Wow! Look what Roy Moore said now in a campaign stop on Tuesday!
Roy Moore mourns the end of school prayer and then adds "they started creating new rights in 1965"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 15, 2017
That sounds really, really bad! And it was retweeted over 12oo times, too. Blue-check libs jumped on, assuming Jacobs was quoting Moore about the Voting Right Act (1965) or the Civil Rights Act (1964):
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/930627726494408705
He may be a child molester, but at least he's against the Civil Rights Act. https://t.co/RIkWqILE5i
— Scott Conroy (@ScottFConroy) November 15, 2017
“I know you all think I’m a pedophile right now, but hear me out, I’m also a racist.” https://t.co/Oij2WERbWA
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) November 15, 2017
Wonder what rights he could possibly be referring to https://t.co/NwKPFLdgBP
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) November 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/930626641654616064
Typo. He meant 1865. https://t.co/4kbneSTvOV
— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/RyanFSloane/status/930629638128316416
But, surprise! Here’s the clarification, which has only be retweeted 41 times:
Just want to be clear here, again, that this did not at all refer to the Voting Rights Act. Instead, it was almost certainly about Griswold
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 15, 2017
Griswold v. Connecticut was about contraceptive counseling and marital privacy, not race. The proper move here is to screenshot the bad tweet that was misinterpreted, delete it and then post the screenshot with the clarification. You know, to stop the spread of fake news and all.
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Related:
BAHAHA! Ben Shapiro makes Hillary the butt of a joke Ben Jacobs didn’t even know he made https://t.co/Pxd78S7BAy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 11, 2017
‘This is ridiculous’! Ben Jacobs donates Gianforte’d glasses to Newseum https://t.co/Hy6PTeRjtN
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 30, 2017
AWKWARD: Ben Jacobs tweet about wanting to punch a Conservative journo hasn’t aged well https://t.co/v5a8bhC0RD
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 26, 2017
So THIS is pathetic: Time Magazine and other ‘journos’ share GoFundMe to replace Ben Jacobs’ glasses https://t.co/7cObGuGpfq
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 26, 2017
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