MSNBC Admits to Using Bogus Photo on NAACP Bombing Story; Their Apology is Beyond Pathetic

January 10, 2015 By Jennifer Burke




When MSNBC Chris Hayes reported on the attempted bombing of an NAACP office in Colorado Springs, a photo was used to better fit the narrative the network was obviously trying to push. The photo used was taken from an incident in France. A negligible amount of damage was done to the actual building in Colorado, but some on the left have been trying to equate it with the massacre of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine offices in Paris by Muslim terrorists.

The station has built a reputation of doctoring, i.e. falsifying, things to fit their narrative, so this may come as no surprise to some. What is surprising is that Chris Hayes actually acknowledged their mistake with an apology, well sort of.
We screwed up that image in the NAACP bombing report last night. It was from another story in our system. Our bad. We regret the error.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 10, 2015
My bad? Really? That is the lame excuse of an apology that a 5th grader would give to their teacher, not one you would expect from a supposed news organization.

Users on Twitter called him out for this lame apology.
@chrislhayes After Zimmerman fiasco, impossible 2believe it was done in error. If it was, u’d do better than half -assed Twitter apology.

— Lumbersexual Jew (@Trumandie2 January 10, 2015
@chrislhayes Either your network is insanely incompetent or complicit in intentionally spreading lies to favor specific narratives, or BOTH.

— Maggie Magoo (@MMMDigits) January 10, 2015
@DenierNyc @chrislhayes Fuel the flames because they know their idiot viewers will buy this crap hook line and sinker…

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