The Media Pushes Back As CNN Destroys A Trump Lie With An Onscreen Fact Check

[ailsagirl]

Last edited Thu Jun 2, 2016, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)

PoliticusUSA: The media is making Trump pay for his lies. Today, CNN fact-checked Trump with an onscreen graphic that called out one of his lies as they played the video.

[Wounded Bear]

1. A small, but promising step...

I hope it continues. I just wish they'd stop with all the free publicity.

[gratuitous]

4. I'll accept the provision of free publicity to Trump

As long as the major media outlets are going to put the lie to Trump's words like this. It won't take long before Trump either changes his ways (which I don't think is possible) or his credibility is in such tatters that even Fox won't stick up for him anymore (which may be unlikely, but still possible). It's long past time that objective truth re-enters our political discussions and this "some people say" nonsense is consigned to the trash heap. Trump can't say one week that he wants Japan to have nukes and then the next week say he never said that. There's no controversy over the facts in an instance like this, and it is just not that difficult for the media outlets to say that if they're interested in the integrity of their own reporting.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

26. K&R I saw more than one video where he said that Japan and some other nations should be given nukes

[gussmith]

77. Quoth the Madman

Trump has so much commentary on file that he can't escape himself.

[Ccarmona]

25. This shouldn't be news on June 2

If the media had been doing their job, this wouldn't be considered a "breakthrough in coverage."

[dorkzilla]

41. Just thinking the same thing

I'm sorry but they don't deserve praise for doing their job now when they should have been ignoring him instead of shoring up their miserable ratings.

They deserve each other.

[jalan48]

58. They could have done it last summer when his candidacy was taking off.

The media basically pushed Trump on the country with all his free minutes on a nightly basis. The election feels a bit scripted to me.

[dorkzilla]

60. Kabuki theater at it's best!

A lot of us have been saying that all along...it's too surreal. I sometimes wish I could live another 100 years just to see how history recalls this election year.

[gopiscrap]

66. That's because being nasty and an asshole on tv

for many in this country sells. The problem is many low IQ folks confuse politics with entertainment. Last summer when I was in Europe, people there were amazed that the citizens of the US were evening considering him! Now they shudder and worry!

[jalan48]

67. I know the media claimed "ratings" but if that were the case why the Bernie Blackout?

He was drawing thousands at his rallies last fall and couldn't even get on the news cycle. What a story-he starts at zero and look what's happening, thousands of people are being moved by his message. The corporate media could have had major ratings by hyping Bernie-why didn't it happen?

[gopiscrap]

70. wrong story for the media

it was anticorporatist

[noneof_theabove]

47. FIRE HIM....

This is from 18:00CDT Thu 02 Jun 2016 a simple find in the following websites

T=Trump C=Clinton
MSN.com T=6 C=3
CNN.com T=6 C=2
ABC.com T=13 C=2
CBSnews.com T=31 C=11
NBCnews.com T=18 C=9
DemocraticUnderground.com T=65 C=14
HuffingtonPost.com T=37 C=4 + 1 as "Hill" headline

TOTAL T=176 C=46

So this is 2016 Democracy?
All television, anything live, and new sites MUST let those that have an IQ that equals their age that Trump is the REAL PROBLEM, and may everyone else's Supreme Being save those that did not vote for this "reality start" p.o.s. idiot.

[gussmith]

78. Yes

You are so right.

[gussmith]

76. Video Trump

A winning campaign strategy against Trump is to play his videos showing his myriad positions on the same topic. A winner for sure.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Maybe the media hacks are starting to realize

that shit's getting real and they'd better do some actual reporting on this asshole. It was all fun and games for awhile because he was a novelty, but maybe they're beginning to notice that he's actually dangerous and they have a responsibility to tell people, truthfully, how terrible he is. No more false equivalency.

[Mosby]

15. Bingo. nt

[TeamPooka]

18. Also he's a threat to the concept of a Free Press. They know it now. nt

[JBoy]

21. True. Can you imagine this clown with the power of the President? n/t

[lostnfound]

20. Or maybe the push to scare people in the Dem primaries is no longer a goal

Build up trump for a year with free 24-7 coverage, until he's the front runner... Then he becomes the scary boogeyman.. Who wins the primaries when we are terrified that trump might get in? Who wins the general?

Would have been hard to find anyone with higher unfavorable than Donald. Only one person is close.

[Dustlawyer]

36. Hey, thats my line! Lol

I have the same theory, it makes total sense. TPTB set this up to manipulate the result they wanted. We are such fools to fall for it, but then they do have the MSM to distract us with Bull Shit!!!

