Posted on 05/18/2018 12:55:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal media made fools out of themselves Wednesday as nearly every major news outlet rushed to breathlessly report that President Trump had called all illegal immigrants to the United States “animals.” Of course, the glaring problem with their claims was that they were totally false. And despite the fact the media had to issue reams of retractions and corrections, NBC Nightly News and Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo kept up the charade Thursday evening.
Here is Trump’s comment, complete with the full context:
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about, if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them.
TRUMP: We have people trying to come into the country, trying to come in we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people, these are animals.
In defiance of the facts, NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander wrapped up his report about the North Korea summit by touting Mexico rebuking the President. “Also tonight, the Mexican government is calling out President Trump for describing some undocumented immigrants as animals Wednesday. Mexico telling the State Department that is unacceptable, he hyped.
Alexander appeared skeptical of Trump’s explanation saying, “The President insists today that he was talking about MS-13 gang members and says he would call them animals again.” In this case, NBC didn’t even play a clip of what they claim the President said and just wanted viewers to trust their take on it. And as proof of how far off-base NBC was in continuing to put the debunked narrative, neither ABC nor CBS (their network news competitors) mentioned it Thursday evening.
NBC Touts Mexico Scolding Trump For Comment Media Misled Public About
As would be expected, Univision’s Jorge Ramos spouted off and discounted the President’s defense. “Animals, that's the word, animals some undocumented immigrants to the United States deports,” he fumed. And on Telemundo, Jose Diaz-Balart also highlighted Mexico’s rebuttal, saying: “Mexico said that it is unacceptable that President Trump referred to some immigrants as animals.”
Meanwhile, roughly two hours prior to NBC Nightly News, the HLN’s S.E. Cupp Unfiltered was taking the media to task for their misleading reports on the President’s comments.
“Unsurprisingly the President made headlines for those comments which came during an immigration roundtable. Unfortunately, they were the wrong headlines,” host S.E. Cupp scorned the media as she displayed some of their tweets declaring the falsehood and played the full clip. After recalling the media’ backpedaling, Cupp lamented the state of the media: “But the damage was already done. And to be clear the damage was not to the President, it was to the media.”
For the panel discussion, Cupp first turned to producer Andy Levy who had the diagnosis for the liberal media’s truth problem. “And I think that's the sort of the ‘get it first, don't get it right’ mentality that you see a lot on social media, and that a lot of news organizations and journalists, in general, are guilty of particularly on social media,” he suggested.
Levy also argued that the reason the media rushed to claim Trump called all immigrants “animals” was because it fit squarely into their anti-Trump narrative. “But the bigger problem here, far beyond any of that, is failing to check things that fit your narrative. If your narrative is Trump hates immigrants and you have a clip he appears to call all immigrants animals, you have to double check.”
“I've seen a lot of people saying, ‘Oh well, it sounded like Trump’ or ‘Trump has said stuff like that before.’ That is no excuse,” he added.
Cupp made a great point by noting that what the media did was, in fact, fake news: “We’ve talked before about the problem with fake news and part of the problem is we have to get better at our job. Stuff like this gives Trump a very easy win when he talks about fake news.”
NBC Nightly News May 17, 2018 7:07:42 PM Eastern [16 seconds]
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PETER ALEXANDER: Also tonight, the Mexican government is calling out President Trump for describing some undocumented immigrants as animals Wednesday. Mexico telling the State Department that is unacceptable. The President insists today that he was talking about MS-13 gang members and says he would call them animals again.
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HLN S.E. Cupp Unfiltered May 17, 2018 5:17:14 PM Eastern [3 minutes 18 seconds]
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S.E. CUPP: Then we had this video.
DONALD TRUMP: You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals.
CUPP: Astounding. Unsurprisingly the President made headlines for those comments which came during an immigration roundtable. Unfortunately, they were the wrong headlines. If you read any of these tweets from nearly every major news outlet in the wake of the President’s meeting, you would have surely thought he was calling all immigrants animals. Well, it sounds like him. But that was only part of it, here's the longer version which puts the whole thing in context.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about, if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about them.
TRUMP: We have people trying to come into the country, trying to come in we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people, these are animals.
