The Charlottesville Lie

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Did President Trump call neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a famous press conference following the Charlottesville riots of August 2017? The major media reported that he did. But what if their reporting is wrong? Worse, what if their reporting is wrong and they know it’s wrong? A straight exploration of the facts should reveal the truth. That’s what CNN political analyst Steve Cortes does in this critically important video.

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0:00.0	Politicians lie. We all know that.
0:03.4	This is not an indictment of all politicians. It's simply part of the game.
0:08.2	It's our job as informed citizens to figure out the truth.
0:12.4	And that's where journalists and the media come in.
0:15.6	They are supposed to help us fair and out fact from fiction.
0:19.6	So when they get a fact wrong, that's bad.
0:23.1	When they get a fact wrong, know it's wrong, and don't correct it, that's worse.
0:29.7	That's not getting a fact wrong. That's a lie.
0:33.2	And that's journalistic malfeasance.
0:36.2	The best or maybe worst example of this followed a presidential press conference
0:41.4	at Trump Tower on Tuesday, August 15, 2017.
0:45.7	You remember what happened that previous weekend?
0:48.2	A group of white supremacists held a white pride rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
0:53.4	The ostensible reason was to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
0:59.4	An antifa group showed up to counter protest.
1:04.0	The mayor and the police were totally unprepared to deal with the violence that ensued.
1:10.0	Tragically, a young woman Heather Hire was run over and killed by a neo-Nazi.
1:17.0	The press conference itself was raucous. The media was antagonistic.
1:22.0	The president was combative.
1:25.6	Out of it all, one phrase eclips the thousands of words exchanged.
1:30.6	The media reported that President Trump described neo-Nazis as very fine people.
1:37.6	Only he didn't. In fact, he didn't even hint at it.
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