CNN ‘Admits’ There Were Celebrations On 9/11

In its quest to make Donald Trump not seem like such a hateful racist liar, the conservative media has descended into a level of beclownery that even they rarely reach. On Tuesday morning, Breitbart “News” published a piece declaring a huge cover-up of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center by citing this tweet from Mark Halperin:

Trump camp finds support for 9/11 claim in Fred Siegel @nypost op-ed. Not proof but contemporaneous citation. pic.twitter.com/I00q79VHkx

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) December 1, 2015

For the uninitiated, “Not proof but contemporaneous citation” is something akin to saying “Not food, but definitely a variety of substances!” Halperin is citing a New York Post opinion column that contains the same sort of rumor that the Washington Post published, also without attribution:

Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they received word of the murderous attacks in New York and Washington. But Mayor Giuliani (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) rightly warned New York- ers that it would be wrong to take their anger out on the city’s Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.

Omar, a Muslim New Yorker and former student of mine at Cooper Union, e-mailed me to say he was “sickened to watch Middle Easterners celebrate our sorrow.” He is an American who has imbibed our values while maintaining his Muslim faith. He wants no truck with those who kill in the name of Islam.

But in their utter desperation to clear Trump (which this column in no way does), Breitbart dot com also includes this breathless “update” to their cover-up shattering work:

“New Day” co-anchor Chris Cuomo just admitted, “Were  people celebrating on 9/11? Yes.”

Wow, that is huge, if true. Or not. Here’s what Chris Cuomo actually said:

“I don’t know why it continues to get attention. He’s wrong. There weren’t thousands of people celebrating. Were people celebrating after 9/11? Yes. Is it wrong? Yes. Should you say thousands were? No. Why? Because it’s inaccurate and it feeds a perception of Muslim-Americans that is just dangerous.”

So, Cuomo did say the words “Were people celebrating after 9/11? Yes,” but that’s not an admission of any kind, since…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.