Surprise: Media Gets a Story Wrong
The latest chapter in "Obama-terrorist-fist-jab-gate" has been misreported- which is a nice way of saying it isn't true.
[The incident was first] mentioned in what is known as a pool report – a dispatch written by a reporter, which is passed along to other journalists who cannot see the event because of space limitations – and subsequently picked up by a handful of blogs and on cable television.When the exchange is reviewed on instant replay it looks radically different than how it was described. See for yourself and watch the ABC video of the incident here.
So according to the report, Mr. Obama declined to give the boy a fist bump, saying: “If I start that….” Immediately, it was interpreted by some that Mr. Obama was purposefully shying away from the gesture,
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