Media Matters reports:
On the afternoon of May 6, Daily Wire personality (and purveyor of wildly misleading clips on Twitter) Ryan Saavedra tweeted a video of presidential hopeful and South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Saavedra wrote, “Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg today in South Carolina: America ‘was never as great as advertised.’” Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel quickly pointed out that Buttigieg had gone on to say “especially for marginalized Americans.”
Multiple Fox segments on the morning of May 7 ran with a cropped version of the Buttigieg quote, cutting it off before Buttigieg mentioned “marginalized Americans.”
One Fox News reporter covered this story by just reading right-wing replies to Saavedra’s original tweet, saying, “When you make fun of the slogan ‘Make America Great Again,’ some people feel like you’re making fun of the history or mocking the history of the country” pic.twitter.com/gRX1PaizMS
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 7, 2019
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 7, 2019
This is a key thing, Fox doesn’t do news coverage with a conservative slant they do deliberately dishonest propaganda in order to pollute the news environment and try to obscure the actual stakes in politics. https://t.co/8OlGdMBE8o
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 7, 2019