This afternoon we told you about the media firefighters who were wilfully misrepresenting President Trump’s dig at Nancy Pelosi. Because of that and other examples it should come as no surprise the media’s doing the same thing in covering the White House’s transcript of Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine. Here’s what’s being done:
Hey everyone!
If you are reporting on the "favor" line from the transcript, without mentioning that the VERY next sentence is about wanting an investigation into meddling in the 2016 election…
…you are being misleading.
It's right here. Come on. pic.twitter.com/JRThTjAza9
— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) September 25, 2019
You can’t say “misleading” without thinking of CNN, and they were among the first in line to spin the transcript in the direction of the Democrats:
CNN just skipped right over it on air earlier this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/1cirnrMglW
— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) September 25, 2019
Meanwhile, over at MSNBC:
MSNBC's @KatyTurNBC did it too.
Absolutely despicable. pic.twitter.com/EFlCO9lz7m
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 25, 2019
You'll be SHOCKED to hear this but MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace did it too and she skipped over HUNDREDS of words in order to smear @realDonaldTrump.
According to the call transcript, the "favor" was about the 2016 election, not about Biden. pic.twitter.com/8FTZuQj3gM
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 25, 2019
Up next, ABC News:
Along those lines, I'm pretty sure this story is just wrong. Four of the times they cite as Trump asking Ukraine to investigate Biden actually has to do with this Crowdstrike thing.https://t.co/8e4IYUqkai pic.twitter.com/MJPNLumJ9C
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) September 25, 2019
NPR took the intent of ellipses to a whole new level for this story:
The highlighted ellipsis in this NPR story represents 526 words https://t.co/8nPQT2gfuA pic.twitter.com/PX2f1Opz16
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) September 25, 2019
“Deliberately misleading” doesn’t even begin to describe what we’re seeing.
I'm not sure I get the people seizing on "I would like you to do us a favor" as the smoking gun, because it transparently has nothing to do with Biden pic.twitter.com/XkWwqeDFr4
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) September 25, 2019
But they want it to have something to do with Biden, so the media will keep spinning it that way until it becomes “truth” for many.
=TRANSCRIPT=
DJT:
– I would like a favor
– Crowdstrike
– AG call
– Mueller clueless
Z reply
– it's important
– open to cooperation
– recalled ambass
– let's be close
– Rudy
– frenz, k?
DJT:
– prosecutor
– Rudy+NY
– old ambass=sux
– Biden's son=MSM=
DJT:
-favor
-Biden's son— Razor (@hale_razor) September 25, 2019
Lie, rinse, repeat.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include an additional tweet.
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