Last night, Rachel Maddow ran with a story about the White House deceptively editing footage of the joint presser between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. She really, really pushed this thing:
White House edits video to remove question about whether Putin wanted Trump to win. pic.twitter.com/ExlsHNlgF8
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 25, 2018
White House transcript of Trump/Putin presser has edited out the question asking Vladimir Putin if he wanted Donald Trump to win the election. pic.twitter.com/asI1JUnTG1
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 25, 2018
As it turned out, her story was B.S. But the narrative was out there, and that was all that really mattered. Which is why she was fine waiting until this afternoon to “update” the original story:
We’ve updated the text on our A block video clip from last night. https://t.co/phmOJnitXA
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 25, 2018
And we’re sure that will get as much attention as the original did. Oh, wait:
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1022208503350321152
This is profoundly irresponsible on the part of @MSNBC and @maddow
….but they don't care.
They need to delete the original, do a massive segment fixing it and apologize. Or, she needs to be given a break by MSNBC. Ugh. https://t.co/xaFJ7tGkJ3
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) July 25, 2018
If you’re looking for an apology, don’t hold your breath. Maddow’s taking a page from Brian Stelter’s book and digging in her heels:
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This is one possible explanation for why the White House transcript & video from Helsinki doesn’t include Putin saying he wanted Trump to win.
But Putin really did say that in Helsinki…
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 25, 2018
…and the White House transcript & video still does leave it out.
WaPo now says it has updated its own transcript. Will the White House?
After more than a week of reporting on the bad transcript (see link below)…
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 25, 2018
(1): White House has let it stand uncorrected, and
(2): POTUS now asserts that Putin wants *Dems* to win, not him.
I love WaPo with the heat of 1000 suns, but nothing here from WaPo disproves our report.
3/3
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 25, 2018
FFS, Rachel. You lied. You were caught lying. Be a mature adult for once in your life and own it.
Your report asserts that the video was edited and implies that the incomplete transcript was posted intentionally. There's no evidence for the first point and my piece provides context to suggest that the second was unintentional.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 25, 2018
then why was an update necessary?https://t.co/RuDBbQsaTz
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) July 25, 2018
You're misrepresenting your initial claim & avoiding the correction. Your report was not simply that the WH "has let it stand uncorrected", it was that WH *intentionally edited the exchange* ("skillfully cut out"/"edits video to remove question"/"edited to remove the question"): pic.twitter.com/7JHRHPEOvf
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) July 25, 2018
You're asking WaPo to prove a negative, that Trump *didn't* maliciously edit the briefing video. You made the claim that they did, and WaPo showed that your "evidence" wasn't. The burden of proof shifts back to you.https://t.co/KTHSEAxZD7
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) July 25, 2018
"Wow, John Podesta used 'pizza' as a code for child prostitution!"
"Uh, it probably meant 'pizza.'"
"That's one explanation. But you have not disproven my claims and I stand by my report."
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) July 25, 2018
Rachel Maddow intentionally lied to her viewers last night.
UPDATE: Okay, so a more ready explanation is that she just made a mistake. But you can't PROVE my original claim was wrong, so I'm just going to double down.
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) July 25, 2018
We have you on tape saying otherwise. You have some cheek to just brazenly lie like this.
— Art Vandelay ?? (@moriyakari) July 25, 2018
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Update:
Go figure! Brian Stelter doesn’t seem too upset about Maddow’s deception:
MSNBC framed this as "White House edits video to remove question about whether Putin wanted Trump to win." Maddow made it sound *intentional.* Now there's been an innocent explanation and MSNBC has revised its web headline. But viewers were left thinking the WH was being sneaky https://t.co/iAbmVyBVua
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 25, 2018
Maddow says the bigger issue is the fact that the WH hasn't fixed the transcript for more than a week https://t.co/8IaAFjmES1
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 25, 2018
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