CNN’S HEADLINE NEWS CHANNEL CENSORS HERO’S PRO-TRUMP T-SHIRT:

On Thursday, the Washington Free Beacon’s David Rutz spotlighted HLN’s censorship of a hero’s pro-Trump T-shirt during a rebroadcast of an interview on his rescue of a baby from a hot car. Rutz (who won the MRC’s Media Blogger of the Year Award on Wednesday) outlined that former police officer Steve Eckle “donned a blue T-shirt saying, ‘2016 Trump for President.’ However, in a rerun of the interview…his shirt was blurred out.” HLN’s sister network, CNN, had no such qualms nearly a month earlier, as it ran Fareed Zakaria’s “bulls**t artist” label of Trump uncensored.

Click over to see the before and after video of Eckle’s T-shirt; it’s akin to CNN in 2008 creating “the Wright-Free Zone” for Obama one week after declaring Wright’s virulently racist speech to the NAACP “a home-run.” And Ari Fleischer’s juxtaposition is much more recent. As he tweets, “Kaepernick sits during Anthem. Gets coverage. Man wears pro-Trump shirt on TV. Coverage blurred. Disgusting.”

Matthew Balan of NewsBusters adds, “Several hours after Rutz’s post, the Washington Examiner’s T. Becket Adams Tweeted an update about the controversy: ‘HLN spokeswoman in a statement to me just now: ‘We blurred the logo and shouldn’t have; it was done in error.’”

Well, that’s one way to describe what happened.