Washington Post contributor apologizes for taking Jeff Sessions out of context and spreading fake news

 A Washington Post contributor, Daniel Drezner, has been forced to apologize for Tweeting that Jeff Sessions called all illegal immigrants “filth.” Here is his Tweet:

He went on to say the following:

I’m not going to lie, seeing the word “filth” used to seemingly describe illegal immigrants brought me up short. It’s pretty potent language for an attorney general to use to describe fellow human beings.

    There is only one problem with this–actually there are two problems with this but I will get to the second problem shortly–Jeff Session was talking about gang bangers and drug dealers and not about all illegal aliens. Once Daniel Drezner realized this he corrected himself and apologized:

The context is clear: Sessions was going to use “filth” to describe MS-13 and drug cartels, not all illegal immigrants crossing the border. One might think, like I do, that the language is hyperbolic, but in context it did not imply what I thought it implied in my tweet.

  I guess we should at least give him credit for admitting his mistake and apologizing for it but I wonder how many people saw his apology versus the people who saw his original Tweet…

  But did you notice how in his admission he stated that Jeff Sessions was “going to use the word filth” and not that he did use the word “filth?” And that leads me to the second problem with  Daniel Drezner’s attack on Jeff Sessions–he never used the word “filth” in the first place:

while “filth” was in Sessions’ prepared remarks, the attorney general didn’t actually utter the word in his speech. He only said, “It is here, on this sliver of land, on this border, where we first take our stand.”

“So, full stop, I was wrong, and I apologize to the attorney general for making this mistake,” Drezner wrote. “I wish I had caught the error in time to delete the tweet before it went viral. Alas, I did not. Deleting it now seems like I’d be trying to erase my mistake. I did respond with a follow-up tweet, but that is insufficient given all the attention this received.”

  Again, I give him credit for admitting his mistake and for apologizing for it, but even he had to admit, as I alluded to above, this was “insufficient” due to the number of people who saw the original Tweet.

  Again we have another example of a leftist (I am taking the liberty to assume he is a leftist) so blinded by hatred of the Trump administration that he was not thinking clearly and it came back to bite him in a big way. He saw what he wanted to see and he did not bother to actually listen to what Jeff Session was saying and they wonder why nobody takes the media seriously any more.

  Hat Tip to Truth Revolt for this story.

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