By now, the latest dishonesty from cable news network CNN’s Biased Duo, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, has become widely known. The Duo lied about the outspoken Palestinian-American member of Congress from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, claiming that she had made an “antisemitic” statement about that state’s Attorney General. Millions were exposed to the lie, both on air and as it reverberated across the internet.
Here’s what actually happened. Tapper and Bash suggested that Tlaib had accused Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel of seeking strong charges against pro-Palestinian student protesters “because she [Nessel] is Jewish.” The Duo based their charge against Tlaib on an article in a Detroit newspaper that quoted her. Tapper and Bash obviously didn’t bother to read the article, though, because Tlaib nowhere in it mentioned or even referred to Nessel’s Jewishness. Instead, she spoke about systemic anti-Palestinian bigotry. ….more
