"Donald Trump hates baby people".
Posted on 08/07/2016 6:19:39 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
When this particular bit of nonsense first showed up in the press (and was hammered on for days on end) Allahpundit did an admirable job of seeing through the smokescreen before any follow-up work was done. You can find all the originally available details at the link, but I’m sure everyone with a television or a smartphone caught up on them. The short version was that a woman with a baby was watching a Trump rally at a high school. The baby started crying and after a few jokes, Trump had her thrown out of the event.
If the story sounds implausible to you, that’s because it is. I’ll be the first to admit that Donald Trump is almost completely lacking in the traditional “skills” we associate with being a politician in the commonly defined sense of the word. (A fact that doesn’t upset the candidate or most of his supporters at all, by the way.) But even he isn’t that completely tone deaf. He may not be going around kissing babies, but he’s not tossing them out of rallies either.
That didn’t stop the MSM from repeating the story endlessly on a loop though. Hillary Clinton even featured it in a video within 24 hours. The only reason the story finally died was that it was repeatedly shown to be false, and at long last the Washington Post fact checker, Glenn Kessler, took down the claim.
Trump has been unfairly maligned here. We can see why some reporters ran with this tale, based only on the videotape, but it’s good example of why everything must be checked out.
We’ve given Trump many Pinocchios over the course of the campaign but he earns a Geppetto Checkmark for getting at least this story right. To see Kessler offering Trump the rare Geppetto Checkmark is a sign of how badly this story was covered. Glenn digs up the account of Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale who was sitting in the row immediately behind the woman with the baby.
A joke? Possibly. An insensitive, heartless, ordinary-person-embarrassing remark? Possibly. Trump’s tone is eternally hard to read. But, to my eyes, it certainly was not an ejection — it was an unusually barbed endorsement of the mother’s own decision to depart.
One other salient fact is missing from all the pieces on babygate. Mom and baby, very much not kicked out, came back to their seat a bit later.
The baby was sucking a pacifier, silent. The problem is that the tale has now passed into history as fact. The media, so skilled at jumping all over a story the moment it emerges and seems to serve a political narrative, is rarely comfortable talking about something they got wrong after the fact. Would a lengthy apology even change the “reality” for this election cycle? Unlikely. Even though the entire attack was concocted, it’s now become cemented in the history of the 2016 race as a fact. Trump hates babies and kicks them out of his events.
Oh, SMOD… why hast thou forsaken us?
He needs to sue that reporter!!! And it’s news hole!!!
No one is voting based up this nonsense. Best to just let it go away.
Debunking it at this point just brings it back up.
Not worth it.
There is no such thing as “context” any more.
Modern media is like the old west shootout as the popular imagination has it- (s)he who shoots first,wins.
HotAir completely missed the mother’s comments. They were covered on FR earlier. What is the MSM going to do now, accuse the mother or lying?? Here is the story with quotes from the mother.
http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/08/05/mother-crying-baby-trump-rally-trump-never-kicked-child/
But wait a minute. Liberals hate babies and want them dead. Shouldn’t they be cheering Trump, give him a couple of points up in the polls?
And abortion supporters love them?
Scrap that article in my post #5. It is incomplete.
Use this one.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/will-media-apologize-trump-mother-crying-baby-rally-speaks/
I really feel sorry for the Democrats. I have never seen such stupid sheep who follow everything MSNBC/CNN/ABC says as if it’s all Gospel fact
(picsource: www.hilldabeast.com)
it’s a nothing issue
Excellent advice.
The DNC’s national “media” toads have a lot easier time dealing with lies than they do the facts. They know the LIVs are stupid enough to fall for their BS every time.
I have moments of clarity like Jim on Taxi :)
American public forgets things that happened two days ago.
Shine a laser pointer on a wall and most of them will forget what happened 10 minutes ago :)
And that is why the leftist turds are winning. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. What matters is getting the headline out there ASAP and repeating it in a few easily spreadable places and BAM! People don’t care to look into it any farther. Thinking is not necessary.
We need to fight fire with fire! Except our message can be truth.
Clear thinking is what I always TRY to do but it doesn't always happen. Thank goodness there are FReepers here to scream at scold scream at blast scream at correct me when I don't comply with their idea of clear thinking.
Oh well.
lol. Some get pretty passionate and it has happened to me, followed by a private apology from me to their mail!!!
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