to sit there, there was that one moment where that woman Vera Yoruba, she&#8217;s an EU official, and she&#8217;s talking about hate speech laws, and then she touches the knee of somebody sitting next to her and saying, &#8216;you&#8217;re gonna have that in America soon&#8217;. Yeah. And Brian Stelter is sitting there, grinning&#8211;
Rogan: Yeah.
Taibbi: &#8211;you know, like, that&#8217;s not offensive to him? Like, you&#8217;re a European basically saying, &#8216;oh, yeah, you&#8217;re gonna have this too, soon.&#8217; Like, even though it&#8217;s completely antithetical to everything that we believe in, in this country like&#8211;
Rogan: Well, I think when you working in a corporate news structure, and you can speak to this better than I can, obviously, but I think when you&#8217;re working in an environment where you have editors and people in your ear, and you have producers, and you have narratives that the company&#8217;s pushing, and then you have sponsorships that you&#8217;re beholden to, it&#8217;s very difficult to form any sort of problematic or controversial independent thought and then try to express it publicly. You&#8217;re not going to do it. It&#8217;s just too scary and sketchy. So when you&#8217;re trying to keep that job, and here&#8217;s a guy like Brian Stelter, who already lost one of the biggest gigs in all of broadcast news, he was on f***ing CNN. And then you know, here he&#8217;s standing there and they&#8217;re saying, &#8216;you you&#8217;re gonna have hate speech laws in America&#8217;. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;okay, everything&#8217;s running smooth.&#8217;</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-slams-stelter-motherfer-youre-supposed-to-be-a-journalist-your-shows-fing-terrible">Rogan Slams Stelter: ‘Motherf***er, You’re Supposed To Be A Journalist,’ ‘Your Show’s F***ing Terrible’</a>

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Joe Rogan Mocks Brian Stelter: ‘He’s Basically A Prostitute’

Joe Rogan Mocks Brian Stelter: 'He's Basically A Prostitute'

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Former <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> anchor <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/brian-stelter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Stelter</a> hosted a panel on the “clear and present danger of disinformation” during the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum</a> in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
The former primetime host recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/failing-upwards-brian-stelter-is-heading-to-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landed</a> a fellowship at Harvard University. His <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/the-clear-and-present-danger-of-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel event</a> at the World Economic Forum, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-economic-forum-meets-in-davos-this-week-heres-what-to-expect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supports</a> the notion that private and public actors should routinely cooperate for desired political and social ends, asked prominent lawmakers and members of the media about the possibility of controlling purported misinformation online.
Stelter asked Arthur Sulzberger, the chairman of the New York Times Company, about the current state of disinformation since social networks began to feel “pressure” about monitoring content over the past several years. The executive compared condemnations of “fake news” as “enemies of the people,” phrases popularized by former President Donald Trump, as following the pattern of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. He called for “real sustained effort” from social media platforms and lawmakers to reject the phenomenon.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) likewise said that the Trump phenomenon “proved that lying works” as a political strategy. “Part of jumping on his bandwagon was buying into this game that you could just lie, and not only could you get away with it, but it might actually help your career.”
European Commission Vice President Vera Jourová described a “very broad exercise” in monitoring disinformation within the European Union and said that 90% of the requests for removals on Facebook come from government agencies.
Moulton said there is a “healthy concern” in the United States that European censorship goes “too far.”
“Yes, they are ahead of us, and they’re doing some smart things. But I know when I use the internet in Europe and I get all the warnings about cookies and whatnot, that actually makes me feel safer,” he said. “We also have a healthy concern that we are not going to be censored.”
Stelter countered that many Democrats have pressured social media companies over the past six years to “be stronger in content moderation.” Moulton responded that many lawmakers are uncomfortable when they see critical posts online but expressed a willingness to consider more censorship in cases such as vaccine misinformation.
“This concept of preserving public safety, even under the banner of free speech, is actually something that we have accepted for a long time,” he continued. “We get taught in grade school the concept of yes, you are allowed free speech, but not crying fire in a crowded theater.”
The panel comes as independent reporters continue to release emails and other internal company documents provided by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to chronicle federal law enforcement agencies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policing content</a> on the platform and asking executives to remove posts.
The latest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-release-shows-how-adam-schiff-staffers-harassed-the-company-with-absurd-ban-requests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> showed that staffers working for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to Twitter “quite often” asking for posts to be removed. Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-twitter-files-shows-how-federal-state-governments-monitor-americans-social-media-posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edition</a> of the project indicated that agencies, particularly the FBI, contacted Twitter about the censorship of so many posts that employees congratulated each other in internal company communications for the “monumental undertaking” of reviewing the requests.

