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‘If you want to call balls & strikes…’: Ramaswamy locks horns with Kasie Hunt in battle over ‘fact checking’ bias

September 24, 2024 | | Print Article

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy expertly confronted a CNN anchor on one-side fact-checking by the leftist media.

“If you want to call balls & strikes, do it in both directions,” he wrote in a post on X where he dropped a video clip of his appearance on CNN where he calmly responded to Kasie Hunt on “CNN This Morning” Tuesday.

Discussing his new book, “Truths” the entrepreneur emphasized the need to engage in debate on “substance” rather than “mud-slinging,” and to “speak about stone-cold hard truths” out in the open.

He went on to say he would like to see that same standard employed “more evenly” by the media, citing the lack of balanced fact-checking during the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“In that same debate, you had Kamala Harris making the claim – also repeatedly many times since – that ‘women are bleeding out in parking lots,'” Ramaswamy said, contending that there isn’t a “single shred of evidence” that shows this to be true.

This statement prompted a knee-jerk reaction from Hunt who quickly interjected with Democrat talking points about the abortion bans which Harris and her media mouthpieces repeat.

“Well, there was actually a woman who died in Georgia…there were two women, in fact, one in particular who couldn’t receive the care that she needed,” the CNN anchor began, going on to make the argument with an example that did not dispute Ramaswamy’s point at all.

“There’s no evidence of a woman bleeding out in a parking lot,” he reminded the so-called journalist whose body language and facial expression spoke volumes about what she thought of her guest and his thoughts.

“My point is that the kind of rhetoric that’s used across the board, we should apply evenly,” he said as Hunt spoke right over him.

She steered away from his example of the debate moderators not fact-checking Harris to go on the offensive and ask the former GOP candidate about claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating household pets.

“Having gone to Springfield, I didn’t see that evidence,” Ramaswamy replied, noting that “there are residents in the city who are pointing to that” as he reminded Hunt what the job of the media is.

“So when we’re getting into fact-checking, I think we should apply the same standard to 360 degrees,” he said.

“Let’s not use the fringe words that somebody and either side might say,” he continued. “And let‘s focus on the actual content of the debate, even when we disagree most. I think that‘s going to be a key step to reviving our country.”

Ramaswamy’s method of confronting critics with the facts was applauded by social media users on X.

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