PBS Host Apologizes for Falsely Reporting Trump Pressed Netanyahu Over Hostage Deal
Judy Woodruff said she relied on reports from Axios and Reuters, but neither one has reports on the subject.
You cannot hate the media enough. Never forget the media hates you.
PBS host Judy Woodruff “apologized” for falsely reporting Donald Trump pressured Benjamin Netanyahu to delay a hostage deal until after the 2024 presidential election.
Gee, that sounds like something the Democrats accused Trump of doing with the Ukrainian president.
I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East. As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having…
— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) August 21, 2024
Woodruff, like any other media member, didn’t take responsibility.
Woodruff blamed other reports she read…except those reports don’t exist.
In her statement, Judy Woodruff says she was relying on Axios and Reuters reporting, that she just wasn’t aware of the denials from Trump and Netanyahu.
But I can’t find any Axios or Reuters reporting that reflects what she says in the video below. https://t.co/PizRNhsCPN
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024
During a Monday night segment of the PBS News program, Woodruff stated, “The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.”
However, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office denounced Woodruff’s reporting, telling The Jerusalem Post this week that the anchor pushed “a complete lie.”
Netanyahu’s office also released a statement denying Axios’ report about a phone call between the prime minister and Trump about the Gaza hostage and cease-fire deal that the outlet claimed happened on Aug. 14. Axios updated the story last week to reflect Netanyahu’s denial.
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Always call this detritus out for their lies.
LOL — another day ending in the letter “y;” another brazen, unabashed, shameless and despicable lie exposed, from the vile, mendacious, duplicitous, dutifully water-carrying and obsequious Dhimmi-crat media shills/lapdogs/trained seals/sycophants/propagandists.
Crone Woodruff is only sorry that she got caught and exposed.
Sounds like a repeat of the 1980 October Surprise theory that Reagan asked Iran to delay the release of American hostages until after the 1980 election and the defeat of Jimmy Carter. Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing what Democrats would have done.
Of course she’s lying. She’s been on air for about a thousand decades and she “supposedly” made a mistake only a 7th grader would make?
She’s a liar like the rest of the liberal commie media.
This is one of the most disgusting things in modern media/politics–but I repeat myself.
Instead of saying “X did Y”, they say “It is reported that X did Y”. That way they can always hide behind–I didn’t state it as fact.
This is easily blown up, but rarely done. Simply ask: “WHO reports that X did Y.” There is never an answer.
Obama was/is a master of this tactic.
The only basis for this speculation is pure projection. Orangemanbad so it must be true. Meanwhile our crack Secretary of State clearly is completely out of his league. But we can’t mention the Biden/Harris administration’s incompetence and down right ignoring the fact of American hostages held for almost 1 year. I’ll bet this administration doesn’t even know if they are alive. At least Jimmy Carter gambled on a military operation to free the Iranian embassy hostages. This administration seems to want the whole problem to go away but they have no clue how to go about it.
“At least Jimmy Carter gambled on a military operation to free the Iranian embassy hostages.”
I’m surprised at how few people give Carter credit for this. That it didn’t work out wasn’t his fault, but he takes the blame for the failure and isn’t acknowledged for making the attempt. It’s one of the only two things Carter did that I applauded (the other being the Israel-Egypt peace accord, which I am surprised has survived until now).
Judy Woodruff is still alive? Who knew?
Hahahaha. The retraction is just a formality. All that really matters is the original “reporting”. Or accusation. It survives across the internet more robustly than the apology or correction. That’s the point. Just ask Harry Reid. If it works, and you’re in the right party, your reputation doesn’t even suffer. You may even become more wealthy when it does work.
Exactly.
Every time the “major” media does something like this, the words “leftist”, “liberal”, or “far left” should proceed the name of the media. Such as:
“The far-left outlet PBS reports…”
“The leftist media CNN says…”
They are happy to brand Fox as “far right” (maybe at one time, but now, not so much). We need to apply the same rules to them they use on us.
I love how she lied about how she lied. And the second lie was even stupider than the first and easy to definitely confirm to be a lie.
In a normal, sane society such a person would be immediately fired and never heard from again. Frankly, for such immense idiocy, most of her direct family would be shunned, too.
For years, Judy Woodruff has been the leader of the Islamic-American branch of the IRGC propaganda initiative, according to my sources.
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