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Fake News: Washington Post Claims Thomas Jefferson Held White House Iftar Dinner
BREITBART ^ | 06/25/2017 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 06/25/2017 10:17:39 PM PDT by boatbums

The establishment media became upset this weekend after President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.” But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such “tradition” to cancel.

Amy B. Wang of the Washington Post led the pack with this nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held the “first Iftar dinner” with a June 24 piece entitled, “Trump just ended a long tradition of celebrating Ramadan at the White House.”

The often-used claim that Thomas Jefferson held the first Iftar dinner at the White House was trotted out by the Post’s Wang. She recounted the time when the diplomatic envoy from the Bey of Tunis, Sidi Soliman Melli Melli, visited Washington during Ramadan in 1805.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amywang; fakenews; iftardinner; islam; jefferson; multiculturalism; ramadan; revisionisthistory; thomasjefferson; washingtonpost; washpo
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1 posted on 06/25/2017 10:17:39 PM PDT by boatbums
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To: boatbums

John Podesta works at WaPo now, no doubt to manage all the fakenews.


2 posted on 06/25/2017 10:19:38 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Slyfox

Well, he’s good at it. Only problem for them is they can be fact checked a lot easier now and exposed faster for the fake news they publish. I would think they’d be embarrassed to keep doing it, but I don’t think like them, thank God.


3 posted on 06/25/2017 10:24:37 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums

By even better logic - Jefferson started America’s FIRST war...

Against muslim Barbary pirates who were enslaving American sailors.

“the shores of Tripoli...” (Marine Corp Hymn)

So let’s keep that tradition alive too.


4 posted on 06/25/2017 10:25:44 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Yes...let’s!


5 posted on 06/25/2017 10:27:48 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums
If Jeff did have an Iftar he was #3 and the next to do it was #42. That would hardly illustrate a "tradition," certainly not a long one. If Jefferson can held to have started a tradition then on could also hold that he started another related tradition, one of hunting down jihadis and blowing up them and their cities.
6 posted on 06/25/2017 10:29:23 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: boatbums

Jefferson despised Muslims.


7 posted on 06/25/2017 10:32:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: boatbums
Warner Todd Huston -

Certified hater of FreeRepublic

And author of Breitbart's most embarrassing moment.

8 posted on 06/25/2017 10:35:47 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: boatbums

No Jefferson did not. Wow, these guys will say and do ANYTHING to give the perception of acceptance of islam. Nothing is so far from the truth. Who is funding this propaganda? That person or entity needs to be found, prosecuted and executed for treason.


9 posted on 06/25/2017 10:37:30 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: boatbums

It’s part of the talking point that this dinner is an ages old tradition and not merely something that started with the Clinton White House.


10 posted on 06/25/2017 10:41:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Fakebook is also “trending” this fake news.


11 posted on 06/25/2017 10:43:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: humblegunner; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; Eaker; Larry Lucido

Ping!


12 posted on 06/25/2017 10:43:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: boatbums
I would think they’d be embarrassed to keep doing it, but I don’t think like them, thank God.

You are assuming those slime bags can think at all. You might be assuming too much. 😁

13 posted on 06/25/2017 10:52:41 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: boatbums

Fake news is used because it fits their agenda.


14 posted on 06/25/2017 10:59:53 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: boatbums

First President was Slick Willy, then Bush, then Zero


15 posted on 06/25/2017 11:09:07 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: boatbums

Isn’t that called, “Dessert?”


16 posted on 06/25/2017 11:12:04 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: boatbums

This is the Lame Stream Media on drug enhancements. If you believe in moral relativity, then even hallucinations are real.


17 posted on 06/25/2017 11:19:12 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: boatbums

Thank God - and President Trump - that that ‘tradition’ is GONE.


18 posted on 06/25/2017 11:32:12 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: shibumi

He was also co-host of a blog radio show with another from San Fran. A broad who was a liberal hack who managed to infiltrate this site as a conservative, IMO, and returned favors to her liberal overlords.

Friggan hippie..


19 posted on 06/25/2017 11:35:41 PM PDT by crz
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To: boatbums

That would be the last to do so. I believe he opposed Adams who wanted to pay off pirates. Jefferson was appalled by the lack of respect for freedom islam displayed and saw that as a threat


20 posted on 06/26/2017 12:05:29 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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