There’s been some chatter on Twitter about CPAC audience members booing a speaker Friday who was talking about the beauty of naturalization ceremonies.
I’d take in a heartbeat a group of newly naturalized American citizens over the spoiled native-born know-nothings of CPAC, who today booed at the mention of citizenship naturalization ceremonies.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 24, 2018
Here’s Philip Wegmann of the Washington Examiner and his tweet that has racked up around 3,000 “likes.”
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/967139518909427712
Want to revisit this? https://t.co/fiGrKAVlBg
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 24, 2018
Wegmann might want to revisit it, after watching the video. George Mason University Jeremy Mayer at least had the honesty to admit he’d help spread “fake news.”
Skip ahead to 10:00 in the video and watch for about two minutes for context.
I just participated in spreading fake news. My Tweet about CPAC booing naturalization was wrong. Watched the video, and it’s not even close. Apologies to all.https://t.co/rBig7cgHFz
— Jeremy Mayer (@JerryDMayer) February 24, 2018
They didn’t boo naturalization ceremonies. They booed a liberal analyst who said Mexican immigrants were gettable GOP voters. Big big difference. You might want to retract and not spread fake news. https://t.co/rBig7cgHFz
— Jeremy Mayer (@JerryDMayer) February 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/M_Feeney/status/967516587845668866
https://twitter.com/JamesHasson20/status/967505368464154627
Yea, doesn't seem like they boo the naturalization ceremony. Glad that turned out to be wrong. https://t.co/J4j7ww8O4r
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) February 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/AviWoolf/status/967491339016458240
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/967484861983412224
What say you, @BillKristol? Since you opined publicly? https://t.co/MqW2aXwxDg
— goroke (@goroke_mi) February 24, 2018
Oh well! [shrug emoji] https://t.co/KZBF0sVcqh
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) February 24, 2018
Notice the corrections always have to go in one direction? https://t.co/yRXrOGoLnh
— Polly Sigh ?? (@PollySigh1) February 24, 2018
Appreciate the "correction." Unfortunately, another instance of how news orgs incrasingly rejecting accuracy, fact-checking, and context in favor or provocative clickbait, or worse, outright falsehoods. #BadTradeoffs. #CPAC2018. https://t.co/oGXZ9oQkmh
— CPAC 2020 (@CPAC) February 24, 2018
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