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Earlier, I wrote about Trump’s campaign, via racist troll Milo Yiannopoulos, getting some push-back from the mainstream media. It’s happened again as conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham tried to push a blatant lie down the throat of CBS News’ Sopan Deb, who was covering Trump’s publicity stunt at a black Detroit congregation this morning.
Laura Ingrham tweeted,
How convenient that at one of the most compelling moments of @realDonaldTrump appearance in Detroit, the @CNN satellite feed dropped.
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— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 3, 2016
Sopan Deb wasted no time setting Ingraham straight, tweeting back:
Totally inaccurate. I was the pool producer. We were forced to pack up our cameras and leave during this. https://t.co/IGG5CcYJT7
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 3, 2016
He followed this up with another tweet:
If you want to make this an issue, please take it up with the campaign. We tried to stay and shoot this whole thing https://t.co/IGG5CcYJT7
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 3, 2016
The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin had this to add:
@SopanDeb @IngrahamAngle @realDonaldTrump @CNN Pool was ushered out by campaign staff while Trump was still on stage.
— Jill Colvin (@colvinj) September 3, 2016
One wit had perhaps the best response to the whole affair, tweeting,
@SopanDeb @IngrahamAngle @realDonaldTrump @CNN Must have been an act of God…he knows a fraud when he sees one.
— Chippi Socha (@chippisocha) September 3, 2016
Couldn’t have said it better. Far from being persecuted by the mainstream media, Trump is continuing to bring on his own problems with the press and its constitutional freedoms, content to blame them for his mistakes, or to let low-information surrogates like Laura Ingraham, who, like Trump, can’t be bothered to check the facts, do it for him.
This time it didn’t work as, happily, the media stepped up and quickly slapped down the lie.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
