{"id":237137,"date":"2021-03-17T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237137"},"modified":"2021-03-17T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:00:21","slug":"washington-post-officially-becomes-nothing-more-than-birdcage-liner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-officially-becomes-nothing-more-than-birdcage-liner\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Officially Becomes Nothing More Than Birdcage Liner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-officially-becomes-nothing-more-than-birdcage-liner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1520.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The \u201ccorrection\u201d was remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorrection: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump\u2019s December phone call with the state\u2019s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump\u2019s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source,\u201d The Post wrote on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump did not tell the investigator to \u2018find the fraud\u2019 or say she would be \u2018a national hero\u2019 if she did so,\u2019\u201d the correction continued. \u201cInstead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find \u2018dishonesty\u2019 there. He also told her that she had \u2018the most important job in the country right now.\u2019 A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post, whose motto is \u201cDemocracy Dies In Darkness,\u201d used the words \u201cmisquoted\u201d and \u201cmisattributed.\u201d But former President Donald Trump wasn\u2019t \u201cmisquoted\u201d and his supposed quote wasn\u2019t \u201cmisattributed.\u201d He never said what The Post claimed he said. The claims were \u201cfalse,\u201d a word The Post should have used to describe its reporting.<\/p>\n<p>In a Jan. 9 story, The Post claimed that Trump, during a Dec. 23 phone call, urged Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state\u2019s office, to \u201cfind the fraud,\u201d telling her she would be a \u201cnational hero.\u201d The story cited a single source allegedly familiar with the call.<\/p>\n<p>A slew of mainstream media outlets followed suit, either talking to the same source or simply relying on the supposed veracity of The Post piece. \u201cCNN also reported on the call citing an unnamed source and waited until Monday afternoon to correct its story, after initially stating Trump said \u2018national hero\u2019 and \u2018find the fraud\u2019 in its opening paragraph,\u201d Fox News reported. \u201cMany outlets picked up the story, including Vox, ABC News, and NBC News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal ran a story that included audio of the six-minute call between Trump and Watson. He never said \u201cfind the fraud\u201d or made the \u201cnational hero\u201d promise.<\/p>\n<p>That means The Post and other MSM outlets reported false information based on a single source.<\/p>\n<p>Trump immediately spanked the D.C. paper. \u201cThe Washington Post just issued a correction as to the contents of the incorrectly reported phone call I had with respect to voter fraud in the Great State of Georgia,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I appreciate the Washington Post\u2019s correction, which immediately makes the Georgia Witch Hunt a non-story, the original story was a Hoax, right from the very beginning. I would further appreciate a strong investigation into Fulton County, Georgia, and the Stacey Abrams political machine which, I believe, would totally change the course of the presidential election in Georgia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump continued: \u201cYou will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way \u2014 against me and against Republicans. Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm \u2014 for example, after an election is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook no further than the negative coverage of the vaccine that preceded the election and the overdue celebration of the vaccine once the election had concluded. A strong democracy requires a fair and honest press. This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities \u2014 not journalistic enterprises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump thanked The Post for the correction, what the once-great paper did completely destroyed what little credibility it still has. The paper took a single source and leveled hugely serious charges against the president \u2014 no proof, no corroboration, just a claim that Trump had uttered the words. The story hung out there for months, completely false.<\/p>\n<p>The serious error calls into question some other bizarre claims the paper has made, almost always with unnamed sources (or, apparently, a single source, which has long been a journalistic no-no).<\/p>\n<p>In an \u201canalysis\u201d story from October 2019, a Post writer said, \u201cTrump had, at some point, suggested that an effective barrier on the border might include a moat stocked with alligators and snakes.\u201d The next day, The Post reported that \u201cTrump told aides last year he wanted U.S. forces with bayonets to block people from crossing into the United States across the Mexico border.\u201d No named sources, of course, just \u201ccurrent and former administration officials involved in those discussions,\u201d said the articles.<\/p>\n<p>One journalist succinctly summed up the grim status of The Post, now owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of mistake is beyond serious,\u201d Mark Hemingway, senior writer at Real Clear Investigations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1371507834630901762\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cThere\u2019s zero accountability in major corporate media anymore, yet they continually insist they\u2019re the ones holding the line on the truth. And always remember what should scare you about the media is what doesn\u2019t get exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso note headline on the Post\u2019s follow-up story is a sort of maliciously anodyne \u2018Recording reveals details of Trump call to Georgia\u2019s chief elections investigator,\u2019\u201d Hemingway wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018Trump\u2019s Remarks Grossly Misrepresented Across Media, Because We Credulously Fall For Political Ops.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>*Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201ccorrection\u201d was remarkable.\u201cCorrection: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump\u2019s December phone call with the state\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310660,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1520.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Officially Becomes Nothing More Than Birdcage Liner","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1520.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Washington Post Officially Becomes Nothing More Than Birdcage Liner","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}