Fox's Kurtz Lies About Why MSNBC Cut Away From Trump Super Tuesday Speech
Fox's Howard Kurtz was very upset with MSNBC and Rachel Maddow for cutting away from Trump on Super Tuesday, and completely misrepresented what happened before they did it.
Kurtz opened his show this Sunday by accusing Maddow of being so "annoyed by Trump's victory speech that she cut away," before showing a clip of Trump saying "I read an article yesterday where it said this is one of the finest run campaigns that anybody has ever seen" during the speech before MSNBC quit airing the speech.
Kurtz definitely wanted to leave his audience with the impression that they cut away as soon as it started, telling viewers that Trump was "citing an NBC News article," as though that's the only thing he said prior to them pulling the plug.
Later in the segment after also attacking MSNBC for mocking Republicans for stoking racism and fearmongering over the southern border, and discussing Trump's indictments in purely political terms with no regard whatsoever for what's he's been accused of, Kurtz said this to his guest Leslie Marshall when they returned to the topic of MSNBC's coverage:
KURTZ: Leslie, let me expand on your point about, any news organization has to know its audience and so forth. And I get that, and of course I get the distinction between straight journalists and commentators, left, right, center or somewhere in between.