Posted on 01/19/2019 5:34:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin fretted Friday that many Americans would dismiss the news media as a "bunch of leftist liars" in the wake of the BuzzFeed News story called "not accurate" by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
BuzzFeed set off a Washington firestorm on Thursday with its report that President Donald Trump had directed longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. However, on Friday night, a spokesman for Mueller's office said the report was "not accurate."
"BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate," the spokesman said in a statement.
The story had dominated political discussions throughout the day on Friday, with multiple Democrats saying the report, if true, could merit impeachment proceedings against Trump. The rare comment by Mueller's office calling the report inaccurate caused the left-leaning Toobin to worry it would further diminish the media's reputation with the public.
"The larger message that a lot of people are going to take from this story is that the news media are a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to get the president, and they're willing to lie to do it," Toobin said. "And I don't think that's true."
"I just think this is a bad day for us … It reinforces every bad stereotype about the news media," he added.
"Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter agreed with his latter statement but said as a media reporter, he was "desperate" for his audience to judge individuals and brands on a case-by-case basis.
"Don't fall for what these politicians out there want you to do. They want you to think we're all crooked," Stelter said. "We're not
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The leftists are winning converts everyday. For our side.
Heh, CNN already properly learned that label.
Too(bin) late.
Note to Mr. Toobin......
That ship sailed a long, long time ago....
one bad apple....
They the Praetorian Guard for the “Progressive” agenda. Goebbels would be proud of their propaganda.
I haven’t believed anything said by CNN in years.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin fretted Friday that many Americans would dismiss the news media as a “bunch of leftist liars” in the wake of the BuzzFeed News story called “not accurate” by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
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If people didn’t already know that cnn and the rest were nothing but DNC propagandists by now then this story won’t make any difference to them. Once you go full retard it’s hard to come back.
You know, even some liberal friends I know are getting unsatisfied with the media. They have some legitimate policy disagreements with the right, but they’re tired of hearing “OMG RUSSIA RUSSIA PUTIN” since it’s a non-story. The idea that the President is some kind of Russian spy is so whacked out, yet the media keeps trying to poke that one along.
That train left the station many moons ago.
President Richard Nixon, during Watergate: "I am not a crook".
Watergate was the first U.S. Media coup to remove a President.
NSDT
You know, that would make a pretty good motto:
“CNN: a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to get the president and are willing to lie to do it.”
The filthy lying illegitimates in the media and on the left are eager to believe anything that trashes good people. They don’t question things like this. They are liars, and have no credibility. They are irresponsible. They need to spend the rest of their miserable lives in iran or somalia.
So Toobin is concerned that when the media is caught lying it will damage its credibility. A startling revelation.
“Don’t fall for what these politicians out there want you to do. They want you to think we’re all crooked,” Stelter said. “We’re not
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That must be why the coverage of President Trump is 90% negative. Because they are all not crooked.
Many?
I think this pushes the numbers to 103% at this point.
Fake news.
They fell for it hook, line and sinker because they wanted it to be true.
When you hate Donald Trump, any means is justified to get rid of him.
We’re long past the point where fake news has become a parody of itself.
If reporters had done their jobs, they wouldn’t have been bamboozled by Buzzfeed.
Poor Jeffrey Toobin is worrying about their reputation. That’s like a prostitute worrying about people finding out she’s not really a virgin.
The Democrat news machine never once stopped to consider Trump might actually be innocent and their trashing the President said a lot more about them than it said about him.
Its not about fake news. Its about our culture and the way our country been ripped by them right down the middle.
The crestfallen faces in news rooms show they’ve learned nothing from the Buzzfeed disaster and in fact they’ll forget everything.
Sot the way CNN dismisses thr truth is by calling it.a stereotype.
Don’t worry, Jeffery. Nothing about this whole fiasco will change our minds about the media.
We’ve known you guys are a bunch of leftist liars for years now.
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