Fox News’ John Roberts Gets Fed Up with Media Shaming | NowThis

so stop deflecting stop blaming the media i'm tired of it [Music] just one more observation here if the president didn't know who proud boys were and joe biden just threw out the name if he didn't know who they were why did he denounce them why didn't he say well i don't know who they are can you give me a little bit more information about them and then make a decision about it so this is this all remains very puzzling and for all of you on twitter who are hammering me for answering that quote for asking that question i don't care because it's a question that needs to be asked and clearly the president's republican colleagues a mile away from here are looking for an answer for it too so stop deflecting stop blaming the media i'm tired of it i'd like to ask you for a definitive and declarative statement without ambiguity or deflection as the person who speaks for the president does the president denounce white supremacism and groups that espouse it in all their forms this has been answered yesterday by the president himself the day before by the president himself on the debate stage the president was asked this he said sure three times yesterday he was point blank blank asked do you uh denounce white supremacy and he said i've always denounced any form of that i can go back and read for you in august 2019 and one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white supremacy in august of 2017. racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the kkk neo-nazis white supremacists and other hate groups i have an entire list of these quotes that i can go through with you he has condemned white's currency more than any president in modern history just to clear it up this morning can you naming it make a declarative statement that you deny that the president announces i just did uh the president has denounced this repeatedly the president was asked this you're making you're contriving a storyline and a narrative asking you to put it he said it to rest i just did i read you all of the quotes and if you need to see them in writing i will put them in an email paula so haley can you right now denounce white supremacy and the group that is about the president white supremacy the kkk and hate groups in all forms he signed a resolution to that effect the president just last week perhaps you all weren't covering it but just last week expressed his desire to see the kkk prosecuted as domestic terrorist this president uh had advocated for the death penalty for a white supremacist the first federal execution in 17 years his record on this is unmistakable and it's shameful that the media refuses to cover it the fbi and the department of homeland security say that racially motivated violent extremism is one of the deadliest threats that we face in the u.s does this white house agree with that assessment and what is it doing to combat this threat the president has done quite a bit to combat this threat first of all last week he also in addition to saying he wants to prosecute the kkk as domestic terrorists he said uh that lynching should be a national hate crime again i think there's no stronger signal that you can send than advocating for the execution of a white supremacist the first time there's been a federal execution in 17 years he's been unmistakably different than actually doing it he's continually condemned it and it is really a record on this together really is mixed he has conducted his equivocated at times he said he didn't want to acknowledge it or address it his record is very mixed on this issue his record is not mixed in the slightest and when you go back in history you can see that history right here when you go back down history you can see that jessica jackson has praised the president as someone who served underserved communities this president with mar-a-lago it was the first palm beach club open to african-americans and jews um and in fact his records he was great on the issues quite funny that the media goes haywire about interrupting in debates and then chooses to pursue that very same tactic themselves this is a white house briefing you ask a question and you give me time to answer so the proud boys are people who consider them to be members of this group give voice to these misogynistic islamophobic anti-semitic anti-immigrant views they're a despicable group by pretty much anyone's standards so when the president was asked about them and you say he denounced them that's what you're insisting that he did on the debate stage the other night if that's the case then why are they celebrating what the president said on the debate stage in front of millions of people well i don't speak for that group so i'm not sure why you're asking me why they're saying someone denounced you you probably wouldn't put it on a t-shirt and make badges of it right the president did denounce them he was asked will you tell them to stand down he said sure he went on to stand up which seems like an instruction and then just yesterday when he was asked he said specifically stand down um a synonym would stand back and the president said sure when asked by the moderator whether they should stand down so again another it's it's really interesting too to see that the media seems to be the only one putting the names of these groups into headlines into media reporting uh he didn't know who the proud boys were the first time i heard of them was in the debate but the media continues to put these names into circulation and give them a lot of public attention it's given about 12 hours more than that since from the debate from when he was asked to clarify yesterday and he didn't come out and clarify yesterday instead he did what you did when john asked you to unambiguously denounce these groups you just pointed to past things that you've said you can't i just don't understand why you knew you were gonna get these questions and you don't have a statement ready to just say we do unambiguously denounce these groups you know what it is do you know why people have lost trust in the media there was a reporter from your network yesterday your network and in a tweet said quote i'm asking you a question attack question so you will allow me to give an answer the president and someone from your network said yesterday in a tweet the president dodged a question about white supremacy that was a tweet from a cnn reporter the president specifically verbatim was asked yesterday white supremacy do you denounce them to which he responded i have always denounced any form of that those are the facts in cnn i know that truth is of no moment to your network but those are the facts republicans are calling on the president to be more forcefully

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Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 02 2020

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