Bombshell: Montana Fox News Reporter Changes Her Story, Admits No Neck Grabhttps://t.co/MYB61SrgEA— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 25, 2017
Bombshell: Montana Assault Witness Changes Story, Admits No Neck Grab
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I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere. Its probably not a good idea to go around assaulting reporters.
But if its already happened, your best move is to own it. Do not apologize. Say, I did it and I’ll do it again.
He’s now a shoe-in.
He couldn’t buy such advertisement.
After all, this is Montana.
And...?
I don’t know where Dan Calabrese lives, but in my world, when you bust in and accost me and refuse to leave when I tell you to, then you are going to get tossed out.
Oh good for you...
Too bad elements of the story are being walked back...
But, Bravo...brave man...
I went over to Dan’s column and posted the following:
Dan, you and I share that same first instinct. You should have stuck with it until the evidence is in. There’s a strong possibility that the reporter, by grabbing at Gianforte as reported by his staff, may have pulled the candidate down on top of himself. The incident, doesn’t have to be resolved for the Dem operatives with bylines until tomorrow or later bc the damage is done today. An incident like this on the eve of the election? C’mon. The citation? The sheriff is a donor to Gianforte and may have overcompensated to avoid making things like favoritism. In any case, he pulled a Comey on this one. Don’t be like the newspapers who rush to judgment in pulling their endorsements. Remember, they’re the same people who lecture us about rushing to judgment every time a nail bomb goes off and kills innocents. Even with a citation, this is still a he said-he said situation, and you just came down on the side of an act of downright desperation by the side most likely showing internals of a huge loss. I imagine a lot of Montana citizens like me read your columns and agree with you most of the time. Rushing to judgment as you did in today’s piece, on our election day, puts you in league with the Dem operatives with bylines. Be honest now, you’re no relation to Comey, are you?
By the time I got back here, I found the link to the witness recanting the neck grab story. I went back to Dan and added this:
Dan, an update. The reporter in the room who at first said she saw the candidate choke the reporter changed her story in a very public way on the Laura Ingraham show. See what I mean about rushing to judgment? I have a journalism degree, too, I’m embarrassed to admit, and on of the cautions I learned early on is: The First Report Is Always Wrong. You know it, too. You blew it on this one, sir. You should edit your column or pull it.
This is the kind of garbage that happens when Republicans and so-called conservative pundits rush in to prove how open-minded they are. It isn’t just that Dan rushed to judgment . It’s that he did a huge disservice to my fellow Montana voters by doing it on election day in Montana.
Here is a flaw in the story that seemed obvious after I heard the audio. If the reporter was grabbed by the neck, how was his voice unaffected so that he could complain as the incident unfolded? And now we have the Fox reporter backing away from the claimed neck grab.
That’s because the a hole who wrote the story didn’t have a mirror nearby.