It wasn’t too difficult to predict that President Trump’s plan for the nation’s infrastructure wasn’t going to dominate the evening news Tuesday. Here’s an overview of what the CBS Evening News had to offer.
President Trump said there was blame and violence on both sides. Our @PaulaReidCBS fact checks the president’s statement pic.twitter.com/pXf4K50BNw
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
"He seemed more interested in assigning blame..to those on the left..than he was interested in showing moral disgust" –@JDickerson on @POTUS pic.twitter.com/pF6djkuksd
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
Who really makes up the membership of the white supremacist groups in the U.S.? https://t.co/l2S98prWWx pic.twitter.com/FXHVSGGpOo
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
"We're not going to fight the civil war again." -Dr. Calvin Butts #CBSEveningNews pic.twitter.com/Ow77D6eZWH
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
Officials across the country are taking a hard look at rallies being planned in their cities, by white supremacist groups, @DeMarcoReports pic.twitter.com/25dklR8snD
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
More business leaders depart President Trump's advisory council over his Charlottesville response https://t.co/UF4kPfyQJp pic.twitter.com/YBYhyaYY3o
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
83-yo artist represents the Confederate flag in his paintings as a recurring symbol of his journey – & the South’s. Mark Strassmann, now pic.twitter.com/EUgpJJ8TOi
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 15, 2017
The fact that Charlottesville and the president’s controversial “both sides” comment received an overwhelming amount of coverage didn’t slip past CNN’s senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter.
The big 3 nightly newscasts breaking from usual form tonight. Running LONG chunks of Trump's comments. NBC and CBS doing blunt "fact-checks"
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2017
I'm told by CBS News PR that @CBSEveningNews is devoting the entire half hour to Trump's comments, Charlottesville, and the aftermath.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2017
Federalist co-founder Sean Davis thought a media correspondent might be interested in comparing the network’s coverage of the attack on the House Republican baseball team in Alexandria, Va., by “alt-left” poster boy James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer, to its coverage of Charlottesville.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/897591203398651905
your tweet is terribly misleading. when the shooting happened, CBS began a special report and kept going til midday. at least 4 hours.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 15, 2017
Wow, a man opened fire on Republican members of Congress, critically wounding one, and CBS News covered it live for at least four hours.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/897597864813219840
You heard him, they dedicated the majority of a 10-2pm news cycle
— Stephen Strobel (@StrobeI_) August 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/jack_gumby/status/897598967281836032
But did you breathlessly hammer the left for their hateful talk of republicans? Or yours as well?
— Michelle Hill (@boolibs85) August 15, 2017
@CNN covered two scoops of ice cream more than Alexandria shooting.
— Justin Schiller (@justinschiller8) August 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/Stemhovi1ichski/status/897598391747784706
“He keeps answering our questions, but not in a way that’s acceptable to us!”
The headline on CNN the night of the Scalise shooting was from WaPo that Mueller was investigating POTUS for obstruction they moved on quick
— Dubs (@Dubs622) August 16, 2017
The story is that Trump is defending Nazis. It's a continuing story. Please keep up.
— Kirk Nichols (@KirkJN) August 15, 2017
Trump defending Nazis? That certainly is the story, no doubt about it. Never mind the bit Monday where the president condemned neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists … his comments Tuesday “undid” those remarks.
Trump "[undid] what he had tried to do, which was tamp down criticism here, & ignited a whole new line of questioning," @margbrennan says. pic.twitter.com/g5aDcpSn2A
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 15, 2017
“You had people in that group … I saw the same pictures as you did,” Trump said Tuesday, in his alleged defense of Nazis. “You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
Opposing the renaming of a park? What other conclusion can there possibly be? Nazis.
https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/897608802807279618
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‘This is sick’: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and fellow Democrats slam president for defending neo-Nazis https://t.co/1yglidnYjt
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 15, 2017