Brian J. Karem suddenly became one of America’s most divisive journalists Tuesday when he interrupted Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders by accusing her of “inflaming” feelings against the news media.
Sanders was chiding the news media for using anonymous sources and criticizing a retracted CNN story that led to the resignation of three CNN staffers on Tuesday when Karem decided he’d had enough.
“You’re inflaming everybody, right here, right now with those words,” he said at the White House press briefing. “Any one of us [reporters] are replaceable, and any one of us, if we don’t get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel, or not read us.