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Media Claims That Wind Made Border Wall Fall Over. There's More To The Story.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/media-claims-that-wind-made-border-wall-fall-over-theres-more-to-the-story
Far-left news organizations reported on Wednesday that high winds blew over a small segment of President Donald Trump's border wall that was under construction on the southern border near Mexicali in an apparent attempt to embarrass the president but the claim was misleading.
The far-left publications - CNN, NBC News, HuffPost, NowThis, and AJ+ (Al Jazeera) - published the following headlines or comments in tweets:
CNN: Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side.
NBC News: Portions of California border wall wilt and fall into Mexico after high winds.
HuffPost: "Trump's signature border wall fell over in Mexico from high winds a day after he boasted about the strength of his barrier."
AJ+: Part of President Trump's proposed border wall fell over because of high winds.
NowThis: "Strong gusts of wind knocked over new sections of Trump's border wall into Mexico."
The claims were misleading because a small portion of the wall blew over because the concrete had just been poured and it did not have time to set in and harden.
Washington Post border reporter Nick Miroff noted that misleading claims and specifically called out CNN's coverage of the incident, writing on Twitter: "I get the urge to dunk on the border wall, but this is misleading. The panels that fell over in the wind were not anchored yet. You can clearly see that in the photo. And adjacent sections did NOT fall, likely because the concrete base had time to harden."
"When there are issues, flaws, problems etc. with the border wall and its construction, we will continue to cover them," Miroff added. "This incident was not one of those." ...
When a reporter from the uber-leftist WaPo feels the burning need to correct your FAKE NEWS BS, then you know your leftist propaganda really, really stinks.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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