As Twitchy reported Friday, Stephen Colbert, MSNBC, and CNN all invited on journalist Julia Ioffe to talk about the situation in Ukraine, despite the fact that she’d just tweeted that she had no idea why Vladimir Putin was invading.
What I still can't understand is why? Why is Putin doing this? Why?
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 24, 2022
Ioffe seems to be the media’s go-to person for news from Ukraine, and on Saturday she retweeted a photo showing paratroopers over Kyiv:
There’s no tweet there because the original was deleted. People saved it, though:
And poof! Deleted. This is what it was: pic.twitter.com/agYj7yuDs1
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) February 26, 2022
I saved the photo for them. pic.twitter.com/8cOGqdbXwI
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) February 26, 2022
That's not what an airborne drop looks like, doubt that's what this pic is https://t.co/CsgRvA0Pb1
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) February 26, 2022
Seems your right. "Conflict News" and now TV Rain (who Julia quote-tweeted) both deleted their tweets of that same photo.
— Boomieleaks (@Boomieleaks) February 26, 2022
Its more likely anti-air. Jumping in a parachute in a city is not a good idea.
— bengt vvaldovv (@bengtassen) February 26, 2022
I've seen similar pictures before and it's been determined they're anti aircraft rounds. It wouldn't make much sense to drop paratroopers behind enemy lines with white chutes.
— Ben Erickson (@eric1743) February 26, 2022
"Paratroopers over Kyiv" are, in fact, traces of the work of Ukrainian air defense,” says one Ukrainian media outlet
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 26, 2022
…people should keep thinking when retweeting, ask yourself the question does this make any sense…
— Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker) February 26, 2022
Would seem odd to deploy just before a bombing campaign.
— Dh (@Txdfw) February 26, 2022
And when there’s surface to air defences and a ton of people with guns.
— Rektͥ ͣ ͫ (@completelyrekt) February 26, 2022
Amazing how blue checkmarks just jump on it and amplify the wrong info. There has been so much of this.
— Andrei Taranchenko (@andrenaleen) February 26, 2022
EVERYONE, remember. Virtually no humans of the 21st century have any idea what a military paradrop looks, sounds, or tastes like. For civilians, if they haven't at least seen 'A bridge too far', then they will have no clue what to look at or for.
— Matt (@professorwordy) February 26, 2022
This reminds us of the HuffPost reporter posting a photo of earplugs and asking if anyone could confirm they were rubber bullets.
Related:
Stephen Colbert, MSNBC and CNN interview journo who two days ago admitted she didn’t know why Putin invaded Ukraine https://t.co/easdwCVjOY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 25, 2022
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