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Gilded Reframe – ASSOCIATED PRESS
The question is how exactly this mistake took place.
Journalists in general would be helped if they followed the maxim, if a story feels a little too good and fits your confirmation of things, that is when you should be skeptical. When it is a story from the AP, that ends up legitimizing why it was sidelined from the White House press pool, you are required to be skeptical.
Such was the case when the AP delivered a report that quoted Tulsi Gabbard as saying that Trump considers he and Vladimir Putin to be “very good friends” and has plans to deepen that relationship. The quote was relatively accurate – the only problem was that it references the wrong leader. It turns out Gabbard was referring to Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India. It is difficult to grasp how that kind of error takes place, but many outlets have had to walk back their reporting on this as a result of the AP correcting things…well after all of the reports already had been made for nearly a full day.
Hey @Morning_Joe @JoeNBC why did you let your guest, the **US National Editor** of the Financial Times @EdwardGLuce repeat the AP's now retracted lie that Tulsi Gabbard said Putin and Trump are "very good friends," with zero correction? pic.twitter.com/rOpLtaynid
— Lauren Marsh (@shuler_lauren) March 18, 2025
Low-Octane Gaslighting — MSNBC
You mean, Joe Scarborough made a declaration that is 180 degrees out of phase with the facts…again?
Joe really needs to quit his Biden addiction. Maybe there is a patch he could wear to wean him off?
For the latest, he was impugning President Trump (yes, again…), this time over allegedly defying court cases, and intimated that it was something Biden had never done.
Except for those pesky historical facts, such as when he defied SCOTUS over extending the evictions moratorium or erasing student loan debt.
LEFT: Joe Scarborough declares presidents like Joe Biden never screamed and yelled about ignoring judges.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 18, 2025
RIGHT: Joe Biden screams and yells about ignoring the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/92r9ojxSDy
Reporting on the Mirror – NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
Could we be more melodramatic about the minuscule story?!
It was a small yet amusing story when President Trump was giving one of his regular impromptu press visits on the tarmac recently. In the course of fielding questions, a boom mic nudged him in the face. His calm facial reaction to this intrusion was a classic visual.
New Trump reaction gif just dropped 😂 pic.twitter.com/CiOt2M1RaX
— Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 (@TheRicanMemes) March 14, 2025
Since that occurred, the journalist behind the audio assault has been outed – Danielle Kurtzleben of National Public Radio. Since then, it was reported by The Daily Mail that she was exposed by nefarious forces. The outlet declares she had been “named by MAGA,” and since then, she was “driven into hiding.” What this entailed was her making her social media accounts private.
NPR reporter driven into hiding after being named by MAGA as one who hit Trump in face with a mic https://t.co/8IN0RtxoEq
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 17, 2025
Pulitzer Prize Nomination – CBS NEWS
Sounds like they were not paying these rangers enough!
Welcome to our daily entry of government cuts hysteria. For the latest, we turn to Ian Lee of CBS News, who informs us that he is at a national park where the ranger station has been closed due to the layoffs in government agencies. This will lead, naturally, to more dangerous encounters with bears. (And we thought being locked in the bathroom was the worst that could happen!)
The next question is what do we call these attacks: Musk Maulings? DOGE Dismemberments?
CBS's Ian Lee takes @DOGE Derangement to new heights, now suggesting that budget cuts will get you eaten by a bear:
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2025
IAN LEE: Let's say you just arrived in town and you want some information about the forest, maybe a good place to camp or a trip to hike on. Or maybe you are… pic.twitter.com/G1U09mPkq6
BlueAnon – CBS NEWS
So, it was un-American when the Democrat Roosevelt did that?
On CBS News, they were desperate to label President Trump as poorly as possible and did so in ridiculous fashion. They brought on a spokesperson from the very biased Brennan Center to declare that what Trump is doing with his recent flight of illegals to El Salvador is as bad if not worse than when we sent Japanese citizens to internment camps.
What makes this so ridiculous is simple – facts. Those internments saw the rounding up of anyone of Japanese extraction, and it involved those who were American citizens. Trump is deporting illegal NON-citizens, most of which were hardened criminals.
But otherwise, exactly the same.
🚨 New @TimJGraham Column:
— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 19, 2025
CBS smeared President Trump as being worse than violent Venezuelan illegal gang members. https://t.co/IgkF2UosR7
