Brian Stelter Deletes Conspiracy Theory Tweet About Biden, Parkinson's

     Overweight buffoon Brian Stelter has become the latest out-of-touch corporate "media" millionaire to call on President Biden to drop out after his underwhelming performance on the CNN debate. This comes the same day as polling showed Biden tied with Trump and the day after figures showed Biden significantly outraised Trump in June. Unlike many others, it has become something of an obsession for the washed-up CNN opinionist.

     Stelter has shared dozens of pieces from various sources via his Twitter account calling on President Biden to resign and pull out of the race. This is in spite of the fact that CNN's own polling showed just five percent of people changing their mind after the debate and that said fraction was comprised of roughly equal numbers of Trump and Biden supporters. Perhaps it is because Stelter has a grandiose, antiquated vision in which his opinion and his network singlehandedly determine American election outcomes and that Americans still somehow rely on cable news networks in the era of social media, networks that have about as high approval ratings from the American public as Congress and the Supreme Court do.

     However, whatever his reason, his spree of tweets that would impress an equally-overweight former 45th president is nothing short of pathetic. Stelter accused the left of "conspiratorial thinking" and said that outlets like CNN were simply reporting the news. When one user pointed out that the Supreme Court had just turned the office of the presidency into a de facto monarchy with comparatively little coverage or criticism from "left-wing" sources like CNN, Stelter replied, "To be fair, the court ruling was more than 24 hours ago." The fact that he called a landmark Supreme Court decision old news because it happened over 24 hours ago while still tweeting incessantly about a debate that happened nearly a week ago demonstrates an astounding lack of self-awareness from somebody whose job is allegedly to help people be informed.

     His lowest tweet attempting to advance his narrative and generate headlines and dollar signs came when President Biden signed H.R. 2365, a landmark bill that mandates the federal government create and evaluate a whole-of-government approach to ending Parkinson's disease. Stelter retweeted the article with the caption, "Today of all days." Apparently, Stelter is so absorbed in the clickbait world of personal politics that he forgot that the president's job is to govern. Apparently, he also forgot basic civics. The bill passed Congress in May, and the president has a deadline to sign or veto legislation during each session of Congress.

     Stelter has since deleted the tweet, but this level of disconnect from a noteworthy "left-wing" figure who calls himself a journalist should be a warning about the state of the press left, right, and center in the United States. It's one thing to report news. What Stelter and the other figures who have spent decades insulated from regular Americans are doing is creating news, each voicing their opinion and then reporting on those opinions as major developments in a bizarre mutual stroking of egos.

     Stelter accused the left of "conspiratorial thinking," and yet a bill being signed by the president the week after a poor debate performance was evidence of some kind of distraction or cover-up to Stelter. In every single one of his asinine tweets, he is called out much more than he is agreed with, and yet he can't admit the possibility that he might be wrong, so he keeps doubling down like a pouting child.

     CNN's own post-debate polling had 95 percent of Americans unchanged in their voting plans for November, and the defectors came in roughly equal numbers on both sides after the debate. One single bad stage performance isn't the end of anyone's career in 2024, and yet Stelter and others like him think they can stop a movement if they shout loudly enough. He's wrong. Debates mean nothing. Speeches mean nothing. Polls mean nothing. Voters mean everything. Vote in November.