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Jim Jordan amplified accusation that Iranian migrant was on terror watch list. Except he wasn't [1]
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Date: 2023-02-03
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,” tweeted American Immigration Council Policy Director Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. “But Fox News ran with it anyway, splashing this poor guy's photo across the world and smearing him as a terrorist. When the truth came out, they stealth-edited the story online, without ANY notice of the correction.”
x This guy could be fleeing the horrific political situation in Iran and intending to seek asylum. Now the entire world knows his name—including the Government of Iran back home!
Worse, Fox News even showed his damn PASSPORT on screen, fully unredacted. I had to crop this myself! pic.twitter.com/AOqFkRDSix — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) February 1, 2023
Reichlin-Melnick noted that the propaganda outlet had apparently even publicized an unredacted photo of the migrant’s passport. “This guy could be fleeing the horrific political situation in Iran and intending to seek asylum,” he noted, pointing to anti-dictatorship protests across that nation. “Now the entire world knows his name—including the Government of Iran back home!”
Even the Libs of TikTok creator got more personal consideration when she was doing her anonymous interviews promoting her hate account, before officially revealing herself on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Nor has Jordan corrected his Feb. 1 tweet. But it’s not like Jordan is interested in fact-checking or anything like that—the 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. Is it just me or does it feel like Republicans often root against America?
Logos on display as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen visits "The Daily Briefing" with Dana Perino at Fox News Channel Studios on July 31, 2018 in New York City.
You know, when disgraced former DHS Secretary Kristjen Nielsen visited Fox, they rolled out the red carpet for her, including a cool “Keeping America Safe” graphic. Think Alejandro Mayorkas would get the same treatment? Of course, in their minds, “keeping America safe” meant kidnapping thousands of brown children from their families. Some would not be reunited for years. Nearly 1,000 remain separated. But Fox would rather not discuss that. It just doesn’t grab the audience the same way as “ZOMG BROWN TERRORIST!!1” But when the opposition party is doing a lot of work stopping illegal activity at the border, all that’s left is to just make it up.
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