Supercut: 2024’s Most Mortifying Media Moments

Supercut: 2024’s Most Mortifying Media Moments

SCARBOROUGH: “Start your tape right now — “
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CUOMO: “I am taking a — what do they call it, like a regular dose? They’re trying to build up — of Ivermectin.”
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CUOMO: “Ivermecting? A de-wormer? Really?”
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SCARBOROUGH: “ — because I’m about to tell you the truth.”
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BOLDUAN: “Donald Trump declaring before a crowd that Cheney should be put before a firing line.”
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SCARBOROUGH: “And FU if you can’t handle the truth.”
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PHILLIP: “It’s clear as day. The FBI put out statistics for 2023, crime is going down. You don’t have to — you don’t have to twist the facts.”
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GUTFELD: “Violent crime in America has actually gone up, not down.”
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NARRATOR: “Grabien presents…the most mortifying media moments of 2024. Number 10: Ignore your eyes, those are cheap fakes.”

Wallace: “There’s a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print and social media. It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden directly from Republican National Committee social media accounts and then use those videos to spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden’s fitness for office. Here is this headline from the New York Post: ‘Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser.’ The full video posted by Biden finance chair on Twitter shows something entirely different, Biden reacting to applause and then walking off stage with former President Obama. It comes less than one week after New York Post made a cover out of another piece of deceptively edited tape, calling him meanderer-in-chief due to what they claim was Biden walking away during a skydiving demonstration during a G7 summit last week. Biden was going over to congratulate one of the skydivers. The articles are based on cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally manipulated to fool viewers.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 9: CNN thinks America is a democracy.”

O’SULLIVAN: “There’s a lot of criticisms of Trump that he is bad for democracy, that he is bad for American democracy.”
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE 1: “Can I say something? We’re a republic.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 1: “We’re a republic.”
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE 1: “We are not a democracy.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE 1: “We are representative Republican. We’re not a democracy.”
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O’SULLIVAN: “I’ve heard a lot of conspiracy theories. I hear a lot of things out on the road. But to hear Americans, people who would describe themselves as patriots say that America is not a democracy, that stopped me in my tracks.”
APPLEBAUM: “You are hearing people say America is not a democracy because there are people around Trump who want them to be saying that, who’ve been planting that narrative.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 8: Beyonce is performing at the DNC.”

KING: “There are rumors, there are rumors that Beyonce might make an appearance. I personally think that that’s true.”
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Reporter: “Is the United Center going to be turning into the Beyhive tonight?”
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Reporter 2: “The Beyhive is buzzing right now because the preparation for the Beyhind, it has to start early.”
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HORDERN: “A donor confirmed to me that she’s also hearing that Beyonce is en route.”
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SIDNER: “Beyonce, is going to show up. Queen Bey.”
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Reporter 3: “Breaking Beyonce news.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 7: The media tries to scare people about Project 2025.”

Velshi: “The far-right manifesto puts forth sealing the border, and it seeks to do so with military force. (…) It aims to use every lever of government to fine, detain and deport undocumented people, take funding and housing away from people who are just associated with undocumented immigrants. (…) Quote. ‘Deny loan assistance to those who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.’”

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NARRATOR: “Number 6: Media tries to hype up the amount of misinformation on X.”

STAHL (voice-over): “After Elon Musk took over in 2022, most of its fact-checkers were fired. Now the site is rife with trash talk and lies. Little would you know that this, said to be footage of Gaza, is really a video game. Eventually, X users added a warning label. These are AI generated images of, well, see for yourself.”
STAHL: “Did your research find that there was more misinformation spread by conservatives?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Absolutely.”
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HUNT: “X has turned into a haven for the spread of misinformation. Since buying the site almost two years ago, Musk’s site has struggled to control it on topics ranging from the election to the assassination attempt against Trump.”

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Number 5: Tim Walz is the best, JD Vance is the worst.”

HUNT: “Midwestern dad, like, super clean-cut vibe.”
UNKNOWN: “Everybody likes Tim Walz.”
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McCaskill: “So plain spoken and relatable.”
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UNKNOWN: “A pretty moderate Democrat.”
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SCARBOROUGH: “Very moderate record.”
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Reid: “A new moderate.”
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Pelosi: “He’s right down the middle.”
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ALCINDOR: “He’s not just an old white man.”
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Todd: “Walz speaks America, you know?”
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SYKES: “Talks like a regular person.”
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PAGE: “Tim Walz is the opposite of weird.”
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BASH: “Populist approach to fear on the Republican side, and the happy populism that Tim Walz is on the ticket on the Democratic side.”
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CUPP: “Happy warriors.”
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VITALI: “Happy warriors.”
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Mitchell: “He was certainly a happy warrior last night.”
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LEMIRE: “Happy warrior, folksy back story.”
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MADDOW: “Wicked sense of humor. (…) Look how happy that pig looks! (Laughs) It’s good.”