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Brian Stelter Talks ‘Disinformation’ At World Economic Forum

Brian Stelter Hosts Panel Event On 'Disinformation' At World Economic Forum

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> CEO Chris Licht says he has taken a “stunning” level of hate, mostly from the Left, since taking over the top job at CNN earlier this year.
Licht was named CNN’s chief in February and has since overhauled the company, scrapping its online streaming service CNN+ and laying off a slew of its most prominent personalities. Licht has done so in an attempt to remake the network into a more balanced news outlet that hosts a “rational conversation about polarizing issues” rather than largely catering to one side of the political aisle, Licht told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/media/chris-licht-cnn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Of the critics Licht has gained in his new post, he says the most “uniformed vitriol” comes from the left, the audience that CNN had tailored its message most for under previous leadership.
“The uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,” Licht told the Times. “Which proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.”
In his short tenure, Licht has let go of high-profile journalists, columnists, and contributors such as Brian Stelter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Harwood</a>, Jeffrey Toobin, and Chris Cillizza. Licht has also attempted to balance some of the network’s left-wing slant by bringing on Stephen Gutowski, founder of the firearms reporting site The Reload, as a contributor.
Licht has also moved around some of CNN’s lineup. He moved host Don Lemon out of a prime-time slot and into a morning show with two other cohosts. Licht attempted to move host Jake Tapper into former host Chris Cuomo’s prime-time slot, but Tapper’s tenure there proved to be short lived. Cuomo had been let go by the network months earlier, after an internal investigation reportedly concluded that the host had inappropriately attempted to help his brother, Andrew Cuomo, as the former New York governor was mired in scandal.
Licht said he did not want to make CNN into a “centrist” outlet by bringing on people like Gutowski. Instead, he wants to make the network more interesting through debates between well-informed people.
“This is not vanilla, centrist or boring,” he told the Times. “The change is we will not do Trump 24/7 or let him dictate our agenda.”
He expressed similar sentiments to The Financial Times weeks ago when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about his moved to cut partisanship out of CNN’s coverage.
“One of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,” Licht said. He said he is more interested in making an informative and interesting experience for the viewer than focusing on left and right politics.
“You have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don’t see it through a lens of left or right,” he added.

Chris Licht

‘Uninformed Vitriol’: CNN Boss Chris Licht Swings At ‘The Left’ Over ‘Stunning’ Reaction To His Reforms

