D'OH! TownHall fact-checks Snopes, Ellison and DWS DID remain seated during 2-minute ovation

Sam J. | 9:43 AM on March 03, 2017

Whad’ya know … the site that is supposed to fact-check the media got the Ellison and DWS story wrong.

Color us totally shocked.

Not.

Well, snopes made me comb through this again … for @bennyjohnson it was probably 100x worse since he was there. https://t.co/BLPtJvFrTE

— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) March 2, 2017

Via TownHall:

So, this isn’t fake news. The both of them sat through the actual dedication portion Trump had for Owens in his speech and two standing ovations. I can’t attest to the claims that other right-leaning sites have made about the whole affair, but concerning Ellison and DWS remaining seated for the roughly two-minute standing ovation (and the shorter one that followed) after the president honored Ryan’s service and his widow, Carryn–they just sat there.

Benny Johnson of the Independent Journal Review was THERE and tweeted Snopes directly about their … fake news.

Hey @snopes, here is a photo of me in the press gallery last night, ya know … reporting.
Where was your reporter last night? pic.twitter.com/EiudKxymNK

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 1, 2017

Proof that DWS & Ellison stood for the first ovation & not for the 2nd. As I clearly tweeted: Check for yourselfhttps://t.co/LraFf628HM pic.twitter.com/CIV6sOAjyU

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 1, 2017

You’d think MAYBE the guy actually THERE would know what he’s talking about?