Sen. Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had his hair on fire over Donald Trump’s speech Thursday night. Warner appeared on CBS News after the speech. That was the only network to air it in full. Even Fox “News” cut away.
Before Warner got to the dangerous lies spewed by Trump, he had some choice words for CBS News. “As an American, not as an elected official, I was embarrassed that the President of the United States went before a whole country and networks like yours carried this as news, as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods,” Warner said, “and it is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to push back on these falsehoods.”
MAGA CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil tried to interrupt, only to be brushed aside by Warner. “If we don’t call into question these falsehoods this president is trying, he is going to lose a free and fair election,” Warner said. He obviously meant that Trump’s lies are dangerous enough to kill our free and fair elections.
“Unless responsible journalists and the American people step up and say our system, which has stood the test of time, is not going to be undermined by this kind of falsehoods, then you know we all have to live with those responsibilities,” Warner continued.
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