From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: NBC gets caught lying yet again.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:41:56 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Muffler Bearings LLC
On 2025-09-25, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, we reported that NBC News attempted to smear ICE by
> accusing the agency of using a five-year-old autistic girl as "bait"
> to apprehend her illegal immigrant father.
>
> Here's what NBC News wrote yesterday:
>
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held a 5-year-old
> autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to
> surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family Â
> an allegation that the Department of Homeland Security strongly
> disputes.
>
> A video of the incident, obtained by Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra,
> shows a young girl surrounded by what appears to be several male law
> enforcement agents outside of her home in Leominster, Massachusetts,
> last Tuesday.
>
> The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pushed back against what
> they called "disgusting smears." It turned out the illegal immigrant
> abandoned his daughter in an effort to flee from ICE.
>
> DHS wrote on X, "Edwards Hip Mejia, a criminal illegal alien from
> Guatemala, ignored law enforcement emergency lights and darted inside
> his house, abandoning his 5-year-old daughter in the car. Officers
> helped rescue the child and called local police to report the
> abandonment. Stop the smears. Stop the lies."
>
> Now, NBC News has quietly deleted its original post and altered the
> story to reflect reality.
>
> NBC updated the post and issued a correction that read, "An earlier
> version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents
> in the video. The article has been updated."
>
> While the headline of the story has changed, the story itself simply
> has a footnote correction. In the opening paragraphs, NBC News writes
> that video, "shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a
> 5-year-old girl, whose mother says is autistic, while agents attempt
> to arrest her father near their Massachusetts home," but goes on to
> quote the girl's mother accusing ICE of "taking" her daughter.
>
> But -- as always -- the damage is done. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) quoted the
> original post and called ICE "vile and beyond cruel" before demanding
> ICE be abolished.
>
>
> https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/09/24/nbc-corrects-record-on-ice-story-with-young-girl-n2663897
>
> Another network publishes a fake story and calls it "news".
No surprise here.
NBC will simply drop it and move on to the next lie.
It's what the leftists do.
--
pothead
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