Cable News Squabble: Fox News Slams MSNBC, CNN Bashes Fox News

Fox News, MSNBC and CNN have all taken to their corners of the cable news ring, and each came out swinging at the other Sunday. CNN’s Brian Stelter began Sunday’s “Reliable Sources” blaming Fox News for President Trump’s “pattern of racism” as demonstrated by his recent tweetstorm belittling Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and calling his 7th district in Baltimore a “rat and rodent infested mess.” “The tweets are factually inaccurate in several ways … and the result of Trump getting distorted information from his friends at Fox News. Those friends are actually doing him a disservice,” Stelter said, adding that “racist and ridiculous stereotyping of a part of the country is damaging to the country as a whole.” Also Read: 'Racist Moron' Trump Would 'Wet Himself' If He Visited Baltimore, 'Wire' Creator David Simon Says Stelter asked where Trump got this “distorted impression of the 7th district.” “The answer, as is often the case, is right on Fox News,” he said. Stelter then focused in on a “Fox & Friends” segment with Republican strategist Kimberly Klacik that aired early Saturday morning in which compiled footage of impoverished neighborhoods of Baltimore suggested the city was nothing but abandoned buildings and trash-lined...