Washington Post commentator and Biden devotee Jennifer Rubin recently penned an opinion piece entitled, "Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism."
This hit piece targeting Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his conservative initiatives, alternatively titled, "Why Ron Desantis's stunts may backfire," appears to have itself backfired and exposed the author's own "know-nothingism."
While the paper issued a pseudo-correction over the weekend, it appears the reputational damage has been done.
Rubin set out in her Friday piece to "examine the potential price Floridians might pay for MAGA culture wars."
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his obedient Republican legislature have made bullying and attacking the vulnerable the hallmarks of their governance," wrote Rubin.
Citing DeSantis-ratified laws banning child sex-change mutilations and critical race theory, as well as the governor's initiative to provide Democratic sanctuary cities with busloads of illegal aliens, Rubin suggested, "Florida has become not where 'woke' died but rather where empathy, decency, and kindness go to die."
After bemoaning the governor's popular initiatives, Rubin stated her thesis: DeSantis' "MAGA war on diversity and tolerance might be negatively impacting the state."
This impact, according to Rubin, can be seen in the massive exodus of 674,740 people from the state in 2021. Only that never happened. Rather, the exact opposite phenomenon occurred.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, 647,740 people moved into the state in 2021, leaving Florida with the biggest population boom of all 50 states.
Rubin appears to have based the crux of her argument on a blog derivative from a Business Insider article, wherein Kelsey Neubauer incorrectly stated that "an estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021. That’s more than any other state, including New York or California, the two states that have received the most attention for outbound migration during the pandemic."
While Business Insider changed the headline of its July 11 story to "We got it wrong: More people moved out of New York and California than Florida in 2021" and noted in a corresponding correction that it had "switched those numbers," Rubin had already adopted the original false conclusion as a premise.
Rubin then attempted to build on this false premise, suggesting that "evidence points to a brain drain from Florida universities and colleges," but admitted "data is hard to come by."
After her article's publication, internet sleuths took notice.
Twitter Community Notes quickly tagged the article that had been posted to her page with links to the source of the facts she had inverted.
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DeSantis' press secretary Jeremy Redfern responded to the post, writing, "Oh...really?"
Redfern alluded to a July 13 CNBC article, which indicated Florida's 2023 economy score was 340 out of 360 points, resulting in an A+ grade; GDP growth was 4% in 2022; job growth was 4.9%; and its "economy is white hot."
Stephen Miller, contributing editor at the Spectator, responded, "You should be fired for this kind of mistake."
Charles C.W. Cooke, a senior writer at National Review Online, tweeted, "In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made—and then corrected—on Tuesday. 'Does she have editors?' was just emphatically answered."
Cooke added, "It really is jarring to see. When I've written for the Post and the Times, I've been fact-checked until I bled. ... But, as is evident if you read those papers, it only happens in one direction."
The updated version of Rubin's polemic no longer contains her core premise, but maintains her dubious argument. It also contains a correction, which reads, "A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians' state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected."
Just as she has not offered an apology for her hand in pushing the discredited Russian collusion narrative to smear former President Donald Trump, Rubin does not appear to have apologized for using falsehoods to smear DeSantis.
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According to Joe Biden, “white supremacists” are the greatest threat facing black Americans.
He made this very clear in a speech he gave at a historically black college last week.
“It’s never really over, but on the best days enough of us have the guts and the hearts to just stand up for the best in us. To choose love over hate,” Biden said.
He then continued by spreading what Chad Prather says are lies.
In front of the historically black college, Biden added, “The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.”
“I’ve got an issue with that,” Prather responds, “because here’s the deal: When you say ‘white supremacy’ you’re just saying white people in general. That’s what you’re saying.”
Prather mentions the recent mass shooting in Allen, Texas.
The shooter was Hispanic, but Democrats, activists, and the mainstream media jumped to call him a white supremacist.
“So, anybody that’s not black basically is a white supremacist,” Prather says.
But Prather, unlike Joe Biden, knows what the real enemies of the black community are.
“The biggest enemies in America, and specifically to the black community, folks are not white supremacists,” he says.
Rather, Prather says their biggest enemy is “Democrats, and more specifically, Democratic policies.”
According to Prather, these policies have “consistently and historically kept them in physically, morally, circumstantially, spiritually, economically, psychologically, and emotionally impoverished circumstances.”
The second biggest enemy to the black community is again, not white supremacists, Prather explains.
It’s a direct result of Democrat policies, and it’s called fatherlessness. And Prather has the receipts to prove it.
“72.3% of black births are out of wedlock,” he says.
He says that this is more than likely a result of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC.
It was signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, who was a Democrat.
The AFDC helps provide cash welfare payments for needy children who have been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was absent from the home.
Prather says policies like this have been weaponized to incentivize members of the black community to be a part of single-parent homes.
But according to Prather, the black community's true mortal enemy is abortion.
“You want to know what kills black people? It’s abortion,” Prather says.
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Sarah Jane Comrie, a New York City woman, is now the latest victim of the online mob.
Comrie is fighting claims that she’s a racist after a video of her refusing to give up her Citi Bike to a group of young black men went viral.
Comrie is pictured crying in the video and screaming “help.”
Activists took to Twitter to slam the woman, including Attorney Ben Crump.
He wrote, “A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!”
It was later proven through receipts that the woman in question had paid for the Citi Bike, and the young black men were trying to take it from her.
Despite the woman being in the right, she was doxed online — and is six-months pregnant.
Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why It Matters" threw in her two cents.
“Yes, I’m sure that six-month pregnant woman is such a danger to that group of black men. I’m sure she stood a chance should any sort of fight break out,” Gonzales mocked.
Not only was the woman forced to leave her home because strangers were attempting to come after her and her husband, but her employer put her on leave after viewing the video.
She is now suing for defamation.
Eric July joined Gonzales to discuss the matter.
July says people online have been “race-baiting, calling her this and this and that just because she had a conflict with someone that is a different color than her. And this is why the race conversation in this country continues to escalate.”
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One of the distinguishing features of Trump's presidency was an aggressive press corps that felt obligated to call out Trump's 'lies' -- so why won't they apply this same standard to Biden who is inarguably a world-class liar?
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