Posted on 12/09/2017 6:41:50 PM PST by Hojczyk
President Donald Trump slammed Washington Post politics reporter (and former Journolist) Dave Weigel for posting a photo mocking Trump for the size of the crowd at his rally Friday night in Pensacola, Florida that was actually taken well before Trump entered the venue. Weigel mockingly quoting Trump’s tweet about the rally, “Packed to the rafters”.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Saturday, liberals online, including the site Raw Story, were spreading a photo of the rally taken well before Trump took the stage at the Pensacola Bay Center that showed many empty sections of seats. It was falsely claimed that Trump could be seen entering the rally in the photo. Several reporters took to Twitter to debunk the false claims, posting photos and videos from the rally while Trump was actually on stage.
Weigel replied to Trump–but was still surly–accusing Trump of lying about the photo. “Sure thing: I apologize. I deleted the photo after @dmartosko told me I’d gotten it wrong. Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner.”
Weigel later laughed off a critic, “It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post. I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out. Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about @swin24.”
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I heard after the fact that there were many who couldn’t get in because they were in fact packed to the rafters....WaaaaaaaPo does another fake news that Ray Charles could have detected - it’s what they do....
“I don’t know that he should lose his job over this.”
Doug, I agree with you almost 100% of the time. But this guy needs to be fired, if only as a warning to others to be honest and practice actual journalism. Probably not a “mistake”. How many mistakes has he made that are unfavorable to the ‘Rats?
Acosta needs to go for sure!
Putin fights
Trump tweets
Just ask Nina Polikovskaya about messing with Putin.
Until the communist homosexual press in this country is taught a lesson, they will continue their assault.
Yep.
Fake news is an extremely accurate description of what the media does.
Doing the job the corrupt MSM should be doing!
Leni
@dmartosko = David Martosko, the U.S. political editor for the London-based Daily Mail.
I goes back to Nixon, whome the media brought down. That is when everything changed, including the curricula of elite Journalism Schools and the motivations of journalism students -- they then wanted to be like Woodward and Bernstein.
Leni
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