08-01-2018, 12:49 PM
It always surprises me the depths to which Fox News will bottomfish so they can present their skewered view of reality. The latest, an edited video which presented Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono looking mistaken and confused. I wanted to post this here as I have seen multiple comments on various sites repeating falsely that Senator Hirono doesn’t understand immigration law. She was in fact correct in her comments:
Mazie Hirono, the Democratic senator from Hawaii, was questioning the head of removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Matthew Albence, over the administrations family reunification efforts. The folks at Fox & Friends... selectively edited, and then intentionally presented the falsified video as proof the US Senator was "confused" over immigration law.
Despite the way Fox & Friends presented the dialogue -- suggesting a sitting U.S. senator was “confused about the immigration laws” -- Hirono was, in fact, correct in her assertions that the Trump administration alone made the decision to start prosecuting everyone crossing the border illegally, which has resulted in the separation of hundreds of immigrant families. Albence would acknowledge Hirono’s assertion as “correct,” but Fox & Friends did not include the comment in its deceptively edited clip.
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/fox-fr...-to-f.html
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
Mazie Hirono, the Democratic senator from Hawaii, was questioning the head of removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Matthew Albence, over the administrations family reunification efforts. The folks at Fox & Friends... selectively edited, and then intentionally presented the falsified video as proof the US Senator was "confused" over immigration law.
Despite the way Fox & Friends presented the dialogue -- suggesting a sitting U.S. senator was “confused about the immigration laws” -- Hirono was, in fact, correct in her assertions that the Trump administration alone made the decision to start prosecuting everyone crossing the border illegally, which has resulted in the separation of hundreds of immigrant families. Albence would acknowledge Hirono’s assertion as “correct,” but Fox & Friends did not include the comment in its deceptively edited clip.
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/fox-fr...-to-f.html
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
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