CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.
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Bash, again, tried to appear to be the responsible reporter who was quoting from the order, but she cherry-picked:
Let me just kind of put some meat on the bone here of the arguments that the administration has been making through this executive order and elsewhere. And they argue that how Americans frame history has changed in recent years. You just gave an example of how it's changed. You know, in a more fulsome way. What they cite is, I'll just give one example, an ongoing exhibition at the American Art Museum called The Shape of Power: Stories of Race in American Sculpture. They take issue with noting that the U.S. ‘has used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.’ So there has been a shift.
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