'You'd Rather Fearmonger': Ana Kasparian Uses Facts To Take Down CNN's Tea Party Pundit
Ana Kasparian, host of The Young Turks, schooled conservative CNN guest Scottie Nell Hughes on Sunday for suggesting that Muslims were a bigger problem for Americans than income inequality.
CNN host Brian Stelter posited on Reliable Sources that the media were "deaf" to the frustrations of Americans because they did not understand what it was like to be poor or what it was like to live in rural area.
Kasparian hinted that CNN was not blameless, observing that both the "establishment media" and politicians had been corrupted by the same forces.
"So it's really difficult for mainstream -- let's say, cable outlets -- to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues," she explained.
Hughes disagreed: "When we have 94 million people out of the workforce, we see terrorism issues not only abroad but here at home, those are the stories that are leading our headlines."
"And so, a journalist has to have their head completely in the sand if they don't realize that that is what people are watching, and the ratings show that those types of headlines make it," the Tea Party pundit added.
Kasparian pointed out to Hughes that "a lot of the issues that matter to the electorate don't get covered at all."