CNSNews.com had a weird inability to separate an actor from his role when it came to Rob Reiner, repeatedly insisting on referring to him as “Meathead” — even though he hasn’t played that role in nearly half a century — as a lazy form of revenge for his criticism for his criticism of Donald Trump. CNS did this one last time before it was shut down, in an anonymously written (of course) March 22 article, which made sure to prominently place “Meathead” in the headline:
Rob Reiner, who played Archie Bunker’s son-in-law (“Meathead”) on All in the Family, sent out a tweet on March 18 stating that the reason he joined Twitter was to have a platform for attacking former President Donald Trump.
“When Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president in 2016, I joined Twitter,” Reiner said in a tweet.
“I wanted to speak out against a man who I knew to be a Pathologically Lying Misogynistic Racist who was an is an existential danger to our Democracy,” Reiner continued.
“The elimination of this scourge is upon US,” he said.
The anonymous writer did not fact-check Reiner’s tweet, or was it explained why the tweet was so important that it deserved its own “news” story — aside, of course, from yet another opportunity for CNS to try to lazily dunk him by throwing around the word “Meathead.” And, yes, the article was illustrated with a nearly 50-year-old photo of him and Carroll O’Connor from “All in the Family.”
Maybe this insistence on presenting lazy partisan attacks as “news” was one reason the Media Research Center pulled the plug on CNS.