Come ON! Who's buying Headline News' excuse for censoring hero's pro-Trump shirt?

Doug P. | 2:23 PM on September 01, 2016

As we reported earlier, CNN Headline News interviewed a retired New Jersey police officer named Steve Eckel who rescued a baby left inside a car while her mother was shopping. During the interview, Eckel was wearing a “Trump for President” shirt. When the interview was replayed later on, it was noticed that the t-shirt was blurred out so as to be unreadable.

Media bias in action: Check out how Headline News censored this hero's Trump shirt https://t.co/fg39Tds4oK

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 1, 2016

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/771349534811316224

HLN claims this is the reason it happened:

HLN spokeswoman's response: "We blurred the logo and shouldn’t have; it was done in error." https://t.co/a3tn26RwKv

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 1, 2016

Anybody buy that one?

https://twitter.com/lenardgamergate/status/771399696954843137

someone probably tripped and fell on the blur button.

— Sarah (@mamaswati) September 1, 2016

Hey, could happen.

How does someone blur a logo in error? https://t.co/oFHpTBnr0E

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 1, 2016

"error of judgment" is how they ought to have phrased it

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) September 1, 2016

https://twitter.com/PrivilegedMan/status/771399836398592000

@brianstelter Probably an intern going to her "safe space".

— Linda Rarey (@LRarey) September 1, 2016

Someone doesn't. Someone blurs it purposefully and then says "It was in error" when caught. https://t.co/qNiPU3mUyl

— Kim Priestap (@kimpriestap) September 1, 2016