From the people who brought you the lies about Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, and meat. They can’t win on real issues so they make stuff up.
"a good example of how misinformation spreads on right-wing media, gets amplified by GOP leaders
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 27, 2021
"NY Post reported Harris’ book was included in 'welcome kits' for migrant children
"Fox repeated it
"Cotton/McDaniel ran w/it
"There was only one copy" https://t.co/7bUQYyfYlZ
A Long Beach spokesman tells me *no* books are put in migrant children's welcome packages at the shelter. Rather, an informal library will be set up with the donated books to let kids choose what they want to read. So…wrongness on top of wrongness. https://t.co/5439nFkhha
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 27, 2021
The New York Post appears to have taken down a second nonsense story about the Harris book, the one headlined "Psaki has no answers when asked about Harris' book being given to child migrants." That link also now redirects to their home page. https://t.co/1UxUQLIJzo
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 27, 2021
Between this and Burgergate, the biggest recent attacks on Biden & Harris have been literal fake news. https://t.co/hyYGwYSb3a
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) April 27, 2021
It's a huge country full of people doing dumb things every day, so you'd think they'd be able to find somewhere an anti-MAGA cultural outrage that doesn't rest on utter fiction? https://t.co/IpuK7bujWP
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 27, 2021
The question Fox threw at Psaki about this has aged as well as an Al Jolson mixtape https://t.co/nIlaMulhe3 pic.twitter.com/9NOCFTrMXp
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 27, 2021
How a photo and a Long Beach book drive led to a false story and attacks on Kamala Harris https://t.co/JWlvZhAUVu
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 28, 2021
Sad! 