<p>Is the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mainstream-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legacy media</a> ever embarrassed or angry that it consistently gets fed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fake-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false information</a> — and repeats it verbatim — in order to push anti-conservative narratives, or does it enjoy being a mouthpiece for the government?</p>
<p>Monday evening, CBS&#8217; Norah O&#8217;Donnell implied that the Department of Justice (DOJ) did not take former President Donald Trump&#8217;s passport — contrary to his claims earlier in the day.</p>
<p>&#8220;According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports,” O’Donnell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-respond-to-trumps-claim-that-they-took-his-passports-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “We are also learning tonight that if any items not contained in the warrant were retrieved during the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, they will be returned.”</p>
<p>Based on O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s tweet, a reasonable person who still trusts the media would assume that the DOJ had never been in possession of Trump&#8217;s travel documents.</p>
<p>Yet immediately after O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s tweet, Trump&#8217;s spokesperson Taylor Budowich <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-team-publishes-alleged-doj-email-refuting-claim-that-fbi-didnt-take-passports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a screenshot of an email, apparently from the DOJ&#8217;s Jay Bratt, confirming that the government would be returning Trump&#8217;s expired passports, as well as his active diplomatic passport, that it had taken during the raid.</p>
<p>In other words, O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s reporting wound up being false or at the very least wildly skewed to paint Trump as a liar.</p>
<p>As of Tuesday afternoon, the veteran reporter had yet to issue a clarifying remark to her initial claim. If she was fooled by a carefully parsed response from the DOJ, shouldn&#8217;t she be mad that she was tricked into misleading her audience and squandering her own credibility? Her silence leaves no reason to believe she won&#8217;t rely on the same unknown, unreliable source for future stories.</p>
<p>In reaction to the news, Megyn Kelly&#8217;s executive producer Steve Krakauer tweeted, &#8220;When you get this burned by an anonymous source, I just don&#8217;t understand why you continue to protect them.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t look bad, you do,&#8221; he added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you get this burned by an anonymous source, I just don&#39;t understand why you continue to protect them.</p>
<p>They don&#39;t look bad, you do. <a href="https://t.co/hecIsHUEuQ">https://t.co/hecIsHUEuQ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1559538051507961857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Budowich <a href="https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/status/1559562702271311872">tweeted</a> Tuesday morning, &#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The evening anchor was once the pinnacle of journalism, but clearly </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@NorahODonnell </span>is intent on changing that. After 16 hours and a TWITTER FACT CHECK, this massively viral and dishonest tweet stands.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reality is that folks like O&#8217;Donnell have gone from being &#8220;the pinnacle of journalism,&#8221; as Budowich put it, to being a part of what longtime radio host Michael Savage once called &#8220;the government-media complex.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The media ladies and gentlemen &#8230; is needed by you, and by me, by the public — very badly needed — to be and to remain a thorn in the side of the government,&#8221; Savage <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbP4yknleU">said in 1998</a>. &#8220;In order to keep the government relatively honest, you need media that&#8217;s constantly poking at them. However, when the media instead becomes a thorn in the side of the skeptical private citizen, the media then becomes an arm of the government. Beware the government-media complex.&#8221;</p>
<p>Twenty-four years later, the problem has only worsened.</p>
<p>We now have years of media malfeasance about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-calls-out-2016-hillary-clinton-tweet-as-campaign-hoax">Russiagate Hoax</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-carter-page-it-was-not-political-bias-that-led-to-fbi-spying-on-me-but-policy-bias">Carter Page</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-legacy-medias-fact-free-relationship-with-the-facts">COVID-related stories</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covington-catholic-hs-student-nick-sandmann-settles-250-million-lawsuit-with-the-washington-post">Covington Catholic Kids</a>, and so many more stories that appear designed to smear Trump and other Republicans, not relay the truth.</p>
<p>If O&#8217;Donnell unintentionally spouted the government&#8217;s talking points, she owes us a correction. And she ought to be furious.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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