As Twitchy told you last night, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison appeared to endorse the domestic terrorists of Antifa:
https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/948657342308147202
Ellison rightly faced a major backlash for that. But according to Newsweek, that backlash was from racist bigots:
A Keith Ellison tweet mentioning "antifa" has spurred an Islamaphobic backlash across the alt-right https://t.co/1wynmFvrDv pic.twitter.com/bbAgg2oCYs
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 4, 2018
Our post on Ellison’s tweet contained plenty of pushback from people who have nothing whatsoever to do with the Alt-Right. But that just doesn’t suit Newsweek’s narrative, now does it?
“A Muslim promoting terrorism is not news,” commenter Supah Cisgender wrote on Gateway Pundit.
It’s never a good idea to read the comments section. But the comments section at Gateway Pundit or InfoWars? Come on, now.
This Newsweek article is literally citing the comment section on Gateway Pundit and Infowars as its source https://t.co/g0RCsMClP0 pic.twitter.com/MPzq33e93L
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) January 4, 2018
Newsweek went to InfoWars and Gateway Pundit to find Islamaphobic criticism of Ellison, couldn't find it, so they had to highlight *the comment section* pic.twitter.com/km34fGTSNg
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 4, 2018
I mean, let that sink in. The author went to alt-right websites and STILL couldn't find racist articles attacks Ellison, and had to take it a step further. That's how much of a stretch his cute little thesis is.
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 4, 2018
In focusing on the reaction from fringe outlets’ comments sections, they disgrace themselves and completely ignore the mainstream conservatives who called out Ellison. Nice, isn’t it? Nicer still, they manage to carve out a little space to downplay the danger posed by Antifa:
“Antifa” is not a group; it is a word used to describe a means of protesting. The protesters involved in the movement have not been even “formally classified” as a domestic terror organization by the federal government. FBI Director Christopher Wray said in late November that some men and women who are inspired by “kind of an antifa ideology” were being investigated by the FBI to the House Homeland Security Committee, but that remark was embedded in a larger discussion about investigating white supremacists—the very people “antifa” protesters are setting out to disrupt.
For a publication with “News” in the name, they sure do suck at journalism.
This is an unbelievably weak and stupid piece https://t.co/ZkzlmJpGXe
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 4, 2018
That’s putting it mildly.
Nothing biased in this headline.
— Isaiah L. Rice (@IsaiahLRice) January 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/Maideneer/status/948995339184418817
https://twitter.com/Sam_5thEstate/status/949019961191817221
https://twitter.com/JasonRaimondo1/status/949021244476837889
Are you guys pushing for the biggest #FakeNews of the year at Trumps award show?
— Space Force (@jivey81) January 4, 2018
They’re definitely strong contenders.
https://twitter.com/AltRabbi/status/949020445507977222
Not likely.
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