USA 2020 Elections: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 00:49:12 PDT 2022


> Joe Biden has done just two press interviews this year.

But have spun endless lies during that time...


Biden's Dubious Tale Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Gets Dismantled

Last week President Biden regurgitated a single-sourced claim that a
10-year-old girl was raped and forced to cross state lines to get an
abortion.

"This isn’t some imagined horror. It is already happening. Just last
week, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl was a rape victim — 10
years old — and she was forced to have to travel out of state to
Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life,"
the president said during the signing of an executive order on
abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v.
Wade.

    On Friday, Biden was the latest to "pounce" on an Indiana
abortionist's claim that she saw a raped 10-year-old girl for an
abortion. But the Indianapolis Star that reported this story is in
full defensive crouch. The reporter isn't talking.

    The story was "too good to check." pic.twitter.com/yUe7g4Bin8
    — Divisive Arch-Conservative Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 10, 2022

The claim - sourced to Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, Caitlan
Barnard - went viral, with multiple outlets breathlessly repeating it
despite it having just one source, with no corroboration.

According to Barnard, she "received a call from ‘a child abuse doctor’
in Ohio who had a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and three days
pregnant." The Star reported that the child "was on her way to Indiana
to Bernard’s care."

This doesn't add up...

It was so suspect that the Washington Post's resident fact checker,
Glenn Kessler, declared that the claim did not meet journalistic
standards.

"This is the account of a one-source story that quickly went viral
around the world — and into the talking points of the president,"
wrote the fact checker.

Kessler noted that "The only source cited for the anecdote was
Bernard. She’s on the record, but there is no indication that the
newspaper made other attempts to confirm her account."

When Kessler reached out to the journalist who wrote the piece for the
Indianapolis Star, the journalist who wrote the piece ghosted him. The
paper's executive editor, Bro Krift, wrote "The facts and sourcing
about people crossing state lines into Indiana, including the
10-year-old girl, for abortions are clear. We have no additional
comment at this time."

Kessler notes what journalist Megan Fox pointed out days ago - that
"Under Ohio law, a physician, as a mandated reporter under Ohio
Revised Code 2151.421, would be required to report any case of known
or suspected physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect of a
child."

"As a spot check, we contacted child services agencies in some of
Ohio’s most populous cities, including Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. None of the officials we reached were
aware of such a case in their areas."

What's more, abortion by 10-year-olds is very rare - with the Columbus
Dispatch reporting that in 2020 there were just 52 girls under the age
of 15 in the state who received abortions.

Now, for a master class in breaking down bullshit - here's Megan Fox's
Jul 5 Twitter thread which dismantles the original claim.

    🚩 #1. A pregnant 10 year old is evidence of a heinous crime
against a child but in every article (and there are SO MANY) thre is
no mention of criminal investigation, no police involvement, not even
a town where this allegedly occurred. pic.twitter.com/pRuwtmWoR4
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    🚩 #3 which maybe should be #1 The TIMING of this horrific story
is too on the nose. Roe v. Wade was just overturned. The media is
desperate for stories to push the pro-abortion narrative, stoke fear,
anger, and division. They love this. pic.twitter.com/1hXlsDymDV
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    I heard about it from a teenager at a 4th party and a red flag
went off big-time. If the kids have heard about it it was placed where
they will see it intentionally. Fake news is always sold to the
young'ns because they will swallow it the fastest.
https://t.co/URgBsDgXa5
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    🚩 #6 #DrCaitlynBernard, the only source, is an abortionist and
has been in the NYT participating in an anti-Trump hit piece and is
clearly an activist. She has a stake in preserving abortion, it
literally pays her bills. https://t.co/fdQJFxQNgO
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    🚩 #8 Jennifer Rubin used this to batter conservatives, her former
colleagues, in the Washington Post. This further gives me serious
doubts about the veracity of the story. Rubin is a notorious tool for
the left using this story to harm pro-lifers https://t.co/y6hJ7dF2ti.
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    🚩 #10, #DrCaitlynBernard got a call from another doctor asking
for help for a horribly abused child and her first instinct was to
call the media. That should make you all stop and think for a minute.
What's really going on here?
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    Here she is again #CaitlinBernard in June interviewed by PBS,
crying. Predicting doom...the very thing she's now claiming. How is
she in contact with so much media? https://t.co/ev5cFoKY8R
pic.twitter.com/d3AnfjHrqt
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

    And here's #DrCaitlinBernard again! More media coverage in June
before this alleged incident where she is predicting doom. She's a
serious abortion activist https://t.co/EXQutniDfb
pic.twitter.com/4Kt6WdCu65
    — Megan Fox (@MeganFoxWriter) July 5, 2022

To read the rest, click on any of the tweets above.










Salon Website Corrects Year-Old Headline Saying DeSantis Forces
Students To Register Political Views

https://s3.amazonaws.com/fn-document-service/file-by-sha384/276386dee982fe4f6dd72881965933a3b646909be7be9ef50745102eaea7bae7cb790657fada08d18e4a9dd085293aed

https://www.theepochtimes.com/salon-website-corrects-year-old-headline-saying-desantis-forces-students-to-register-political-views_4588371.html
https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1545866656689393664

Left-wing outlet Salon changed a year-old headline, after falsely
stating Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 2021 bill that forces
Florida’s students and professors to register their political views
with the state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference held at the
Cox Science Center & Aquarium in West Palm Beach, Fla., on June 8,
2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The original headline published in June 2021, which read “DeSantis
signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register
political views with state,” has recently been updated with “DeSantis
signs bill requiring survey of Florida students, professors on their
political views.” In its latest version, the editorial team added a
correction, claiming the change was made “to more accurately reflect
the language of the bill in question.”

Salon Executive Editor Andrew O’Hehir told CNN that the old headline
“conveyed a misleading impression of what the Florida law actually
said, and did not live up to our editorial standards.”

Previous efforts by DeSantis’s office seeking a correction last year,
however, were in vain, said his spokesperson Christina Pushaw.

“It should have happened much sooner,” Pushaw told CNN in a Thursday
email. “The Salon reporter and editors should have read the
legislation before writing an article about it.”

The Florida law in question (pdf), signed by DeSantis in June last
year, requires state colleges and universities to conduct annual
viewpoint diversity surveys, so as to collect feedback from Florida’s
post-secondary students on the intellectual freedom of the campus
environment.

Participation in the survey is both anonymous and voluntary, Bryan
Griffin, a spokesman for the Republican governor, told Fox News on
Wednesday.

“This same fake claim was circling the liberal Twittersphere after the
bill was signed in 2021. It was debunked then. It has been debunked
again, now,” Griffin said.

The recent correction came after the 2021 Salon story resurfaced and
went viral on Twitter last week, widely promoted by high profile
liberal users including Florida agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried,
who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor to challenge
DeSantis. As multiple fact-checks appeared debunking the narrative,
she later deleted her post linking to the Salon story.

Novelist Stephen King, a vocal critic of Republican politics with over
6.7 million Twitter followers, also posted the story on July 5 and
received more than 25,000 shares and 135,000 likes.

King eventually deleted it four days later and publicly apologized on
Saturday. “That really was fake news,” he wrote in a Twitter post.
“Sorry.”


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