{"id":375856,"date":"2018-09-02T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-lanny-davis-to-antifa\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:42:54","slug":"from-lanny-davis-to-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-lanny-davis-to-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lanny Davis to Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/jeffrey-lord\/2018\/09\/01\/cnns-bad-week-lanny-davis-antifa\"><strong>Newsbusters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>September 2, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk about a bad week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One is simply gobsmacked at what has been going on over at CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Back there in the mists of July, CNN\u2019s Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein posted a piece on the latest-of-the-moment \u201cnews\u201d about the now infamous \u201cTrump Tower\u201d meeting between various Trump supporters (Don Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort) and a Russian woman who was pitched as having campaign dirt on Hillary but in fact was there to, as it turned out, lobby against an American law on adoption the Russians hate. Among the controversies is whether Donald Trump knew of the meeting in advance. He says no.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the \u201cbreaking news\u201d aspect of this was that supposedly now-estranged Trump attorney Michael Cohen said he did. Something Cohen twice denied to an investigating congressional committee. The CNN piece contained this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cContacted by CNN, one of Cohen\u2019s attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/stevenperlberg\/lanny-davis-cnn-trump-tower-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BuzzFeed later headlined:<\/a><\/strong> \u201cLanny Davis says he was a source for CNN\u2019s Trump Tower Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, with that one line CNN was telling its audience something that was, in fact, untrue. All hell quickly broke loose, and it wasn\u2019t just coming from conservatives. There was the Left\u2019s Glenn Greenwald headlining over his personal byline: \u201cCNN, Credibly Accused of Lying to its Audience About a Key Claim in its Blockbuster Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here were these lines in a story about CNN from the decidedly non-conservative <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a7c5d1f28db5422c95a058416971d5b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press which ran<\/a><\/strong>, stunningly, in the <em>New York Times<\/em>. They read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe problem for CNN is that the July 27 story said \u2018contacted by CNN, one of Cohen\u2019s attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yet, if Davis was actually an anonymous source for CNN, the story should not also say that Cohen\u2019s lawyer declined to comment. You can\u2019t have it both ways. That\u2019s a big no-no in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnns-bad-week-from-lanny-davis-to-antifa.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsbustersSeptember 2, 2018 Talk about a bad week! One is simply gobsmacked at what has been going on over at CNN. Back there in the mists of July, CNN\u2019s Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein posted a piece on the latest-of-the-moment \u201cnews\u201d about the now infamous \u201cTrump Tower\u201d meeting between various Trump supporters (Don Jr., Jared Kushner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}