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Forever earnest Brian Stelter tweeted out his late-night appearance on CNN with Abby Phillip.
βMSNBCβs [Rachel] Maddow is right to be thinking aloud about the possible repercussions of a second Trump term,β he typed. βOther media types and political veterans are doing the same thing. What might βretributionβ look like? What are the pressure points that Trump could target?β
In a softball email interview with Maddow, CNNβs Oliver Darcy warned about the MAGA crowd: ββ¦ Some of his extremist allies even talking about jailing their fellow Americans. Youβre one of his most notable critics on television. Are you worried that you could be a target?β Itβs like he doesnβt know Peter Navarro is in jail, and Steve Bannon is scheduled for jail over refusing to testify to the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6.
Maddow implied something about Donald Trumpβs campaign promise of mass deportations: βFor that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps heβs planning are only for migrants? Iβm worried about meβbut only as much as Iβm worried about all of us.β
Trump and his closest lieutenants have openly talked a big game about taking revenge on anti-Trump media outlets, so that concern is legitimate. Itβs the crazy talk about prison camps for cable-news hosts that sounds cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. But Stelter thinks itβs right to βbe thinking aloud.β
Thatβs the pattern of the anti-Trump media. Since 2015, they have constantly βthought aloudβ about the wildest conspiracy theories. Trump is a Russian agent. Trump paid Moscow hookers to urinate on a bed the Obamas used. Trump is Hitler, or Mussolini, or whatever autocrat you can find. Trump will kill millions more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined. (Stelter rolled out the red carpet for that last insanity on his CNN show. Even PolitiFact couldnβt avoid flagging that.)
Right now, the anti-Trump, pro-Biden media is projecting panic about a second term, and imagining nothing about what a second Biden term would look likeβespecially whether Bidenβs mental decline will reach a crisis point.
But waitβconsider the first half of Stelterβs interview with Phillip. She played a series of clips of conservatives complaining about top Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo joining the Manhattan district attorneyβs prosecution of Trump. How hard is it to connect dots here? Easier than the nonexistent βpee tapesβ CNN promoted.
Stelter said this amazing thing: βI think theyβre trying to make sense of a complex world. Conspiracy theories help simplify complexity. But they do so by taking shortcuts. And in the real world, in real life, with real-world thinking, there are no shortcuts. These guys are trying to take shortcuts, trying to use code words and buzzwords and propaganda in order to satisfy an audience by taking shortcuts. And there are no shortcuts in this real, complex world.β
This is coming from Stelter, who also touted on X his fanciful New Republic article imagining everyone but Fox and Newsmax is banished from the White House. That article was a nut pie of conspiracy theories.
Finally, the irony of Stelter imagining IRS audits or White House media access bans under Trump ignores the fact that Stelter and his pal Darcy have openly campaigned for Fox News and other conservative outlets to be deplatformed from television. Itβs not about βfreedom of speech, but freedom of reach.β Itβs not frightening that Stelter has written two books attacking Fox News as a poisonous presence on TV. Because the conservative media is never βnews.β CNN and MSNBC are βnews.β
Their crazy conspiracy theories are treated as facts, and conservative facts like Colangeloβs connections become crazy conspiracy theories.
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