Posted on 07/06/2017 3:49:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
In the latest example of fake news, journalists on Thursday hyperventilated about a dramatic snub of Donald Trump by Poland’s first lady. Agata Kornhauser-Duda, it seemed, refused to shake the hand of the President. Except, that’s not what happened. Mere seconds after shaking Melania Trump’s hand, Kornhauser-Duda and the President shared a warm embrace.
You wouldn’t know that from the coverage. Newsweek opted for this all-caps, blaring headline: “WATCH DONALD TRUMP HANDSHAKE REJECTED BY POLISH FIRST LADY IN HILARIOUSLY AWKWARD EXCHANGE.” Like it was grainy Bigfoot footage, the website even slowed down a shortened version of the footage to showcase the fake snub. (See the full exchange below.)
Fake News: Journalists Invent ‘Awkward’ Handshake Snub of Trump
The article was eventually updated three hours later with this not-quite correction. Making the whole story pointless, it read:
An extended video of the encounter during which President Donald Trump reaches out his arm to the first lady of Poland shows Agata Kornhauser-Duda eventually shaking the president’s hand, after initially passing him by in favor of greeting first lady Melania Trump. The mildly awkward and humorously relatable exchange was just that, and no apparent swipe at the U.S. president.
The original Newsweek article by Chris Riotta hyped the non-snub as a big deal: “On Thursday, the world was once again blessed with an unusual, albeit hilarious, apparent slight, this time involving Trump and the first lady of Poland."
She also included the deceptive, short video, touting, “Kornhauser-Duda's enthusiastic welcome for Melania Trump meant that President Trump was left handshake-less and looking on.”
As of 3:30pm ET, USA Today has not updated the article to offer the full story.
In a tweet, The Washington Post called the incident “super awkward.” Then, Chris Cillizza of CNN actually tweeted the shortened version this way:
Seemingly trying to cover himself, the journalist later downplayed the non-event: “It was a funny video of a misunderstanding! Nothing more! The same thing has happened to me a billion times!” A simple misunderstanding? Talk about liberal spin.
They hate Trump so much they see slights where none exist.
Fake news makes up its own facts.
Well, that tears it. I’m never, EVER going to support Donald Trump ever again. No, not EVER.
It’s now so abundantly clear to me that the media has been right all along - he is a horrible, horrible person that the First Lady of Poland won’t even shake the hand of...
Hey! Wait a minute. Stop the presses! Turns out she was just shaking Melania’s hand first, woman to woman.
I take it all back.
Notice the hand...
Back and to the left...
Back and to the left...
Notice the hand...
Back and to the left...
Back and to the left...
Leftism is a serious mental disease which has them now seeing things that aren’t there.
What’s next? Purple unicorns and pink polka dot frogs.
Does the Left Media Cartel have any self awareness?
To the average person in flyover country, they look like complete fools when they report nonsense like this.
Ha ha, this will surely get Drumphf impeached!!!
They already loathe flyover country.... they live in coastal echo chambers...
She shook Melania’s hand first. So what. Fake news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9OxcRDohg&feature=youtu.be
We did not create this, but this wins the internet award for dankest meme. If the subtitles don’t show, then turn on your closed captioning. We howled until we could no longer...
Just FYI the latest knowledge is that the original CNN Wrestling Meme was made by a fellow in Mexico and posted on 4chan back in January. CNN Doxxed the wrong person... The meme posted by Dr. President Trump was slightly different that the one by Hans@@@Solo.
Enjoy
Clueless Idiots
Well, Chris Cillizza doesn’t mind presenting himself as a child.
Methinks this Chris Cillizza is a fookin' idiot, no?
Maybe it's the only way he can get laid.
Is he a pizza or a hot dog?
He's probably one of those non-binary types, so that question may be irrelevant.
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Anderson Cooper and Jim Acosta react.
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Meanwhile at MSNBC, Joe Scarborough is devastated he only received 10 "OHMYGODs" over the whole Mika facelift thing last week.
In a moment of anger, Joe unfriends Cilliza.
“OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD”
Chris Cillizza sounds as if he publicly angling for a new position as someone’s butt boy (but whose?)
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