Liberals Were Just Dying to Share This Talking Point Last Night
The Crusty Commies Are a Joke
Barack Obama Doing This Behind the Scenes Confirms Again That Kamala Was a...
Lawn Gone Liberty: The Update
Deportation Dysphoria in the Press, and MSNBC Loses Its Star Statistician
Jeffrey Goldberg Congratulates Himself All Over PBS
Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP
Why National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Will Make Americans Safer
Self-Destructive Democracies
The President Who Set the Precedent Against a Third Term
Roadmap to Reform CDC -- Currently the Centers for Disaster and Confusion
Progressives Are Well Organized, Patriotic Americans Have to Do It Even Better
Supreme Court’s Getting Busy
Lawmakers Shouldn’t Let Bad Actors Get Away With Harming Children Online
Where Are the Left’s Protests Now?
Tipsheet

Will the 'Misinformation'-Obsessed Media Fight Bogus Claims From Celebrities?

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

For many journalists, fighting 'misinformation' is their passion.  Whenever someone on the center-right says anything that's false, or even debatable, the journos trip over one another to swoop in with 'fact checks' and 'context.'  Their phony commitment to truth is exposed for what it truly is, of course, when they do things like uncritically parrot Hamas propaganda and serve up embarrassing and self-discrediting so-called 'fact checks.'  It's perhaps too much to ask for these hacks to pry themselves away from pounding at their keyboards in response to a dodgy meme from a C-list MAGA influencer, or a heated claim from a Congressional back-bencher, and discredit flagrant misinformation being blasted to tens of millions of people from leftist celebrities.  Case in point, model Bella Hadid -- whose comes from a virulently anti-Semitic family -- is out here passing off images from Assad's Syria as Israel-inflicted misery in Gaza:

Advertisement

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar recently got caught doing the exact thing.  By the way, the Assad regime in Syria is an Iran proxy, as is Hamas.  Hadid is attributing the crimes of the former Iran proxy to Israel, in an effort to discredit Israel's defensive war against the latter Iran proxy, which just slaughtered 1,400 of its civilians.  Ugly little trick, isn't it?  It's noteworthy how many of the people who profess to care so deeply about Muslim lives (a) won't assign blame to Hamas over its overwhelming culpability for civilian casualties in Gaza, and (b) have virtually nothing to say about all sorts of horrors against Muslims around the world.  No weekly marches in London and New York about the Syrian regime gassing Muslim children.  No furious outcry over Pakistan deporting 1.7 million people, many of them back to Afghanistan, which is run by a hideous and deeply misogynistic terrorist organization.  And certainly not a peep about the CCP's active and ongoing actual genocide against Muslims in Western China.  If there are no Jews to blame, and no partisan agenda to advance, they're not interested.  And if advancing their propaganda requires sharing blatant falsehoods to millions of fans and followers, so be it.

Advertisement

Meanwhile, the musical artist 'Pink,' who shared some lucid thoughts on the Israel-Hamas conflict, has opened up an entirely separate front in the false information wars.  Ahead of her concerts in Florida, the singer has announced that she'll be giving away free books that are "banned" by the state.  Let's set aside the curious nature of someone freely acquiring and handing out books that are "banned."  This may come as a shock, but Pink is humiliatingly wrong about what has been disallowed in Florida schools.  In an error-riddled tweet to her more than 30 million followers, Pink listed the works that she apparently believes are "banned" in the Sunshine State.  Millions of views for complete misinformation:

Oh, she's so brave.  And so full of it.  In reality, these books are not only not banned -- several are actually assigned or recommended under Florida state standards:

Advertisement

That California reference relates to various classics being banned in some districts in that state, at the behest of 'racism'-concerned leftists.  Oddly, Pink did not pull her 'banned books' stunt in California.  We all understand why, but it still reflects poorly on her.  I just can't quite fathom why someone wouldn't be embarrassed by this sort of thing.  I'll leave you with some additional shamelessness, with a dash of misinformation:

Klain's "up to the job" attestation simply isn't selling with very many Americans at all, as the polling clearly shows.  And is it true that Biden takes more questions from the press than his predecessors, across multiple settings? Definitely not, in terms of interviews and press conferences -- and questionable at best in quick sprays, especially compared to Trump.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement