CNN's Dana Bash fact-checked President Obama's falsehood about the sequester on Friday, but the major networks didn't exactly follow CNN's lead in reporting the distortion[s].
This Week host George
Stephanopoulos brought up the claim
about the sequester in a Sunday interview with White House economic adviser
Gene Sperling: "And at least twice this week the
administration got caught exaggerating the impact. The President claimed the
Capitol janitors are going to get a pay cut. The architect of the Capitol
denied that. He said it was premature at best."
CBS White House correspondent Major Garrett reported this on Saturday's CBS Evening News: "The White House
has been accused by fact checkers of The
Washington Post of exaggerating the speed and severity of
education job losses and janitorial cuts on Capitol Hill."
Fox News is reporting there is "too much mystery" going on with regard
to how the Sequester cuts are being demagogued; the US Government,
for example, is not implementing a hiring freeze, for example,
nor is it reducing spending in critical non-essential federal categories.
And “the three major networks" reported
the President's falsity twice over the [past] weekend.
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