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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 01:59 PM Dec 2017

Top Republican senator defends ABC reporter over Flynn reporting mistake

Source: The Hill




BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 12/03/17 12:35 PM EST

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Sunday came to the defense of ABC reporter Brian Ross, who faced heavy criticism from Republicans after falsely reporting that then-candidate Donald Trump directed Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn to contact Russian officials during the 2016 presidential election.

Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it is "difficult" for him to see malice in Ross's "mistake" while pointing to the "good relationship" he has maintained with the veteran reporter.

He added that Ross took Grassley's political science course between 1967 and 1968. Ross went to college in Iowa.




ABC News suspended Ross after he inaccurately reported on Friday that Flynn was prepared to testify that Trump "directed him to make contact with the Russians" during the campaign, citing a source who is a close associate to the former White House national security adviser.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363004-top-republican-senator-defends-abc-reporter-over-flynn-reporting-mistake
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Top Republican senator defends ABC reporter over Flynn reporting mistake (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
Was Brian Ross wrong? Pachamama Dec 2017 #1
On the timing... DonViejo Dec 2017 #2
Exactly..... Pachamama Dec 2017 #3
+ 1 Achilleaze Dec 2017 #16
And yet Sean "Seth Rich" Hannity still has his jerb ... mr_lebowski Dec 2017 #21
No...He was correct... FarPoint Dec 2017 #5
No, he was wrong. It was NOT before the election, it was after while tRump was in Transition. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #11
it just has not been proven yet Skittles Dec 2017 #18
I'll accept those points. Personally I,d not be surpised at all if it also occurred during campaign. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #20
problably not Skittles Dec 2017 #17
When Chuck Grassely starts defending you, its time for a reappraisal. marble falls Dec 2017 #4
Not really - if you actually look at the context of it. Blue_Adept Dec 2017 #6
Chuck. Grassley. marble falls Dec 2017 #7
Yes, and talking about a former student of his Blue_Adept Dec 2017 #10
Chuck. Freaking. Empathetic. Grassley. ...... marble falls Dec 2017 #19
no he does not Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #13
I guess Ross was Dan Rathered. ananda Dec 2017 #8
Tells one that ABC News Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #9
Exactly orangecrush Dec 2017 #12
I gave up on AlwaysBroadcastingCrap a long time ago UpInArms Dec 2017 #14
Our local market ABC affiliate seems to do best job Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #15
Over-reaction by ABC Grins Dec 2017 #22
No, it was pretty bad MosheFeingold Dec 2017 #23

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
3. Exactly.....
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 02:11 PM
Dec 2017

I am pretty confident it will be eventually proven that what he reported was accurate and correct....but as you said, the "timing"...

I guess ole Chuck Grassley knows it too.....

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
21. And yet Sean "Seth Rich" Hannity still has his jerb ...
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 03:25 AM
Dec 2017

Pffffft ...

Methinks it's time to stop eating our own ... that's just me ...

FarPoint

(12,436 posts)
5. No...He was correct...
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 02:21 PM
Dec 2017

...Such a sweet deal for Flynn, who was 3 Rd in line of the food chain leaving tRump and Pence above him...so such a deal required upper names and facts...there ya go.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,036 posts)
11. No, he was wrong. It was NOT before the election, it was after while tRump was in Transition.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 04:51 PM
Dec 2017

It was still an unlawful directive (Logan Act, never enforced. Til now?)

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
6. Not really - if you actually look at the context of it.
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 02:26 PM
Dec 2017

This is a teacher who has an affection for a student kind of thing and actually shows that Grassley has at least a little empathy out there.

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
10. Yes, and talking about a former student of his
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 03:09 PM
Dec 2017

If we continue this binary good/evil thing then we're not going to get anywhere.

I despise a great many Republicans, Grassley included, but having lived with some diehard republicans I also know that they can be exactly like this.

marble falls

(57,181 posts)
19. Chuck. Freaking. Empathetic. Grassley. ......
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 10:57 PM
Dec 2017
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141929380

GOP Senator Implies Those Who Aren't Millionaires Waste Money On Booze, Women
Source: Huffington Post

That’s why the richest deserve a break on estate taxes, says Chuck Grassley.

In an astonishing defense of dropping “death taxes” for individual estates worth more than $5.5 million, GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley implied that people not currently affected by that tax are “spending every darn penny ... on booze or women.”
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. Tells one that ABC News
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 02:43 PM
Dec 2017

management is all in with Donnie Dipstick. What are they afraid of? First guess is,bulk of the ABC affiliates are owned by Right Wing Rethug Donors.

UpInArms

(51,284 posts)
14. I gave up on AlwaysBroadcastingCrap a long time ago
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 06:58 PM
Dec 2017

When Charles Gibson was always putting up the American Enterprise peeps on as gospel and he called Studs Turkel “an old leftist” to his face .. it was disgusting

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
15. Our local market ABC affiliate seems to do best job
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 07:54 PM
Dec 2017

on current happenings. Love the CBS affiliate for style but they lack any in depth of any reporting. Seem to read the Hand outs of the Convention and Visitor Bureau. Now with NHL in town their broadcast of local news has gone south.

Turkel was a stupid example of leftist. Remember that reference and one of the main reasons we dumped All Bullshit Constantly .

Grins

(7,228 posts)
22. Over-reaction by ABC
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 11:59 AM
Dec 2017

It only required a "Correction", something that happens every day in all media.
ABC did not "Retract" Ross' report.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
23. No, it was pretty bad
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 05:21 PM
Dec 2017

This was a contact by Flynn after Trump "won" the election. The purpose, apparently, had to do with checking on Russia's position in a upcoming UN vote and discussing how Russia and the USA would deal with each other in Syria when Trump took the oath.

Now, this might be a problem with the 218 year old, never-enforced, Logan Act, but probably not.

Ross falsely implied that the contact had to do with election meddling.

That's a major screw up.

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