Yup. They twist reality all the time. Example: give free guns to cartels, cartels kill people with those guns, go on TV and say "guns are too easy to get, we need more laws!".
One could just as easily (and accurately) write "Gabbi Giffords was shot months after Obama took power."
It gets the low information votes.
The libs use new term and word to define their issues and we let them get away with it.
I have people talk about “pro choice” and I’ll say “you mean pro abortion” and it angers them.