If a reputable think tank or academic institution came up with the perfect experiment to prove anti-Trump hysteria, it would likely not compete with the breathtaking hypocrisy demonstrated this weekend over a photo showing unaccompanied alien children sleeping in a holding cell.
READ: #WhereAreTheChildren: A Quick Primer on ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’
The photo was taken in 2014, but many people mistakenly thought they photo was taken recently and used the occasion to express typical over-the-top outrage at President Trump without knowing anything about the circumstances of the photo. While it is expected that socialists and racebaiters such as Shaun King, Linda Sarsour and Qasim Rashid or activist actors such as Mia Farrow and Rosanna Arquette would leap before investigating the facts, many other “twitter verified” (have the blue check mark next to their names) and otherwise prominent democrats and journalists also jumped in with both feet, using the photo to lament about Trump holding children in cages.
Some of these partisan hacks include Jon Favreau, Obama’s speechwriter, Jake Silverstein, Editor in Chief of The New York Times Magazine, “award-winning journalist” Lauren Wolfe, NY Times Best-Selling Author of “I’M JUDGING YOU” Luvvie Ajayi, Senior investigative reporter Propublica T. Christian Miller, Editor of CounterPunch Jeffrey St. Clair, The Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, the Chief Executive Officer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, and CNN Reporter Hadas Gold.
Here are some of the tweets (some are screenshots of deleted tweets) and stick around for a bit of commentary below.
This really is a defining moment.
If you are willing to stand by while Trump keeps children in filthy cages with no medicine and loses them to sex traffickers, you will stand by him on anything.
Anything at all.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) May 26, 2018
Children of immigrants are being held in cages like animals at @ICEgov detention centers. Tell ICE and your elected officials that this is horrifyingly unacceptable. In addition to tearing children from their mothers arms- ICE has LOST 1500 kids. #WhereAreTheChildren pic.twitter.com/dMWRIgpRuQ
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) May 27, 2018
I saw this photo floating around and didn’t know if it was real.
It is.
Children of immigrants are being held in cages, like dogs, at ICE detention centers, sleeping on the floor. It’s an abomination.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/V4zRJ43Lvn pic.twitter.com/tbUWSb4B05
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) May 27, 2018
Children are being held in Dog cages ..and our government is responsible.
— Rosanna Arquette (@RoArquette) May 27, 2018
Children are being housed by the U.S. government in cages https://t.co/4LCCQPEFsE
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) May 27, 2018
“When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him.” – Leo Tolstoy https://t.co/VDHN6pBYKj
— Gideon Yago (@gideonyago) May 27, 2018
The US Govt is holding migrant children in small cages like they are animals–just as 45 describes them.
This is horrific. This is inhumane. This cannot stand. #ThisIsAmerica https://t.co/JEty91DHvq
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) May 27, 2018
Take a look at these photos. #WhereAreOurChildren https://t.co/OZRG6YIXJB
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) May 27, 2018
This makes me sad and angry. https://t.co/WM1m57iR8x
— Paolo Uggetti (@PaoloUggetti) May 27, 2018
First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility https://t.co/6JyQBMEjI1
— Luvvie Ajayi (@iLuvvit) May 27, 2018
Showing immigrant children being held in what’s basically a kennel. https://t.co/1RuYWy6UaI
— T. Christian Miller (@txtianmiller) May 27, 2018
A Look Inside Our Guantanmo for Kids. How much longer will America tolerate this?https://t.co/Sg1UWc8G6Y
— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) May 27, 2018
This is what America has become.
“What you have done to the least of these, you have done to Me.”~Jesus
God is not pleased.First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility https://t.co/tt7JqByRJP via @azcentral
— Leah D. Daughtry (@LeahDaughtry) May 27, 2018
While Red Raccoon is not verified, he has a large social media reach:
I’ll just leave this here. pic.twitter.com/y1D13FqUyg
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) May 26, 2018
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA sums it up.
Why didn’t all these photos of kids in cages outrage liberals when they were actually taken in 2014 when Obama was President?
🤔
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 28, 2018
As an aside, when confronted by the fact that the article they are all promoting as an example of “Evil Trump” was from their God-King Obama, the reactions ranged from denial (deleting the tweet), to lashing out.
Lauren Wolfe, who writes for “The Nation” (the house journal of the oldest and most radical left think tank in D.C., the Institute for Policy Studies) had one of the most over-the-top “I am a victim” freak-outs about the whole thing, even creating a poll to illustrate how much of a victim she is.
Here is just a sample. Wow.
I am a journalist who has faced sustained hatred and anger on Twitter and I am a
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) May 28, 2018
I locked my account yesterday because of the incredible hate on my timeline. I unlock it today because today we remember that our freedoms are worth fighting for—few more so than a free press.
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) May 28, 2018
Not sure what happened tonight, but the Trump trolls came after me in force for accidentally sharing a story from 2014. It’s bad enough we live daily in a miasma of lies—the laser-directed hate is a bit much right now. My account is locked for the foreseeable future
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) May 28, 2018
So for all of you shouting about how “fake” the media is bec I accidentally tweeted an old story: Consider transparency. And the fact that humanitarian issues under Trump have gotten much worse. I dare any of you critics to go report on refugee children in US now & say otherwise
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) May 27, 2018
I have two takeaways from this:
- The circumstances don’t matter. The left really just wants to be outraged at Trump. This news story came out in 2014, and much worse came out in 2016 when it was revealed that Obama’s administration was not properly following up on the unaccompanied alien children, leading to repeated abuse. Those news stories barely registered as a blip in the news cycle. It is not about the kids, it is about ideology.
- One thing that genuinely surprised this author is that so many reflexively tweeted out the “migrants in cage” story without checking it. Is this evidence that these people genuinely believe the constant lies coming from people like Shaun King, who literally just deleted a bevy of tweets after he falsely called out a police officer -by name- for rape which turned out to be a completely fake story.
It is amazing that even after all this, the left does not understand why Americans distrust the mainstream media and voted for President Trump.
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