Polish president slams fake news CNN

[Dill]

(07-07-2017, 10:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: So you're saying that the Polish president should have ignored CNN lying about his wife refusing to shake the US President's hand? Possibly to the detriment of the country he represents relations to an ally who is the most powerful country in the world?

Absolutely. We are talking about someone who represents a country, not some random guy defending his wife from an insult in a bar.

That was a meaningless tweet about a trivial matter. There was/is no "detriment" to Poland because of that tweet. How in the world could it ever affect relations between the two countries?  Hard to imagine the leader of Britain or France or Germany or Japan or the US before Trump commenting on such trivia, other than to quickly clear it up and move on. But calling the tweet "fake News" as a rallying cry against the press in general is very disturbing. The rush to conflate this incident with reporting about Trump in general, as if it were all similarly erroneous, is what is really newsworthy about this incident.

A far more urgent matter is how Kaczynski and his party has been dismantling the free press in Poland. That could affect relations between Poland and the rest of the world, including the US.  It will give conspiracy theories greater traction in Poland. Neither he nor Trump want you talking about that.