You know what you need before ostentatiously conducting a fact-check? Actual facts. Like Candy Crowley at CNN twelve years ago, Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan smugly “corrected” a statement that was correct in the first place. And when J.D. Vance attempted to correct the “misinformation,” CBS News cut the mics and insisted that they had more important issues to discuss.
Really? The issue of Haitians in Springfield came up because O’Donnell and Brennan brought it up, and insisted on “fact checking” the response. Not only does News Nation’s Chris Cuomo wonder what might be more important than the subject that CBS News itself brought up, he points out that Brennan and O’Donnell didn’t know what they were talking about (via Trending Politics):
Former CNN contributor and current News Nation host Chris Cuomo praised how Vance handled one-sided “fact checking” and biased…
