CNN’s Jim Acosta smears Kayleigh McEnany, but CNN’s Jake Tapper comes to her rescue!

by The Right Scoop

CNN’s Jim Acosta tweeted a quote from Kayleigh McEnany today without any context, and the left went nuts over it:

 
Note this was well after Acosta had heard her full answer in the presser. He did it intentionally to create an uproar.

He wasn’t the only one that took it out of context, but he did. He then tweeted this 13 minutes later:

 
CNN’s Jake Tapper, who has apparently grown a spine in the last week, tweeted this response to the phony coverage:

 
He’s right, here’s what she actually said:

MS. MCENANY: You know, the President has said unmistakably that he wants schools to open. And I was just in the Oval talking to him about that. And when he says open, he means open in full — kids being able to attend each and every day at their school.

The science should not stand in the way of this. And as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote — “Of course, we can [do it]. Everyone else in the…Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here.”

The science is very clear on this, that — you know, for instance, you look at the JAMA Pediatrics study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu.

The science is on our side here, and we encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools. It’s very damaging to our children: There is a lack of reporting of abuse; there’s mental depressions that are not addressed; suicidal ideations that are not addressed when students are not in school. Our schools are extremely important, they’re essential, and they must reopen.

 
Now, lest I leave you with a false impression, here’s the second tweet from Tapper right after the one above:

And to be fair to Acosta, he did follow up with Kayleigh’s full comments….almost an hour later:

I have a suspicion that Acosta only posted the full comments from Kayleigh, which got far fewer tweets than the first fake news tweet he posted, because of a backlash in his Twitter timeline.


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