Lib 'journalist' blasts Twitchy for 'fake' pro-abortion photo, ends up eating crow

thisistwitchy | 8:49 AM on July 04, 2013

In The Atlantic Wire, senior writer Elspeth Reeve has produced an execrable article entitled “The Conservative Meme of Satan-Loving Texas Pro-Choice Protesters Is a Bit Off.” Why is the conservative meme off? Because “only five protesters yelled about Satan.”

The hail satan chant I saw involved 5 people…not the entire crowd. Doesn't make it any less ridiculous, but adds context. #hb2 #txlege

— Josh Rubin (@jrubin) July 3, 2013

Yes, five. Just like the video linked by Twitchy and others shows.

But ace fact-checker Elle was just getting warmed up. She goes on to describe an even more treacherous example of conservative lies:

And yet that wasn’t the worst of it. Twitchy, The Daily Caller, The Blaze, and others picked up a photo showing a little girl holding a sign that says, “If I wanted the government in my womb, I would f*** a senator!” How horrible! “Pro-aborts exploit kids to advocate for killing ‘unwanted’ ones,” Twitchy’s headline blared. The image appears to have gone viral after it was tweeted by Ethan Gehrke.

However, it’s a fake. Or at least, it’s not from the Texas demonstrations. The photo was posted on a message board in December 2007. The anti-abortion crowd will have to stick with its five Satanists.

Update: I read the date wrong. The photo is real! My apologies. The pro-choice activists appear to have let a kid hold that sign after all, which, gross.