Leaving aside whether CNN and Senator Hatch’s staff need to be teaming up against a Colbert writer, how could it be anything other than sarcasm?https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1048981027568402438 …
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It seems we agree you wouldn’t have posted this if there wasn’t a “significant right wing backlash.”
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correct. but it's ridiculous to say i "teamed up" with anyone.
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I meant no more than that right wing voices held up a relatively powerless and arbitrarily chosen individual’s tweet for scorn and pillory and in so doing attracted coverage critical of the individual from a CNN reporter.
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At a certain point, repeating a bad faith attack is the same as endorsing it, no matter how many times you say RT aren’t endorsements
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you have 600,000 followers and you need to own the responsibility of that platform
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follower counts are not accurate. only a tiny, tiny fraction of that 600,000 # see my tweets. but putting that aside, i take responsibility for all my tweets.
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Treating this as an isolated incident and not a particularly ugly and cowardly salvo in an ongoing culture war is malpractice for a media commentator
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You're so poorly equipped to be a good media critic
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i'm not a media critic. i'm a reporter who covers the media world. i welcome your feedback about how to be a better reporter
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Maybe stop being a credulous dope whose only North Star is some false notion of “balance.” The people who feed you lines aren’t your friends
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Feels like you are magnifying a non-story to appease right-wing critics who view you as a left-wing hack. If her job is the cost of your quest to appear sufficiently "both sides," then rock on man, keep at it. Just feels wrong.
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magnifying a non-story... how? did i cover it on TV in front of a million viewers? did i write a whole story about it? no, i posted a single tweet. seems like the opposite of magnifying to me.
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they will always view you as a left wing hack no matter what. stop being a sucker
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It's very predictable Brian. Right wing posts some obvious bad faith BS and you guys treat it as if it's legitimate. We're sick of it.
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when did i "treat it as if it's legitimate?" what's noteworthy is that she expressed regret
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Proper context would entail boilerplate to the effect of, "Right wing figures with far greater influence - all the way up to and including the President - issue statements just as and often more controversial every day, without apology (or even demand for it) from most quarters."
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His life is “so ruined” give me a break. Brian you’re falling right into their narrative.

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who said his life is "ruined?" i didn't say that.
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