Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Criticizes The Media's Handling Of Donald Trump

Abdul-Jabbar: “It's Really Frustrating To Watch” Media Interviews Of Trump “Because You Can See The Lies Coming Out”

From the December 10 edition of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell:

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LAWRENCE O'DONNELL (HOST): Kareem, do you have any suggestions for the media? You've been watching these interviews, no seriously. Because I think a lot of people want to be heard on this. Because people are sitting at home in America. They're watching Donald Trump do Sunday morning interviews, doing these interviews that he phones in and he calls in. He gets away with 13 lies in a row and a host might try to slow him down on one of the lies, but never call it lie, because if you do, Trump will never come back on your TV show. Then a lot of these hosts are taking selfie pictures with Trump and tweeting them to show the did interviews with him. All that kind of stuff. Some of them begging him to come back for their next interview while this one is still going on. I mean, what is that like to watch as a viewer out there? 

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR (TIME MAGAZINE COLUMNIST AND FORMER NBA PLAYER): It's really frustrating to watch it, because you can see the lies coming out. And until, here in America, we require that our candidates tell the truth, we're going to have to deal with this issue. Because unless somebody is fact checking them right there and printing it on a crawl below on the screen or some way to counteract the attempt to just snowball the American public, we're going to have to do something. So we're going to have to change the way that we have our elections in order to make sure that the American people get the facts or understand that someone is trying to lie to them.

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Previously:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Calls Out Trump For Bullying The Press

O'Reilly Bizarrely Asks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “Do You Love Your Country?”