Leading liberal website falls for fake story about Michele Bachmann

Quote:Think Progress, a website operated by the liberal Center for American Progress, failed to vet a phony story which claimed that Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann proposed “Americanization” labor camps for Central American unaccompanied children.

“I’m calling on all of us, Obama and Congress and everyone, to chip in and build special new facilities…‘Americanization facilities,’ if you will,” Bachmann said, according to Think Progress, which has since corrected its embarrassing flub.

“And we’d send these kids to these facilities, in Arizona and Texas and wherever else. And we’d get private sector business leaders to locate to those facilities and give these children low-risk jobs to do. And they’d learn about the American way of life, earn their keep, and everyone wins in the end,” Bachmann continued, in Think Progress’ fantasy land.

Think Progress’ owner, the Center for American Progress, is populated with numerous veterans of the Clinton and Obama administrations.

lol, reminds me of the time Fox's website thought an onion article was true. Do "journalists" or people running these sites ever fact check at all anymore?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/26/fo...real-news/

(07-28-2014 08:44 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  Do "journalists" or people running these sites ever fact check at all anymore?

It doesn't appear so.

I stopped taking the media seriously a long time ago, and I think most other Americans did, too.

Ha ha ha, look at the comment section. Silly liberals "yeah but Bush..."

This Thread fits in very well here imho.

(07-28-2014 04:05 PM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  This Thread fits in very well here imho.

You don't fit thread inside of threads, Krieger. How long have you been posting?

Quote:According to a recent report in the New York Times, 60,000 immigrants in detention facilities across the country are already used as low cost labor — often making only a dollar a day, or being paid in credits to detention facility stores. Officials insist the programs are voluntary, but immigrant advocates point to cases in which detainees were threatened with solitary confinement and other punishments if they refused to work.

How in the world could anyone fall for a story like that about Michele Bachmann?

/sarcasm

A dollar a day? Wow, they're millionaires compared to Juarez maquiladora worker who get around 40 bucks a WEEK.

I know, and I'm making light of this report.

(07-28-2014 08:49 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(07-28-2014 08:44 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  Do "journalists" or people running these sites ever fact check at all anymore?

It doesn't appear so.

I stopped taking the media seriously a long time ago, and I think most other Americans did, too.

Did you hear about the 31 city tour of "Fappy the Anti-Mastrubation Dolphin?"

(07-28-2014 05:50 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(07-28-2014 08:49 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  I stopped taking the media seriously a long time ago, and I think most other Americans did, too.

Did you hear about the 31 city tour of "Fappy the Anti-Mastrubation Dolphin?"

Thankfully, I've been spared that.

Journalists are like Bigfoot. Supposedly they exist, but no one actually finds one.

Michelle is a crazy moon bat, no need to make up stories about her.

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