Wait, CNN didn’t report the whole story about James Polite, the man who allegedly vandalized a synagogue in New York City?
We’re shocked … SHOCKED!
Surely they realized the pieces they left out about Polite were pretty important to the story (which is probably WHY they originally left them out):
CNN reports that police have arrested James Polite for allegedly vandalizing a synagogue in NYC.
CNN failed to report that Polite:
-Was a Democratic activist
-Volunteered on Obama's presidential campaign
-Was a former City Hall intern who worked on combating hate crimes pic.twitter.com/otEGASg1bY— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 3, 2018
A Democratic activist who volunteered on Obama’s presidential campaign.
Huh.
Oh, and he worked as an intern combating hate crimes. Alrighty then.
One type of Fake News is intentionally ignoring certain stories or omitting key parts in order to fit narrative… https://t.co/HSgEoVADq4
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) November 5, 2018
CNN has long forgotten how to report on the actual news and seems to specialize in the narrative. If Polite had been a Republican in any sense of the word (or even had a relative or a neighbor who voted for a Republican ONE TIME), they would be framing Polite as some evil, dangerous, violent Trump supporter.
FYI, CNN did eventually update their story to include the details that were originally lacking:
A few people have linked me to this article, which was updated at some point after Ryan’s post: https://t.co/cJwsfiSfKT
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) November 5, 2018
Update after the story has all but been forgotten.
Convenient.
Call us cynical.
Still gotta do a lot of reading to read that information about a thousand words in.
— Adam Trahan (@AdamTrahan) November 5, 2018
This is game they always play.
Completely and purposefully obfuscate the truth in first article (the one everybody sees)
Then *update* the story after everyone has moved on, so that they appear to be telling the truth for posterity
— Brad C. (@bcalhoun27) November 5, 2018
The timing is a tad suspect, yes.
So in the 15th paragraph they say he had an internship with Quinn, then in the 20th they say he volunteered for the Obama campaign. As if anyone was going to read that far
— Drewfus (@JDWackbag) November 5, 2018
Buried it, yup.
But keep the original post up with 2k retweets anyway.
— Don (@Samsquamch56) November 5, 2018
It’s the CNN way.
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