John Harwood

New York Times

What does an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivy League</a> education get you in the year 2022? Life lessons on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">democracy</a> and media from the likes of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brian-stelter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Stelter</a>, apparently.
The ex-CNN anchor just <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/stelter-shorenstein-fellow/?utm_source=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landed</a> a plush job as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School. Stelter, recently fired from CNN, has once again proven that in politics and media, the worst offenders tend to fail upwards.
&#8220;As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media,&#8221; Harvard said in an announcement. &#8220;These discussions with media leaders, policymakers, politicians, and Kennedy School students, fellows, and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.&#8221;
To his credit, Stelter has done something that defies the odds in 21st-century America. He landed an academic job as a white and straight male. Based on the Left&#8217;s standards — and Harvard&#8217;s student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admission</a> system — those immutable characteristics do little to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Nonetheless, Stelter is now an esteemed fellow at Harvard and can opine about &#8220;dangers&#8221; to democracy. In short, his class likely won&#8217;t be that much different from his Sunday show.
Stelter regularly spent his time parroting White House talking points — even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for tips on how to cover the Biden administration.  Thus, it probably is not an incorrect prediction to speculate his lectures will be chock-full of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-soul-of-joe-bidens-america-is-dark-as-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denigrating MAGA supporters</a> as &#8220;threats&#8221; like the White House has been doing in recent weeks.
Stelter also gave America a preview of how he handles college kids who challenge his ideas. He pretty much tells them they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about and refuses to answer questions straightforwardly.
The University of Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brian-stelter-cant-handle-the-truth-from-a-college-kid-but-he-wants-your-trust-with-the-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference in April. Stelter was one of the &#8220;experts&#8221; given stage time.
NewsBusters’ Nicholas Fondacaro <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1512125598440824833?s=20&amp;t=IG7_gtEC-jLF-4jucITDuA">flagged</a> one student who pressed the then-CNN and CNN+ star on legacy media&#8217;s malfeasance.
“Freshman Christopher Phillips CALLS OUT Brian Stelter and CNN for being a ‘purveyor of disinformation,'&#8221; Fondacaro tweeted. &#8220;He points to the Russian collusion hoax, Jussie Smollett, the smears of Justice Kavanaugh and Nick Sandmann, and their dismissal of Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Phillips noted that “all the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.”
&#8220;Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence or is there something else behind it?” Phillips asked Stelter.
“I think my honest answer to you — and I’ll come over and talk in more detail after this — is that I think you’re describing a different channel than the one that I watch, but I understand that that is a popular right-wing narrative about CNN,” Stelter retorted.
“I think it’s important when we talk about shared reality and democracy, all these networks, all these news outlets have to defend democracy, and when they screw up — admit it,” Stelter added.
Yet he didn&#8217;t  &#8220;admit&#8221; that CNN botched and incorrectly reported the stories mentioned by Phillips. Instead, he simply dismissed them as part of a talking point contrived by the Right.
Stelter also claimed he was adversarial media because he once got into a shouting match with a Biden aide.
“So that’s the reality of the news business that people don’t see, that people don’t hear,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They imagine that it’s a situation that it simply is not. But I think your question, it speaks to the failure of journalism to show our work and show the reality of how our profession operates. We have a lot of work to do, I think.&#8221;
In other words, the issue with legacy media isn&#8217;t that it is driven by an overarching leftist bias and anti-Trump agenda, but the problem is that the American people are ignorant of how journalism really works.
According to the University of Chicago student, Stelter never did answer his question.
&#8220;Thank you @brianstelter for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans??&#8221; Phillips tweeted after the interaction.
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thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brianstelter</a> for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans?? <a href="https://t.co/ofx0ghtrfD">https://t.co/ofx0ghtrfD</a>
&mdash; Chris Phillips 🚨🇺🇸 (@chrispthetruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrispthetruth/status/1512149034147926022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Now, Stelter is here to save the day by working to mold America&#8217;s next generation of media experts at Harvard.
The Ivy League school&#8217;s motto is &#8220;veritas&#8221; or &#8220;truth.&#8221;
The irony is that if Stelter had been focused on the truth – rather than essentially spending his time painting anybody to the right of Don Lemon as anti-American — he&#8217;d likely still be on CNN and not teaching at Harvard.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Failing Upwards: Brian Stelter Is Heading To Harvard

