CNN’s ratings may be circling the drain, but the script hasn’t changed.
Within minutes of another attempt on President Trump’s life, the network was already doing what it always does:
blaming guns before the facts were even known.
Minutes after the third attempt to murder President Donald J. Trump — along with senior members of his staff — CNN’s Idiot-in-Chief Brian Stelter was already on the air calling for more gun control.
“As CNN anchor Victor Blackwell put it when I joined him on air this morning, ‘The people in that room were confronted with what schoolchildren and moviegoers and congregants and people at grocery stores have been confronted with, and that is the threat of gun violence,’” Stelter wrote in an analysis piece titled “An extraordinary moment for America’s media elite is all too ordinary in America.”
Ah, the poor media elite felt confronted. Really? The bad guy didn’t even enter their room. Many of them never heard a gunshot.
Stelter then quoted another CNN hack, Jim Sciutto, whose take you can probably already imagine.
“One thing we know is that there will be a lot of discussion afterwards about security measures. (A discussion about) rhetoric, perhaps, as well. There won’t be any substantive discussion about access to weapons, right? There just won’t,” Sciutto reportedly said.
Stelter cited his own reply in his column.
“I told him that Americans skip that part of the conversation, and then the rest of the world looks at us and thinks we’re crazy,” he said.
The suspect hadn’t even been booked, much less made his first court appearance, but Stelter was already pounding the gun-control drum — and we’re the crazy ones? It’s the same playbook the anti-gun media ran after the last Trump assassination attempt, and the one before that.
A Failed Anchor at a Failing Network
Stelter, who is only 40, cohosted CNN’s Reliable Sources for nearly 10 years until it was cancelled in 2022 because its ratings were abysmal. Stelter wasn’t pleased to be unemployed, but he defended his role at the highly partisan show.
“It’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” he reportedly said in defiance.
Sure.
CNN brought Stelter back in 2024, but only part time. His role was greatly reduced. He wrote a newsletter for CNN’s website and appeared on air occasionally, but he no longer hosted his own show. He had no show to host.
Nowadays CNN is dying. Its ratings are terrible. According to Adweek, in March FOX News pulled almost 3 million primetime viewers while CNN managed just 898,000 total — and even that uptick was driven by war coverage.
CNN didn’t place a single show in the Top 15 news programs. FOX News had 13. MS NOW had two.
Apparently none of that bothered Stelter, who used an assassination attempt to goose his own personal ratings. Within minutes of the suspect being hauled away, Stelter was popping up on dozens of websites and social media accounts — not saying much of substance, since he didn’t actually see anything, but happily blasting guns and the people who own them.
He Doesn’t Know Guns. He Just Knows the Script provided to him by the network
Stelter joined the media right out of college. Translation: he’s never done much of anything substantive. I doubt he’s ever fired a gun. I doubt he knows the difference between an AR and an AK. So how does he get away with disparaging our Second Amendment rights on a national platform?
Simple. He works for CNN.
Every single time CNN covers a gun-related issue, it fails. Remember their graphic of what they claimed was a bump stock?
Or the network’s much-hyped “Guns in America” beat team, stacked three-to-one with anti-gun voices?
Every gun-related story the network produces carries the same overall message: guns are bad and must all be banned.
That’s how shills like Stelter keep their shrinking roles at the network. Keep telling the dwindling audience that guns are bad, and the paycheck keeps clearing.
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