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As has been stated previously, the liberal media made total fools out of themselves last Wednesday night when they rushed to claim President Trump had slammed all immigrants as “animals.” And when the video of the full context came out, nearly all of them issued corrections and retractions. Yet despite the media’s own retractions, panelists on CBS’s Face the Nation and CNN’s Reliable Sources thought it was fair to do that to the President given his past comments about immigrants.
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, moderator Margaret Brennan had let left-leaning Slate’s Jamelle Bouie kick off their discussion of the President’s comments. “The idea that that's unfair criticism, I think, ignores the fact that for the past three years now the President has made this consistent linkage between Hispanic immigrants and crime and Hispanic immigrants and disorder,” he argued.
According to Bouie, since Trump didn’t actually say MS-13 in his answer to a question about the gang that meant there was wiggle room for any assertion about his comment to be true:
Even in this particular case where he's responding to a hypothetical question about an MS-13 gang member he doesn't -- his language, he doesn't -- he doesn't talk specifically about MS-13 gang members. He talks specifically about "these people,” which is just vague and a bit slippery and unclear exactly what he means. But that is in keeping with his past language.
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