As of this writing, the following post has been up for 5 hours and racked up more than 54,000 likes.
This is the photo taken at the White House right after @HouseGOP voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year.
Everyone with an ❌ has since been voted out of Congress. pic.twitter.com/06b9sRGysm
— Nicholas Kitchel (@nicholaskitchel) November 17, 2018
To be clear—they were either voted out or quit because they knew what was coming ?
— Nicholas Kitchel (@nicholaskitchel) November 17, 2018
Wait … quit certainly isn’t the same as voted out, and who’s to know for what reason they chose to retire. But that’s not the point; this is:
Or to be clear, it’s just flat out inaccurate. https://t.co/NH7xiCbbHq
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 17, 2018
Kinda steps on your point when you get this many wrong.
You have X’s over Seema Verma and Tom Price. Not in Congress for this. DeSantis was just elected governor. You’ve also got Burgess, Grothman, Roby, Budd, Ryan, Olson, and Graves wrong.
That’s 10 off.
— Matt Whitlock ?? (@mattdizwhitlock) November 17, 2018
Lol at this dumb viral tweet full of inaccuracies. Aside from the many other wrong ones, he has an ‘X’ over Seema Verma’s face. She’s never even served in Congress ??♂️ https://t.co/mPXIbI4rj1
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) November 17, 2018
Grothman, budd, graves, price, DeSantis became governor, roby, more lol
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) November 17, 2018
I saw that and decided against engaging. Glad you did. Oh, Rick Allen too, and that’s just a quick scan thru. But he got a lot of retweets which is all he probably cared about.
— Ryan Costello (@RyanCostello) November 17, 2018
Even CNN’s Jake Tapper played spot the errors:
Noem and DeSantis! Roby!
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 17, 2018
Once I saw Seema and Tom Price with X’s I did a double take and realized that more than a third of these are wrong.
— Matt Whitlock ?? (@mattdizwhitlock) November 17, 2018
If someone did an accurate version of that I bet it would be interesting though
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 17, 2018
That’s right: you just heard someone from CNN saying an accurate version would be interesting. Are you listening, Brian Stelter, or do you have bananas in your ears?
And now the original, incorrect post has 23,000 retweets. Any chance of a corrected version?
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Update:
Errors in this goofball photo: Jodey Arrington, Ron Estes, Liz Cheney, Michael Burgess, Patrick McHenry, Jason Smith, Bradley Byrne, Markwayne Mullin, Paul Mitchell, Glenn Grothman, Doug Lamborn, Tim Walberg all won reelection. https://t.co/uTxVm0uG9b
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 18, 2018
DeSantis ran for gov. Tom Price went into the Cabinet. Steve Pearce didnt run for the House
This is quite literally insane fake news.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 18, 2018
Blake Farenthold left Congress because of ethics issues
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 18, 2018
Amazing. This photo illustration — posted by @nicholaskitchel — is actually more incorrect than correct.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 18, 2018
Yup and the fake news photo tweet (meme) by @nicholaskitchel got 25K retweets in a matter of hours. You think @brianstelter will raise hell about it? Na.
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) November 18, 2018
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This won’t backfire: Planned Parenthood delivers capes to John McCain and other anti-repeal superheroes https://t.co/geVe2Wj5Jp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 29, 2017
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