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21 Sep, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Today was a perfect example of why this is such an issue. Political/media twitter invented a fake controversy and the WH ended up smearing their own CBP agents without checking to try to appease that crowd.

It was astonishing.
Some random reporter at the El Paso times wrote about CBP agents "menacingly" swinging their "whips" while charging at Haitian immigrants.

It got picked up by political/media twitter nad the game of Twitter telephone began.
Soon various members of that crowd were accusing the CBP of cracking whips, rounding up migrants with whips, using whips on migrants etc.

Instead of checking if there were actual whips, reporters then demanded everyone condemn it.
Guess what happened?

Pelosi condemned it:


The WH called it "horrific":
Only there were no whips!

The reporter had confused reins (for the horses) with whips. There was no whipping or using the "whips" against migrants.

A complete smear created by bad journalists and Political Twitter that WH quickly decided to adopt without checking.
and at least for today, this invented controversy and the associated smear got more coverage than the actual real coverage happening at the border that those CBP agents are stuck with:
And my favorite part of the whole episode was definitely the Vice reporter that wanted to add a racism angle to the smear so she ended up labeling Hispanic border patrol agents as white to justify that angle.
Unbelievable. Apparently the WH decided to continue the false smear of CBP agents today even after it was clear that it was a false smear:
AOC is now fundraising based on this false smear against CBP agents:

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17 Sep
Thread: So CNN did this report citing the American Academy of Pediatrics suggesting a massive increase in cases among children. Something seemed off about the numbers so I decided to take a look.

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If Biden views getting people vaccinated as important and hesitancy on the right as a problem, part of his job is trying to reach those people. Attacking R Governors with partisan barbs isn’t how you do that. Campaigning is easier, but it isn’t governing.
It was easy to portray yourself as a unifier when running against a divisive opponent, but Biden has made 0 effort to actually govern as a unifier. He’s intentionally picking fights with R Governors to deflect from the public failures of his administration.
DeSantis and Abbot didn’t force Biden admin to botch Afghan withdrawal, create a crisis on the border, screw up vaccine messaging repeatedly, try to illegally extend eviction moratorium etc.

Picking fights w them won’t fix those issues.
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13 Sep
This is a professor at Rutgers and alleged Human Rights Attorney cheering on convicted terrorists. 5/6 escaped prisoners were members of Islamic Jihad. 4 are serving life sentences for being behind attacks that included planting bombs to kill Innocent civilians.
I get that these people don’t think Jewish lives are worth much, but there is something seriously wrong when people in positions of power feel this comfortable publicly cheering on those who murder women and children because they know it is accepted in their circles.
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This is how misinformation spreads in the media. A far-left group puts together a report manipulating the numbers to create a different narrative and press reports it without any pushback.
The group compared overall crime numbers in 2020 to 2019 in 23 jurisdictions and found a decrease, but that's because half the stores/businesses were shut down for half of 2020 and people mostly stayed at home. Less opportunity for many crimes so the comparison makes no sense.
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It’s telling when certain “journalists” think that a publication telling a truth they find inconvenient to be a “journalism fail”.

They think recognizing reality instead of spinning like activist is a mistake.
Check the quote tweets to the NYT tweet. Journalists are throwing an extended tantrum because the NYT said something that is clearly true about Florida. That’s how conditioned they are to only allowing negative stories about the FL Governor.
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DeSantis has opposed mandates, but that rate doesn't happen by accident.
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18 Aug
Chris,

You've been obsessively attacking one Governor on a monthly basis since March 2020 on Covid-19. You've been wrong on almost every element of it, but keep doubling down.

Isn't it time to stop digging at some point?
I'm not even exaggerating. He attacked DeSantis on beaches, on opening schools, and everything else. He's focused on one Governor since March 2020 no matter what the data said...
CC has written more articles on Ron DeSantis than any other person over the last year and a half and all of them have the same message, which just isn't supported by anything substantive.
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