Alisyn Camerota hit it out of the park once again with exposing the level to which she is blatantly misinformed or, at worst, being deliberately misleading to her viewers.
Not to be deterred by her last screw up, in which she accused Sen. Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) of not following through on his promise to propose and support gun safety legislation for which she had to apologize, Camerota attempted to say Sen. Orrin Hatch (R – Utah) didn’t know how Facebook makes their money.
This is clearly not true to anyone who has seen the two-minute exchange leading up to the rhetorical question Hatch asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his hearing on Capitol Hill.
At least this time, Sen. Ron Johnson (R – Wisc.) was there to correct Camerota on her clear lying misinformation about what actually happened.
The exchange on CNN’s New Day this morning prompted Sen. Hatch to respond on Twitter with appreciation for his fellow senator not letting Camerota’s attempt at mocking Hatch with a lie go uncorrected.
Thx to @SenRonJohnson for clarifying the purpose of Hatch's question to Zuckerberg to @CNN's Alisyn Camerota, who apparently only had access to 12 seconds of video of the exchange
Here's the full video, showing that Hatch's question was for a summation of the longer discussion pic.twitter.com/jkSMZ9Fi1B
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) April 11, 2018
Hatch followed it up with a tweet thanking other journalists for getting the story correct.
Thanks to @secupp and @andylevy who fortunately had access to the full video of Senator Hatch's discussion about ads and transparency with Mark Zuckerberg before analyzing it on @HLNTV. pic.twitter.com/RAz9WXgXy1
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) April 11, 2018
It really is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary that someone with Camerota’s experience would go down this track. I know it’s CNN, but at the same time…it’s CNN. Do better.
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