{"id":38033,"date":"2020-01-23T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38033"},"modified":"2020-01-23T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:29:29","slug":"dont-trust-what-you-read-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38033","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Trust What You Read On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/01\/cnn-hack-tweets-out-overheard-convo-between-gop-senators-panicking-about-impeachment-later-admits-he-made-it-all-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> posted an article about a tweet by CNN&#8217;s Joe Lockhart .<\/p>\n<p>This is the tweet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeLockhartTweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeLockhartTweet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeLockhartTweet.png 516w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeLockhartTweet-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeLockhartTweet-500x229.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s only one problem with the tweet&#8211;it is totally made up.<\/p>\n<p>The article at The Gateway Pundit reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After his tweet went viral with thousands of retweets and 10\u2019s of thousands of \u2018likes\u2019 with \u2018conservative\u2019 WaPo blogger Jennifer Rubin retweeting it, Lockhart admitted he made up the entire conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cOk maybe I made up the convo, but you know that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re thinking.\u201d Lockhart tweeted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After major backlash from thousands of people calling Lockhart out for his lies, he pulled a Schiff and claimed it was just satire and parody.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This is what all Democrats do when they get caught lying and fabricating conversations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that in the tweet Lockhart is saying that the Senators don&#8217;t know incriminating information against President Trump because they watch Fox News. Think about that for a minute&#8211;CNN, known for its fake news has reported stories that are totally false. The reporting on Fox News&#8211;particularly Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham has consistently proved to be true. What about the people who watch CNN and have no idea that everything Fox News has reported for the past two years has turned out to be true? How does that compare to the truthfulness of CNN? The false reporting of CNN and other biased media outlets bears much of the responsibility for the divisiveness currently found in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Gateway Pundit posted an article about a tweet by CNN&#8217;s Joe Lockhart . This is the tweet: There&#8217;s only one problem with the tweet&#8211;it is totally made up. The article at The Gateway Pundit reports: After his tweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38033\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1344,10833,2523,2340,7857,2573,12481,10589,2561],"class_list":["post-38033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-fake-news","tag-fox-news","tag-gateway-pundit","tag-impeachment","tag-jennifer-rubin","tag-joe-lockhart","tag-president-trump","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38035,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38033\/revisions\/38035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}