How many media outlets will go back and apologize for their fake news?

There are a number of important takeaways from today’s Comey hearings, but one of the big ones elaborated on a point I hit yesterday in discussing Comey’s prepared statement: Trump was never under FBI investigation during the time that Comey headed the FBI, Comey personally told Trump that three times, and Trump grew increasingly frustrated that Comey wouldn’t clear the “cloud” over his head by publicly saying so. Indeed, Trump’s explanation to Lester Holt of why he fired Comey is entirely consistent with this.

But with Comey’s repeated and emphatic testimony that Trump was not under investigation, we have some new revisionist history: wildly backtracking liberals and Democrats claiming that nobody ever said Trump was under FBI investigation. And this is simply untrue. Here’s a sampling of what Democrats, liberals, and the media were saying back when Comey was privately reassuring Trump that he wasn’t under investigation:

GRR Spartan wrote:More cut and paste from a web based FoxNews that fired its founders son for not being "conservative" enough.

More trolling from Trump's biggest cheerleader posting here.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:National Review. The biggest whiner about fake news spreading fake news. Ironic.

Hey Goose, please provide links to stories about people saying Trump himself is under investigation before Comey was fired. Also, do you think his dumb ass is under investigation now for firing Comey? What do you think the odds are? I'm sure you won't answer these questions because you get your talking points from sites like the one you linked. But the questions should be asked. I'm sure prepared to never get an honest response from you.

DWags wrote:One thing he said out loud that everyone of us knows: Trump is a huge liar. And frankly, a dumb one. Or are we still saying "Alternative facts"?

LooseGoose wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:National Review. The biggest whiner about fake news spreading fake news. Ironic.

Hey Goose, please provide links to stories about people saying Trump himself is under investigation before Comey was fired. Also, do you think his dumb ass is under investigation now for firing Comey? What do you think the odds are? I'm sure you won't answer these questions because you get your talking points from sites like the one you linked. But the questions should be asked. I'm sure prepared to never get an honest response from you.

The links are in that story.  Many of those linked stories were prior to the firing.

I doubt he is since what he did certainly didn't rise to obstruction.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:One thing he said out loud that everyone of us knows: Trump is a huge liar. And frankly, a dumb one. Or are we still saying "Alternative facts"?

lol, way to go after Comey.

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

I just turned on Fox News on a whim just to see... yup. Talking about comey "leaking."

Never ever ever wonder why people think what they do.

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:One thing he said out loud that everyone of us knows: Trump is a huge liar. And frankly, a dumb one. Or are we still saying "Alternative facts"?

lol, way to go after Comey.

I doubt he is since what he did certainly didn't rise to obstruction.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

I just turned on Fox News on a whim just to see... yup. Talking about comey "leaking."

Never ever ever wonder why people think what they do.

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

tGreenWay wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

LooseGoose wrote:In the meantime one of you could defend Comey for giving information to a friend for them to leak it to the media rather than provide that information to the appropriate Congressional committee. He's nothing more than a political hack, don't make a god out of him.

LooseGoose wrote:

tGreenWay wrote:

Who is making him out to be a god? But, to answer your questions: Those were the personal thoughts of a now private citizen from an unclassified meeting with the president. Not a document, and not classified. His to share with whomever he chooses. The Right will make hay about it only to deflect from the actual, much bigger and far more damaging story. Connies will try to go after Comey and will probably make a big show about it, but from a legal standpoint, there's nothing there. They'll waste time and taxpayer dollars holding committee meetings because that's what politicians like to do.

A+ in "Reading Talking Points 101"

Of course, none of that happened. In fact, Comey testified that he volunteered that information, and that contrary to Borger’s claims, he saw nothing inappropriate in doing so. The correction and update CNN ran doesn’t come anywhere near what they should’ve done, which was a total retraction: “CORRECTION AND UPDATE: This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.”

“Does not directly dispute” should be read as “utterly and totally confirms.” At some point, CNN is going to have to decide what they are willing to do in this war on the president and his administration, and whether they are willing to sacrifice even a semblance of balance and centrism in their quest against him, transforming themselves from a news network to an agenda-driven propaganda unit, complete with their useful idiots, their organs of the past administration, and their collection of invented sources who pass along useful lies.