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Employees at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> are reportedly panicking as Chris Licht, the company&#8217;s new chairman and CEO, is continuing to cut some of the network&#8217;s most hyper-partisan leftist &#8220;talent.&#8221;
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11176729/CNN-staffers-terrified-Brian-Stelter-John-Harwood-fired.html">reported</a> that staffers at the far-left network, which is trying to become more nonpartisan, &#8220;fear a network-wide purge&#8221; of &#8220;woke&#8221; talent at the company.
“People are freaked out,” one CNN journalist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/02/john-harwood-cnn-chris-licht-stelter-opinion/">said</a>. “It almost feels like there’s a pattern. Is there a purge going on? They seem to be sending a message: ‘Watch what you say. Watch what you do.’”
“Longtime CNN personalities are disappearing, and the viewers don’t know why,” another CNN employee said. A producer for the network said it was an &#8220;unsettling time from top to bottom at CNN&#8221; and that no one &#8220;is happy right now.&#8221;
The panic comes after CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network">parted</a> ways with hard-left White House Correspondent John Harwood this week following hyper-partisan remarks from Harwood, including a tweet in which Harwood claimed, “Biden’s assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true.”
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Harwood reached out to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/304686-campaign-collusion-is-cnbcs-john-harwood-too-close-to-the-clinton/">asked</a> him, “What should I ask Jeb?” The Hill noted at the time that Jeb Bush, at the time the email was sent, was the leading Republican contender to take on Clinton.
Harwood’s departure comes weeks after former CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter recorded his last show and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show" rel="noopener">exited</a> the network. Stelter’s exit reportedly came at the behest of CNN chief Chris Licht, who took over the network in February after Jeff Zucker’s exit. Licht has reportedly been driving CNN toward adopting a more nonpartisan stance in its news coverage.
Licht <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/07/cnn-evaluating-partisan-talent-chris-licht">started</a> to evaluate the hyper-partisan so-called “talent” at the network shortly after he joined CNN as he <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/02/26/cnn-chris-licht-liberal-partisanship">aimed</a> to dial down the extreme partisanship that has plagued the network in recent years.
“I want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled,” Licht <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cnn-staff-chris-licht-era-1235201909/">said</a>, according to numerous people who attended Friday’s editorial meeting call. “There will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it.”
Warner Bros. Discovery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report">canceled</a> CNN’s new subscription streaming service, CNN+, earlier this year after it experienced significant struggles in attracting an audience.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.
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Disgraced left-wing journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-rather" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Rather</a> was mocked online late this week after panicking over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> cutting some of its most extreme left-wing voices from the network.
&#8220;What is going on at CNN? It’s a serious question,&#8221; Rather tweeted. &#8220;There is a lot of speculation on directives and motives. What’s really going on? And is it being noticed by the audience?&#8221;
Rather&#8217;s tweet comes after CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network">parted</a> ways with hard-left White House Correspondent John Harwood this week following hyper-partisan remarks from Harwood, including a tweet in which Harwood claimed, &#8220;Biden&#8217;s assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true.&#8221;
Harwood’s departure comes weeks after former CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter recorded his last show and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show" rel="noopener">exited</a> the network. Stelter’s exit reportedly came at the behest of CNN chief Chris Licht, who took over the network in February after Jeff Zucker’s exit. Licht has reportedly been driving CNN toward adopting a more nonpartisan stance in its news coverage.
Rather&#8217;s tweet was mocked online, including by Red State writer Jeff Charles, who responded, &#8220;Seeing lefties melt down over CNN&#8217;s pivot away from being a full-on propaganda mill for the Democratic Party is delicious.&#8221;
&#8220;Dan Rather thinks CNN has an audience,&#8221; radio host Joe Pags Pagliarulo tweeted. &#8220;That&#8217;s cute, Dan.&#8221;
&#8220;Methinks Dan’s guest spots on said network have expired,&#8221; Fox News media analyst Joe Concha responded.
Rather&#8217;s tweet did garner some support online, including from leftist Ameshia Cross, who claimed that CNN was &#8220;dying a shameful death.&#8221;
&#8220;They used to be a valid source,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;I grew up on the network. Today I&#8217;m ashamed of what they&#8217;ve become. And this weird pivot Right attacking Biden&#8217;s speech is the nail in their coffin. With few exception they sound Fox lite w/o the Fox viewership.&#8221;
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CNN is dying a shameful death. They used to be a valid source. I grew up on the network. Today I&#39;m ashamed of what they&#39;ve become. And this weird pivot Right attacking Biden&#39;s speech is the nail in their coffin. With few exception they sound Fox lite w/o the Fox viewership <a href="https://t.co/wCrEmso2uy">https://t.co/wCrEmso2uy</a>
&mdash; Ameshia Cross (@AmeshiaCross) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmeshiaCross/status/1565883517250191360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rather was fired from CBS News in 2004 over false claims that were made about then-President George W. Bush’s National Guard service during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; episode.
&#8220;The fact is that basic journalistic steps were not carried out in a manner consistent with accurate and fair reporting, leading to countless misstatements and omissions in the reporting by 60 Minutes Wednesday and CBS News,&#8221; a panel appointed by CBS News <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-te.to.cbs11jan11-story.html">said</a> in a scathing 224-page report about the episode.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.
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Dan Rather Panics After CNN Continues To Fire Far-Left Employees, Gets Slammed Online

