Posted on 05/17/2020 6:02:15 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
NBC News’ “Meet The Press” admitted late on Sunday that their segment earlier in the day on remarks made by Attorney General William Barr last week was false after host Chuck Todd was called out publicly by a spokesperson for the Department of Justice.
The remarks that “Meet The Press” deceptively edited came from the following exchange from an interview that Barr had with CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge:
HERRIDGE: In closing, this was a big decision in the Flynn case, to say the least. When history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? What will it say about your decision making
BARR: Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.
Todd’s segment only aired the first two sentences from Barr’s answer and cut off the rest.
Todd then said, “I was struck … by the cynicism of the answer. It’s a correct answer. But he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.”
Barr spokeswoman Kerri Kupec responded to the segment by transcripts from Todd’s segment and from Barr’s interview last week and wrote: “Very disappointed by the deceptive editing/commentary by @ChuckTodd on @MeetThePress on AG Barr’s CBS interview. Compare the two transcripts below. Not only did the AG make the case in the VERY answer Chuck says he didn’t, he also did so multiple times throughout the interview.”
“Meet The Press” later responded to her tweet, writing, “You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.”
KerriKupecDOJ
May 10, 2020 Very disappointed by the deceptive editing/commentary by @ChuckTodd on @MeetThePress on AG Barr’s CBS interview.
Compare the two transcripts below. Not only did the AG make the case in the VERY answer Chuck says he didn’t, he also did so multiple times throughout the interview.
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Meet the Press
You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Right you are.
Yup..and now we know why NBC pays a huge staff to get the News (facts)right....
This is why I claimed that Chuck Todd said, " President Trump is the best President ever."
I apologize for my editing error that made it seem to have Todd praising President Trump. That, obviously, is ridiculous and I should have seen the impossibly.
“Today I watched all of Chuck Todd’s shows since 2012.”
I hope you didn’t.
You want me to call you an ambulance?
I gave up on Meet the Press years ago, Chuck Todd’s venom laced speech when discussing anything President Trump try’s to do for the betterment of America and the American worker is just evil. At least Russert was balanced in his reporting even tho he was a liberal.
...”and we regret the error.”
No they don’t.
Leftist media at it again. Lying as a business model and not saying a word until they are called out. Of course, they just go right back to lying as a business model and millions of hate filled leftist democrats tune in and watch.
JoMa
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