CNN has been nothing short of a hot mess in recent days weeks years, using Sesame Street characters to attack President Trump’s travel ban, being caught on camera admitting that the Russia collusion story is mostly bulls***, and of course, Memegate.
So, the network constantly railed on as ‘fake news’ really could have used some positive publicity this week.
What did they do? They attacked President Trump on Independence Day, and it backfired worse than a Jason Pierre-Paul fireworks display.
CNN posted a meme quoting Abraham Lincoln on the need to peddle in facts …
Happy #FourthOfJuly from CNN!
Celebrate America and its freedoms this #IndependenceDay pic.twitter.com/PPpymSxnIy
— CNN (@CNN) July 4, 2017
The media could hardly contain their glee at watching CNN mocking the President over facts. This Independent headline for example:
Problem with the whole ‘facts’ meme? CNN never researched their own facts, failing to note that the quote above is not an accurate version of Abraham Lincoln’s words.
Via the Federalist:
Critic and playwright Terry Teachout had a funny feeling about the quote. He asked Quote Investigator, the research operation headed by Garson O’Toole, to look into it: “This quote, though familiar, looks suspicious to me. Any thoughts?”
Three hours later, Quote Investigator had found a quote with some similarities, and some differences, to the one being put out by CNN:
Insofar as a hearsay quote should ever be tweeted out or inscribed in walls, at least it should be accurate. Particularly when it’s about “truth” and “facts.”
As a general rule, words placed inside quotation marks as seen in CNN’s meme should accurately reflect the words spoken. This does not. Social media users were quick to pounce …
Lying sources. Real doxxing. Fake quotes. This is CNN. https://t.co/8rfmywtxxS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 5, 2017
But alas, that wasn’t the only fake quote CNN sent out on the Fourth of July.
#FourthOfJuly pic.twitter.com/jKCymaeG9C
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 4, 2017
Unfortunately for the Clinton News Network, that quote doesn’t come from Ben Franklin at all.
This is not a quote from Benjamin Franklin, It’s a quote from Trenchard and Gordon (“Cato”) Letter No. 15. https://t.co/XQcVTbWCbH https://t.co/ZFv7AAMUsL
— Mícheál Breathnach (@dkahanerules) July 5, 2017
As in the previous example, readers were not kind to CNN’s misuse of facts.
Wrong quote you hacks pic.twitter.com/oxFnRI0YXQ
— Jackson (@DallasJacked) July 5, 2017
After the fake Lincoln quote, this GIF needs the CNN logo where Sideshow Bob’s head is. https://t.co/8rfmywtxxS pic.twitter.com/2GF9wCyKgu
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 5, 2017
Amazing. Even when they’re trying to mock the President for not reporting facts, CNN fails to report facts.
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