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When CNN’s parent company, Warner Media, merged with Discovery last November, John Malone, the libertarian billionaire who holds a controlling interest in the conglomerate, wasted no time making it clear there was a new sheriff in town. His first order of business—reforming the left-wing practices that have tarnished the news network’s brand and led to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/01/24/in-recent-years-partisan-media-divides-have-grown-largely-driven-by-republican-distrust/">58 percent</a> of Republicans saying they no longer trust the outlet as a news source. Where better to start than at the top?
While conventional wisdom holds that CNN’s former chief, Jeff Zucker, was ousted over a sexual harassment scandal involving star anchor Chris Cuomo, insiders say the incident may have simply been a pretext. Cuomo’s foibles, combined with Zucker’s own affair with his chief marketing officer, gave Malone an easy opening to do what he knew would be necessary in order to return the network to its straight-news roots.
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” Malone, one of the original pioneers of cable TV, told <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/john-malone-says-warnermedia-discovery-getting-rid-of-cnn-would-be-the-cowards-way-out.html">CNBC</a>. “I do believe good journalism could have a role in this future portfolio that Discovery-TimeWarner’s going to represent.”
While not nearly as well-known as his sometime “frenemy” Rupert Murdoch, the 80-year-old Malone has a reputation for fierce business acumen that industry-watchers say has not dulled with age. <a href="https://variety.com/vip/john-malones-cnn-miscalculation-1235180460/">Variety</a>, for instance, recently referred to him as a “mogul’s mogul” who’s no stranger to playing “multi-level chess while the rest of the industry [is playing] checkers.”
And like any successful player, Malone hasn’t been afraid to use the pieces on the board aggressively.
Conservatives had openly wondered how transformational a force Zucker’s replacement, Chris Licht, was likely to be at CNN, given his past as an executive producer for Stephen Colbert. Going by the ouster of first Zucker and then “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, it looks like Malone instincts were right.
Immediately after taking over as CEO, Licht began evaluating anchors and reporters, as well as behind-the-scenes staff, in view of how much political bias shows up in programming. As <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/07/cnn-evaluating-partisan-talent-chris-licht">Axios</a> reported, for on-air talent, that has included treating interviewees respectfully, even if they’re conservatives, so as to avoid accusations of “PR stunts.” For on-air hosts and anchors, it has meant tamping down on editorializing. Regular viewers will note that morning anchor Brianna Keilar’s frequent criticism of competitor Fox News, for example, has all but vanished.
For producers and bookers, the regime change has meant segments that delve into nuance and complexity rather than trying to produce viral moments. It has also meant a directive to stop running “breaking news” chyrons over every other story. “[The breaking news banner] has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience,” Licht said in a note obtained by <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/06/cnn-breaking-news-chris-licht-1235037246/">Deadline</a>. “We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers.”
Those initial steps accomplished, Licht began letting the rank and file know that incendiary language like using the phrase “the big lie” to describe President Trump’s claims he won the 2020 election, would no longer be tolerated. <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/scoop-new-cnn-boss-chris-licht-wants-staff-to-stop-calling-it-the-big-lie/">Mediaite</a> said sources told them that Licht said on a conference call with management that such terminology mirrors Democratic Party branding and talking points too closely, making it harder for viewers to trust that CNN’s reporting is objective.
Of course, the big question was whether the CNN personalities that had become identified with left wing activism would still have a place at a network trumpeting its commitment to return to serious, measured news. We now know that in one prominent case, the answer is no.
“Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter had long been viewed as one of the key drivers of the overtly partisan shift that took place at CNN during the Trump presidency. He didn’t help his case that he could adapt to the network&#8217;s new mission when he sounded off about Malone’s views about CNN back in February before Zucker’s ouster. “The people who say the Zucker-era CNN was lacking in real journalism clearly were not watching CNN directly,&#8221; Stelter wrote in his <a href="https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1644209198071bb997b05542c/raw?utm_term=1644209198071bb997b05542c&amp;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+February+6%2C+2022&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bt_ee=odX068KwXq6PCb%2BQ3p%2FMV0ulTnQCTVvtDMo1%2BJVvXNtbBO%2Fbn4X%2FXQJaN08QMkEJ&amp;bt_ts=1644209198085">newsletter</a>. &#8220;My best guess is that they were watching talking heads and reading columnists complain about CNN. And yes, I&#8217;m including John Malone in this.”
Stelter then added, “That phrasing – especially the words ‘actually have journalists,’ which implied CNN currently doesn&#8217;t – was highly offensive to many staffers. I reported on Sunday&#8217;s ‘Reliable’ that it was disturbing to Zucker, too. Malone&#8217;s comments stoked fears that Discovery might stifle CNN journalists and steer away from calling out indecency and injustice.&#8221;
So it’s hardly surprising Licht decided CNN shouldn’t “stifle” Stelter any longer.
Stelter’s misery may soon have company though. Rumors are flying that CNN’s morning programming will also soon be receiving an overhaul and Jim Acosta, the reporter who made his name with rude antics during the Trump administration’s White House briefings, could soon join Stelter on the unemployment line.
Insiders say that no one’s job is safe right now and Licht is in the middle of an evaluation of the entire organization, including talent and executives. “He’s determined to tamp down spectacle and has discouraged the presentation of content in an alarmist fashion,” a source told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-cnn-boss-christ-licht-determined-tamp-down-spectacle-evaluates-who-should-stick-around">Fox News</a>.
The message seems to be getting through as formerly openly leftist anchors at CNN are suddenly playing it straight.
In June, regular Don Lemon viewers were shocked when he pressed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for answers about President Biden’s health and mental fitness, asking if he had the “stamina” to run for office again.
The spokeswoman seemed surprised to receive such a question from a previously friendly source and struggled to provide an answer, saying, “That is not a question that we should be even asking,”
Lemon later defended his sudden shift into the kind of traditional, adversarial questions reporters used to ask White House press secretaries. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure [Biden] is up to the job,” he said in defense of his question, “but it is my job as a journalist to ask.&#8221;

