Daugherty is right, however: without Elon Musk’s takeover of Axis of Unethical Conduct member Twitter, CNN would have let its propaganda stand uncorrected. There was no uproar about Phillip’s disinformation on leftist echo chamber Bluesky, because the nascent totalitarians there approve of propaganda. Whatever Musk does in the future, his purchase of Twitter, now “X,” will stand as one of the most important acts to safeguard our democracy any single individual has performed in U.S. history.

Unfortunately, Musk can’t also buy CNN, MSNOW, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and the New York Times. At least I don’t think so….

Those other lies in Phillip’s apology:

1. Her correction on “X” continued her original lie, as I explained here.
2. Her attempt to represent an ISIS attack as an anti-Muslim attack on NYC’s Muslim Communist Mayor wasn’t a “mistake,” any more than Jake Tapper’s failure to tell his audience that Joe Biden was mentally crumbling before our eyes and not just “stuttering” wasn’t a mistake.
3. She didn’t “want” make a correction on the air, or she would have done it before she was mocked by “X” readers. She was forced to go on the air. Most CNN lies are never acknowledged; the unprofessional and untrustworthy network realized it couldn’t get away with this one.
4. She didn’t “fail to catch it.” Like all the other Axis agents spreading the lie, Phillip expected to avoid accountability, and because Scott Jennings wasn’t on her panel to call “Bullshit!” she wasn’t corrected by any of the other incompetents and liars on her panel. If she knew, and she had to, that the bomb was thrown by an ISIS convert, she would have said it. As far as her pleading a good faith “speako,” the “Dishonest Waiter” analogy is dispositive.
5. Neither CNN or Phillip believes it is important to “catch” their deliberate misstatements of fact, dishonest spin, and false narratives and correct them unless it feels the particular lie isn’t working, and thus may undermine its ability to spread propaganda in the future.

Let’s see…the new popular Axis media lie is that the U.S. “deliberately” blew up an elementary school killing “at least 175 people, most of them children.” “The View’s” anti-American panel has been harping on this for days. The elementary school was on the site of an Iranian military base, and that base was what was targeted. Apparently the school was in a repurposed building on the base, and had been fenced off. The U.S. intelligence regarding the base hadn’t caught the change. As for the casualty count, even the New York Times admits that those are Iran’s figures, meaning “Who knows what the real numbers are?”

“Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame,” is the current Times spin. Iran is to blame for the deaths, whatever they are. Any time a government makes it necessary for another nation to wage war against it, all of the resulting fatalities, military or civilian, are the wrongdoing nation’s responsibility. Why this is such a difficult concept for so many to grasp has always amazed me.