Here’s How the WashPost Lied About Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech

Newsbusters.org ^ | 7/11/2020 | Jeffery Lord

[rktman]

As NewsBusters’ own Tim Graham reported the other day, CNN reporter Leyla Santiago had this curious take on President Trump’s Mt. Rushmore visit.

The President, she told Jake Tapper, is "kicking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be at Mt. Rushmore where he'll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans….”

What makes this so curious? Here is a report from competitor Fox News:

“CNN began broadcasting this week from the network’s new facility in the Hudson Yards area on the West Side of Manhattan. The brand-new, state-of-the-art headquarters is part of a luxurious complex that also features condominiums which start at $4.3 million, high-end restaurants and stores such as Cartier, Rolex, Louis Vuitton and Neiman Marcus.”

Hmmm. Notice anything? CNN is moving to its new offices located in “the Hudson Yards area on the West Side of Manhattan.” And yes, this is the very same Manhattan once owned by Indians. Indians who sold it to the Dutch West India Company for goods famously worth twenty-four dollars.

[rktman]

Tone deaf much? Anyway, I sort of thought they might have consulted with tammy duckbill to get her take. She has a copy of the transcript where PDJT talks about the confederate generals and the kkk and stuff. Or something. So, just curious as to who will play duckbill in her biopic? Tina fey perhaps? By the way, Washington Post and Lied are redundant.

[antidemoncrat]

I admire Bezos for building Amazon into the business empire it has become but condemn him for putting the Washington Compost on life support be investing millions in it. Does he really think in the Democrats regain power and turn this Republic into the Democratic Socialist States his empire will survive?

[Spok]

Interesting that CNN appears to think NYC has a future while they work feverishly to destroy it along with the rest of the country. This would indicate that they’re truly clueless about what they’re doing. When the NYPD is gone they’ll have to hire their own security. Wonder if they have budgeted for that?

[kiryandil]

Anyway, I sort of thought they might have consulted with tammy duckbill to get her take.

Senatrix Jobsworth...

[stevem]

Or whether it was the Washington Post lying - and being called out for lying by the WSJ — one cannot imagine a more destructive way to, as Jenkins noted, “wreck their own reputations.”

I don't think it possible for the Post to ruin its reputation this way.

Reinforce it, maybe...

[eyeamok]

I fail to see why the Washington Post Lying is News, now if they told the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth, that would be News.

[boop]

"a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans….”

I think he meant to write "wrested".

If we "wrestled" it away from Native Americans, I'd say it's ours fair and square.

I've heard that Abe Lincoln was a hell of a leg wrestler, so he definitely deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore.