Hey, we all make mistakes, right? However, whenever the usual suspects in the media report something that isn't true, it's not really a "mistake" (if they were actually mistakes they'd occasionally favor the other side). For example, can anybody think of a legacy media error that made Trump look better? If an example exists I can't remember it.
Another "mistake" happened in an Associated Press story that originally reported Tulsi Gabbard as having said President Trump and Vladimir Putin are "very good friends."
As Brett wrote yesterday, the AP ended up retracting that report:
Eds: This story was updated on Mar. 17, 2025, to delete erroneous reporting that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends.” Gabbard was talking about Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
MSNBC reported the same thing and their "mistake" was that they wanted it to be true so that was enough confirmation.
Two hosts on that cable net looked like they got a call from MSNBC's attorneys just before taking back their original "reporting":
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WATCH: MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi look visibly irritated as they correct MSNBC's false smear of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 19, 2025
MSNBC reported the fake news that Gabbard said Trump was good friends with Putin when in fact she had said Trump was good… pic.twitter.com/IWXtr09ETr
The full post from @SteveGuest:
WATCH: MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi look visibly irritated as they correct MSNBC's false smear of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
MSNBC reported the fake news that Gabbard said Trump was good friends with Putin when in fact she had said Trump was good friends with Indian PM Narendra Modi.
Why did MSNBC get over their skis to damage both Gabbard and President Trump? Was the story too good for them to fact check initially?
As usual, however, the original bogus story served its purpose and it spread around social media quickly. The retractions and walk backs will be seen by a fraction of the people who saw the original lie, which is usually the entire point of the original lie.
Didn’t sound like an apology
— Mike (@michaeljashmore) March 19, 2025
Notice that neither Ruhle nor Velshi apologize for the error that MSNBC made.
— deb4liberty (@deb4liberty) March 19, 2025
They're not actually sorry about anything other than that they were told to read a statement about the story not being true. MSNBC will make a similar "mistake" again very soon.
