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Double standard charged in CNN hit on Trump UN pick, former Fox host washex.am/2HOUkYQ
President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, former Fox moderator Heather Nauert, is under fire in a CNN report for “once” hosting a panel of “anti-Muslim” experts -- the very same experts CNN has featured over the past decade.
According to the CNN report, Nauert hosted a panel on Fox 10 years ago that discussed “unfounded conspiracy theories that Islamic fundamentalists are secretly trying to destroy America by changing the country's institutions and culture and imposing Sharia law.”
Among those interviewed, said the report, were “anti-Muslim activists Frank Gaffney and Robert Spencer, as well as Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah, who is a prominent Muslim critic of aspects of Islam.”
However, those same experts have been used many times by many news outlets for years.
And CNN is one of the outlets that has relied on them repeatedly, according to a search which showed they have appeared in news stories and on the shows of Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
And CNN is one of the outlets that has relied on them repeatedly, according to a search which showed they have appeared in news stories and on the shows of Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
Gaffney, for example, has appeared in at least four CNN reports since 2010. Spencer has been in at least two and Fatah four in 2006-2007.
