There is no video of this because it did not happen and none of the reporters that were there even made this claim (even in the bad article he links), despite NYCSouthpaw spreading this lie since yesterday.
No one who was there has claimed any migrants were ever touched by the reins, which SP and others claimed were whips all day yesterday. There were a lot of reporters and photographers there and plenty of video. Incredible to still lie about it like this.
And they don't care because they view the predominantly Hispanic border agents that have been put in the middle of an avoidable crisis with an impossible jobs as the bad guys so lying about them is fine.
And notice the way they have shifted their lie to still double down on the original false narrative. Yesterday they confused reins for whips. They got called out for it. So now they backed off that lie and are just lying about what the CBP agents did with the reins.
See? Here is @chrislhayes doing the same thing. These are intentional smears.
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.
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.
First, the very report still showed hospitalization and death rates among kids as incredibly low. Despite being unvaccinated and reports of hundreds of thousands ofcases, kids made up pretty close to 0 deaths.
But then looking at the pure number of case increases shows such a massive increase that it doesn't make sense purely w just more kids getting sick.
23K on the week of July 15th to over 200K in a week just barely a week later?
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.
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.
As an example. This is Eliyahu Asheri. He was a an 18-year-old kid that was kidnapped, shot in the head, and then buried by Iham Kamamji. Kamamji also planned a suicide bombing but was caught beforehand. One of the "political prisoners" this Rutgers Professor wants freed.
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.
Meanwhile, the very same report found that homicides went up by an average of 31.4% in 22 or the 23 jurisdictions. That's rather significant and can't be ignored.
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.
FL is currently 22nd in overall vaccination rate, ahead of states like MI and IL. They are ahead (87.7%) of states like NY (86.2%), and CA (83.8%) for vaccinating seniors.
DeSantis has opposed mandates, but that rate doesn't happen by accident.