Greg Gutfeld blasts WaPo’s ‘deep-fake news’ after massive retraction in Trump-Georgia reporting – Fox News

Greg Gutfeld slammed the mainstream media in the wake of a massive correction by The Washington Post, which read in part that, contrary to the paper's original reporting, former President Donald Trump did not tell Georgia stateelections investigator Frances Watson to "find the fraud."

The quote, attributed to a leaked phone call between the two officials, came as Trump routinely railed against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger's handling of the election. The president's back and forth with his fellow Republicans in Georgia provided the media with much fodder.

On "The Five," Gutfeld said that while "deep fake" images have been a trend on the internet for some time, the mainstream media has engaged in "deep fakes" of journalism for a while as well.

"It sounds new but the media hasbeen out of it for years; onlywith words, tricking the publicto say something they didnt," he said.

"Take 'The Washington Post'whofinally issued a brutalcorrection of a huge damaging lie.They contorted Donald TrumpsDecember phone call with the Georgiasecretary of states topinvestigator claiming Trumpordered her to find the fraudand if she did she would be ahero."

"That lie came from a singleanonymous source and withendlessly repeated by the media."

The host went on to further criticize the media, playing a montageof national newscasters reporting on the now-retracted quote:

"What lemmings. They're like Smolletts who can type," he said. "They claimed theyconfirmed it but askyourself, how could all of thembe wrong about the same exactthing?There is only one way:onesource."

Gutfeld credited the Washington Examiner for its take on the retraction, remarking that multiple newsrooms must've confirmed the scoop by speaking with the same anonymous source.

"It is like tracing cases of foodpoisoning to a single batch ofrancid potato salad.Just as easy to track and moredisgusting," he said.

"We knew this was behind most anti trump drech --oneanonymous source gave it to Paper A, then Network B calls thesame source to get confirmation.Then Snopes and thefact-checkersagree."

Gutfeld characterized the situation as an example of "investigative incest," and predicted it was the same process that led to the dissemination of the Steele dossier.

"So how can we ever trust theseclowns again?They would do everything todestroy a person -- from apresident they cant stand to hisobviously evil supporters.They'd push a lie to help theirside win an election," he continued.

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"Its like Biden claiming thevaccine started with him or that there's noemergency at the border, but thepress dont just nod along butthey take the lies and turn itinto truth.Its not fake news, deep fakenews. Be ready when they useit on you."

Gutfeld went on to note that the Post's media critic, Erik Wemple, criticized his own paper for the retraction as well.

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