Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This tweet:
We say: If you thought Portugal (and other countries) had any clue about what they were doing in recognizing a Palestinian state — e.g., that they’re rewarding Hamas’ for the barbaric Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of innocent Israelis — guess again.
Portugal announced the move in a tweet that shows the flag of Sudan, not Palestine. What more needs be said?
This report:
“ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl . . . to pressure her father to surrender . . . according to the girl’s family.” — NBC News, Tuesday
We say: The truth: An illegal immigrant who’d been arrested for “domestic abuse and strangulation, among other charges,” abandoned his daughter as he tried to evade law-enforcement; agents rescued her and called police, who got her back to her family.
All too eager to smear ICE, NBC simply took the word of the perp’s wife. By the time it issued a correction, Rep. Ilhan Omar had already cited the story as fresh reason to abolish the agency.
This claim:
“[Charlie Kirk] believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake.” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sept. 19
We say: Wrong. Kirk had no problem with equal rights granted by the 1964 Civil Rights Act; he lamented how the law was soon twisted to pave the way for reverse discrimination.
Plus: It was the 15th Amendment, not the Civil Rights Act, that gave blacks the right to vote in 1870, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that further secured that right.
This picture:
We say: To back his claim at the UN that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza, in part by starving civilians, Erdogan held up a picture seeming to show Gazans desperate for food.
But the photo had already been proved to have been staged.
Plainly, he couldn’t find real evidence of genocide — and that’s no surprise, because the genocide claim is nothing but a vile lie.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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