PBS Adds ‘Context’ to Trump Bedminster Speech While CNN, MSNBC Declare It Too ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Untrue’ to Cover
“We’re not carrying his remarks live because frankly, he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous,” CNN’s Jake Tapper announced after wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s arrival in Miami and his arraignment.
For a group of people who got what they wanted Tuesday when former President Donald Trump was arraigned in a Miami courtroom on 37 federal counts related to the classified documents probe, the Usual Suspects on the cable news networks sure were a sour-faced lot.
Take, for instance, how CNN’s Jake Tapper whined about Trump’s stop at a local Cuban cafe in the aftermath of his arraignment, where people prayed for him and sang “happy birthday” to him. Tapper was very faux fended that Trump was being showered with attention and was at points smiling and laughing with the crowd:
“To the folks in the control room, I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn it into a spectacle, into a campaign ad. That is enough of that. We’ve seen it already. Ah, let’s go over again the 37 charges that Donald Trump is facing…”
Jake Tapper tells CNN control room to cut the feed of Trump in Miami:
"I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn it into a spectacle and into a campaign ad. That is enough of that. We’ve seen it already."pic.twitter.com/FmnLXUUPSs
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) June 13, 2023
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace was also not amused, calling on the control room to stop airing the footage:
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace made similar comments on her show while calling for the video feed of Trump’s cafe visit to be taken down.
“That’s the picture over your brilliant words, we don’t need to see that anymore, we know where he is. ” pic.twitter.com/iYFmr0QFLt
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 13, 2023
Other MSNBC media figures, including former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki and woke NBC News presidential “historian” Michael Beschloss, also had a moment:
This….he planned the visit to the cafe knowing it would be the only time this afternoon he would be on camera. He had his spokesperson/lawyer make a whacky statement because he knew there would be appetite for words. He is managing this like a former creator of reality TV… https://t.co/rnMtfrgvMv
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) June 13, 2023
Things did not get any better once Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey speech started hours later.
Tapper, for instance, declared without a shred of self-awareness that the 2024 presidential candidate’s speech was too “dangerous” and lie-filled to air on CNN, where “Facts First” is still, laughably, their motto:
“We’re not carrying his remarks live because frankly, he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous.”
Watch:
Irony alert! CNN's Jake Tapper told his audience that the network wouldn't air Trump's speech because live because "he says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous." Keep in mind 20 minutes prior he had on Russia collusion hoaxer Andrew McCabe. pic.twitter.com/iyLdFNDMuZ
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) June 14, 2023
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who rose to fame and fortune during the Trump presidential era by repeatedly perpetuating, as Tapper did, the Russia/Trump collusion hoax , similarly proclaimed that the paragons of truth-telling at MSNBC simply were not willing to tolerate untruths allegedly being told “no matter who says them”:
“We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them.”
.@Maddow on why @MSNBC isn't airing Trump's speech:
"We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them." pic.twitter.com/LmirC8GUuc
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 14, 2023
Though PBS did air Trump’s speech, they kept adding “context” notes throughout, including towards the end when they engaged in the “words are violence” tactic the left is notorious for:
Wow. Look at this propaganda from PBS during Trump's speech tonight. pic.twitter.com/7zGwVI11UH
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 14, 2023
Look at what PBS posted at the bottom of Trump’s speech. pic.twitter.com/BQhs3e46fu
— Gays For Trump (@GaysForTrump24) June 14, 2023
You can watch some of the other “contextual” disclaimers they added via the video below:
CNN’s and MSNBC’s refusal to air Trump’s speech was rather perplexing considering that according to a Newsbusters analysis, 95 percent of both networks’ coverage on Tuesday was devoted to Trump’s arraignment.
Needless to say, Maddow, Tapper, and Wallace were all called out for obsessing about Trump all during the course of the day before refusing to air the speech he gave defending himself against the charges both networks analyzed and dissected all day:
Catching up on tonight's events and it's eye-rollingly pretentious and insufferable to hear CNN and MSNBC lecture about how they won't show a word of Trump's speech live because of lies and how they take no glee in that.
CNN and MSNBC LOVE Trump. They NEED him. They WANT him.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 14, 2023
Here is @Maddow admitting her network filters and contorts the news.
Her saying “what we fully expect in advance…” is some high-grade Orwellian manipulation. https://t.co/tD1JzfL80s
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) June 14, 2023
Also Jake Tapper: “And now back to 24-7 discussion of Trump.”
