NCS issued an on-air mea culpa on Thursday morning after admitting the community fell for a publish by a parody account of a Republican congressman who mentioned he had spoken to ailing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Following a report on the continuing saga of McConnell’s mysterious absence and lack of transparency about his present situation, NCS This Morning host Audie Cornish talked about the flub from a day earlier.
“Yesterday on the show, we displayed quotes from a Republican, some Republicans, about Senator Mitch McConnell’s stay in the hospital,” Cornish mentioned. One of them was mistakenly taken from a parody account on Twitter. Now, clearly, we must always not have completed that, and we remorse the error.”
The publish in query got here amid a flurry of social media posts from Republican figures who mentioned that they had spoken to McConnell, every for about 20 minutes.
NCS ran a graphic of the posts, together with one from Rep. Jack Kimble, who will not be an actual congressman and doesn’t really exist.
The saga of McConnell’s well being has been operating rampant on the social media rumor mill for the reason that longtime senator was found unconscious in his house and hospitalized on June 14.
Since then, little has been revealed about his care or present situation.
Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman (IN) went so far as to say he doesn’t even know if McConnell is alive throughout an interview with NewsNation on Thursday.
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