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On Nov. 7, the House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) because she has “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.”
One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional “fact-checkers” haven’t located that lie … or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that “from the river to the sea” isn’t a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel, it’s an “aspirational call for freedom” and “peaceful coexistence.”
With Democrats, the so-called independent fact-checkers rush to correct Tlaib critics and not Tlaib — just as they rush to correct Biden critics and not Biden. Maybe those critics deserve correction — but so do Democrats, mainly when they lie about alleged “war crimes.” The facts don’t always lean to the left.
PolitiFact takes the cake since Tlaib has only one “fact check” in her four-plus years in Congress, and it’s a “Mostly True” in 2020 for asserting, “Detroit spent $294 million on police last year, and $9 million on health.” This is ludicrous since policing is an essential city government function, and government-funded health care is more of a state and federal function.
Or is the worst one FactCheck.org? Their Tlaib archive page lists eight fact checks — and all eight focus on Tlaib’s opponents.
Or Snopes.com? A search found 13 checks attacking anti-Tlaib posts (10 in 2019) but nothing evaluating Tlaib. Several were from satire websites like “Taters Gonna Tate.” Then there’s LeadStories.com, which flagged a post clearly marked satire, suggesting Tlaib advocated removing the American flag from classrooms.
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler isn’t ruling on Tlaib since he’s too busy right now picking on Trump and Republicans. But he did flag President Joe Biden for asserting the Hamas body count in Gaza isn’t trustworthy.
In recent days, Reuters Fact Check flagged social media posts and warned, “Posts about US Representative Tlaib’s birthplace lack context.” Someone on Facebook suggested the congresswoman should be deported back to her birthplace. Tlaib claims she was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrant parents in 1976. Weirdly, Reuters said “missing context,” not “false.”
USA Today’s fact-check squad published a post headlined “Video shows Rashida Tlaib protesting Trump in 2016, not backing Hamas.” They reported, “Tlaib was not protesting in support of Hamas. That video is seven years old and was taken at an event for former President Donald Trump.”
What makes this fact check strange is that they noted, “the House voted to censure her on Nov. 7 for comments she made in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel,” but they left out the “unbelievable falsehoods” part of that resolution.
On the day before Tlaib’s censure, Washington Examiner commentator Zachary Faria did a fact-check on the genocide talk. It started with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) tweeting, “Rashida Tlaib is calling for the genocide of the Jewish people.” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said, “This is a lie. This rhetoric is dangerous and needs to stop. This endangers the life of Rashida and Palestinians standing up for their liberation everywhere.” Faria ruled, “Bush’s pants are on fire.”
Tlaib tweeted a video on Nov. 3 touting protesters chanting “from the river to the sea” and “no peace on stolen land.” It began with Biden proclaiming, “We stand with Israel,” and ended with the claim that “Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian people.” All the Biden-defending fact-checkers failed to pounce on Tlaib for that!
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
Is this ackbarbarian a proper pious muslima, or is she sporting a clitoris like some sort of western trollop?
If Adolf Hitler were a “Palestinian” he’d be called a “moderate”. And in fact, his views on Jews would be “mainstream” to “Palestinians” including Rashida Tlaib.
Censure is not enough. If David Duke were a member of Congress (it was bad enough he was a state legislator in Louisiana) and the overwhelming majority of Republicans voted against censuring him, much less expelling him or refusing to allow him to take his seat, the media would be all over them for defending a vicious racist and antisemite. Yet David Duke (who was feted by regimes in Syria and Iran) has views on Israel and Jews that are remarkably similar to Rashida Tlaib.
If Duke were elected he would have been allowed to take his seat, and he would not have been expelled. Expelling a member of congress is reserved for the most extreme cases, and in over 230 years no member has ever been expelled merely for his opinions. On the contrary, his constituents are assumed to share his opinions, and that is why they elected him, so it would be wrong to expel him for them. Censure, yes, but not expel.
the 4 morons who make up the “squad” should all be expelled. they are complete idiots. there should be at least a minimum of common sense and intelligence to be a member of congress. the only qualifications these idiots have is they are “smarter” than the people who voted for them.
Anyone sick of looking at that big ugly mouth always in spewing mode?
For some reason the House wants to get rid of George Santos for grifting his way into Congress, but can only manage a censure vote for someone who has expressed her hate for Jews, cares nothing for the U.S., and basically has violated her oath of office everyday she is there.
The difference is that Santos has been convicted of a crime. Tlaib is not even accused of one. Expelling a member is reserved for the most extreme cases, and since the Civil War nobody has been expelled for anything short of a criminal conviction.
The Fact Checkers should be called the Fake Checkers since their all pretty much are all a total scam