Tweety: Lauer would have appeared "too opinionated" if he’d pressed Trump on Libya

[Miles Archer]

Moderators Challenging Candidates’ Lies Isn’t ‘Opinion.’ It’s Journalism.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews suggests Matt Lauer would have appeared too opinionated if he’d pressed Donald Trump on Libya.
09/08/2016 01:25 pm ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-matthews-matt-lauer_us_57d16eace4b06a74c9f2e635?section=&

During a panel discussion after the Wednesday night forum, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell played a 2011 clip in which Trump said the U.S. “should go in” to Libya and suggested the military expedition would be “very easy and very quick.” (Go to 12:44 in the video below.)

“How do you debate a presidential candidate who took the position we absolutely should go into Libya, go in hard, and now says he never did?” O’Donnell then asked Matthews. “No one’s really had to deal with that in a presidential debate before.”

“Well, you have to call the guy a liar when you do that,” Matthews responded. “That’s the problem. That’s the difficult thing for Matt Lauer to do, because it sounds like an opinion. And you’re not supposed to have opinions in this business.”

Journalists at establishment, non-partisan news organizations understandably want to avoid the perception that they’re biased, or that they’re injecting personal views in a context where they’re expected to be impartial. But in straining for some idealized notion of neutrality, they risk failing at their journalistic obligation to call out candidates when they’re being dishonest.

[liberal N proud]

1. And what about pressing Hillary on emails?

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[democrattotheend]

3. That was a public service to our country

Because voters have been sorely deprived of information about Hillary's e-mails over the past 2 years.

[Johonny]

2. He spent a third of his time on emails with Hillary. An issue investigated multiple times

with the only point of doing so to make her feel dishonest so clearly he didn't feel afraid to look opinionated. He wanted to make Hillary sound dishonest and pressed the point on a dead issue even if it meant not covering actual real issues she would face as president like ISIS. So LOL on that one Tweety.

[gratuitous]

4. You are entitled to your own opinions

But not to your own facts. If someone lies right to your face, it's not an expression of opinion that they lied; you're supposed to have the facts at hand that show you're stating an objective, verifiable fact: Trump lied when he claimed he never said what he clearly did say.

Either that, or Matt Lauer gets paid a lot of money by NBC to be the most gullible man on television.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. One Ratfucker on the Ratfucker Network covering up for another Ratfucker.

[0rganism]

7. when facts "sound like opinions"

maybe it's because they are very objectionable facts