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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

NBC News under fire for misleading tweets about Trump chief of staff's answer on Muslim registry

NBC News came under fire Sunday morning for a pair of tweets that removed context from an answer Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for White House chief of staff, offered on the idea of a Muslim registry.

Priebus appeared “Meet the Press” and was asked by host Chuck Todd if he could rule out the idea of placing Muslims on a registry.

Here was the exchange:

TODD: Can you equivocally rule out a registry for Muslims?

PRIEBUS: Look, I’m not going to rule out anything. But, we are not going to have a registry based on religion.

The public relations account for NBC News tweeted out the exchange twice, but left out the second part of Priebus’ response:

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

shame on NBC. But also shame on any idiot that doesnt see that Priebus actually didnt say anything (didnt answer question). Cant rule out habimg a MUSLIM registry but says their won't be a registry based on religion? whaa?

Stu Stinchfield said...

See my comment above about the MSM, This just goes to show once again what their real intentions are.

Anonymous said...

Who believes anything that comes from nbc?