Matt Schlapp: Journalists Shouldn’t Say If The President Is Lying

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In a heated appearance on CNN Monday morning, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp voiced harsh criticism for comedian Michelle Wolf after her monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday, concluding that it is not her nor any journalist’s place to call out the President for lying.

“Just present the facts and let the American people if they think someone’s lying,” Schlapp said to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “Journalists shouldn’t be the one to say the President or his spokesperson is lying. What that does to 50 percent of the country is make them feel they are not credible to listen to.”

He stood by his words in a later tweet.


Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes, walked out of the dinner Saturday night after taking offense at Wolf’s monologue, saying that they had had “enough of the elites mocking all of us.”

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  1. How the talking head didn’t go full-Howard Beal on this tool is amazing. They’re all cowed.

  2. “Journalists shouldn’t be the one to say the President or his spokesperson is lying. What that does to 50 percent of the country is make them feel they are not credible to listen to.”

    Feelings are all that matter, not facts.

    If you speak in error, and are corrected, the next time you make that same, uncorrected, statement, you are lying.

  3. Oh honest to Christ. WHICH country did this moron grow up in? Certainly NOT the USA where we value FREEDOM OF SPEECH and it’s not the GOVERNMENT’S place to put restrictions on us.

  4. Snowflake.

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