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BumRushDaShow

(161,018 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:43 PM 15 hrs ago

'Flat-Out Lie!' Warren Cuts Off CBS Anchor Pushing Her on Trump Shutdown 'Talking Point'

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 2nd, 2025, 9:47 am


Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cut off CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil when he suggested a Trump talking point wasn’t “strictly true,” interrupting to call it a “flat-out lie!”

President Donald Trump and the Republicans have blamed Democrats for the government shutdown by pushing the talking point that, as Trump put it in an AI-generated fake video featuring racist caricatures, Democrats want to “give all these illegal aliens free health care.”

Although that claim has been ruled false by numerous fact-checkers, Vice President JD Vance joined the White House briefing on Wednesday to press the same talking point and try to backfill an explanation. On Thursday morning’s edition of CBS News’s CBS Mornings, Senator Warren pushed back when Dokoupil tried to push her on what he called a “talking point” that isn’t “directly true”:

TONY DOKOUPIL: So, Senator, you know, Republicans say what you’re really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, as they put it, illegal aliens. I know that’s not strictly true, but there is a provision –

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Oh, excuse me, not strictly true?

TONY DOKOUPIL: It’s not directly true, but –

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: It is a flat-out lie! It is a flat-out lie!

TONY DOKOUPIL: – the way that they frame it –

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: There is nothing in Medicaid, nothing in Medicare, that permits one undocumented immigrant to get one dollar of assistance! None!

TONY DOKOUPIL: – Senator –

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Zero!


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/flat-out-lie-warren-cuts-off-cbs-anchor-pushing-her-on-trump-shutdown-talking-point/



The "media" (including CBS) aids and abets fascism. Walter Cronkite could fly to the moon with the spinning that he must be doing.
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'Flat-Out Lie!' Warren Cuts Off CBS Anchor Pushing Her on Trump Shutdown 'Talking Point' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 15 hrs ago OP
It's a little short of "We're being lied to everyday" but it's a start. /nt bucolic_frolic 15 hrs ago #1
They Live! MrWowWow 14 hrs ago #2
"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass..." (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 6 hrs ago #34
A masterclass BaronChocula 14 hrs ago #3
Exactly. This is no time to be polite road kill Bluetus 13 hrs ago #12
Yes, but sadly the GQP and MAGATs will simply pivot to different lies groundloop 13 hrs ago #15
Actually my experience is that they don't have an answer when you call them out on Chump's lies FakeNoose 13 hrs ago #16
... Oeditpus Rex 12 hrs ago #22
Republicans frame it as you still beat your wife. AZLD4Candidate 14 hrs ago #4
TWISTING THE TRUTH Jimvanhise 14 hrs ago #5
That is called EMTALA. markodochartaigh 7 hrs ago #32
Go get 'em Liz! Takes sip dobleremolque 14 hrs ago #6
We hardly have any journalists on air anymore. spudspud 14 hrs ago #7
So CBS News is doing what they promised when they bowed to King Donald rurallib 13 hrs ago #8
And so the Paramount and CBS right wing merger shines right on thru.............with another right wing hack......... turbinetree 13 hrs ago #9
Good for Senator Warren! Joinfortmill 13 hrs ago #10
Dems need some way to overcome MSM stupidity and flamingdem 13 hrs ago #11
The way is for wealthy Democrats to step up to the plate and build a better source of news. travelingthrulife 11 hrs ago #23
DOKOUPIL is a wolf in sheep's clothing. live love laugh 13 hrs ago #13
I think he's married to Katy Tur AStern 13 hrs ago #18
That's the way to do it. Stomp lies immediately they are parroted. Bernardo de La Paz 13 hrs ago #14
And Tony D is married to Katy Turd. What a pair. CurtEastPoint 13 hrs ago #17
Mr. & Mrs. Appeaser. N/T tonekat 8 hrs ago #29
Told You So... Mr.Bee 12 hrs ago #19
Would probably be better if she said a small number get emergency care under existing law, some get care Silent Type 12 hrs ago #20
Even Huffpo is calling Republicans' claim "misleading" rather than a flat out lie. SunSeeker 12 hrs ago #21
Good for Senator Warren Scubamatt 11 hrs ago #24
I get a paysite. I don't want a subscription wolfie001 10 hrs ago #25
Try this BumRushDaShow 9 hrs ago #26
Larry Ellison and son's handiwork RedArkGuy 9 hrs ago #27
Way to go,Senator Hartpi978 8 hrs ago #28
TY, Sen Warren! Emphathic pushback. electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #30
Great response BGRD 7 hrs ago #31
You go, Senator! Bayard 7 hrs ago #33

BaronChocula

(3,451 posts)
3. A masterclass
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:06 PM
14 hrs ago

in how to be as militantly adamant with the truth as magas are with their lies.

