posted July 04, 2017 04:50 PM            

More Very Fake News from CNN: Network Analyst Claims Trump Never Made Article 5 Commitment to NATO
Matthew Boyle
4 Jul 2017

They never learn. CNN is at it again, pushing more very fake news designed to hurt President Donald Trump with misinformation fed to viewers through its channel.
This time, on the morning of the Fourth of July, CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer, also a historian at Princeton University, inaccurately claimed that President Trump never made an Article 5 commitment to America’s NATO allies. The startling and deeply inaccurate accusation came during a discussion about President Trump’s upcoming meetings at the G20 summit, his forthcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and tensions rising in North Korea.

“The United States can’t weaken its commitment to South Korea,” Zelizer said, adding:

That won’t work. That won’t help the situation. This has been a central ally in the effort to put pressure on North Korea. It’s the same as our efforts to engage China. So this is a place where there could be actually considerable tension with Russia. Look, there’s something very important President Trump has to do, actually, and it is to affirm his commitment to NATO—something he has not done. That’s a big factor in creating an alliance that will strengthen our ability to…

When asked in a follow-up by CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield—who did not correct Zelizer’s inaccuracy—if that’s something he thinks might be “potentially happening” on Trump’s upcoming trip, Zelizer again peddled the fake news.

“I don’t know if it will happen,” Zelizer said. “But I think it’s actually quite urgent. I think it’s something Putin needs to hear. For all the bluster, I think it’s something he has not said. And I think it would be very helpful to the administration.”

This one is unbelievably easy to debunk. All one has to do is go look at CNN’s own reporting, from a June 9 report on its website from CNN politics reporter Jeremy Herb, to see that CNN analyst Zelizer is lying on national television.

The headline of Herb’s early June report speaks for itself: “Trump commits to NATO’s Article 5.”

“I am committing the United States to Article 5,” the CNN report quotes Trump as saying at a news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House.

In fact, in the live broadcast on CNN, CNN contributor and Politico White House correspondent Tara Palmeri correctly noted that the president and administration do not feel the need to continue reaffirming Article 5 commitments to NATO allies because “they feel like they’ve already done that in the Rose Garden speech and prior talks.”

What’s perhaps even more troubling about Zelizer’s very fake news on behalf of CNN on Tuesday morning is that when Richard Grenell—the former U.S. spokesman at the United Nations, Trump supporter, and Fox News contributor—called him out for pushing the inaccuracies, he doubled down on the falsehoods. Grenell simply tweeted to Zelizer CNN’s own reporting debunking his claims on the network, and Zelizer refused to acknowledge he pushed very fake news on CNN:

Grenell, in a follow-up statement to Breitbart News, said the responsible thing for CNN to do if it believes in journalistic integrity would be to have Zelizer retract the false statements.

“Everyone makes mistakes, but when there is an unequivocal and yet completely erroneous statement made on national television, the ideals and responsibilities of journalism require a correction,” Grenell said in an emailed statement to Breitbart News.

CNN spokeswomen Lauren Pratapas and Emily Kuhn have not responded to a Breitbart News request for comment on whether Zelizer will correct the inaccurate comments he made—fake news debunked by CNN’s own reporting.

This example of very fake news caps off the latest development in the worst journalistic scandal in CNN’s network history, which started with the retraction of a false hit piece on President Trump and his associates, then led to the resignations of three top CNN editorial officials, including the head of CNN’s investigative unit. Undercover videos from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas of CNN producers and on-air talent have thrown more gasoline on the fire. CNN continues to refuse to be transparent about this matter, as its public affairs team and network president, Jeff Zucker, refuse to answer questions on the scandal. This comes despite efforts by even some high-ranking editorial staff and talent internally to force the network to deal with this scandal more responsibly and ethically, something that is not, as of yet, transpiring:

posted July 05, 2017 01:45 PM            

Substantiated.

2016 lie of the year?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/dec/13/2016-lie-year-fake-news/

quote:

Because of it's powerful symbolism in an election year filled
with rampant and outrageous lying--Politicact is naming Fake News
the 2016 winner."

Oxford dictionaries [we all know how polarized they are] selected "post truth"
post-truth adjective

Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.
as it's word of the year. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/press/news/2016/11/17/WOTY-16

Politifact biased? Rubbish. They post substantiated verifiable truth. Critical thinking tells me that holding a Pulitzer prize holds more water than americanthinker, breitbart, or the dailycaller.

posted July 05, 2017 10:02 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
It doesn't change the straight facts. Look at the info and the study.

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posted July 07, 2017 07:52 PM            

Polish Prez Debunks Fake CNN Report That His Wife Snubbed Trump’s Handshake: ‘Let’s FIGHT FAKE NEWS’
Jerome Hudson
7 Jul 2017

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda slammed “fake news” reports — fueled by a deceptively edited video, shared by CNN’s Chris Cillizza — that his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, intentionally snubbed President Donald Trump by refusing to shake his hand during his visit to Poland on Thursday.

“Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit,” President Duda wrote Thursday, adding, “Let’s FIGHT FAKE NEWS.”

Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large, tweeted a link to a viral three-second video clip showing first lady Kornhauser-Duda awkwardly passing over President Trump’s extended hand for first lady Melania Trump’s.

“OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD,” Cillizza writes, seemingly gleeful at what appears in the edited video to be President Trump being snubbed.

Here’s the selectively edited video, which went viral online and was reported by myriad mainstream media outlets.

A longer video of the event, however, clearly shows the Polish first lady shaking President Trump’s hand.

In a one-minute video titled, “Polish first lady passes over Trump’s handshake,” the Washington Post captures President Trump and first lady Kornhauser-Duda greeting one another (the top comment on the WaPo video below reads: “Misleading title. Fake news FFS!”).

Cillizza later admitted that he knew the three-second clip he tweeted was misleading. “I know! It was a funny video of a misunderstanding! Nothing more! The same thing has happened to me a billion times!” he tweeted to a Twitter user who called him out for spreading “fake news.”

And despite the existence of the longer video clip of President Trump and the Polish first lady shaking hands, hoards of left-leaning media outlets reported that President Trump was “snubbed” and “rejected.”

The Huffington Post published a video titled, “Poland’s first lady ignored the hell out of Trump’s handshake.”

Newsweek urged its reader to “Watch Donald Trump handshake rejected by Polish first lady in hilariously awkward exchange.”

“Poland’s First Lady Doesn’t Want to Shake Trump’s Hand” is how Time reported the incident.

posted July 08, 2017 02:16 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Yet the left still can't see that CNN fakes the news.

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posted July 08, 2017 12:10 PM            

Point me to the Trump News Network so I can find out for myself.