{"id":1625,"date":"2024-11-02T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2024-11-02T06:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T10:50:38","slug":"see-how-cnns-communist-news-networkjonah-goldberg-walks-back-his-intentional-lies-about-the-fake-cheney-execution-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"See how CNN&#8217;s (Communist News Network) Jonah Goldberg walks back his intentional lies about the fake &#8216;Cheney execution&#8217; remark."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: The media&#8217;s disinformation campaign to confuse voters over Trump&#8217;s Liz Cheney comment appears to be backfiring.<\/p>\n<p>Columnist Jonah Goldberg, who falsely claimed on CNN that Trump wanted to execute Cheney, has issued a &#8216;correction&#8217; for spreading the false story.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DBGtxOWgP\">pic.twitter.com\/9DBGtxOWgP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1852447261701054831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Goldberg then went on to write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need to make a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This morning on CNN I referred to Trump\u2019s \u201crifles\u201d quote as him advocating a \u201cfiring squad\u201d for Liz Cheney. I was reacting in haste to what were objectively appalling and irresponsible comments that had been framed in the set-up piece in the context of previous statements Trump made about shooting protestors and having generals \u201cexecuted.\u201d Still, I was wrong to say he was calling for a firing squad execution.<\/p>\n<p>After I said that, my co-panelist, Brad Todd made the case that I was wrong. Brad was right and, again, I was wrong. Trump was making \u2013 albeit in his customary fashion \u2013 a different argument about Cheney\u2019s alleged foreign policy views and the use of force. I let my disgust at Trump\u2019s comments get the better of me as this was the first time I\u2019d heard them.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, at the end of the program, having thought about it, I said as much (though I could have been clearer). A fact that has been left out in a lot of the criticism of me since this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I voluntarily conceded the point, unprompted, before any of this subsequent criticism came my way. (You can find it around the 2:20 mark in the video below).<\/p>\n<p>I regret the initial comment because it was inaccurate and contributed to the kind of overheated environment Trump thrives on.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s words were bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s worth noting that a lot of the criticism about my inaccuracy is itself somewhat inaccurate, or at least incomplete, given my correction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}