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More perfidy from the enemy press. When will these thugs and propagandists be held accountable for lying to the American people?
WATCH: CBS 60 minutes takes Secy Pompeo woefully out of context, gets slammed by State Dept Spox
By The Right Scoop, May 11, 2020
Story continues below advertisementOn the same day as NBC’s Meet the Press and Chuck Todd took AG Barr out of context, CBS’s 60 Minutes did the very same thing to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, claiming Pompeo was pushing a debunked theory that the Wuhan virus was manmade despite the administration claiming otherwise.
But first, before we delve into the 60 minutes piece, I want you to rewatch a snippet from Pompeo’s interview from last Sunday where he was asked about the virus being manmade (It’s cued up to 5:51):
Clearly when Pompeo first answered the question about the virus being manmade, he misspoke. When Raddatz read to Pompeo the ODNI’s statement that the virus was not manmade, Pompeo said he agreed with their statement and had no reason to believe it was inaccurate. Raddatz, understanding that Pompeo probably misspoke the first time, sought to clarify one more time that Pompeo didn’t believe it was manmade. He answered the same way, saying he had no reason to believe they had it wrong.
Now, watch how 60 minutes takes Pompeo woefully out of context (it’s cued up to 8:21):
https://youtu.be/iHaeCNPxZ6M
Scott Pelley, the narrator of the segment, uses the portion of the interview where Pompeo misspoke to claim he was pushing a debunked theory of the virus being manmade. Then, when Pompeo said he agreed with the ODNI statement that the virus was no manmade, Pelley claimed Pompeo was trying to have it both ways.
The segment was so egregious that the spox for the State Department slammed 60 minutes for their false portrayal of Pompeo’s comments:
.@CBSNews intentionally misled its viewers with a report Sunday evening that failed to accurately portray the clear intent of Secretary Pompeo's remarks to Martha Raddatz on ABC News regarding the origin of the virus in Wuhan, China.
— Matthew Miller (@StateDeptSpox) May 11, 2020
They failed, too, to air his comments to the press from last Wednesday that provided even more clarity on the issue.
— Matthew Miller (@StateDeptSpox) May 11, 2020
This reporting — intending to deceive — seeks to obfuscate the Secretary’s core point: the Chinese Communist Party continues to refuse calls for transparency, thereby compounding its cover-up, and further risking American lives.
— Matthew Miller (@StateDeptSpox) May 11, 2020
There was no real need for his comments from last Wednesday. To any fair minded person watching the prior interview, it was clear that Pompeo misspoke and didn’t realize it and that, upon clarification, he did agree with the ODNI assessment that it wasn’t manmade. It was intentional and egregious and Scott Pelley should be fired.
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3 years ago
The MORE I KNOW about current events, the DUMBER reporters get. They don’t know much about international events, they think ‘Kyrgyzstan‘ is an STD, they ignore the background rates, they don’t read or see the news, they report on Covid-19 with no health knowledge whatever, they say stupid things, like, ‘the death toll is mounting’ [as if death death tolls could ever decrease!] they read teleprompters like zombies, they bad mouth anyone who asks for proof of what they say, they spread hate, they do false news, fact pollution, and truth abuse, all day, every day, and then they want $5 million/year to do all that.
3 years ago
They have no reputation to preserve and their lies will never be erased from the internet
3 years ago
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
He is a complete disgrace to the human race. A pig, a troll, vermin scum.
3 years ago
I stopped watching 60 Minutes when Andy Rooney retired. Morley Safer wasn’t too bad The rest were all bullshit artists and that hasn’t changed at all.
3 years ago
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Name
It is actually a lot worse, because nobody with a Conservative/Republican opinion is part of the 60 minutes crew. They are all liberal scum. It is a disgrace.
3 years ago
Didn’t Scott Pelley used to be on “The View?”
3 years ago
Reply to
thult
Was he the one with the dark complexion and the rope-thick dreadlocks, or was he the whiny red-head ??
3 years ago
We know what has happened when the Communist Chinese lied. Are we clear on what is happening when the US media lies?
3 years ago
Amazing! A dishonest report from MSM! Who woulda thunk?!? /s
