Wall Street Journal White House reporter Michael Bender appeared on CNN to talk guns, and a bunch of “fake news” was spotted:
Attention @MichaelCBender: You have your facts on automatic weapons ENTIRELY backward here https://t.co/TZwKFoNIeb
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) October 6, 2017
TOTAL fail. From the Washington Free Beacon:
Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender told a panel on CNN’s Inside Politics on Friday that fully automatic firearms produced after 1985 are legal to own in the United States—but the exact opposite is true.
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Additionally, while bump fire and bump fire stocks provide some approximation of a fully automatic rate of fire, they do not, as Bender had claimed, convert semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic firearms.
Ironically, all that came during a segment where the reporter was calling out Republican (and certain NRA leaders’) ignorance about bump stocks.
@JohnKingCNN That idiot you had on talking like he knew what he was talking about didn't! https://t.co/DzdPWgxT3l https://t.co/mED98LyjBy
— Fred Nicolaysen (@phred47) October 6, 2017
https://t.co/zjh9RLO9Mh https://t.co/WP3sNNsFgn
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/916366727985926144
It's not about being pro-gun control or pro-guns or whatever. It's about being accurate on important issue. Media falling miserably short.
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) October 6, 2017
To say the least!