{"id":47858,"date":"2019-10-03T21:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=47858"},"modified":"2019-10-04T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T07:33:53","slug":"media-misreports-that-pak-pm-was-called-welder-from-bronx-by-american-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-misreports-that-pak-pm-was-called-welder-from-bronx-by-american-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Media misreports that Pak PM was called ‘welder from Bronx’ by American anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s interview with American television network\u00a0MSNBC <\/em>has been massively circulated\u00a0with the claim that the anchor told the Pakistani PM that he sounds like a “welder from Bronx.” Former Indian cricketer Virendra Sehwag shared the 36-second clip on October 3. It drew nearly 2 lakh views and over 25,000 likes at the time of writing this article (archive<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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You sound like a welder from the Bronx, says the anchor.
\nAfter the pathetic speech in the UN a few days ago , this man seems to be inventing new ways to humiliate himself. pic.twitter.com\/vOE4nWhKXI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Republic TV\u00a0<\/em>published an article (archive<\/a>) on Sehwag’s tweet writing, “Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan humiliated himself on a US television show on which he was called ‘a welder from the Bronx’ by an\u00a0anchor.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Virender Sehwag hits ‘welder from Bronx’ Pakistan PM Imran Khan for 6 https:\/\/t.co\/L9QNOeyihI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Republic (@republic) October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Media outlets\u00a0ANI<\/a>,<\/em> Moneycontrol<\/a>, NDTV<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Hindustan Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>also carried similar reports based on Sehwag’s tweet. NDTV’s\u00a0<\/em>story was a syndicated\u00a0ANI\u00a0<\/em>feed.<\/p>\n

ANI <\/em>wrote,\u00a0“…in the latest gaffe, he [Imran Khan] has been humiliated by American anchors on live television.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Republic TV’s<\/em> Major Gaurav Arya<\/a>, IAS officer Sanjay Dixit<\/a> and Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah<\/a> also tweeted the video.<\/p>\n

Alt News found that the earliest instance<\/a> of the video shared on Twitter with the ‘Bronx welder’ claim was by Pakistani journalist Imran Muhammad on September 26. He later took down his tweet and posted a correction.<\/p>\n

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*Voter pic.twitter.com\/7G0Nh0fCrk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Imran_Muhammad (@MannMuhammad) September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The clip is also viral on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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‘VOTER’, NOT WELDER<\/h2>\n

If one carefully listens to the anchor’s statement, he does not say ‘welder’ but ‘voter’. Khan praises the infrastructure in China while criticising “bumpy” roads of New York. The anchor laughs at the PM’s statement and responds, “You do not sound like a Prime Minister from Pakistan. You sound like a voter from the Bronx who would complain about the infrastructure and money being spent on wars in Afghanistan instead of fixing LaGuardia and other infrastructure there.”<\/em> The Bronx is a suburb in New York.<\/p>\n

The anchor’s statement can be heard 13:17 minutes<\/a> onward in the broadcast below.<\/p>\n