Do not let that pretty face fool you, Katrina Pierson, the national spokesperson for Donald Trump, does not mess around.
The up-and-coming Tea Party star emerging from Dallas, Texas, blasted CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday morning—and it was lovely. Pierson did three main things here: she pointed out specific examples of media bias, exposed Stelter in a moment of contradiction, and underscored why the American people largely do not trust the media.
Pierson points out specific examples of media bias
Stelter began by asking Pierson what the “dishonest media” (referring to Donald Trump’s words from a previous clip) don’t “get” or “understand” about the Republican president front-runner Donald Trump.
Wrong move, Stelter.
Pierson explained that the media don’t “get" Trump and mostly loath him simply because he “isn't playing by their rules," and that their “rules” “don't apply to a Democrat.”
“We didn't see coverage on CNN wall-to-wall recently when the administration came out and said they wanted to add ‘biometrics’ to the vetting process for refugees, because guess what, that's gonna be in a ‘database.’ But we did hear for two weeks that Donald Trump want the ‘database’ for the Muslim refugees and it was insanity,” said Pierson.
“We don't hear back-to-back coverage on CNN about Hillary Clinton lying to the American public knowing that we had a terrorist attack in Benghazi, she blamed an American citizen who made a video—yet, we spent weeks on talking about a headcount when Muslims celebrated 9-11, so I think that goes to show the dishonesty in media,” added Pierson.
The spokesperson also pointed out that MSNBC falsely reported on Friday that Mr. Trump was forced to “abruptly” leave his stage early at rally in North Carolina, which Pierson called a blatant lie and noted that there is a video to prove the contrary. (Stelter did not push back on this one bit.)
“What do you view the job of the press to be? Do you believe we should be fact-checking the comments that Mr. Trump makes?” Stelter asked Pierson.
“I think the press should be reporting both sides of the story. I mean, when was the last time you 'fact-checked' Barack Obama? Because we haven’t seen that lately,” said Pierson. “Are you telling me you fact-checked global warming as the cause of radical Islamic terrorists? You ‘fact-checked’ that?!"
“Did you fact-check that California gun control laws would have prevented a terrorist attack?” she asked, already knowing the obvious answer.
No adequate response was given by Stelter.
Pierson exposes Stelter in a moment of contradiction
Stelter then attempted to disprove the claim that Muslims celebrated after the 9/11 attacks in America by asking Pierson if she meant “a very small handful” when she spoke of the celebrations happening—since there have been “no reports” of such an event.
“No. I mean radical Muslims celebrating 9/11 in America,” answered Pierson decisively.
But the CNN anchor could not help himself; he persisted on about the 9-11 celebrations.
“Yes, I can prove that it's not true because there's absolutely no documentation, there's no videos no photos, no police report, no crime reports,” said Stelter before he was interrupted by Pierson.
“Are you sure about that? Maybe you should ‘fact-check’ that and then we'll talk about that next time?” asked Pierson, hilariously baiting Stelter.
Pierson then listed all the reports, video and names of higher-ups who have confirmed that there were indeed Muslim celebrations soon after 9/11, to which Stelter awkwardly chose to “pivot” out of the conversation after a couple seconds of a silent pause.
Pierson underscores why the American people do not trust the media
Exposing just how elitist and condescending the American media are, Stelter asked about the “disconnect” between lowly “non-college educated” Trump supporters and his highly educated cohorts.
“Do you think media and political elites are disconnect from this support since our polls show that he’s super-charged by 'non-college educated' voters?" asked Stelter. "Most journalists who are writing stories, who are on television do have college degrees. So I do wonder if that’s part of the disconnect between the press and the Trump campaign?”
“Many of us have college degrees too, by the way,” quipped Pierson."You don’t get it,” she added. “The problem we have here, people are starting to see through the media bias. People know for a fact that the answer to keeping Americas safe is not to disarm them. That’s what the media and the elites don’t understand.”
Media takedown, complete.