Every time a talking head begins an interview sentence with something like "Speaker Mike Johnson said..." it should be cut off with "it's a lie. He lies. He said trump has the best polling numbers. He's a republican. He lies."

Bluetus

(1,597 posts)
12. Exactly. This is no time to be polite road kill
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:22 PM
13 hrs ago

Every Dem had better learn the facts on this issue and be ready to come out blazing whenever confronted with these lies.

groundloop

(13,327 posts)
15. Yes, but sadly the GQP and MAGATs will simply pivot to different lies
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:33 PM
13 hrs ago

That old saying - "A lie can travel around the world before the truth has time to put its' pants on" certainly applies here.

We continually have an uphill battle fighting the constant stream of MAGAT lies, but I'm thrilled to see Sen. Warren calling them out.

FakeNoose

(38,832 posts)
16. Actually my experience is that they don't have an answer when you call them out on Chump's lies
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:39 PM
13 hrs ago

Maybe they go home and "do more research" on 4chan or something, I don't know.
For the most part they parrot Chump because they can't think for themselves.

Jimvanhise

(521 posts)
5. TWISTING THE TRUTH
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:34 PM
14 hrs ago

During the Reagan administration it was ruled that anyone who went to an emergence room had to be given care whether they had health insurance or not. Whether they were in America legally was never ever mentioned. Republicans are now making it an issue and blaming it on Democrats and never mentioning the rule from the Reagan administration.

spudspud

(614 posts)
7. We hardly have any journalists on air anymore.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:49 PM
14 hrs ago

They're mostly just stenographers, and cowards who won't call a lie a lie, because they want to keep their cushy job.

turbinetree

(26,604 posts)
9. And so the Paramount and CBS right wing merger shines right on thru.............with another right wing hack.........
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:03 PM
13 hrs ago

it should now be called the Conservative Broadcast System..............Cronkite and Murrow are rolling over in their graves..............
Heh CBS why don't you just change your eyeball logo to Fascist We Are us and we support authoritarians logos......................you know Stalin one night , Dickhead Traitor Trump the next.............or better yet that fascist FCC leader currently in charge with their Heritage Foundation logo of Fred Koch handshaking with Stalin..........just go all out for the ratings game .................fuck you CBAss...........

flamingdem

(40,689 posts)
11. Dems need some way to overcome MSM stupidity and
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:10 PM
13 hrs ago

anchors who fear for their jobs.

Those that know better repeat the lie and expect us to see in their eyes that they know its a lie.

Then I wonder.. can they read? It's a freaking lie so don't repeat it!

travelingthrulife

(3,383 posts)
23. The way is for wealthy Democrats to step up to the plate and build a better source of news.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:53 PM
11 hrs ago

We wait for right wing shills to be invited onto their shows when our wealthy should be designing their own shows.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,143 posts)
14. That's the way to do it. Stomp lies immediately they are parroted.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:32 PM
13 hrs ago

The media need to be journalists, not stenographers.

Hey stupid Dokoupil: If it is not directly true, then it is not true, it is a lie. Duh!

Silent Type

(11,307 posts)
20. Would probably be better if she said a small number get emergency care under existing law, some get care
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:07 PM
12 hrs ago

through state programs without direct federal dollars, some got care through Biden era laws that trump cancelled, etc.

Personally, I’m for every one of those benefits, but Warren should be truthful because that just muddies the water further.

SunSeeker

(56,837 posts)
21. Even Huffpo is calling Republicans' claim "misleading" rather than a flat out lie.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:21 PM
12 hrs ago

It's fucking infuriating. It's like the "death panels" lie all over again. Journalists have become such cowards.

Scubamatt

(211 posts)
24. Good for Senator Warren
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 05:47 PM
11 hrs ago

It's far bast time we called Trump's lies for what they are and stop trying to sane-wash it with a air of civility/decorum.

All our leaders need to follow Senator Warren's example!

wolfie001

(6,241 posts)
25. I get a paysite. I don't want a subscription
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 06:50 PM
10 hrs ago

Sorry but I take back my "rec". Get a rich Liberal billionaire to fund these numerous media outlets. Us regular folk are watching every penny.

RedArkGuy

(838 posts)
27. Larry Ellison and son's handiwork
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:39 PM
9 hrs ago

CBS' Anchors and reporters know very well who now owns the ship and they're sailing in the direction their evil and ignorant captain calls.

BGRD

(23 posts)
31. Great response
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:57 PM
7 hrs ago

Tony Dokoupil is not a journalist. He acts more like a Republican party dirty tricks operative than any journalist. I'm glad Warren put Mr Tur in his place.

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