Correction Please!
Montana Congressman vs. Fake News
The Guardian and other mainstream media organs have presented a very distorted characterization of of Republican Representative-elect Greg Gianforte. This article surveys what we know about the body-slamming incident, as well as the body slamming of Gianforte by the media.
Item: “The angry forces that propelled President Trump’s rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party,” Washington Post writers Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa opined for the Post on May 26, 2017. The Post duo continued: “When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana, many saw not an isolated outburst by an individual, but the obvious, violent result of Trump’s charge that journalists are ‘the enemy of the people.’ Nonetheless, Gianforte won Thursday’s special election to fill a safe Republican seat.”
Item: “Republican Greg Gianforte ‘body slams’ Guardian reporter in Montana.” So ran the headline on May 24, 2017 of The Guardian, a left-wing British newspaper/website, and one of the U.K.’s largest circulation dailies. The following day, the Guardian came back with another article entitled: “Republican candidate charged with assault after ‘body-slamming’ Guardian reporter.” The Guardian story then stated:
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