#FakeNews: TIME's Open Borders Propaganda Cover Story Is Fake In Every Way An Article Can Be Fake

The actual facts:

The girl wasn't "separated" by Trump's policy. She wasn't separated from her mother at all. She was just standing slightly (slightly!) away from her mother while her mother was being patted down, that being what you do with criminals you're arresting.

She wasn't a first time border crosser: she'd already been caught illegally entering the US in 2013. A second offense makes her a felon.

She had left three other children back with her husband.

Her husband confirms she wasn't fleeing any sort of political persecution, but was just looking for a job.

One can surmise she brought the tot along as her Get Out of Border Jail Free card.

A border patrol agent actually present at this "separation" told CBS News the real story, as digested at the Daily Caller:

"The photo might be a little misleading," CBS News admitted before playing an interview they did with the border agent whose legs appear in the picture.

"We were patrolling the border, it was after 10-o'clock at night," agent Carlos Ruiz explained. "We asked her to set the kid down in front of her, not away from her... and so we can properly search the mother. So, the kid immediately started crying as she set her down," he continued. "I personally went up to the mother and asked her, 'are you doing OK, is the kid OK?' and she said, 'yes, she's tired and thirsty and it's 11 o'clock at night.'

"They're using it to symbolize a policy and that was not the case on this picture," he continued. "It took less than two minutes, as soon as the search was finished she immediately picked the girl up and the girl immediately stopped crying."

How does TIME respond? By invoking the Fake But Accurate defense, of course:

TIME defended its cover and its reporting Friday, essentially claiming the facts are irrelevant because of the propaganda value of the piece. The photo and story "capture the stakes of this moment," the editor in chief told reporter Hadas Gold.

That's not the only #FakeNews the media's cooking up for you, of course. The AP just vomited up some Journ0lizm about abuses of children in immigrant detention centers, which leftwing feckless cucks claimed was a new "Abu Ghraib," specifying that this abuse happened "after" Trump called MS-13 gangsters "animals."

In fact these abuses happened well before them -- the AP story is almost all about abuses that happened in 2015-2016 under Obama.

But you can almost excuse the Daily Beast's Justin Miller for getting the story so incredibly wrong -- because the AP wrote it up in a way that seemed calculated to produce exactly this misreading.

The AP story is very vague about the dates of these alleged abuses, and keeps mentioning Trump in a story about things that happened before Trump was even a candidate for election.

This sums it up well:

Of course, this entire contrived propaganda tornado began with #FakeNews: John Sexton runs down the #FakeNews beginnings of this Democrat-Media disinformation campaign, beginning with #Activists and #JournalistActivists pushing out photos that actually date from Obama's term as well as actually staged, completely fictitious photos of kids in dog cages, which activists had staged during a protest.

Meanwhile, there's some #RealNews the media can't cover, because it's too busy with the #FakeNews.

Like:

Angel mom Sabine Durden says Trump saved her from committing suicide after an illegal immigrant killed her only son.

"President Trump coming down that escalator that day and talking about illegal immigration stopped me in my tracks."https://t.co/YqOeYUkSXM pic.twitter.com/OsPXNUUsov

— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) June 22, 2018

There's also the small matter of 11 MS-13 gangasters -- or should I call them Citizen-Activists? -- being charged with the murder of two teenagers, just a few miles away from Capitol Hill.

Eleven members of MS-13 have been charged with kidnapping two teenagers, ages 17 and 14, whose bodies were discovered buried in the woods in northern Virginia last year. Authorities claim each of the 11 gang members played some role in the murder of one or both boys.

...

All but one of the eleven men charged are immigrants from El Salvador. NBC 4 Washington reports the names and charges for each of the eleven individuals. Note the gang names of some of these individuals, i.e. "Killer" and "Horror."

Trump should call them "Killers" and "Horrors" -- then the media won't be able to debate whether they're animals or not. If they call themselves Killers and Horrors, who are we to argue with their own sense of self-actualization?

posted by Ace of Spades at 05:08 PM

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