'BULLSH*T STORY'! Newsweek crawls into the GUTTER for this spin on Keith Ellison's Antifa tweet

As Twitchy told you last night, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison appeared to endorse the domestic terrorists of Antifa:

https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/948657342308147202

Ellison rightly faced a major backlash for that. But according to Newsweek, that backlash was from racist bigots:

A Keith Ellison tweet mentioning "antifa" has spurred an Islamaphobic backlash across the alt-right https://t.co/1wynmFvrDv pic.twitter.com/bbAgg2oCYs

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 4, 2018

Our post on Ellison’s tweet contained plenty of pushback from people who have nothing whatsoever to do with the Alt-Right. But that just doesn’t suit Newsweek’s narrative, now does it?

Opponents jumped on the tweet, with Fox News and other conservative outlets like Gateway Pundit and Alex Jones’s InfoWars covering it, and running anti-Muslim comments underneath the articles.

“A Muslim promoting terrorism is not news,” commenter Supah Cisgender wrote on Gateway Pundit.

Other comments labeled the representative a “terrorist.” Pundits on the far-right also recycled talking points about “antifa,” a catch-all word for leftist protesters that has been associated with dozens of fake news stories since the start of Trump’s presidency.

It’s never a good idea to read the comments section. But the comments section at Gateway Pundit or InfoWars? Come on, now.

This Newsweek article is literally citing the comment section on Gateway Pundit and Infowars as its source https://t.co/g0RCsMClP0 pic.twitter.com/MPzq33e93L

— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) January 4, 2018

“Antifa” is not a group; it is a word used to describe a means of protesting. The protesters involved in the movement have not been even “formally classified” as a domestic terror organization by the federal government. FBI Director Christopher Wray said in late November that some men and women who are inspired by “kind of an antifa ideology” were being investigated by the FBI to the House Homeland Security Committee, but that remark was embedded in a larger discussion about investigating white supremacists—the very people “antifa” protesters are setting out to disrupt.

For a publication with “News” in the name, they sure do suck at journalism.