NBC Issues Correction Two Days After Falsely Claiming Trump Called Gen. Robert E. Lee ‘Incredible’

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NBC Issues Correction Two Days After Falsely Claiming Trump Called Gen. Robert E. Lee ‘Incredible’
Mediaite, Oct 14, 2018, Caleb Howe

NBC Issues Correction Two Days After Falsely Claiming Trump Called Gen. Robert E. Lee ‘Incredible’

On Friday, NBC News reported, and tweeted, that President Donald Trump praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as “incredible”. But on Sunday, NBC had to correct that tweet since, as it turns out, Trump was actually praising Union General (and future U.S. President) Ulysses S. Grant in the clip.

“An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as ‘incredible’ at a rally in Ohio,” they tweeted. “It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee.”

That’s a pretty big difference.

That was the tweet on Friday. The correction came as a reply to that tweet on Sunday.

CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as “incredible” at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump’s remark. Here is the full clip. pic.twitter.com/NZHj3Q2dHL

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2018

The story, which rocketed across the web, claimed that Trump was saying Robert E. Lee was the “great general” who “drank too much” but was “incredible’. In reality, as one can tell by watching the full clip, those remarks were directed to General Grant.


More: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-issues-correction-two-days-after-falsely-claiming-trump-called-gen-robert-e-lee-incredible/

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[goatprairie]

Grant is not given nearly enough credit for his generalship.  He won one victory after another in the west before taking over the Army of the Potomac. He immediately understood that the Confederate armies couldn't withstand constant pressure from the Union armies.
He wasn't a swaggering braggart like McClellan, Hooker, and some other Union generals who were in charge of the AOTP. He just went about his business without the bluster of the other Union generals.
He made some mistakes, like at Cold Harbor, but he knew Lee's army just didn't have the resources for a long war.

[Emjay]

Grant is not given nearly enough credit for his generalship.  He won one victory after another in the west before taking over the Army of the Potomac. He immediately understood that the Confederate armies couldn't withstand constant pressure from the Union armies.
He wasn't a swaggering braggart like McClellan, Hooker, and some other Union generals who were in charge of the AOTP. He just went about his business without the bluster of the other Union generals.
He made some mistakes, like at Cold Harbor, but he knew Lee's army just didn't have the resources for a long war.

There was an original copy of Grant's biography in my family and it was worth something so, of course, some relative stole it.  He did have an alcohol problem.

Really speaks to the accuracy of NBC reporting.  They cherry-picked a lie that they thought would turn people against him.  When they realized people liked it, they decided to retract it.

Yes, I think they are that duplicitous.

[goatprairie]

There was an original copy of Grant's biography in my family and it was worth something so, of course, some relative stole it.  He did have an alcohol problem.

Really speaks to the accuracy of NBC reporting.  They cherry-picked a lie that they thought would turn people against him.  When they realized people liked it, they decided to retract it.

Yes, I think they are that duplicitous.

Today he would be called an alcoholic. But that is totally beside the point. The facts are Grant was the key Union soldier mostly responsible for the North winning the war. He didn't drink when things were on the line.  And there's Lincoln's quote about sending a case of whiskey to other Union generals if they could accomplish  as much as Grant.
What actually killed him were the numerous cigars he smoked many of them donations from Northern citizens grateful for his accomplishments during the war.  Grant felt he had to smoke them as they were gifts.
Lung cancer was what finally killed him.

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