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) June 13, 2023
Tapper and CNN only do stuff like this so they can seem like they’re taking the journalistic high road. Otherwise they’re very happy to give Trump free air time https://t.co/svBLOPTVwx
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 14, 2023
"You must immediately cease showing the reality that our political prosecution of the president is not viewed as legitimate outside of our cloistered newsrooms and Democrat swamps!" — NBC propagandist https://t.co/Pci5bDHN3Z
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 14, 2023
Pretty amazing considering the desperate lengths CNN in particular went to in order to cover the proceedings:
How CNN broke Donald Trump's arraignment news after electronics were banned in the courthouse, including hiring local school students as production assistants (CNN)https://t.co/UjhqfCozdehttps://t.co/V0Gi2cefLw
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) June 14, 2023
As far as what all of this means for the sorry state of modern journalism, I leave you with this parting thought:
CNN covered the DOJ prosecutors full statement as well as the indictment, but refused to air the defendants response, which seems like a perfectly healthy future for journalism and criminal justice.
— a newsman (@a_newsman) June 14, 2023
Totally.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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“In the crapper with Tapper!”
And here I thought all the “fact checkers” had disappeared when Biden was selected to be “president.”
If you can’t call this censorship or news suppression, you have a problem. Seek help.
Glad to see that CNN has gotten back on its feet though. /sarc
At least we can all take solace in the fact that nobody watches any of these networks and we have the receipts to prove it.
The MSM was just following the orders of their Wannabe Dictator.
I’m so old, I remember when the editorial segment of the news was clearly labeled as such.
They’re not reporting the news; they’re telling you what to think.
And worse, censoring out any contrary opinions, giving the false appearance that there is no contrary opinions.
Same thing with “climate science”/”glow bull warming.”
Now do all the Context Warnings and ‘litany of lies’ on any of Bleep’s speeches. Or Kamala, or Mayorkis, Buttigieg –.
Oh? They didn’t have any? I’m shocked, shocked
These cable clowns would be better served taking their ‘talents’ to Russia Today television or Moscow Pravda. So the news presenters decide for us?
Ha, I’d sooner trust RT or Pravda than CBS/NBC/ABC/PBS/CNN…
Rachael Mad Cow:
“We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them.”
Ha, they are so narcissistic that they do not realize that they are going to kill themselves.
But when that litany of “lies and accusations” comes from the lips of our favorite wannabe dictator, Joe Biden, the leftists, legacy mainstream media willingly broadcasts it across the nation without a problem. Hypocrites all.
To be fair, the pedophile went from wannabe to full dictator when he indicted his political opponent
I think he will now upgrade his uniform to something with a chest full of medals.
Another name for it is “tapping out.” When your view is based on lies, it’s hard to compete with the truth.
So much for viewpoint diversity in the MSM. We wouldn’t want people hearing unsafe viewpoints.
They don’t want people hearing true viewpoints
Well, that was educational. Found out I had been blocked by Michael Beschloss for one. The behavior of the press has been notable in that the only thing they really have to sell any more that makes them money is Trump-hate, and they act like somebody who despises turnips but has to sell them to pay rent.
Bescholoss is a hack “historian” who has already beshat himself repeatedly with his opinionated “historical analysis.”
Consider your block a win and an honor.
Izvestia nye Pravda, y Pravda nye Izvestia.
You know it too.
The Propaganda Broadcasting Service (PBS) publishes a handmade tale. #HateLovesAbortion
50 shades of YouTube/Alphabet censorship.
MSM revealing itself that it truly is the Enemy of The People.
If you think about four of the biggest liars you can think of that you see/hear almost every day, who would they be? Madow, Wallace, Tapper, and Psaki. These were the four that constantly told us the vaccine was not only safe but patriotic to get. The Russian hoax was real, the Steel dossier was real, and when the liars in the government were exposed and kicked out for LYING, the networks hired them. That tells us all we need to know.
When American corporations were all going brain-dead woke, apparently simultaneously, we all wondered what was driving it…. until we learned that a monopoly financial institution was holding them all hostage with “ESG goals.” I still haven’t heard a plausible explanation for this behavior from news outlets.
Blackrock and Vanguard own large positions in media companies too.
Wouldn’t it be great if what these networks are doing was recognized as tampering with the jury pool, and some execs got a few years of free room and board to cool down?
Punishment should be heavy so they never never dare to do this again.
PBS is funnier than Babylon Bee. Gotta laugh at these eejits.
They don’t want anyone to see Trump because they all know Trump committed no crime and is right about Jack Smith