CUPP: To be clear, MS-13 is a gruesome and violent gang that has ravaged a number of small towns across the country. CNN issued guidance to its newsroom last night that included the full context and the Associated Press removed and corrected an earlier tweet that omitted the MS-13 reference. But the damage was already done.
And to be clear the damage was not to the President, it was to the media.
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Andy, let's take the second video. This is bad. It's not that one outlet got it wrong, it’s that they all got it wrong almost simultaneously. Like, you could almost see the domino effect. What do you think explains what happens yesterday?
ANDY LEVY: Well, there is a whole bunch of things. And yeah, you absolutely can't do this. It started primarily on social media with the Twitter accounts from news organizations sending out the clip that didn't have the context. And I think that's the sort of the “get it first, don't get it right” mentality that you see a lot on social media, and that a lot of news organizations and journalists, in general, are guilty of particularly on social media.
(…)
But the bigger problem here, far beyond any of that, is failing to check things that fit your narrative. If your narrative is Trump hates immigrants and you have a clip he appears to call all immigrants animals, you have to double check-- it's even more important that you check it when it fits what you think is going on. You need to double, triple, quadruple check it. You need to ask questions about context because it's almost like -- I don't want to say it's too good to be true, because the quote is not good, but it's that same thing. I've seen a lot of people saying, “Oh well, it sounded like Trump” or “Trump has said stuff like that before.” That is no excuse, journalists need to be factivists, for a lack of a better word. You can't report something because it seems like something Trump would say.
CUPP: We’ve talked before about the problem with fake news and part of the problem is we have to get better at our job. Stuff like this gives Trump a very easy win when he talks about fake news.
(…)
They make it sound like an “honest” mistake, didn’t take the time to fact check, etc. Baloney. They knew what he said and wanted that meme out there first, before there was any real reporting. They did NOT care if it was true or not, it was what they wanted.
I was just reading comments about Trump’s comment on Facebook. One libiot said he called all immigrants animals. One person responded with the actual conversation, and she still refused to admit that Trump was referring to MS-13ers. He called that libiot some choice names.
“THIS is the beginning of the end of Drumph!!”
Seriously, here’s the Left’s falling for Trump’s literal text trap yet again.
Leftists believe we are all animals, then get all upset when Trump agrees with them. Pelosi talks about sparks of divinity and then funds Planned Parenthood. Animals do it without any planning.
Yeah, I guess Trump was calling his immigrant wife an “animal”.../s
Those animals plan it very carefully; it provides a life of leisure for our underclass. The LA riots ended when mailmen wouldn’t enter the war zone (and freebies were still delivered via check).
“Also tonight, Freepers are calling out the American media for describing ALL Border Invaders as "undocumented immigrants" in every damned lie they print and spout.
The real news is SE Cupp defending the President.
Indeed, their entire discussion and dissection of Trump's remark was Fake News itself.
The media backpedals because they make stuff up. They’ve always done this, so it’s not anything new for them.
But they now have to contend with those darned truth-tellers on social media who persist in calling them out.
The damned Commie media is lying. AGAIN
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america
NBC = Comcast = American enemy > North Korea
The media is having to backpedal for defending the rapists and gun violence of MS-13.
When ‘news’ is outright lies ...
BOYCOTT them and anyone who advertises with them.
Time to drop the hammer on these miserable propagandists
MS13NBC
cutting cable tv would be a direct hit to their bottom line.
Cable subscriber fees are half of CNN’s revenue.
Worth repeating. In my 55 years I have never had cable and almost 20 of those years without a TV of any sort. It's a better way to live IMO and is certainly better for the culture.
Here is an example from October 12, 2017. It is from a previous program by Tucker Carlson about the subject of these criminal
MS-13 gang members charged in series of murders, drug crimes, authorities say
Here is from Tucker's program from last night (video and all)
WATCH: Tucker Battles Journalist Who Objected to Trump Calling MS-13 'Animals'
Tucker Carlson debated a Univision anchor who took issue with President Trump when he called illegal immigrants who are members of the MS-13 gang "animals."
Enrique Acevedo said he would never "defend criminals" nor the heinous actions of the violent Salvadoran gang.
But, he said that Trump was wrong to call any human an "animal."
Sean Hannity brought the subject also up on his program and said some idiot reporter claimed President Trump claimed that even legal immigrants are Animals
It might have been Laura Ingram on The Ingraham Angle
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