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Great Q from @jonkarl: Why did you lie to the American people and why should we trust what you have to say now?
President Trump: That's terrible way to phrase it. I didn't lie. What I said was we have to be calm and not panicked.
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HE. FUCKING. LIED.
dem4decades
(11,270 posts)And I'm not criticizing you and your post, just stating how far we've come.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,555 posts)Not as bad as Chuck Todd or David Brooks or Maggie Haberman, but close.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Then he ran down the hall, slammed his door REAL hard, and cranked up Katy Perry.
dem4decades
(11,270 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)he's probably on the phone to Lou or hannity crying why me why me
Arkansas Granny
(31,507 posts)He must think we're all as drug addled and ignorant as he is.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)You are still claiming it is a hoax and everyone is against you because they don't want you to win.
Jon Karl should have followed up with: Why have YOU claimed it was a HOAX for more than 6 months then?
kentuck
(111,055 posts)Because he is a liar.
He has done it over 20,000 times since he slithered down the golden escalator.
H2O Man
(73,510 posts)tblue37
(65,227 posts)into influential media positions.
From FAIR:
Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement
Conservatives dont just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias. They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media. And one of the most famous alums of a conservative media training program is now a major star at a network news outlet: ABCs senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl.
Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James OKeefe (Political Correction, 1/27/10). The network, founded in 1979, is one of several projects of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which seeks to strengthen conservative ideology on college campuses. William F. Buckley was the ISIs first president, and the current board chair is American Spectator publisher Alfred Regnery. Several leading right-wing pundits came out of Collegiate-affiliated papers, including Ann Coulter, Dinesh DSouza, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and Laura Ingraham (Washington Times, 11/28/04).
The Collegiate Network also provides paid internships and fellowships to place its members at corporate media outlets or influential Beltway publications; 2010-11 placements include the Hill, Roll Call, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. The programs highest-profile alum is Karl, who was a Collegiate fellow at the neoliberal New Republic magazine.
After a stint at the New York Post, Karl soon found his way to CNN, but he was still connected to ideological pursuits; he was a board member at the right-leaning youth-oriented Third Millennium group and at the Madison Center for Educational Affairswhich, like the Collegiate Network, seeks to strengthen young conservative journalism. After moving to ABC in 2003, Karl contributed several pieces to the neo-con Weekly Standard, such as his April 4, 2005 article praising Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as out to make her mark with the vigorous pursuit of the presidents freedom and democracy agenda.
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More at link: https://fair.org/extra/a-right-wing-mole-at-abc-news/
UTUSN
(70,649 posts)tblue37
(65,227 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)If a noise comes out of his mouth, it's a fucking lie.
Let's do something to advance our cause. Every bit helps.
George II
(67,782 posts)DallasNE
(7,402 posts)I didn't lie, I punted (by not telling the truth). His "answer" "to stay calm" doesn't address the first part of the question and he completely ignored the part on trust. To quote Trump, "that is a terrible way to phrase it".
He called it a hoax and he said it would go away in April when it warmed up. Neither response aligns with what he was told by his senior advisors. That makes him a liar. If downplaying it is a false narrative then you are a liar.
Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)I just don't understand why the press continue to show up. Do they have to? Will they be fired? Why keep allowing that trash to continue to speak and continue to lie?
He needs to walk out and see a completely empty room! Save America and quit giving him a mic!!