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Changing CNN partially apologizes for BYU Fake story

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After spending weeks pushing the story and inflaming wisespread anti-mormon bigotry, they partially walk it back when noone is watching.

Gutfeld covered it at 23:00min
https://rumble.com/v1jv7u7-the-greg-gut ... -2022.html

Here are some examples:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cultu ... rdson-race

Here is their partial walkback: (very sad to say, that for CNN even this pathetic reversal is a huge new thing for them)

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/cu ... -mea-culpa

Avlon took over and said he’d be “starting something a little different” (versus his smug “Reality Check” lectures) called “Upon Further Review” that would provide “updates” on “the initial official version of the story once more facts come in.”

He explained that the incident at BYU put volleyball at “the front of the outrage Olympics two weeks ago when a Duke starter named Rachel Richardson make the explosive accusation.”

Noting that Richardson received support from “stars like Lebron James” as “the country rallied around her” (which was dubious to suggest), Avlon conceded “her family appear[ed] here on CNN, amid some 65 separate articles” in the press “about the controversy” and it resulting in the University of South Carolina cancelling a lady’s basketball game against BYU.

Avlon then said BYU “offered a wholehearted apology” and “banned a fan who had been identified as making the racist slurs,” but still “launched an internal investigation.”

As a result, however, Avlon said “that’s where the narrative started to fall far short of the initial indignation” as BYU found zero evidence to corroborate Richardson’s tall tale after having “review[ed] all available video and audio recordings and reaching out to more than 50 folks who attended the game, including Duke personnel and athletes.”

Avlon argued that while “healthy skepticism is always a virtue…this doesn't read like a cover-up” as opposed to “a rush to judgment because of a well-intentioned impulse to believe the Duke player's accusations.”

What Avlon wouldn’t admit was those defending Richardson indeed wanted the racist slurs to be true in order to further their preferred narratives about humanity or, more specifically, those that lean conservative (such as Mormons).

“Now, we need to note that the investigation does not call Rachel Richardson a liar or a fabricator. It leaves open the possibility that she sincerely believed that she heard repeated racial heckling and that some sort of misunderstanding occurred,” he added, as if to offer an olive branch.

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