Jake Tapper on Twitter:
Posted on 02/03/2016 5:46:10 PM PST by Citizen Zed
The controversy stems from a CNN scoop that was broadcast Monday night, minutes before the Iowa caucuses began. Reporter Chris Moody received information from the Carson campaign that he would be taking a break from the campaign trail after Iowa.
Moody, and the other CNN reporters who followed up on the report, said Carson would continue campaigning after taking a break at home in Florida. His next stop, they said, would be Washington, D.C., for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
During CNN's live coverage, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash called the move "very unusual," but said nothing about Carson dropping out of the race.
Somewhere along the way, the story got twisted. Cruz campaign aides alerted supporters in Iowa that Carson might be a goner. Before long there were allegations that the Cruz campaign had suppressed Carson's vote total by spreading rumors that Carson was giving up on the race.
Shortly after the CNN report came out, Carson's campaign downplayed the significance, saying the candidate needed a fresh set of clothes. Meanwhile, political analysts generally agreed with Tapper and Bash's assessment that it was unusual for a presidential candidate to not rush to New Hampshire. Virtually all of Carson's rivals hurried to New Hampshire after the caucuses.
The next morning, Carson's side started lambasting Cruz for "dirty tricks." This prompted a half-apology from Cruz that pointed a finger at CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Is he unapologizing now?
Much ado about nothing.
CNN comes out and clears CNN...
But, somebody will be along shortly to post the tweet by Steve King that told Cruz people and, by extension, every caucii in the state that Carson was dropping out and to not waste their vote.
I always turn to CNN to get to the truth of a matter.
NOT.
When you are trying to create a tempest in a teapot, parsing doesn’t matter.
It would take a remarkably stupid person to stop following one candidate and follow another over a rumor.
Huh... Maybe they would have voted for trump after all.
#trumpertantrum
And the world's richest moron is threatening a lawsuit over it?
At least Ted didn’t use eminent domain to kick Carson and his voters out of Iowa. People who use eminent domain are nasty.
Hurting Ben Carson’s Campaign
Guest: Karl Rove
A reporting error by CNN the other day may have hurt Dr. Ben Carson’s Iowa caucus showing. CNN mistakenly tweeted that Carson had dropped out of the presidential race on the same day of the caucus. How could something like this have happened? Talking Points will explain and Karl Rove will react.
http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=latestTVShow#5
“CNN comes out and clears CNN...”
CNN really does stand for the Clinton News Network.
Jake Tapper on Twitter:
The tweet says exactly what the breathless CNN news story said.
Sounds less like a case of lying than a case of assuming... and we all know what assuming does.
How much did Trump ranting and raving about Carson being a homicidal psychopath hurt Dr. Carson?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3392542/posts?page=12#12
10% 12% 15% do we really know?
Trump didn’t use eminent domain to kick anyone out.
Says ... CNN.
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