A reporter & CNN political analyst tried to fact check something President Trump said in his State of the Union address last night, and, well, let’s just say it didn’t go a long way towards removing the media’s “fake news” label.
12 hours later and this incorrect tweet is still up. I'm assuming Karem, a CNN contributor, will correct or delete this because *clears throat* facts first.https://t.co/wpDYlg98XM
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) January 31, 2018
Check out this attempt at a “fact check”:
Our motto is "in God we trust." – WRONG. Our motto has been E Pluribus Unum – out of many One.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 31, 2018
Oh really? Nearly 4,000 retweets and counting, except there’s a problem (as is often the case with the media):
Well Bri…. pic.twitter.com/yn5kqcF4m7
— TheRightWingM ?? (@TheRightWingM) January 31, 2018
It's one thing if you don't know this fact, @BrianKarem .
It's another thing entirely when a political analyst "corrects" the President in a gotcha moment while getting the facts abjectly incorrect pic.twitter.com/DwSK9Of0uH— Brad Slager: It's Lt-Col-VP-Rev-Kaiser, SIR ? ? (@MartiniShark) January 31, 2018
“Journalism!”
https://twitter.com/JamesHasson20/status/958568857848942592
Maybe first he should have at least tried, “Hey Alexa, would this tweet be an apple or a banana?”
https://twitter.com/Real_Johannes_P/status/958711251932135424
https://twitter.com/SpaceRacer423/status/958707953107906560
https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/958695620537143296
It's actually correct, but enjoy your thousands of RTs https://t.co/lPqpNErPVh
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 31, 2018
And they wonder why the “fake news” label sticks?
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