A liberal journalist decided to try to make a fool out of Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), but it didn’t work out quite as well as expected for him.
Wajahat Ali, who writes for the New York Times, got more than a bit of egg on his face for mistakenly calling out Rep. Dan Crenshaw, how also happens to be a retired Lt. Commander in the Navy as well as a former Navy SEAL, for his lack of patriotism…
Hey “journalist,” maybe you should check your facts. I am a co-sponsor. Nice try though.
Also, “patriotism”: https://t.co/3jSAFc5prw pic.twitter.com/1GURun1cr4
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) June 11, 2019
State of Journalism
The comment by Ali is proof positive today’s journalists are no better than the headline readers that like to lecture everyone without actually reading the content.
I see this all the time on our social media pages.
We are constantly called Fake News by Trump supporters reacting to a truthful headline without them ever having read the content and/or insight offered in the article simply because they don’t take the headline as a positive for Trump.
Even if it is offering bad news, isn’t it better to be informed to see what detractors are saying and knowing how to fight back rather than just reacting?
This, simply put, is no way to make an argument or even pretend you know what you are talking about.
That happens to be the nature of the beast for social media, but it should not be for those that consider themselves to be legitimate journalists.
In this case, it is not exactly hard to find out who is co-sponsoring a bill when it hits the floor.
Instead of Ali doing this work and verifying the source, he just reacted and proceeded to rip Crenshaw.
As you saw, Crenshaw absolutely obliterated him with his response.
Ali, being the coward that he is, deleted the post without so much as an apology being issued to Crenshaw for the fake news claim.
The Biased Media
The New York Times recently restricted its journalists from appearing on shows that were deemed to be too biased one way or the other.
However, the publication has clearly not cracked down on the biased attitude of its journalists.
We saw another example of the biased media when a CNN anchor started Tuesday off by predicting Joe Biden would “eviscerate” Trump later that day with his Iowa speech.
A far better headline or comment would have simply stated something about the actual speech rather than predicting an outright evisceration of the President.
Rachel Maddow was recently made the moderator for an upcoming Democrat primary debate.
Does anyone want to predict what her questions will be focused on? Because it sure won’t be the actual issues Americans are facing today.
As conservatives, it is now our duty to seek out the news, research it, verify it, and spread it.
Most of what comes across your social media feeds are exactly what these sites want you to see, not what you actually want to see.
If you don’t believe me, like our page, then check your timeline at the end of the day and compare how many of our stories we published versus how many of them actually showed up in your feed.
If one of them shows up, consider yourself lucky.
It would make sense that if you like a pro-Trump page and there was a story about Trump, you would see it in your feed, but that is not how it works on Facebook any longer.
In most cases, we are lucky if two to three percent of our followers see any given story.
As an example, one of our fan pages on Facebook has a 75k+ fan base, but a positive story for Trump and negative for Hillary was literally sent out to less than 100 fans! As if Trump supporters would not want to hear something like that?!
If you want the news you really want and from the pages you have liked, visit the page every day, sign up for their newsletter, otherwise, you will only get what censors want you to see.
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