Temple
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 | | Subject: Jim Jordan - Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:29 pm | |
| 2-3-2023
Jim Jordan amplified accusation that Iranian migrant
was on the terror watch list. Except he wasn't.
Jim Jordan ran with it, tweeting that an
“illegal alien from IRAN that was flagged on the
TERROR WATCH LIST was arrested,” all caps his own.
Fox subsequently edited its post to note that, oops!,
the guy wasn’t a terrorist after all, according to the
Department of Homeland Security.
But not before the outlet was “splashing this poor guy's photo across the world,” one observer noted. Nor did Fox issue a correction to its lie.
This entire story turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
But Fox News ran with it anyway, splashing this poor guy's photo across the world and smearing him as a terrorist.
Reichlin-Melnick noted that the Fox outlet had publicized an unredacted photo of the migrant’s passport.
“Now the entire world knows his name—
including the Government of Iran back home!”
( now redacted-
Nor has Jordan corrected his Feb. 1 tweet.
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In fact-checking the Jordan Twitter account for the Judiciary Committee earlier this week pitched a fit when a reporter did his job by fact-checking Republican’ lies trying to tie the fentanyl crisis to immigration.
The Judiciary Committee account accused The Washington Post of working for Democratic lawmakers. During that same hearing.
Republican Dan Bishop apparently tried to get a witness from El Paso to say that cartel control of the United States was imminent.
That witness, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego, refused to play along, and instead pushed back against GOP fearmongering, saying the city
“is one of the safest communities” in the nation.
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Grackle
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Join date : 2017-09-09
| | Subject: Re: Jim Jordan - Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:45 pm | |
| Props to Jordan for keeping a keen eye on illegal migrants from Iran |
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