Timothy Meads at Townhall pointed out that liberal journalists shouldn't be falling for old hoaxes.....like the claim that Donald Trump called all immigrants "animals." NB's Scott Whitlock caught the first round of the hoax back in May of 2018, when large chunks of the "Facts First" gang got this wrong.
In a meeting on sanctary cities and law enforcement, Fresno sheriff Margaret Mimms lamented that ICE couldn't have access to her database of "bad guys" because of sanctuary laws. "There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it."
Trump replied: "We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before."
Meads chronicled how the hoax bubbled up all over again:
The hoax resurfaced Twitter user Mark Elliot, who works at a firm called Economic Mobility Corp. that conducts research "on promising strategies and evaluate programs that have the potential to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives," tweeted a 47 second video of the president with the caption saying, "@RealDonaldTrump on people asking for asylum "These aren't people. These are animals."
MSNBC retweeted Elliot and his video for her 1.383 million followers, saying, "This is particularly frightening language coming out of a person vested with the power of a presidential office."
Then again, Reid tweeting out Fake News isn't exactly out of character for her. This kind of thing is why conservatives scoff at Old Media folks suggesting you can't trust Other Media on the Internet.
Meads noted she wasn't alone:
The New York Times columnist Glenn Thrush also retweeted the video, with his followers responding with comments such as "This is not America. I'm mortified," and "It's horrific. He's horrific." One Twitter user even said, "Dehumanizing so you won’t mind when a poor child dies. This is dangerous, hateful rhetoric." Another echoed these claims saying, "Yet again, genocidal talk from the President of the United States. The nightmare continues."
Doug P. at Twitchy reported that Dan Rather smelled Fake News and jumped right in:
Michelle Malkin jumped right on that, tweeting "And like clockwork, the Godfather of Fake News whips up fakety fake outrage over out of context quote because VIRTUE."
Brett T. at Twitchy added CNN analyst Ana Navarro also enthusiastically pushed it, with an extra layer of emotional manipulation, pretending the president was calling small persecuted children "animals."
Brett concluded: "Serious question: How can someone lie so blatantly on social media and still hold down a paid gig as a CNN contributor (to represent the Republican side of the issues, no less)? Never mind … it’s CNN. Of course they don’t care if their contributors spread fake news."
