In the immediate aftermath of the tragic shooting spree of an alleged sex addict against a series of Asian spas in Atlanta last week, the hammer that was the liberal media saw everything as a racist nail. On Thursday and Friday morning, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) took their cues from Vox liar Aaron Rupar and falsely smeared Cherokee County Sheriff’s spokesman, Captain Jay Baker with an out-of-context quote making it seem like he was downplaying the attack.
They also suggested it was “racist” to acknowledge the fact COVID-19 came from China.
ABC’s World News Tonight, led the way with the false story angle with anchor David Muir putting Baker alongside hate: “What’s being done to stop the hate? And the county sheriff who will no longer be the spokesperson on this case, one day after he described what the suspect told investigators going on to say yesterday was ‘a really bad day for him.’”
But as Reason magazine’s Robby Soave pointed out on Friday, the liberal media were taking Baker out of context based on “a 20-second video clip.” “But that’s not what Baker did. In fact, many of the people so infuriated about the quote were misled by Rupar’s edit of the video,” he said.
Adding: “The full video (the relevant section starts at about 13:50) makes clear that Baker was not providing his own commentary, but rather summarizing what Long had told the investigators. The ‘bad day’ line was proceeded by a clarification that this was Long’s own explanation, as related to the police. Baker did not endorse it.”
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This wasn’t journalism. It was idiocy.
The three major Fake News Networks broadcast their fake news all 12 moths,52 weeks and 365 days a year with one extra day during a Leap Year its no wonder no one trusts them and the Print Media are no better and CNN is there Chief Editor of all this Fake News
Simply more evidence that “news” organizations do not want people to have the truth and facts; they want them to have the leftist propaganda that serves the Democrats. So, knowing exactly what the shooter said and was thinking doesn’t matter, the Demediacrats want people to have that misconception that the murders were about racism. If an honest cop is ruined in the process… meh.