As Twitchy told you, last night, Rachel Maddow breathlessly reported that the White House had altered a video of Donald Trump’s joint presser with Vladimir Putin, calling the White House’s actions “a form of information warfare and it is being waged against us.” Just one teensy little problem: the White House had done no such thing.
But Brian Stelter wasn’t terribly concerned about that. Mr. “Reliable Sources” himself took Maddow’s story and ran with it:
More than a week since the presser, and this still hasn't been corrected. https://t.co/dVdKMc2B51
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 25, 2018
It’s bad enough that Stelter’s narrative got debunked by the friggin’ Washington Post. But it’s downright embarrassing that a White House reporter at Stelter’s own network wound up debunking it, too:
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022115936411705344
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116229954371586
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116554526416898
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116779672383489
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022117252366262273
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022127580739190784
Ooooooooof.
https://twitter.com/MichaelCraig18A/status/1022157058962075655
12 hours later and Brian has yet to tell his followers that this MSNBC story is wrong.
Weird. https://t.co/OjYq6x86ac
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
Hi Brian, speaking of corrections, will you be correcting yourself (and Maddow) now that Washington Post has debunked this? Truth and accuracy do matter after all. https://t.co/sAJb8C1hg1
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
Have you corrected yourself? This story is WRONG. Even WaPo shot it down. https://t.co/21nWckbYD2
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) July 25, 2018
Over 600 retweets. Will you be issuing a correction now? https://t.co/cpFAZNt4qg
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
No, but he will be grabbing a second shovel to dig his own grave:
"More than a week later, the White House has still not corrected a key omission in its official transcript of President Donald Trump's news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin." https://t.co/AExOS2eNBP
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 25, 2018
— BT (@back_ttys) July 25, 2018
And Stelter just doubled down on it. Amazing. https://t.co/rOXMQsY0pI
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
BRO.
You just posted a story that's already been debunked.
LOLOLOLOLOL https://t.co/sfOmKxCb8J
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
Hey @JakeTapper, can you have a chat with your boy over here?
He just published this story that was debunked hours ago.
Maybe just send him your tweet about it? https://t.co/sfOmKxCb8J
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
Question: Does Brian Stelter talk to the other journalists who work at CNN? Because it doesn't seem he talks to the other journalists at CNN.https://t.co/tt8OljZBvf
If he had talked to @abbydphillip, he'd know that he shouldn't have posted this article 5 minutes ago. https://t.co/sfOmKxCb8J
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
BREAKING:
CNN Media Analyst, @BrianStelter, doesn't watch or read CNN.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
I really hope the people at CNN who actually care about their credibility have a long hard talk with their management about what Brian Stelter is doing to the brand.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/SnarkActual/status/1022161544057155585
Is someone documenting how badly @BrianStelter just owned himself?
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
Good Lord.
Look, this was a scoop from centrist, unbiased journalist Rachel Maddow. You can't blame Brian for sharing this without verifying it.
— BT (@back_ttys) July 25, 2018
Brian will watch Fox News all day long looking for even the most minute discrepancies in reporting but then quotes Rachel Maddow at will, doesn't correct her and doesn't correct himself. Great work there "Reliable Sources"
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
Something tells me there won't be much holding himself to fake news accountability in his news letter or on his show with this one.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
Something tells us you’re right.
Washington Post: No the WH didn't omit details from Helsinki transcript
Joe Scarborough: My MSNBC colleague got this wrong
Brian Stelter: LEEEEEEEEEEERRRRROOYYY JEEEEENKKKINSS!!!!!— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018
What a hack. How embarrassing for you and Maddow.
— Rob Solo (@robsolo) July 25, 2018
Doubling down on your #fakenews?
You truly are a hack.
— Jim Backs the Blue (@JimBacksTheBlue) July 25, 2018
…and that's why it sticks when Trump calls CNN fake news.
Right there.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.
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Update:
Not even Jake Tapper can dig Brian Stelter out of that MASSIVE grave https://t.co/1D0vY5BWTv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 25, 2018
Editor’s note: Tweets originally included in this post as an update were removed for use in the separate post linked in the tweet above.