On Sunday NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd edited a quote from Attorney General Bill Barr to promote a false narrative. The Barr quote came from an interview he did with Catherine Herridge about the Justice department dropping the Flynn prosecution:
"Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who's writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice."
Chuck Todd took this part. "Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who's writing the history", and ignored the part where Barr said he believed it was a just move to drop the Flynn case.
Todd's angle was Barr was being cynical by saying well, history is written by the winners(us at DOJ) and right and wrong doesn't matter.
He didn't make a mistake, he twisted the meaning of the Attorney General's statement, to advance a narrative.
Well, fake news leftists stick together, so enter CNN's token Republican Matt Lewis, who tweeted:
"Ugh. The Chuck Todd/Bill Barr thing comes on the heels of the Jimmy Kimmel/Mike Pence thing.... We all make mistakes, but the media’s zeal to push back on Trumpism is ironically reinforcing Trump’s dangerous “fake news” narrative..."
Lewis expresses no anger at Todd's pushing a false narrative, rather he laments Trump being able to cite this to reinforce his "dangerous “fake news” narrative."
In other words Trump is right. The media lies. Chuck Todd getting caught is the mistake.