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PLOUFFE: “And JD Vance is weird, extreme and angry.”
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MADDOW: “Utter humorlessness.”
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Wallace: “Hard to believe that JD Vance could be any more extreme.”
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MILLER: “It’s like a freak show of bros.”
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SYKES: “Dark and ugly, beneath the dignity of most politicians.”
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BRZEZINSKI: “JV Vance.”
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UNKNOWN: “JD is at the far extreme.”
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SCARBOROUGH: “The most extreme…”
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HAYES: “One of the most extreme…”
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CUPP: “Angry and mean and dark.”
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Reid: “This guy is really weird, y’all.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 4: Very, very bad things will happen if Trump wins.”

Wallace: “Think about what happens if all of our access to healthcare goes away next Tuesday. The stakes literally are life and death for every woman in America. It’s not hyperbole, it’s not an exaggeration.”
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UNKNOWN: “Trump will fulfill his promise to be a dictator on day one.”
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UNKNOWN: “He sets up a network of camps.”
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French: “Extraordinarily erratic foreign policy in the Middle East.”
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UNKNOWN: “Doing profound and possibly permanent damage to American democracy.”
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BESCHLOSS: “If historians in the future are allowed to write books — and by the way, that question is open this morning — and if people are allowed to go on television and say what they think — which, again, that question is open this morning — that’s what happens when strongmen come to power. That happened in Italy in the 1920s and the 1930s, Germany in the 1930s. (…) Suspend the Constitution, pit the Justice Department and Defense Department against political enemies, and run this country out of the White House.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 3: Joe Biden would never pardon his son because he is such a great guy.”

COATES: “Presidential promise to put the law before family.”
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PHILLIP: “The president has ruled out pardoning his son.”
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COLLINS: “Pledging not to pardon his son.”
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CUPP: “To sit there and say, ‘I’m not gonna intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn’t pardon my son, Democrats and Joe Biden protecting the justice system.”
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BRZEZINSKI: “Our current president of United States has so much respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son.”
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RUHLE: “And Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon his son, he wouldn’t commute his sentence. (…) How can Republicans keep making this argument now that Joe Biden has really put it out there?”
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WEISSMANN: “He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country. And it is a — I mean, if you know if he believes it, you can actually see what is happening with his own son.”
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Tur: “Even President Biden saying in a statement that he would respect the outcome of this case.”
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Todd: “This was a good day for the system, good day for sort of — sort of America as an example of how the rule of law should work.”
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Davis: “We’re coming on the air at this hour with breaking news: President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 2: Media gets caught editing interviews to help Kamala Harris.”

Reporter: “Talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. I want to know what specific things you have in mind for that?”
Harris: “Well, I’ll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me, she worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers, and I try to explain this to some people who may not have had the same experience. You know, if — but a lot of people will relate to this. You know, I worked in a neighborhood of folks who are very proud of their lawn, you know?”
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Reporter: “When you talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?”
Harris: “So, when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people.”
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WHITAKER: “It seems like Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.”
Harris: “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”
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WHITAKER: “But it seems like Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.”
Harris: “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

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NARRATOR: “Number 1: There’s no cognitive decline. In fact, Biden has never been better.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. This version of Biden is the best Biden ever.”
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Biden: “Do you know loss — she [unintelligible].”
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SCARBOROUGH: “In fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been.”
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Mayorkas: “He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented and focused.”
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Goldman: “President Biden has a photographic memory.”
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BEGALA: “But he’s totally focused and he’s very sharp.”
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AXELROD: “They say he’s sharp in meetings and so on.”
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KRUGMAN: “Very lucid, very well-informed.”
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GAY: “He’s older. That doesn’t mean he’s unfit.”
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LONGWELL: “He can clear a dementia bar, and that’s probably a win.”
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PSAKI: “More wild speculation from a bunch of people who have probably never been in a room with Joe Biden and certainly don’t have medical degrees that I’m aware of.”
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McQUADE: “A huge part of the Mueller talks about Russian disinformation tactics, and one of the things this election cycle is that Joe Biden is too old to lead. So everyone is seizing upon this and it is a classic disinformation tactic.”