Discussion: AP Bungles Fact Check: ‘It Takes Two To Tango,’ But This Is Trump's Shutdown

horrido · January 9, 2019, 5:25pm

More evidence that the urban legend of a ‘left leaning’ press is just that - a result of the GOP propaganda machine.

chelsea530 · January 9, 2019, 5:25pm

AP’s “defense” is as bad as the original tweet. Good grief. To make its statement worse, the only crisis at the border is the one caused by the Trump administration!!

Someone pointed out that the word “terrorists” has been dropped by the White House ever since Chris ~~Matthews~~ Wallace did his homework and took Sarah Hucksterbee Sanders to the woodshed.

Do better, AP!!

paul_lukasiak · January 9, 2019, 5:25pm

And WWII was the fault of both the Axis and Allied powers, because France, Britian et al could have just surrendered…

srfromgr · January 9, 2019, 5:26pm

Perfect analogy.

corncaucus2008 · January 9, 2019, 5:27pm

It would take way, waaaay more athleticism than that tubbo could muster. Oh, and humanity.

c_stedman · January 9, 2019, 5:31pm

“It takes two to tango,but only one to squirm."
S.J.Perlmen

rmwarnick · January 9, 2019, 5:33pm

Everybody knows Trump started the #TrumpShutdown and is the only one who can end it. Everybody except AP, apparently.

drtv · January 9, 2019, 5:34pm

‘It Takes Two To Tango,’

Bullshit.

This is totally on Trump. He can end it any time.

powysian · January 9, 2019, 5:37pm

It was Chris Wallace, not Chris Matthews.

mike_in_houston · January 9, 2019, 5:38pm

“Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie, the other to listen.” – Homer J. Simpson

josephebacon · January 9, 2019, 5:40pm

The Presstitutes at AP love to snort the Magic Balance Fairy Dust!

wordtoyamamma · January 9, 2019, 5:41pm

The worst articles on TPM are consistently those they pull down off the AP “wire”. Not sure what the member dues are anymore, but Josh would likely be better off investing them in another researcher or reporter.

daninillinois · January 9, 2019, 5:41pm

BULLETIN. BULLETIN. BULLETIN. In “It Took Two to Tango, Back in 1865,” AP is reporting this morning that Abe Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth bear equal responsibility for the former’s assassination–Wilkes Booth for shooting Lincoln, LIncoln for failing to fire first.###

chelsea530 · January 9, 2019, 5:41pm

Whoops. Sorry. Got my Chris’s mixed up. Will fix.

Would Chris Matthews ever even fact check a republican. Ha!

aiddon · January 9, 2019, 5:42pm

They and other members of the press need to have an intervention staged. They’re like addicts, they need their fix.

drtv · January 9, 2019, 5:42pm

Don’t forget that he did this in front of his political opponents, and made sure that he said he wouldn’t blame them–He would own it.

nellieh · January 9, 2019, 5:43pm

FACT! there was an agreement between the REPUBLICAN majority House of Representatives, the REPUBLICAN majority Senate and the REPUBLICAN President before Christmas. BUT! Trump’s shadow government, Coulter, Limbaugh Ingraham, disapproved. So he reneged on a bill he previously approved and was approved by OUR LEGISLATORS to appease 3 flunkies and s#!t the bed again.

wial · January 9, 2019, 5:44pm

Sure, two: Fox News and its slobbering viewer.

bodie1 · January 9, 2019, 5:45pm

I didn’t know Sinclair bought AP

butlerknights · January 9, 2019, 5:45pm

That reminds me so much of Trump’s attack on McCain about being captured. :-/