Chris Cillizza LIED About His Trump Crosshairs Picture Excuse

As Usual The Cover-up, Not The Crime Is What Get's You In Trouble
Chris Cillizza and CNN blamed the Trump Crosshair picture on GifGrabber and a CNN tech mistake, because who the hell looks at their pictures when you're sending out a tweet?

If it was any other liberal I would never believe any excuse they give. With Chris Cillizza he doesn't have to utter a word before you know whatever he'll say or write is nothing but bullshit.

Last October we call out this two-bit journalist for insinuating that President Trump was a liar. We didn't call him out just for that, but for the fact that Chris Cillizza, nor CNN removed the story after it had been utterly discredited.

On Oct 19, 2017 Chris Cillizza published an article entitled: Donald Trump just suggested the FBI, Democrats and Russia might all be co-conspirators. In it he wrote:
But even by Trump standards, this morning's tweet is somewhat remarkable. He is suggesting that a dossier prepared by a former member of British intelligence has not only been totally discredited (it hasn't -- more on that in a minute) but that it might have been funded by some combination of Russia, the Democratic Party and, wait for it, the FBI!
On October 27th we wrote our story calling out Cillizza, and CNN out for not pulling his moronic story, and they still haven't.

There have been, of course, many other stories that have clearly demonstrated Cillizza's lack of ethics, while emphasizing his stupidity.

Normally you won't even have to make it past the headline to know that Chris Cillizza wrote another completely full of crap story. Like the story, we did in February where we bashed Cillizza for his click-bait bullshit entitled "People are leaving the Trump White House in record numbers"

And this was his "Facts First" picture for the story. Reading his headline it's not hard to guess what is wrong with this picture? In case Chris Cillizza is reading this article we tried to give him a hint where he was factually challenged by circling exactly what's wrong.



At the time when we and many others called bullshit on Chris Cillizza's bullshit. Instead of being a real journalist and going back and changing the headline to factually read "People are leaving President Trump in record numbers." Chris Cillizza instead showed exactly how morally bankrupt he and CNN are.

He amended his story with this little tidbit "CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly describe the composite picture."  In the caption, he added his "His story reflected the people in "Trump's orbit." But the picture was never the problem, the HEADLINE was what was factually incorrect, but Cillizza could not admit his dishonesty even when tweeting out to his fans.

We are adjusting graphic language. But the stats from Brookings are totally accurate. Thanks for reading.

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 13, 2018


There have been many other examples of his lies and deceit, but his latest FUBAR and his dishonest excuse, even with the use of Liberal logic, doesn't pass the smell test.

Chris Cillizza tweet that contained President Trump with a green crosshair overlay picture. That in itself would not have been a big deal, except for the left hyperbole over the Sarah Palin ad in 2011.

Then a New York Times editorial claimed that maps circulated by Sarah Palin's PAC amounted to "political incitement," which the authors said was clearly linked to the subsequent 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz.

Then the liberal loony toon left got out their soapboxes and stretching liberal logic to its utmost claimed the GOP was inciting gunman to shoot Democrats. Of course, it was a ridiculous notion, but if the left wants to hyperbole every imagined slight, then they should be held to the same standard of decency that they demand of the right.
Being an incompetent stooge of a journalist should not get you fired, buy lying to cover up your stupidity should.
While some reports claim "He deleted the tweet quickly." We are going to assume that like any normal human being, the moment you discovered your stupidity such as tweeting out a picture of President Trump with a green crosshairs overlay you would delete it immediately, as well as issue an apology at the same time.

Chris Cillizza didn't tweet his "we deleted" tweet till 2:16 pm a full 6-hours after tweeting out his "Trump In The Crosshairs" tweet at 8:15 am. That is not what I would call "quickly."

 

CNN then issued the following statement:
“Chris has already addressed this issue publicly. The image in question is a framing mark used in film and video production to frame a shot. Nothing more. A producer who created the motion graphic inadvertently left that frame in the GIF.  When it came to our attention, the tweet containing the GIF was deleted and replaced with explanation. There is nothing more to say.”
Excuse Me I Have Something To Say
Not one person from a kid tweeting out a picture from his little league game to the President of the United States tweeting about a Rose Garden press conference, would not look at the picture he is tweeting before hitting the send button.

In 99.99999% of these tweets, since Twitter only makes a small thumbnail available when you attach something to your tweet, you would certainly look at the tweet after it's posted as well.

Chris Cillizza wrote that tweet.

Chris Cillizza attached the photo to the tweet.

Chris Cillizza sent out that tweet from HIS account.

So while CNN and Chris Cillizza can claim some tech guy screwed up all they want, that tweet was written by, attached a picture to, and sent by only one person, Chris Cillizza.

Therefore Chris Cillizza wrote his "Donald Trump, pointing to the heavens..." comment. Then searched his computer for the picture to attach to his tweet, saw the thumbnail of the picture, saw it had a green crosshair overlay over the Trump picture and Chris Cillizza still hit the send button.



Chris Cillizza could not have possibly noticed something wrong with the picture on numerous occasions.

Unless someone has "Extra Large Thumbnails" chosen on their computer, which then Chris Cillizza would have easily spotted the tech mistake in creating his graphic.

Most computers settings show only a small thumbnail when searching for graphics. I included a screenshot of what Chris Cillizza would have seen when searching for his computer for the Trump photo to attach to his tweet.

He would, of course, know what it looked like beforehand, and while it would have been similar in color and style to the Nicki Haley thumbnail. It would therefore have been impossible to have chosen a green rectangular blob unless you were actually looking for a green rectangular blob.

Even if Chris Cillizza was stupid enough to not look at the picture when choosing his tweet attachment, say instead his computer only showed file names. Then how could he have possibly missed the Green rectangular picture in the twitter thumbnail preview?

Then, of course, he missed it again after hitting send and instantly the tweet with the full-size image of President Trump with a green crosshair overlay would have appeared.

That makes at least three absolutely credible chances for Chris Cillizza to have seen that CNN tech mistake, but somehow against all odds he missed every single opportunity?

As usual with CNN their excuses don't hold up to the facts... But then again we are talking about CNN where facts don't matter.

Either CNN created a fraudulent excuse, or Chris Cillizza knew exactly what he was doing and then lied to CNN. No matter which someone needs to be held accountable at "Facts First" CNN.

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