Radio Show Host Levin Mocks Media for Circling Around CNN Reporter

Conservative radio show host Mark Levin this week mocked members of the media who "circled the wagons" around CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, who was barred from a White House event after she shouted questions at President Donald Trump.

Levin, on his radio show "The Right Scoop," pointed out that when a conservative reporter, Neil Munroe, formerly of The Daily Caller, interrupted then-President Barack Obama in 2012 to ask questions about a policy of allowing illegal immigrant minors in the country, he was cut off and shut down.

"Obama cut him off and shut him down and the media agree with him, no circling of the wagons around Mr. Munro," said Levin. "I don't remember news organizations putting out statements defending Neil Munro, do you? And he wasn't in the Oval Office, the time wasn't cut off, Obama wasn't with another foreign leader, he wasn't being asked about prosecutors and such investigating him and such, because that didn't happen of course because he's Obama. They'd never do that, but he asked a policy question," said Levin.

Collins asked her questions while Trump was at the Oval Office with European Union Commission leader Jean-Claude Juncker, shouting out about tapes CNN had of the president talking with former lawyer Michael Cohen over payments to a Playboy model.

The media, including Fox, circled around Collins, but many accused Munro of being a racist after interrupting Obama, said Levin.

He also pointed out that three reporters representing conservative outlets backing Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain's campaign in 2008 were not allowed to enter the Obama campaign plane.

"He gets rid of the conservatives, gets rid of them, and by the way Glamour magazine and others were allowed to stay on the plane," said Levin.

Levin complained that there are reporters who say they're defending their First Amendment rights when they're asking a president anything, but "there's other parts of the First Amendment that they don't believe in, like religious liberty."

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