DWags wrote:Have they called him out for mustard selection yet?

LooseGoose wrote:

DWags wrote:Have they called him out for mustard selection yet?

No but you do remember the big kerfuffle over Trump using ketchup?? So the press seems to have a condiment fixation on all politicians.

With Donald Trump in the White House, the media is increasingly apathetic towards, if not antipathetic to, the truth.
Daniel Payne By Daniel Payne
MAY 23, 2017
We are merely five months into the presidency of Donald J. Trump, and still in the midst of a fake news epidemic. It has grown more subtle and refined over time—gone is the regular cycle of industrial-scale media ineptitude and stupidity that began shortly after Trump clinched the presidency—but it is still chugging on like one of those old-fashioned Kalamazoo hand-pump railway cars: slow and quiet but somehow weirdly inexorable.

At a certain point we must ask ourselves why. We know the media are overwhelmingly liberal, deeply hostile towards Trump’s presidency and conservatives generally, and thus must feel rather strained and desperate when their arch-nemesis-apparent holds the White House and Republicans command an historic amount of political power throughout the country. Heady times will drive anyone batty.

Yet this still does not explain its relentless nature. Trump administration or no, majority Republican governor bloc or no, after a cursory freak-out it shouldn’t be that hard for journalism to return to square one. The news media have one job, and it is to report facts: factual things, things that are true, things that are the opposite of false. It should not be difficult to do this.

Yet for many of our media leaders, it apparently is. This, to the great discredit of the American fourth estate, is the media we have. What follows are 13 more examples of the post-election trend I tracked in an earlier article counting 16 others.

LooseGoose wrote:Talking pathological liars.....

13 More Major Fake News Stories In Just Five Months Of Trump’s Presidency

With Donald Trump in the White House, the media is increasingly apathetic towards, if not antipathetic to, the truth.
Daniel Payne By Daniel Payne
MAY 23, 2017
We are merely five months into the presidency of Donald J. Trump, and still in the midst of a fake news epidemic. It has grown more subtle and refined over time—gone is the regular cycle of industrial-scale media ineptitude and stupidity that began shortly after Trump clinched the presidency—but it is still chugging on like one of those old-fashioned Kalamazoo hand-pump railway cars: slow and quiet but somehow weirdly inexorable.

At a certain point we must ask ourselves why. We know the media are overwhelmingly liberal, deeply hostile towards Trump’s presidency and conservatives generally, and thus must feel rather strained and desperate when their arch-nemesis-apparent holds the White House and Republicans command an historic amount of political power throughout the country. Heady times will drive anyone batty.

Yet this still does not explain its relentless nature. Trump administration or no, majority Republican governor bloc or no, after a cursory freak-out it shouldn’t be that hard for journalism to return to square one. The news media have one job, and it is to report facts: factual things, things that are true, things that are the opposite of false. It should not be difficult to do this.

Yet for many of our media leaders, it apparently is. This, to the great discredit of the American fourth estate, is the media we have. What follows are 13 more examples of the post-election trend I tracked in an earlier article counting 16 others.

ATLANTA, GA—After years of publishing distorted headlines, slanted news articles, and heavily biased news coverage, media giant CNN announced Friday that it has decided to launch a spinoff site that focuses on real news comprised of objective facts.

Dubbed “CNN: Real,” the site is designed to bring the news media empire into the arena of publishing real news, a step away from its roots as a channel that covers entirely fabricated stories and shamelessly spins all news into liberal talking points.

“We know this is going to get some push-back from our viewer base, but don’t worry: the original CNN site and cable channel are still a large part of our business,” company Vice President Michael Bass said during an announcement on the shift toward real news. “Anytime you want to have your biases confirmed, CNN will be there.”

“But with CNN: Real, we’re going to try our hand at reporting facts, and doing so in an unbiased manner.”

Painting the new site as an “experiment,” Bass admitted to reporters that he is not entirely confident the real news angle will resonate with the company’s regular viewership, but CNN executives decided it was worth a shot, saying, “If it doesn’t work out, we can always just go back to focusing all of our energy on making stuff up.”

A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.  - Frederick Douglass: