Posted on 04/03/2020 6:54:50 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Two weeks ago, Kessler wrote a lengthy fact-check and claimed in several tweets that Dr. Anthony Fauci was wrong when he stated that Italy had an open border, which Fauci noted allowed the virus to spread rapidly undetected. In actuality, it was Kessler who was wrong, as I documented here.
A few days later, Kessler was caught pulling an Adam Schiff by falsely attributing a quote to President Trump about how economic progress shouldn’t be impeded even if there was a “pile of bodies over in the corner”, insinuating it’s what Trump said when asked about a timeline for getting things back to normal.
The problem with Kessler’s quote was that it wasn’t something Trump said. It was a quote from Bill Gates, who – like Kessler and other mainstream media figures – was perpetuating the false narrative that Trump wants everything back to normal tomorrow regardless of the human cost.
The latest example comes by way of a viral video of a Fox News clip that featured an interview with Dr. Rishi Desai, who was highly critical of the Trump administration’s response. Desai made a number of questionable claims in the clip, including absurdly crediting the World Health Organization for being on top of its game in terms of what he falsely claimed was their early knowledge of the virus’s existence and how it could be transmitted:
Instead of questioning his interpretation of the video and the claims made in the video, former journalist Ron Fournier uncritically promoted the video, which Kessler also uncritically RT’d:
An hour and 15 minutes after he RT’d the video, Kessler ended up walking his retweet back.
It would be nice going forward if Kessler would actually dissect claims before sharing them with his followers, which is what an actual fact-checker would do.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Naturally the Washington ComPost should fire his ass, and just as naturally, it won't. Silence implies consent.
All I got was Distance is Time-Rate.
I’m thinking reTweet.
retweeted ?
RT is a Russian news source formerly known as “Russia Today”. Was that what the writer was alleging when “RT’d” was written? Beats the hell out of me. But it does sound like something the “Russia, Russia, Russia” crowd would say.
May be something made up on the fly by someone who cannot write.
he’s right, it’s retweeted as you can see from the original article.
I call poor writting skills from a person who wants to make a living writting.
All I got was Distance is Time-Rate.
In experimental psychology, RT means "Reaction Time."
Same thing in drag racing when the lights on the tree go green (reaction time).
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