News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
LIMA, OH—Dale Miller, a 57-year-old uncle of someone, made an embarrassing mistake on Facebook yesterday. According to sources, Dale shared a CNN article under the mistaken impression that CNN is a real news site.
“I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT I’M READING, WHATS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY!” Dale typed using one of his favorite communication techniques where he uses all capital letters to denote emphasis. The Facebook status and accompanying CNN link got 2 shares and one “angry” emoji reaction from Aunt Meredith.
More concerning, however, is growing evidence that Dale is not alone. Thousands of people across social media are sharing CNN stories as real despite the fact that CNN made the switch to creating political satire in 2016. Experts in the tech industry have expressed concern since CNN does not always clearly label their satire. This is causing many to wonder whether they are simply trying to entertain, or if they are trying to deceive.
Perhaps most concerning of all is the fact that CNN has seemingly failed to tell even their own employees about their switch to satire almost 4 years ago. White House correspondent Jim Acosta has not yet been informed of this change, according to sources in the Trump administration.
Go here to read the rest. Always remember that a prime tactic of the Left is to accuse others of what they are busily doing themselves.
Thing is, “conservative” talk show host Hugh Hewitt also blasted the Covington kids, even suggesting they be lectured by Abp. Chaput, a Potawatomi Indian. Anyone know if Hewitt apologized?
If he did, it was probably privately– I can’t find anything in the podcast archives, but I can’t find the blasting, either.
I seem to remember Dennis Prager was nicely “well, from how it looks, this and this is bad,” without the rush to judgement– and he was very direct about how he was wrong and the kids were totally slandered.
Hugh Hewitt has always struck me as a light weight.
Lot of professional conservatives turned out to be lightweights.
Most of ’em had some kind of connection to either National Review or The Weekly Standard.
“Hugh Hewitt has always struck me as a light weight.”
A nice way of saying he’s an ass kisser, in my opinion.
Hewitt made the accusation publicly. His apology should take on the same form. After all, it’s what we demand from the left. The same people who rightly rail against CNN and other outlets on the left get whiplash looking the other way when one of their own does the exact same thing. This holding the left to a higher moral standard is something of a problem in conservative circles, especially in Catholic ones. And it needs to be addressed.