Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This praise:
“I’ve talked to a lot of the [protest organizers]. . . . They are the salt of the earth. They are kind and generous. . . . They want to live in peace.”
— Filmmaker Michael Moore, Monday on CNN
We say: Uh, whom exactly did Moore talk to?
The UCLA protesters who beat a female Jewish student unconscious?
The ones who blocked another Jew from getting to class?
Those who took over a building at Columbia and held a janitor hostage?
Or maybe the ones “merely” calling to “burn Tel Aviv” or for Jews to “go back to the gas chambers”?
And, no, it’s not just a few radicals. The movement itself supports terrorists and singles out Israel, calling for its elimination.
Some “kind and generous” protesters.
This claim:
“These young people seek a worthy cause: to end what may be the most brutal military operation for civilians [Israel’s war against Hamas] in the 21st century.”
— NY Times columnist Lydia Polgreen, Friday
We say: The “paper of record” badly needs fact-checkers.
Hamas says 34,000 have died in Gaza since the war (including terrorists), yet other wars this century have far higher death tolls: hundreds of thousands, including many civilians, with countless children kidnapped, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; more than half a million in Syria’s civil war; 5.4 million deaths, per the International Rescue Committee, in the Second Congo War.
And “Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history,” beyond what international law requires and more than the United States did in Iraq and Afghanistan, per West Point urban-warfare-studies chairman John Spencer.
This statistic:
“Joe Biden . . . created 9 million jobs in his term in office; Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president.”
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Monday
We say: As even lefty MSNBC’s Katy Tur had to remind Pelosi, America suffered through a pandemic in Trump’s fourth year and intentionally shut down much of its economy.
Prior to that, Trump’s job-gain record exceeded Biden’s over comparable years.
Oh, and Biden’s job “gains” are really mostly just a snapback of jobs lost during lockdown.
This denial:
Reporter: “Since you brought up Charlottesville, what do you say to those critics who say [Biden’s] trying to have it both ways [on antisemitism]?”
WH spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre: “No, he’s not doing a ‘both sides’ scenario here.”
— Wednesday
We say: Give us a break! President Biden, worried about reelection, has proved utterly incapable of condemning Jew-hatred without simultaneously trying to offset it with criticism of Islamophobia or with sympathy for Palestinians.
He did that again Thursday in response to antisemitic campus protests — even though he’s blasted Trump for saying there were “very fine people on both sides” when white supremacists marched in Charlottesville in 2017.
Compiled by The Post Editorial Board