A bunch of blue-checkmarked journalists are busy deleting tweets right now after wrongly accusing NRA spox Dana Loesch of saying she and the NRA were going to “fist” the New York Times over the paper’s horrible coverage of guns in the past. As you can hear for yourself, Dana clearly says “fisk” in the ad which makes sense. Fist is moronic.
.@DLoesch has a message for the @nytimes: “We're coming for you.” One
non-#fakenews story is not enough. #NRA #ClenchedFistofTruth pic.twitter.com/Hm1QkJi5Tp— NRATV (@NRATV) August 3, 2017
Here’s Adam Goldman for the NYT, for example, who just deleted his tweet:
And here’s Nick Confessore from the Times:
https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/893593408673067011
Dana’s response:
Also, this ad has been out for some time. No one thought “fisk” was “fist” until @adamgoldmanNYT lied about it and the sheep followed.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 4, 2017
Reporter Yashar Ali, who fought with Dana on Twitter over “fist” vs “fisk,” finally decided it was Fisk when he found a version with closed captions:
Nice – Literally everyone on here thinks you said "fist" and the NRA tweet says #ClenchedFistOfTruth – This is my fault somehow? https://t.co/l2zNYrLoT3
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 4, 2017
Found original version of NRA ad which is longer + has captions that say "fisk". NRA should also delete their tweet https://t.co/dmiyJbGABa pic.twitter.com/vb4tlOH2E8
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 4, 2017
A little late, however:
Good job @yashar verifying what I said AFTER you lied about what I said. I require a full apology and retraction of your false claim. https://t.co/iwtOqtdGvz
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 4, 2017
See what they’ve done? Dana is now on the receiving end of a lot of awful comments:
Thanks @adamgoldmanNYT and @yashar ! https://t.co/GNWJ3EK7BW
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/Riginal_Zin/status/893592863476375552
@DLoesch is a sociopath and a lair. Fsck her with a Mangum.
— Spaceman Eddie (@SpacemanEd) August 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/ET_BusinessApe/status/893594578204246016
Remember that time @DLoesch was getting double fisted…
Dana: “Now clap.”
Him: “I can’t.”
Dana: “Tight, huh?”@NRATV @NRA @NRAblog #tcot— Sandra Howard (@ReaganGal) August 4, 2017
Goldstein went on to blame the hashtag #ClosedFistofTruth:
Dana Loesch claims she says "fisk" in the ad, not "fist," which is in their hashtag. 2/2
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) August 4, 2017
As have others:
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/893584541188845569
Oh, please. It was clearly “fisk”:
https://twitter.com/kfile/status/893586904746266624
The ad itself was about fake news and all of these verified twerps just proved Dana’s point:
The NRA is the one with the problem because a NYT reporter doesn’t know what “fisk” means and substitutes “fisting?” Suuuuure.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 4, 2017
She clearly says "fisk," and it's people like you that give us journos a bad name. https://t.co/SBeE5UOCeW
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) August 4, 2017
I'm ok with jailing reporters (and anyone else) who thought it was "fisting" and not "fisking".#ConfessYourPopularOpinion
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) August 4, 2017
Especially with comments like this:
Fact Check: you can't "fist" a newspaper. It has no anus. You can, however, fisk it.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 4, 2017
And this:
We're gonna ram our clenched fist of truth so hard into that old gray hag, but in a totally non threatening, non violent way.Metaphorically.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 4, 2017
But Dana can’t win:
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/893582376277856256
Sigh.
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