CNN posted this tweet Monday along with its story that immigrants are increasingly denied entry to the U.S. Army and a path to citizenship — something the media already screwed up after the Associated Press managed to make it sound like Trump was discharging enlisted soldiers just because they were immigrants who wanted to become citizens.
Immigrants are increasingly denied entry to the US Army and a path to citizenship https://t.co/W7an7nZSqW pic.twitter.com/cWU8I3Tb8Y
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 9, 2018
Um, that doesn’t look like any U.S. Army uniform we’ve seen.
Sailors aren’t in the Army. #FactsFirst ?
— Razor (@hale_razor) July 10, 2018
If you’re going to pretend you care about our men & women in the service at least get whatever radical leftist intern you have running your social media image selection to learn the difference between the Army & Navy.
— Paul M Winters (@RealPaulWinters) July 9, 2018
1) Fake News.
2) That's a Navy enlistee.— JWF (@JammieWF) July 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/colonel_potter/status/1016394380507275270
https://twitter.com/OhioCoastie/status/1016393489054158854
This is a Navy uniform, morons
— Jeremy “don’t learn to code” Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) July 10, 2018
If you can't the difference between a Navy uniform and an Army uniform, I'm probably not going to read your cutting-edge military analysis. https://t.co/Ym8MQUjtF7
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) July 9, 2018
You know, squawking about the Army while showing someone in the Navy makes you look worse than usual. Kudos.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) July 9, 2018
Do you even know your military branches???? That doesn't look like the ARMY…. wow
— KSE (@kbk3n3) July 9, 2018
It took them quite a few hours, but CNN eventually uploaded a corrected photo to go with the tweet:
US Army, citing security concerns with recruiting program, discharging immigrants https://t.co/XsTxEVDf3Y (corrects photo and updates tweet) pic.twitter.com/O4XTQBRTPj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 9, 2018
But wait … the updated tweet says immigrants are being discharged from the Army, while the first says they were being denied entry —you can’t be discharged if you were never in the Army in the first place.
Too bad they got the photo in the article wrong too.
the pic in the tweet is of the Navy, the one in the article is the Marines. Y’all just aren’t trying anymore, huh?
— palmer (@dpalm34) July 9, 2018
[clicks thru]
Aaaaaand: Marines in the article photo.
lol CNN pic.twitter.com/v5FbEjr45a
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) July 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/JohnPCox1/status/1016380878359023616
The story.
— JWF (@JammieWF) July 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/KimmyQueen09/status/1016652460197367809
CNN tweeting out a picture of US Navy while spreading fake news about the US Army is so #FakeNews media in 2018.
— Ben Jammin ?? (@xBenJamminx) July 10, 2018
This is a banana.
— kris guhtz (@benjysfiance) July 9, 2018
Related:
Outrage-inducing AP story on Army 'discharging' immigrant recruits has some pumping the brakes https://t.co/ZbFfXqjX1N
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 6, 2018
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