Man, President Trump can undo the media with just one tweet, and that’s actually pretty sad.
On Monday, Trump tweeted that the migrant caravan (or horde, or mob, whichever you prefer), which is estimated to be between 7,000 and 10,000 people, included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.”
That sent CNN’s Bill Weir, who’s embedded with the caravan, on a game of “Spot the Middle Easterner.”
CNN’s Weir on Trump’s Migrant Caravan Claim: We’ve Been Playing ‘Spot the Middle Easterner’ for Days and Found Nothing https://t.co/QGkdc2gzDn pic.twitter.com/D95GjSzJUe
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) October 23, 2018
So after days of … doing what, exactly … Weir hasn’t been able to find one criminal or Middle Easterner in that horde of at least 7,000 people.
What a magnificent self-own by CNN https://t.co/h8Veetim1T
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 23, 2018
Note in the chyron in that screenshot that CNN is sticking with Brian Stelter’s directive to make the caravan seem as far as possible from the U.S. border, at least until after Americans have voted in the midterms.
CNN SPECIAL REPORT: "We've assembled our usual sixteen-pundit panel. Tonight's question: Do any of these people look like Ay-rabs to you? I personally yelled 'JAFAR!' for an hour straight and no one looked up."
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 23, 2018
"we drew a line in the sand with pig's blood to test if there were any Aye-rabs, it turns out nobody likes walking in blood and everyone went around"
— Kyle Beckley (@Kyle_Beckley) October 23, 2018
We need to have @kebejay join the caravan
— Ben Tallman (@benhtallman) October 23, 2018
You rang?
— Mujahed (@kebejay) October 23, 2018
What do they look like genius?
— Darlene Plantier (@DarlenePlantier) October 23, 2018
Just by looking at them, huh?? #narrative
— MNus (@3mdive) October 23, 2018
it's cool to be racist if you work for CNN https://t.co/TVE6wel6le
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) October 23, 2018
Univision reported Bangladeshis. Do they count? https://t.co/6gVNznPVBD
— Marj Oszman??? (@TurntableKittah) October 23, 2018
Pretty sure that’s a lie when other reporters say they’ve found them as well as many who have already been deported several times by the U.S. Just more liberal bullshit from CNN
— Jon (@Jon96217309) October 23, 2018
They need to set up a checkpoint to look for turbans, flutes, and baskets of snakes obviously.
— Candy Corn Flavored Poet (@YodelingPoet) October 23, 2018
@CNN is biting @FoxNews style!#SpotTheMiddleEaterner pic.twitter.com/NnddRLTftJ
— Some people call me #MoreICE (@FuckYouCommies) October 23, 2018
Idiots
— RW&B Forever (@ForeverUSA45) October 23, 2018
You couldn’t spot the Indian either.
— BurghFeeder (@BurghFeeder) October 23, 2018
We’ve been playing “spot the journalist” on CNN to no avail.
— Antifa is really Profa (@bombtownmice) October 23, 2018
Even if there were hundreds of Middle Easterners, @CNN would play dumb. They’re narrative pushers, not truth seekers.
— Chris G (@ChrisGeeTwo) October 23, 2018
How long does anyone think Kate Bolduan would last down there in a sea of men?
— Sumner K. (@southbysouth7) October 23, 2018
Stop playing spot the Middle Easterner…Trump's playing you
— flabberghosted(Am I an NPC?) (@observeaddict) October 23, 2018
Duh. This is CNN:
Trying a little too hard to make a point, only to look even more stupid than I wanted to make the other person look.
— I'm To Blame For (@im2blame4) October 23, 2018
Hope Weir enjoyed his time well spent:
After everyone from the White House press secretary to the vice president has vouched for his claim that "Middle Easterners" have infiltrated the caravan, Trump tells reporters he has no proof of “Middle Easterners” in there, but that there “very well could be.”
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) October 23, 2018
Related:
We doubt CNN reporter meant his photos of migrant caravan to be ‘a walking GOP ad’ https://t.co/M6tQg9qavv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 21, 2018
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