As is typical, CNN reporter and alleged journalist Jim Acosta tried making a White House press briefing all about him, attempting to commandeer an interaction with White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
Acosta was trying to make the argument that members of the mainstream media may make “honest mistakes” but they are not “fake news.”
Sanders was in the midst of a discussion of a recent slew of media reports that were presented as bombshells against the Trump Administration, but were later retracted or corrected.
Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. They are out of control – correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed…a stain on America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2017
Sanders specifically addressed the Brian Ross false news report that President Trump had directed Michael Flynn to contact the Russians as a candidate, not as President-elect. It was a false story that led to Ross’s suspension for several weeks.
In the past two weeks alone:
ABC admitted their Flynn story was fake news.
CNN admitted their WikiLeaks story was fake news.
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel admitted he posted fake pictures of a Trump rally.
Don’t believe the lying liberal media.
— The Trump Train (@The_Trump_Train) December 10, 2017
“When journalists make honest mistakes, they should own up to them,” Sanders said. “Sometimes, and a lot of times, you don’t.”
Acosta tried to interrupt, but Sanders was having none of it.
“I’m sorry, I’m not finished,” she said. “There is a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people … you cannot say it’s an honest mistake when you’re purposely putting out information you know is false.”
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Calls Out White House CESSPOOL …
OOPS… I meant PRESS POOL
… And puts Jim Acosta, King of #FakeNewsMedia In His Place! #FakeNews #Presser #MAGA #USA pic.twitter.com/hujvsEvaJJ
— DONNA WARREN 🇺🇸 (@DonnaWR8) December 11, 2017
Acosta challenged Sanders to name a specific incident in which the media had reported false news intentionally, to which she immediately shot back with the Ross story.
She could have gone after Acosta’s own network.
CNN embarrassingly posted an alleged ‘bombshell’ article recently that contended Donald Trump, Jr., had received an email from Wikileaks with a decryption key to hacked information. The report got the date wrong by 10 days, and the hacked information was already public knowledge at the time, destroying the premise for the entire story.
CNN had to issue a correction hours later when The Washington Post, of all places, debunked the story.
But that didn’t stop Acosta from pretending he had no idea that his own network had produced the ‘fake news.’
Acosta continually tried to interrupt Sanders, but she shut him down for good saying “Jim, I’m gonna say once and for all that I’m moving on.”
“I’m not taking another question from you.”
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