Chuck Todd Deliberately Falsifies Barr Quote, Then Rape-Friendly NBC Claims It Was "Inadvertent" and an "Error"

Of his decision to drop the (illegal) Flynn prosecution, Barr said the history of it would be judged by the winners, and then laughed ruefully, because he knew damn well the Chattering Class which would be writing the history of it would be leftwing and Trump Deranged.

He quickly added that a fair history would say he had acted to increase justice.

"History is written by the winners" wasn't a taunt, it was a rueful admission that the leftist propagandists write all histories.

Shit, right now, leftist propagandists have decided that the American Revolution was fought to keep slavery -- see, the British would eventually outlaw it -- and the New York Times was given a Pulitzer for this falsification of history.

Chuck Todd took the opportunity to deliberately falsify his quotation -- cutting out the very next sentence that clarified Barr's meaning (if there were any doubt) -- to claim that Barr was just laughing that "history will be judged by the winners and I'm the winners mwa-ha-ha."

NBC/MSNBC pretended this was just another Whoopsie Daisy.

Because they're professional liars.

RedState wonders: If this was actually a "mistake," then where did Chuck Todd get his erroneous idea about the Barr quote from?

Note that I disagree with RedState's theory here -- I think Chuck Todd just deliberately falsified the quote because he's a nasty vicious partisan liar -- but RedState notes that if Chuck Todd really was fooled, then he must have been "fooled" by accepting leftwing bloggers' Hot Takes about the interview as real.

Did Todd or a member of his MTP staff deliberately and knowingly shorten the quote? That is certainly possible, considering what we know of MSNBC and NBC News and their history of running deceptive and/or false reports.

But my suspicions revolve around a few high-profile liberal Twitter accounts that shared the video clip after the Thursday Barr interview but that also cut off Barr's quote in their text write-ups of what he said. Here are two of them:

[tweets omitted; see original article for them]

Vox “journalist” Rupar in particular is notorious for doing that. He’ll post a video clip, add either a partial quote to it or his spin on it, and it often goes viral without anyone watching the actual video. They just see his take on the clip and run with it as though it’s the gospel truth.

As I’ve previously documented, a number of supposedly objective mainstream media journalists frequently share Rupar’s videos and the videos of other left wing writers (including Media Matters hypocrites) without questioning them.

Would Chuck Todd answer the question of whether he took leftwing partisan bloggers' twitter hot takes as authoritative sources of news and ran their falsified edits on TV with no fact-checking?

Does NBC want to keep its free use of the public's broadcasting spectrum? Because the law says you have to use that in the public interest.

Not the Democrat Party interest.

posted by Ace at 07:02 PM

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