a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish andhe reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. o that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit. they want to see us be put
defending trump. you re also one of the first, may be the first reporter, n to note that the story in rolling stone was clearly a hoax and you work among the first to say that this story was more complicate it and it seemed. what did you do that other reporters didn trt do? i didn t do anything other reporters couldn t have done. looked much more closely and much more elaborately at the facts. what i think caused so many people to miss the real y story in both of these cases is that when you are reporting something that confirms all of your biases, like all of your worst kind of thoughts about some bad person you re talking about, you have to be really sure. you have to consider evidence that conflicts with that. there is a special burden to go above and beyond to make sure that you are not just seeing what you want to see. in rolling stone, the author wanted to see the very, very worst a in campus and have this outrageous story about sexual abuse and it completely fell apart. i thin
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now he either got that really wrong orne misrepresented it intentionally. he had an entourage there taking video. if you listen to some of the video, it seemed like they were possibly trying to do a stunt there. one of them said something like i got it, we got what we needed, something like that. i don t know for sure but he was very wrong. tucker: this is a story about race, we re being told. every story is about race. it s absurd. but we re told that there are racists in this video and here you have a group literally screaming racial epithets. and bigoted remarks and somehow notices that. but at the high school kids who don t really say anything for the bigots, like youu are lying if you reach that conclusion, aren t you? right.ry and everyone is saying they need to be sorry or we need to punish them. if i m trying to sort out who did the most wrong or who was most at fault in this situation, it s obviously the crazyt people who were screaming viral i obscene things for an hour
that the great suspicion ofmi much of the base is that these guys don t really believe in it. and the fact this they are so eager to just because these kids are wearing donald trump hats and the guy they are up against is a so-called tribal elder. i mean, he is not that old, actually. i think he was born in 1955. he is like early 60 s. kind of like tribal middle age rather than tribal elder. the fact that they can only accept the same identity politics cliches that the left has imposed guess to the heart of the problem. the right fights on the left s terms. tucker: they have absorbed all the lies. it s amazing. a t mark steyn so wise as always. thank you. thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: well, the covington story wasn t the only story they got wrong last week. last week they telling you about a buzzfeed story that the special counsel then declared false.