The Statue of Liberty is everywhere these days; for example, the most recent cover of Germany’s Der Spiegel shows Donald Trump holding a bloody knife in one hand and Lady Liberty’s disembodied head in the other.
Plenty of people are invoking “Liberty Enlightening the World” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees while citing the 1883 Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus” as if it were one of the founding documents. Wouldn’t it be ironic, then, if researchers were to find that the famous statue were actually a Muslim woman?
CBS News certainly gave that impression Saturday with a short video segment it tweeted out, but which falls somewhere between “fake news” and “old news.”
Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a Muslim woman, researchers say https://t.co/J0u5MtzRYQ pic.twitter.com/8p0xSUXT1f
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 4, 2017
Really?? I've heard that originally CBS was meant to be a real news outlet
— Enzo the baker (@fcarozzi) February 4, 2017
only 30 seconds on this? Most likely bc it's a historical reach at best, and totally fake at worst (most likely).
— Bre (@ameliameliorate) February 5, 2017
And the reach of the day award goes to…
— TheNK0 ?? (@TheNK0) February 4, 2017
That headline is quite a stretch. It might seem timely, but it’s not breaking news that French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi had at one time pitched the idea of a massive, draped sculpture holding a torch that would act as a lighthouse as the entrance to the Suez Canal.
That project obviously fell through, but Bartholdi held on to the idea and successfully re-pitched it — hardly proof that the Statue of Liberty was “originally intended” to be a Muslim woman. It was a nice try, though.
LOL OK. https://t.co/NtZQ7v888a
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) February 4, 2017
Possibly the stupidest tweet today. Congratulations.
— HEALING CRAM-A-LOT (@Noncon49285) February 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/LordBooney/status/828015615906611201
https://twitter.com/nickballouperez/status/828016458240139264
I believe this is 100% bullshit.
— That Other Gay Site (@OtherGaySite) February 4, 2017
i can smell the bullshit through my computer screen
— Nick Notte (@nicknotte_) February 4, 2017
It’s fact-based, sort of. Just shuffle around the facts a little and repackage it as a new discovery and it’s almost not fake news.
that's 100% complete bullshit.
— Nate ? (@Great___Nate) February 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/Shlnbk/status/828021488037031936
because the designer tried to sell one to Egypt who didn't buy a design does NOT make it Muslim. Gimme a break. #fakenews
— Nate ? (@Great___Nate) February 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/AdultSwimEU/status/828025635763343363
https://twitter.com/Sissyrae2/status/828023433107697665
Alternate headline: CBS News headline is willfully deceptive, says researcher after seconds-long Google search.
https://twitter.com/TakuaTheNinja/status/828025644931903490
https://twitter.com/JosukeUniverse/status/828038765465710594
they better get on this before CNN does
— MW COWBOY (@chanelcemetery) February 5, 2017
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