Yesterday, Amanda Gorman posted a statement to Twitter saying she was “gutted” that the poem she read at Joe Biden’s inauguration, “The Hill We Climb,” had been banned from an elementary school in Florida. Journalism being what it is today, media outlets ran with Gorman’s statement as fact — she said it was banned, so obviously it had been banned. CNN ace journalist Abby D. Phillip retweeted the statement with the text, “Amanda Gorman responds to her poem being banned by a Florida school because of one parent’s complaint.” USA TODAY reprinted the banned poem. This is just like when a bunch of reporters said that Elon Musk was “totally blocking links” to unflattering stories … and it turned out the NPR reporter had just pasted in the wrong link.
And Amanda Gorman’s poem wasn’t banned. It was moved from the elementary school section of the library to the middle school section of the exact same library. We knew this before 11 a.m. And yet MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace led off her show discussing the ban.
Here's what Nicole Wallace led off 5:00 p.m. Eastern block of Rich, White, Liberal, Wine Mom Story Hour — spreading a pants on fire lie about an Amanda Gorman poem being "banned" in a Florida school. pic.twitter.com/cjTwAL6Oz1
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2023
“BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem Banned in Florida School.”
Rich, White, Liberal, Wine Mom Story Hour never disappoints. Nicolle Wallace had Chasten Buttigieg whine he's "frustrat[ed]" about the lack of focus in @RonDeSantis's Florida on "real issues" and instead "stripping the voices of LGBTQ people" and banning Amanda Gorman poems. pic.twitter.com/pmZCUemDOi
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2023
Rich, White, Liberal, Wine Mom Story Hour (aka MSNBC's Deadline: White House) host Nicolle Wallace says Florida's banning (not true) of an Amanda Gorman poem "illustrate[s] everything that's broken" and "collateral damage of the tyranny of these politics" from DeSantis & the GOP pic.twitter.com/JZEOFpK3V3
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2023
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Everything the liberal media said (falsely) about #Tucker Carlson is true about Nicolle Wallace's show.
It's hard to overstate how dangerous her show is in stereotyping even normie Republicans as not only wrong, but domestic terror threats worth fearing as ticking time bombs.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2023
And the mainstream media is butthurt that Ron DeSantis chose to bypass them and announce his candidacy on Twitter. They all cry about “disinformation” being the biggest threat to democracy and, like Barack Obama, long for the days when there were only three broadcast network anchors (like Dan Rather) you could trust to tell you the truth.
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MSM are having a field day over Florida school banning Amanda Gorman poem (there’s just one problem) https://t.co/cJfclEVnne
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 24, 2023
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