http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/02/video-cnn-now-fact-checking-trump-with-onscreen-graphics/Video: CNN now fact-checking Trump with onscreen graphics
posted at 2:41 pm on June 2, 2016 by Allahpundit
Fox News did something like this to Trump during a debate in early March, confronting him with things he’d said before that contradicted his newly stated position, but those were special circumstances. CNN’s treatment of what he said about nukes and Japan yesterday suggests that this might be standard practice now.
It’s a good idea and he deserves it but I’ll stick up for him in this case: Will they do the same to Hillary? America’s been richly blessed this year with two notorious liars as major-party nominees so there’s no reason, apart from ideological bias, for media outlets to limit this approach. Hillary’s lies tend to be more lawyerly than Trump’s, often without the sort of soundbite-ready compare-and-contrast direct contradiction you see here, so the gotchas won’t always be as easy. But they’re out there. Lots of them. Remember, when voters are asked straight up which of the two nominees is more honest and trustworthy, Trump leads comfortably. When you’re covering an election involving someone whose name is practically a byword for mendacity among the general population, you’re a-gonna have to cast a critical eye her way too.
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