Posted on 12/10/2017 9:39:15 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
President Trump on Saturday evening issued a call for a reporter with The Washington Post to be fired because of a quickly deleted tweet that presented a misleading impression of Trump’s rally crowd in Florida.
The Post reporter, David Weigel, had earlier tweeted a photo of the crowd gathered at Pensacola Bay Center for Trump’s speech there Friday evening, showing numerous empty seats. He removed the tweet after being told by others that the photo was taken before the venue filled up and apologized in a later Twitter exchange with the president.
Trump’s public response: “.@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.”
On Saturday night, The Washington Post released a statement. “Dave Weigel relied on an inaccurate image in tweeting about President Trump’s rally in Pensacola,” the paper’s vice president of communications, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said. “When others pointed out the mistake to Weigel, he quickly deleted the tweet. And when he was later addressed by the president on Twitter, he promptly apologized for it.”
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When all of the 'mistakes' lean only one way, they are lies, not mistakes.
He has been fired before around 2010-11 for the same thing. This time he blamed it on another person, who replied that he hasn’t been in contact with Weigel for a year....so he has another lie to get out of the picture lie. He Belongs at CNN.
next thing you’ll see is a movie changing the story of the Penaton Papers from the NewYork Times to the Washington Post.
nah, nobody would be that shameless!
next thing you’ll see is a movie changing the story of the Pentagon Papers from the NewYork Times to the Washington Post.
nah, nobody would be that shameless!
The idiot press thinks they are equal with Hollywood. Hollywood idiots spew just whatever comes into their feeble minds. The press in their arrogance, are lazy and have no desire to dig into the facts anymore. Their only zeal and passion is to get whatever narrative out there first, knowing that in the past, there would be no challenge to such narrative.
Yes, exactly. Seems a lot like Dan Rather airing the phony story about Bush. Their hatred means they don't bother to check for accuracy.
IMO, the offending snarky tweet was not an “accident” .... it was anti-Trump and meant to be that way - firing works for me.
“Inaccurate” implies a mistake. Well I do agree, but I’d reference it as careless or with reckless disregard for the negative impact something untrue could have on the perception of the President’s character.
Of course that’s being generous, because as you said and I too believe, “The posting was done intentionally, with malice aforethought.”, and Wiegel SHOULD be fired.
Trumps rallies all start the same with a mention about the huge crowd. This guy is. An idiot and trying to get under trumps skin. Your fired.
Trumps rallies all start the same with a mention about the huge crowd. This guy is. An idiot and trying to get under trumps skin. You’re fired.
Fire David Weigel, he intentionally spread false news in order to damage the President. Actions have consequences, Weigel chose poorly to spread a lie.
Thanks BlackFemaleArmyCaptain. Naturally, the ComPost's reporter's headline implies that POTUS' call for partisan media shill's firing is somehow gratuitous. She too should be fired, as should both editors.
On Saturday night, The Washington Post released a statement. “Dave Weigel relied on an inaccurate image in tweeting about President Trump’s rally in Pensacola,” the paper’s vice president of communications, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said. “When others pointed out the mistake to Weigel, he quickly deleted the tweet. And when he was later addressed by the president on Twitter, he promptly apologized for it.”Trump demands, gets apology from Washington Post reporter:
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.”There IS no image of President Trump in the corner -- "It was falsely claimed that Trump could be seen entering the rally in the photo." So, there was no apology, Weigel should be fired, as should the ComPost's vice president of communications, Kristine Coratti Kelly.
I agree.
I wonder if they even realize it’s his way of pointing out their hypocrisy in wanting Moore to step down over unsubstantiated charges while they do real life provable crap all the time w/o much in the way of real flak....
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