As I noted last week, the last couple of months have been pretty brutal for CNN’s junior media hall monitor Oliver Darcy.
He was nuked – twice – by Fox News’ anchor Bret Baier after trying to pick journalism fights with him. Then at one point, Darcy was even thrown under the bus by his equally obnoxious partner in crime Karen Brian Stelter, who couldn’t run away from Darcy’s embarrassingly petty attacks on the respected Fox News veteran reporter fast enough.
In addition to that, GWU law prof Jonathan Turley taught Darcy an important lesson this month on the importance of free speech after Darcy called for Twitter to censor President Trump’s Twitter account.
Here we are a few weeks later, and Darcy’s still at it with the Fox attacks, this time against Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo, who has gotten on CNN’s naughty list over the last couple of months because she had the nerve to listen to guests who talked about the Trump campaign’s election fraud allegations.
It all started with a tweet from videographer Jim Maiella, who seemed to be wondering why some in the media had moved on from Bartiromo’s alleged journalistic transgressions to write unrelated stories about her:
The "what happened to Maria Bartiromo?" embargo must have lifted. @sarahellison and @SteveBattaglio both out with competing head-scratchers this morning. @washingtonpost:https://t.co/QcrZ5dx72R@latimes: https://t.co/XpDPEngSGw
— Jim Maiella (@jimmaiella) December 23, 2020
Darcy then proceeded to give his version of what he believed was going on, accusing her of being a “full-blown propagandist.” He then pitched a fit about why other media outlets had the gall not to play by CNN’s hypocritical rules:
Here’s what happened: She, like many of her colleagues at Fox, became a full-blown propagandist. This should not be controversial to observe (it’s has been clear for some time), yet neither story calls her in clear-eyed terms for what she is. https://t.co/0i8wpFOs9J
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 23, 2020
In his next tweet, Darcy gave what may have well been the least self-aware tweet in Twitter history:
At what point will most news orgs inform their readers that there are propagandists on a major channel in this country? They aren’t mere opinion hosts. Not journalists. They’re propagandists. What more must they do to show their true colors before news orgs identify them as such?
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 23, 2020
Keep in mind that this is the same guy who works for the same “news” network that has effectively become state-run TV for the Biden-Harris campaign, with numerous “reporters” there saying the quiet part out loud in recent weeks about how they operate from a pro-Democrat perspective.
Daily Caller responded to Darcy by essentially calling his bluff:
Has CNN covered this story yet today? pic.twitter.com/vVSVpOi3GZ
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 23, 2020
In fairness, Jake Tapper kinda sorta “covered” it – if him retweeting an Atlanta news outlet’s tweet on the story “coverage.”
Anyway, the funny thing is that one doesn’t even need to be a fan of Fox News to point out the obvious:
In an attempt to trash Fox News, @oliverdarcy describes himself and CNN down to the tee. Honestly, 90% of journalism has rotted to this, including Fox.
I will admit, Oliver has some huge cajones to stare people in the face and say this, knowing he is exactly the same. https://t.co/08hyP6rXiu
— Jonathan Mosgrove (@JonMosgrove) December 23, 2020
I mean we actually have tapes now of the CNN conference calls where they talked about suppressing the New York Post’s explosive story on Hunter Biden back in October, but yeah, Oliver, please do enlighten us again with your hilarious lecturing about what is and isn’t journalism and just who the supposed real “propagandists” are. Mmkay.
.@oliverdarcy lecturing another journalist for allegedly being a "full-blown propagandist" is like Stacey Abrams scolding those who lose on election day for not conceding in a timely manner. https://t.co/cb5QjrXjA9
— Sister Toldjah, VP of BS Detection 😁 (@sistertoldjah) December 23, 2020
Need I say more?
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