[jmowreader]

48. Did you put the name of the guy with higher unfavorables than Donald in big letters on purpose?

[truebluegreen]

53. I want some.

[Thor_MN]

61. 10 Days

[truebluegreen]

64. ooooooh I'm scairt.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. We're getting bombarded with fund raising scare mail here....

Every Liberal group in America is benefiting off Trump.

[renate]

23. interesting that this didn't really start until his press conference the other day

... when he started criticizing members of the media personally. I know he's always taunted them and made his goons boo them at his rallies, but maybe the press conference about his donations to veterans' groups was the turning point at which even the reporters' bosses decided it was time to reveal that the emperor has no clothes.

[Fast Walker 52]

24. right???

[leftynyc]

29. Nah - they're just pissed

that he had the nerve trash the media and they're finally fighting back. They couldn't care less who the President is.

[Equinox Moon]

38. Or maybe the M$M has a 3rd Party hopeful coming

[DLevine]

3. About fucking time. nt

[sufrommich]

5. Maybe they should have thought of doing that months ago.

The media and the GOP took Donald Trump from national joke to presidential nominee,they don't get a pass from me. Too little,too late.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. A day late and a dollar short...

Talk about closing the barn door after the marauding monster has absconded.

[awoke_in_2003]

42. Yep. nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. MSNBC has been pushing back all day and even the past few days since that contentious presser. nt

[fbc]

7. it should say (LIE) rather than (HE DID)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. or (BULLSHIT!)

[Flying Squirrel]

8. Too little, too late?

If I were a Trump supporter and the media suddenly turned on him, I would probably believe that it was the media with no credibility -- not Trump. The media has done this to themselves - their credibility is shot. Now all of a sudden they want people to believe them instead of their own lying eyes and ears? This will not work for them, but it's good that they're at least trying. Then again, maybe they're only doing it to cover their own asses and say, "We tried to warn the people" if Trump is elected.

[kairos12]

10. Exactly my thinking.

[Surya Gayatri]

14. Spot on analysis...

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. Except, I don't think the Don D. Con supporter is the media's sudden audience.

[annabanana]

31. That's ok.. because the trump base is actually not that big

And this will keep him from growing his numbers.

[NewJeffCT]

69. He'll have his fanatics

but, this is more about turning off the independents, D-leaning independents and even R-leaning independents.

[CrispyQ]

9. The media is complicit. Now they regret the monster they helped create.

[LanternWaste]

16. I don't think the media feels regret; rather the opposite

I don't think the media feels regret; rather the opposite. Trump has been great for ratings during the primary, and in the general, I can only imagine he will boost them further still. Anything a profit-oriented newsroom can do to foment righteous rage (for or against a given candidate) simply means a greater audience.

[matt819]

11. Take it a step further

Trump: I never said Japan should have nukes.
CNN: He lied. On xx date he said Japan should have nukes.

Trump has made it clear that he has nothing but contempt for the press, and I think it's not unreasonable for the press to respond accordingly. So what if he doesn't consent to interviews or do his idiotic call-in interviews. You can't stop the press from doing its job. And if that is what it takes, so be it.

[FSogol]

12. LOL, they need to get Ron Howard to narrate it just like in "Arrested Development." (He Did)

[sendero]

19. It's so quaint...

.. y'all think the electorate cares about "facts".

Politicians are not about facts and they have not been for decades. The news media is not about the truth and it hasn't been for decades.

We live in a post-fact political climate where lies are as good as truths because every politician at that level is an accomplished liar and most people have figured that out.

[hamsterjill]

27. I noticed a change earlier this morning on CNN, as well.

I was driving and listening to Carol Costello. She was hitting back at the Trump surrogate much harder than she has been in the past. Not sure that means anything other than I noticed it happening.

I can hope, right?

[Kelvin Mace]

28. The general electorate stopped living in a reality-based world years ago

As the Rove crowd said, "We make our own reality".

The only organizations with similarly bad poll numbers are the media.

[Sophiegirl]

32. They built him up for ratings and $$$$

Now, they will tear him apart.....

....for ratings and $$$$

[LuckyLib]

56. ^^This!^^

[Botany]

33. 77% of the time when Trump says something it is a lie

http://americablog.com/2016/03/trump-lies-77-percent-time.html

[Quasimodem]

74. The other 23% of what Trump says ...

... are just articles and conjunctions.

[Wounded Bear]

79. Adjectives...

He uses a lot adjectives, most of which are meaningless, vague ones like Great! and Huge! and Best! In the end all he is is a 24/7 Trump ad.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

34. "Medium is the message"

IMO, this is an EXTREMELY important development if other cable stations and the broadcast networks emulate CNN graphics.

