Tom Cotton Cries ‘Fake News’ When ‘Fox & Friends’ Directly Quotes Him on Slavery – By Matt Wilstein (Daily Beast) / July 27 2020
“Well, that is fake news, Brian, that is not what I said,” the GOP senator replied after Kilmeade directly quoted him referring to slavery as a “necessary evil.”
The hosts of Fox & Friends waited until the final moments of their interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to bring up the comments he made about slavery and The New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ over the weekend. Cotton used the opportunity to accuse them of spreading “fake news.”
“Senator Tom Cotton, you’re in the eye of the storm, you like to take on red-hot issues, including ‘The 1619 Project,’” Brian Kilmeade said as the senator smiled awkwardly. He then quoted directly at length from Cotton’s interview with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
“We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country,” Cotton said in that interview. “As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”
After reading that quote aloud, all Kilmeade had to say was, “Some say that was insensitive.”
“Well, that is fake news, Brian,” Cotton replied, chuckling uncomfortably. “That is not what I said.”
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