If CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter had thought through his critique of the Fox News interview with the Duggar family carefully, he might have shut his mouth sooner.
Getting Jim Bob Duggar and his wife, Michelle, to sit down for an interview was a goldmine.
Was CNN just upset that the Duggars went with FNC and Megyn Kelly?
As reported by The Cable Game blog, Stelter took a cheap shot at Kelly on his Sunday program regarding her questions that began with the words “Critics say…”
Instead of inserting herself and her own beliefs into the interview, Kelly framed her toughest questions for the Duggars like this:
“What the critics are going for is that you shouldn’t have been preaching about moral values when you had a secret like this your own family,” she said. “The main charge we’ve heard from your critics has been, they’re hypocrites. They preached family values.”
Stelter claimed that Kelly’s questions cast the Duggars as victims of the media.
The Cable Game was quick to call Stelter out on his accusation. The blog cited 9 instances of CNN anchors, including — hilariously — Stelter, who employed the phrase “critics say” when reporting a story.
The blog suggested that Stelter was more interested in sticking it to Fox News than in his charge that using “critics say” was an attempt to frame the parents of Josh Duggar, the son who molested four of his younger sisters and a babysitter, as victims. (On a side note, how he got away with molesting the babysitter is beyond The Mirror‘s imagination.)
Any way you cut it, there was nothing easy about that Duggar interview. But Jim Bob and Michelle were able to get in those “Jesus” moments any chance they got. They were also able to discuss “safeguards” they used to keep Josh away from the children without ever fully explaining what those safeguards were. In a subsequent interview with Duggar daughters Jessa and Jill, Kelly was able to learn more about those safeguards, which involved locked bedroom doors and the daughters not sitting in their male siblings’ laps.
None of which saved them from being molested, no matter how evil the media allegedly was in unearthing the Duggar family secrets.
