ABC News was forced to apologize after it appeared to manipulate former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer’s quote on the job current press secretary Sean Spicer is doing.
The quote ABC used in a report, attributed to Fleischer, reads as follows: “[Spicer’s Saturday] briefing made me uncomfortable. It was too truculent, too tough. It looks as if the ball was dropped on Saturday.”
But according to Fleischer, he actually said, “It looks to me if the ball was dropped on Saturday, Sean recovered it and ran for a first down.”
Fleischer sent several tweets, saying ABC altered it, before blasting the press.
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