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FAKE NEWS: TIME'S MLK BUST LIE IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE MEDIA

 

The media tried to come up with its own version of the Obama Churchill story by going with an obvious racism smear. How better to hit Trump than by claiming that Martin Luther King's bust had been taken down. The timing was perfect. It had just been MLK day. We were headed for February.

The story couldn't get any better. Except it was a lie.

 

False Alarm

just more left wing propaganda 

First I heard of it.

Tell us about the 3 to 5 million illegals that voted.

Conspiracy theorist in chief.

didnt hear about this either.

you look for news in all the wrong place obviously. 

didnt hear about this either.>>

 

 Time Magazine reported that

 

Ill informed

try and keep up

 

 

It was a huge fake news story

>>> Time Magazine reported that

what day does that get delivered? 

i've only seen these things highlighted:

trade deal nixed

meeting with biz leaders

meeting with union leaders

meeting with auto leaders today

gag order for EPA and USDA

saving 600 million dollars, or 1.5 pennies after my pocket. YAY!!

moving forward on the pipelines, gonna work on those deals, as Spicer just said

and for some reason he still talking about missing votes, even though he is on office.

i guess DEAD, it depends on what you out looking for.

President Trump on Saturday attacked a Time magazine journalist for mistakenly reporting that a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. 

 

Trump called out the reporter, Zeke Miller, while speaking to staff at the Central Intelligence Agency, even though Miller quickly acknowledged and corrected the mistake the previous day.

 

“They said that ‘Donald Trump took down the bust — the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King.’ But it was right there. There was a cameraman that was in front of it,” Trump said, standing in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall honoring the employees who died in the line of duty.

 

 

“So Zeke, Zeke from Time magazine writes this story about ‘I took down’ — I would never do that because I have great respect for Dr. Martin Luther King.

 

“But this is how dishonest the media is,” Trump continued. “Now big story, the retraction was like, where? Was it a line or do they even bother putting it in?”

 

In fact, the detail was included in a White House pool report about Trump’s first actions in the Oval Office as president. 

 

Miller initially reported the King bust was missing. But minutes later he sent out a correction, saying the bust had been obscured by a door and a Secret Service agent. 

 

He then sent out more than a dozen tweets correcting the mistake and apologizing, including one directed to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who had called it “a reminder of the media danger of tweet first check facts later.”

 

“This is on me, not my colleagues. I've been doing everything I can to fix my error. My apologies,” Miller tweeted at Spicer.

 

“Apology accepted,” the spokesman tweeted back.

Apology accepted https://t.co/dYqwRv1p0f

— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) January 21, 2017

What an interesting idea:  Apologize when one makes a mistake or does something wrong, dishonest, etc....

novel, i would add.

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you think that larger font reiterates your claim, Dead? 

 

What an interesting idea>>

 

This is an interesting idea

 

Verify a story before stating false information as truth....that's not very hard to do...its basic stuff.

 

but the story was designed to hurt Trump

removing MLK..that's racist..so they couldn't wait.to verify.

 

Just Fake News

from the left wing propaganda machine

>Verify a story before stating false information as truth....that's not very hard to do...its basic stuff.

 

You mean false information (lie) like the biggest crowd ever to attend an inauguration. Or  I would have won the popular vote in not for 3-5 million illegal votes for Clinton?

 

 

Dead2,

 

I think we can all agree that what Zeke Miller did was wrong.  I don't know if there is any evidence regarding a possible motive for Zeke to knowingly design this story to hurt Trump.  Can anyone share a copy of the original Tweet that Miller made regarding the MLK bust?  Perhaps that may shed some light regarding his intention.

 

And members of the media are the only ones who have to acknowledge and correct false statements, while apologizing?

 I don't know if there is any evidence regarding a possible motive for Zeke >>

 

that's very open minded ..

 

but the reality is this guy tried to paint President Trump as a racist..

a very very serious accusation..

 

try and read between the lines..these people are deplorable and very dishonest..

like many leftists..

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