'They Suspended Suspicion!' CNN Hosts Slam Fox News For Not Running Hard Enough With Russia Hoax

.@CNN personalities @brianstelter and @secupp bashing @FoxNews personalities for being glad that Fox News didn't participate in the big, two-year-long collusion hoax pic.twitter.com/xCgVAL6Q1N

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) March 31, 2019

CUPP: So Fox News personalities, it's not surprising, they are insisting that they are the paragons of journalism in that journalism virtue and that they didn't obsess over Mueller the way others did. But my opinion Fox is not the antidote to this problem. It is the sedative. It is like the roofie of this problem. I mean Fox isn't suspicious at all if you can accuse some of being a little too suspicious Fox has suspended suspicion. And so I think Fox is trying to get away with whistling past a graveyard.

STELTER: The H word comes to mind, hypocrisy. There's a lot of hypocrisy in the past week from folks who are saying the media should apologize to Trump. Well, first of all, there's no such thing as media, right?

CUPP: Right.

STELTER: Everybody has their own version of media. What I read on Facebook, what you read on Twitter, two different worlds, very different worlds, everybody has their own view of media these days. But Fox commentators are saying the mainstream media journalists and news outlets were too interested in this story.

I would back up and point out that there was a bipartisan consensus about the concern about Russia's attack against the United States. There was a lot of concern about Trump's lies and Trump world's misleading statements about that attack. There was a lot of reason here to be suspicious. And journalist's jobs are to ask those questions and be suspicious.

CUPP: You have to be suspicious, yes.

STELTER: Now, a lot of folks on Fox who were attacking mainstream media right now – “mainstream media” -- they are saying that this was a conspiracy theory. Well, some of those folks have also pushed their own conspiracy theories.

CUPP: Yes, plenty of them.

STELTER: So I think that's important context. But journalists should be reflective. This is a great moment to be reflective ...

CUPP: I agree, yes.

STELTER: ... about the past two years, about how much focus was there on Trump-Russia versus some of the other policy decisions and issues that are in the news.