From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: NBC gets caught lying yet again.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:11:22 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:41:56 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:
> 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.
*Anything* with an -ist suffix has this same preblom:
*I* am Left Handed, no "ist", and you rightards *never*
see it comin' ;-)
Dhu ('cept for my stoopid little Bro' who beats down most Lefties no prob ;)
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