There he goes again. As noted here at Fox, this was the headline about the latest from NBC’s Meet the Press host Chuck Todd:
NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn
The story as reported by Fox’s Gregg Re said this:
“NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later — but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air.
Asked by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge how history would judge the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Flynn case, Barr initially responded, laughing: ‘Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.’
After the brief clip aired, Todd remarked that he was ‘struck by the cynicism of the answer — it’s a correct answer, but he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this was a political job.’
In the full clip, which the NBC show did not air, Barr immediately went on to state explicitly that, in fact, he felt the Flynn decision upheld the rule of law.
‘I think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law,’ Barr said. ‘It upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.’”
In other words, the NBC audience was deliberately deceived as to what the Attorney General had said.
Today on Meet The Press, @chucktodd wildly took context out of an answer AG Bill Barr gave about his decision to drop the case into Gen. Michael Flynn.
I cut Todd's segment along with Barr's full answer together. Look at how blatantly dishonest this is. pic.twitter.com/tODOEwL48V
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 10, 2020
This is not the first time ole Chuck has been down this road.
Back in the eternities, Chuck was livid with me because I pointed out that he had been less than upfront about his own wife’s professional activities. Chuck had gone out of his way to attack Sean Hannity because Sean had supposedly not revealed that ex-Trumper lawyer Michael Cohen was his lawyer. The obvious problem here was that Cohen was in fact not Hannity’s lawyer, as had been noted by Hannity repeatedly on his shows.
In other words, the NBC audience was deliberately deceived as to what the Attorney General had said.
Chuck, on the other hand, insisted that he had noted his wife’s ties to various Democrats when he was interviewing them on his show. I did my research and found, as noted here, that this was simply not true.
Now? Now Chuck does a version of the same thing. He presents what has been politely called “deceptively edited” video of the Attorney General of the United States and thinks no one will, um, do the research and find out the truth.
Here is the official NBC response:
“In response, the “Meet the Press” Twitter account posted: “You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.”
Not good.
Note well: the response is from some faceless NBC spokesperson, not from Chuck Todd himself.
The Federalist’s eagle-eyed Mollie Hemingway replied thusly as reported also by Fox:
“‘A tweet in no way covers the error,’ wrote The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway. ‘A lot of people are rightly angry at @chucktodd for willfully lying about AG Barr’s comments on rule of law — but @JoeNBC also did it days ago. These intentional lies in service of false narratives have gone on for years. Infuriating.’ (That was a reference, in part, to NBC’s Joe Scarborough sharing a debunked, deceptively edited clip of Vice President Mike Pence handling boxes of PPE.)”
Mollie is exactly right. These are indeed exactly “intentional lies in service of false narratives have gone on for years.” This is what the liberal media does.
The false narrative here, in this case, is that the Attorney General is some sort of transparent, not to mention cynical, a liar who is about corrupting the Department of Justice. Tucker Carlson has taken note of Chuck’s blatant deception as well:
To be clear, if Democrats want to run with that BS – they can and will do so, with the American people, as always, in charge of deciding who is right.
But it is the job of a journalist in Chuck Todd’s position to simply present the facts – and leave the verdict to the audience. Instead, Chuck and NBC chose to deliberately, willfully, and deceptively edit this piece of video to promote an anti-Barr and, but of course, anti-Trump narrative.
Which tells Americans in the viewing audience everything they need to know about the state of NBC and the larger American “mainstream” media.
No wonder Fox wins the ratings wars.
And no wonder Donald Trump is president.
