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Will the Media Please Stop Fact Checking When It Doesn't Know Anything?

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Rule 13 of the media is, "The less they know, the more they fact check".

Here's the latest example from CNN which is still trying to crossbreed a banana with an apple to create a Jim Acosta,

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administrationtargeting steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada, including one moment during the conversation in which Trump made an erroneous historical reference, sources familiar with the discussion told CNN.

According to the sources, Trudeau pressed Trump on how he could justify the tariffs as a "national security" issue. In response, Trump quipped to Trudeau, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" referring to the War of 1812.

The problem with Trump's comments to Trudeau is that British troops burned down the White House during the War of 1812.

And Canada was British. The Dominion of Canada didn't even exist until generations later. There was no unified entity. So yes, "you guys" is appropriate. Even if not so much to Trudeau personally.

CNN doesn't know basic history. Yet it insists on fact checking jokes by the President of the United States. Maybe it should take a cue from Obama and learn from Austrian.


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