Even The WH Press Corps Laughs At Ed O’Keefe’s TDS
The Federalist piece by Brianna Lyman centers on CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe’s White House briefing question about Trump being “falsely called racist,” tying it to a Trump post praising Jesse Jackson in wich Trump said he has been “falsely and consistently called a racist.” The author frames O’Keefe’s question as a pursuit of what he sees as a basic truth, and portrays the moment as evidence of what she calls widespread media gaslighting.
The article argues that mainstream outlets, including CBS News, have repeatedly accused Trump of racism—such as claims about a “history of inflaming racial tensions” and racist tweets—yet it contends those reports are either false or misleading in how they were presented. It cites examples from past coverage and anecdotes of Trump supporters standing by him, plus social-media posts that accompanied these reports. Ultimately, the piece asserts that O’Keefe’s reporting supports Trump’s claim of being falsely labeled racist, while suggesting he shoudl scrutinize his own archives before drawing conclusions. the author, Brianna Lyman, is an elections correspondent for The Federalist.
CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe learned a new concept Wednesday: facts.
During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, O’Keefe asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for examples of President Donald Trump being “falsely called racist.” O’Keefe was referencing a post Trump made the day prior honoring Jesse Jackson, in which the president wrote that he has been “falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left …”
It was a statement of fact — but for O’Keefe, it was apparently a mystery worth investigative journalism.
“You’re kidding, right?” Leavitt said, to which the whole room burst out into laughter.
The irony is that CBS News, O’Keefe’s own network, spent years falsely accusing Trump of being a racist.
Consider July 16, 2019, when CBS News claimed Trump had a “history of inflaming racial tensions” and falsely accused Trump of being “forgiving of white nationalists” after the 2017 Charlottesville rally. CBS News cited Trump saying that there were “very fine people, on both sides,” but deceptively cut the quote to leave out the part where Trump said “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”
It was a false accusation, to say the least.
Then CBS News’ Margaret Brennan declared on July 21, 2019 that “the President’s racist tweets have mobilized both sides.” Trump said members of the Squad should go back to where they came from, later adding in a post on X: “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly…”
Trump wasn’t being racist, he was being a realist pointing out that these foreign-born, America-hating Congresswomen hail from countries that barely have a functioning government. Another false accusation.
CBS News wrote on July 16, 2019: “President Trump has refused to walk back his racist tweets targeting a group of Democratic congresswomen of color in part because he believes his supporters will stand by him.”
O’Keefe himself reported on that same day from Des Moines, Iowa that Trump supporters were standing by the president.
In a tweet promoting the article, O’Keefe said: “WATCH: Democrats strike back at Trump’s racist tweets while his supporters stand by him. Our report from Des Moines…”
In a separate tweet posted that same day, O’Keefe said: “WATCH: President Trump receives backlash and support over his racist tweets.”
Of course these are just a few of the many false accusations lobbed at the president by left-wing media, Democrats, and commentators over the years.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump is the “most racist” president that never owned slaves. Don Lemon accused Trump of being “racist” in 2018 while still employed by CNN.
O’Keefe’s own reporting proves the President was right to claim he’s been falsely accused of being a racist. Yet somehow, he still asked the question. Maybe before wandering into a press briefing to ask a basic question about reality, O’Keefe should check his own archives.
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