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CNN’s New Boss Cleans House To Return Far-Left Network To Straight-News Roots

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Podcaster Joe Rogan reacted to Brian Stelter leaving CNN and said “they&#8217;re all on the chopping block” at the network because they &#8220;suck at their job.&#8221;
During Friday&#8217;s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xCeuH6zui8r27ImExB6K6?si=jfAhALdaQjy-BCSNs_GoBQ">podcast</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-the-f-out-of-here-joe-rogan-says-health-dept-showed-up-in-his-studio-in-la-amid-covid-enforcement">host</a> talked with former New York Times reporter and author Alex Berenson about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">Rogan</a> being attacked by CNN for taking “horse dewormer” after he tested positive for the coronavirus in 2021 and the recent layoffs at the network.
“And one of the things that drove me nuts about when they were so mad at me about COVID,” Rogan shared. “Forget about the fact that CNN literally used a filter on my face to make me look jaundiced.”
“We&#8217;ve showed side-by-side clips of the original video that I posted on Instagram,” he said. “And then they took that and put it through a filter that made me look yellow.”
“But all those people are gone now, which is hilarious,” he added. “All those CNN people.”
Berenson replied, “Brian Stelter &#8230; boop.”
“Yeah,” Rogan replied. “They&#8217;re all on the chopping block. Don Lemon&#8217;s on the chopping block. Jim Acosta. They&#8217;re all on their way out. Which is hilarious. But they should because they suck at their job. It has nothing to do with what they did to me.”
The host then showed the original CNN clip to Berenson, who replied that Rogan looked “like the Hulk.”
“Yeah, it&#8217;s crazy,” the podcaster shared. “They wanted to make me look like dog s***. They wanted to make me look like I&#8217;d been smoking &#8230;”
Berenson replied, “Oh, I remember that, horse dewormer!”
Rogan responded saying, “yes,  &#8216;praises horse dewormer,&#8217;” in relation to what CNN had said about him. “Meanwhile, I didn&#8217;t praise it. This is what I did. I listed the things that I took and I said I&#8217;m way better in three days. In five days I was negative. No one cared about that.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show">CNN</a> recently announced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogan-torches-brian-stelter-cnn-do-you-listen-to-other-people-they-talk-very-differently-than-you">Stelter</a> was leaving the company and his media show “Reliable Sources&#8221; would come to an end on August 21, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
Rogan consistently proves he&#8217;s not afraid to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-guys-out-of-your-fing-mind-he-cant-talk-right-anymore-joe-rogan-talks-biden-decline-history-of-lying">tackle any issue</a>, speaking about everything from how President Joe Biden “can’t talk right anymore” to calling out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-rocks-doing-his-fing-job-joe-rogan-blasts-will-smith-after-he-assaulted-rock-at-oscars">Will Smith</a> for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars for just doing his “f***ing job.”
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