Earlier today we told you how NBC’s Katy Tur “fixed” he erroneous claim in a now-deleted tweet that the conservative Washington Free Beacon paid for the Steele dossier:
Another reminder — Steele Dossier was first paid for by conservative outlet Washington Free Beacon to find damaging info about Trump during the primary in order to help other GOP candidates. REMEMBER — the GOP DID NOT WANT Trump to win the nomination
She did eventually post this correction, but with no apology:
*fixed*
Fusion GPS was first hired by Washington Free Beacon during the primaries when GOP wanted to help other GOP candidates. Steele was hired later when DNC hired them. https://t.co/Zk6SrK1M4x https://t.co/Zk6SrK1M4x— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) February 2, 2018
Anyway, add CNN’s Jim Sciutto to the list of media people who need to fix and/or apologize for smearing the Washington Free Beacon the same way Tur did:
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/959487635487121408
Except when Sciutto was called out on it, he replied with snark:
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Free Beacon was first to hire Fusion GPS to do opposition research on then-candidate Trump. Thanks for watching CNN. https://t.co/XypcFbKrRJ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 2, 2018
Apples/bananas warning:
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/959526400578478081
How many times do we have to go over this?
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/959490802002153474
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Related:
BUSTED! MSNBC's Katy Tur just straight-up LIED about the Steele Dossier (and she's NOT sorry) https://t.co/8oOLyc0BgN
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 2, 2018