Like any other TV personality, Trump knows that what's most important is having the camera focused on you, and that it does not much affect what you're trying to advertise whether or not viewers have turned off the audio.

Trump repeats the same lies over and over again. Even if you have the sound turned down, you associate Trump's face with "Japan and South Korea should pay for their own nukes", "Obama has tanked the economy", "Mexicans are rapists", "Muslims threaten our national security", etc, etc.

With a relatively few transparencies prepared in advance to be overlaid under Trump's face, CNN or any other station can turn the free publicity they love to give him from positive to negative.

Marshall McLuhan would have been very proud of CNN producers today.

[Warpy]

35. It's about bloody time

they realized that using this oaf to pump their ratings has gotten to be a dangerous game for everybody.

Let's hope it's not too little and too late. Let's also hope other networks start to fact check him.

[liberalnarb]

37. CNN doing actual journalism?

Holy shit!

[mopinko]

39. they made a fortune building him up, now they will make a fortune

tearing him down.

[Chakab]

40. Wow. They called out one lie after he lied his way to the GOP nomination thanks in large part to

all of the free publicity that they gave him.

[Justice]

43. Wolf interviewing Rep Issa kept pushing him to answer questions about Trump

Weird because I don't believe Issa even likes Trump.

Issa kept saying 'President' Trump would be okay because would surround himself with knowledgeable advisors.
Wolf asked him about Japan getting nukes, and Issa said Japan had cooperated with small military and paid us a lot of
money to have bases around them.

Wolf ended the interview segment by saying, I've had numerous conversations with Trump about this and he does not agree with you - Trump believes Japan doesn't pay us nearly enough.

Issa weakly smiled knowing he was caught.

[bucolic_frolic]

44. Well it's not exactly Muckraker Journalism

but it's a healthy first salvo

[ProudProgressiveNow]

45. K&R nt

[Hekate]

46. About damn time, and Madame President leads the way

[Cassiopeia]

49. As predicted.

The media chose our candidates and they chose Trump because he was the only Republican Hillary might be able to beat.

[niyad]

50. hey, donnie boy, don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[ailsagirl]

51. Yep-- it's an obvious rule and most people are familiar with it...

but he seems to think that none of the warnings apply to him-- that he's above it all.

It's very disturbing.

[niyad]

52. he believes his own pr about how powerful and wonderful and magnificent he is.

[ailsagirl]

55. Yes

I've said it before: he's a Sherman tank-- an out-of-control Sherman tank

[truebluegreen]

57. Alert the media! Media does its job! nt

[Evar]

59. Calling out #DumbDonald

It's about time the media pushes back on the lies and word salad Trump serves up. He and Palin speak the same language--nonsense and name calling. He's cunning, not smart, and his brand is #DumbDonald. Use it.

[asjr]

62. Was it not true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned?

[malthaussen]

63. So has the worm turned...

... or just raised its head for a moment?

-- Mal

[raindaddy]

65. The media pushes back?

The "media" created Trump, gave him hours of free air time. Trump was the alternative to exposing the public dangerous ideas like the poor and middle-class have been decimated by an economic class war supported by both parties...

[C Moon]

68. Trump: I never said, I never said Japan should have nukes.

[3catwoman3]

71. It took damn...

...long enough.

More than a little irony in Trump now whining about how unfair the media is, how they are not treating him fairly, after all the free "all-Trump-all-the-time" coverage they have lavished on him for lo these many nauseating months.

He sure does fuss a lot about people not treating him right.

[ailsagirl]

72. I'm hopeful that the MSM will start being more honest in their stories

With CNN, this is the second time this week that they blew the whistle on him, so to speak.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141475307

[Iggo]

73. It's a start.

And I bet if he was nice to them at their little get-together earlier this wouldn't have happened.

So, it's a start. And if it leads to more, I'll be ecstatic. But I'm not holding my breath.

[sulphurdunn]

75. C'mon,

Trumps supporters know that truth is what the Donald garbles today if it contradicts what he inarticulated yesterday.

[LAS14]

81. :-)

[bucolic_frolic]

80. He doesn't trust judges of Mexican descent

but he wants Japan to have nukes, before he doesn't?

Total Favoritism

Notice he never goes after central Europeans

Guess they're good suppliers of trophy wives

[lonestarnot]

82. Liar liar roadkill on fire.

[Mendocino]

83. Maybe STDs

cause memory loss, like agent orange from his own personal Vietnam.