CNN Anchor: ‘I Misspoke’ Calling Dallas Gunman ‘Courageous and Brave’

newsbusters.org ^ | 6/14/2015 | Jeffrey Meyer

[rktman]

On Sunday, CNN’s Fredericka Whitfield claimed that she merely “misspoke” on Saturday when she called the gunman in the Dallas Police Department attack “very courageous and brave,” but fell short of actually apologizing for her controversial comments.

[Political Junkie Too]

Remember when a week after 9/11 Bill Maher said of the American Military:

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“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”

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-PJ

[MarchonDC09122009]

“she clearly expressed her racist heart.”

You’ve summed it up nicely.
She grew up in Maryland and apparently “them versus us” mentality runs strong in her.
I’m sure she makes her Olympian Tuskegee airman father proud, carrying that shot put chip around on her shoulder.

[lakecumberlandvet]

She was caught in a rare moment of honesty. No one on FR should be surprised by her adoration of someone trying to kill police.

[smokingfrog]

[Vigilanteman]

Gunman is such a PC neutral word which can mean a mass murdering intent thug with a gun, a heroic person who takes them out or merely a law-abiding and prepared CCW permit holder.

It is almost as stupid as "inappropriate" which can ran the whole range from really, really inappropriate (such as kidde porn) to a mild statement which offends their PC hypersensitivities.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...She meant, “He is a powerful force for evil.” It just came out wrong...,."

I think she meant to say

"I am a force for evil", but it came out wrong.

[blueunicorn6]

“Misspoke”?

No.

That’s when you mean to say “lunch” and it comes out “launch”.

She was just stupid.

[Enlightened1]

What she did was a freudian slip.

Now we all know what she really thinks. Of course she will deny, deny and deny.

[rktman]

Hmm. Next assignment, interview the courageous perp? Probably more interesting than listening to her. Maybe she’ll bestow a KIA purple heart on the assclown.

[Enlightened1]

LOL!

[TexasCajun]

Now if she had misspoke about her own religion, then I might have believed her.

/s

[Old Sarge]

H/T to our FRiend rktman for the post.

As an update from yesterday, when the CNN newsbimbo made this outrageousness - here comes the apologetic nonapology...

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

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[jeffersondem]

She probably confused the gunman with Wyatt Earp - “brave, courageous and bold.”

[jessduntno]

" … for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.” - Michelle Obama

The real problem is, they say this shit so often to each other they really don't see what's wrong with it until an adult says "ahem" and they go "sorry" in that little voice that means "sorry I got caught in the open with my socialist bullshit hanging out."

[rktman]

You’re welcome.

[LouAvul]

Lemme see if I get this straight. A PhD is forced to resign because he made a statement about women being emotional. A newscaster applauds a murderous criminal, on air no less, yet she keeps her job?

Ok. Got it.

[alloysteel]

This the classic example of “walking it back”.

And what the heck, maybe this time, it will actually work. At least on the short term.

CNN did not have that much credibility left. This just about dries it all up.

CNN is scoring just about the same numbers as, what? Al-Jazeera, maybe? Pretty close to getting in a tie with MSNBC.

[rktman]

LOL! Glad you understand.

[wny]

there’s a fine line between brave and stupid

[Paladin2]

How Nixionian. A transtruther. Macroaggressional non-apology.