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CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said
(theintercept.com)
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If anyone wants to actually read this: https://web.archive.org/web/20240924204019/https://theintercept.com/2024/09/24/cnn-rashida-tlaib-dana-nessel-antisemitism/
TLDR: She implied the AG's opinion to go after Palestinian protesters and not other protesters indicated a bias, which it certainly seems that way. The AG then says that calling this out is anti-semetic, as they always do. They can't defend their actions, so they instead call into question the integrity of the other party.
The problem is that immediately following her quote saying it indicated bias (which it does), either the author of the interview or their editor inserted a line:
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/tlaib-slams-nessel-for-targeting-pro-palestinian-students-at-u-m-a-dangerous-precedent-37343930
This bit:
"“We’ve had the right to dissent, the right to protest,” Tlaib says. “We’ve done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement, for Black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But it seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.”
Nessel is the first Jewish person to be elected Attorney General of Michigan."
So it wasn't Tlaib saying the religion of the AG was an issue, Tlaib stated it points to "possible biases" in the AGs office, the author of the article, or perhaps their editor, inserted the line perhaps to clarify which bias Tlaib was talking about.
Factcheck article from the same source here endorsing that idea:
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/fact-check-tlaib-did-not-say-nessel-charged-pro-palestinian-protesters-because-shes-jewish-37427661
You keep saying 'clarifying what she meant' everywhere. I just don't get where you get that that's what she meant. She just said she sees a bias against pro-Palestinian protesters. That's not implying the bias has anything to do with Judaism at all.
There's no other reason for the author (or editor, it's unclear who did it), to immediately follow this direct quote:
"that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs."
With this additional detail:
"Nessel is the first Jewish person to be elected Attorney General of Michigan."
It's clear the author/editor is trying to make that connection even if Tlaib did not.
The author trying to make a connection is not clarifying which bias Tlaib meant. It is just as likely to be misrepresenting what Tlaib meant.
And, when you think about it, Tlaib said biases - plural - so this 'clarification' - if it was a clarification - is ignoring the other biases.
🤡 behavior: replying to “They can't defend their actions, so they instead call into question the integrity of the other party.” then proceeding to attack the writer of the article.
Oh, I think the author of the article is clearly to blame as they followed up with the Fact Check article calling out the problems inherent with the first one without mentioning they, themselves, were the author of the first article.
"Stop killing children"
"That's antisemitic"