Geraldo tells MSNBC, CNN to stop ‘amateurish’ ‘dishonest’ fact-checking of Trump during briefings

(Image: Fox News screenshot)

Get the latest BPR news delivered free to your inbox daily. SIGN UP HERE.


Geraldo Rivera denounced the “amateurish” behavior of MSNBC and CNN for interrupting President Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus news briefings to give viewers their own version of the facts.

The Fox News correspondent-at-large called out the “very dishonest” practice on “The Sean Hannity Show” on the radio Wednesday, criticizing the networks’ decisions to not carry the press briefings from the White House during the coronavirus pandemic live and uninterrupted.

“I tweeted out today to my colleagues at MSNBC and CNN that I thought it was really amateurish of them to not carry the President’s task force briefings, that they were doing not only harming themselves in terms of ratings but doing a disservice to their audience,” Rivera said, referring to his social media message on Wednesday.

“What they should do, and granted that they disagree with the President on these various points, philosophical or political almost –,” Rivera continued but was momentarily interrupted by Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“Geraldo with all due respect they are not your colleagues, they have spent every waking minute of every day for over three years hating this man irrationally and lying,” he said.

“I’m being gracious to get to this point,” Rivera said.

“I editorialized, I tweeted that what they should do is — if they want to fact check him or if they want to like, you know, really give him a hard time and roast him over the coals, let the audience see what he said and then do it,” he continued.

“Don’t preempt him and then try to categorize or define what he was saying, it’s very dishonest, and it’s not doing your audience a service, and there’s a reason the audience is deserting them even more rapidly than they were prior to this point,” Rivera said.

President Trump lashed out at the media during Monday’s coronavirus press briefing at the White House, playing a scathing video compilation titled “The Media Minimized The Risk From the Start.”

“It’s very sad when people write false stories,” Trump said after the video ended.

CNN cut away from the live news briefing on Monday as the video began, deciding for its viewers that they did not need to see it and make their own assessments.

“To play a propaganda video at taxpayer expense in the White House briefing room is a new — you can insert your favorite word here in this administration,” CNN anchor John King said at the time.

MSNBC also balked at the video, breaking away from the coverage.

“We are cutting into what was not a White House coronavirus briefing,” MSNBC host Ari Melber told viewers.

“I would love to be able to say that we have a very honest press,” Trump said at the briefing. “And I don’t mind being criticized, but not when they’re wrong, not when people have done such a great job.”

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!

Success! Thank you for donating. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies.
Frieda Powers

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

BPR INSIDER COMMENTS

Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!

Latest Articles