Monday, December 19, 2016

Breitbart Rants finds all kinds of ways to get things wrong


Fake news 'reporting'.

Misleading headlines.

And this.  An easily dismissed lede.


Found at NYT: Trump Actually Supports ‘Arming People to Defend Themselves in Gunfights’.  (Breitbart News, 12/19/2016)
Be sure to catch the accompanying photo -- Breitbart in "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" mode.

Guess Breitbart feels its core readers are too dumb to check the source material.


Time for a vocabulary lesson, Mr. Gun Nut.  The timing could not be better. President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are zealously committed to the National Rifle Association’s regressive “safety” agenda of marketing guns to more and more citizens. As a candidate, Mr. Trump talked favorably of people arming to defend themselves in gunfights.

Only someone with bruised and tender sensibilities would read astonishment into the above paragraph. 

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Breitbart editor in chief Alexander Marlow can't name one.  (12/6/2016)
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All you need to know about this 'news' website: Breitbart readers prefer a crank for Secretary of State.  (11/26/2016)
In its anti-immigration zeal, Breitbart replays a story from June 2016.  (11/21/2016)
For Donald Trump, it's always good news week at Breitbart.  (11/18/2016)
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