Latest Media Lie: Border Patrol Agents "Charged at" Those Poor Illegal Aliens

Whipping up outrage

It seems like a bad idea for the president of the United States, in the middle of an unprecedented crisis at our southern border, to alienate the very men and women on the front lines of that crisis. That’s because Joe Biden is an endless font of bad ideas. The worse the idea, the greater his investment. So when it was time for ol’ Joe to badmouth his own people to save his ass, he really went for it.

Townhall.com @townhallcom

Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border: "To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It's outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay."

That’s what you get for doing your job in Biden’s America.

And he’s getting plenty of help from our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the media. First they spread the lie, which Biden repeated, that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants. Here’s what actually happened:

Sarah Blake Morgan @StorytellerSBM

Sorting through my footage from the border. I was in the river during the viral incident between a Haitian migrant and mounted CBP agent. It's shaky - but here's what I captured.

That’s it. That’s what all the fuss is about. There was no whipping. Nobody got whipped.

But everybody has already decided those agents did something wrong, up to and including the president and vice president of the United States. They can’t all just get un-outraged about it. And they certainly can’t admit they were wrong.

So now we see this sort of framing from the press:

Axios @axios

Gov. Greg Abbott to Border Patrol agents who charged at Haitian migrants from horseback: “I will hire you to help Texas secure our border.”

trib.alTexas governor says he’ll hire Border Patrol agents on horseback if they’re fired“You have a job in the state of Texas.”

“Charged at”? No, that’s not what happened either.

This false claim is supposed to be an improvement on Axios’ original false claim:

Axios @axios

We deleted a previous tweet that referred to Border Patrol agents as whipping at Haitian migrants. The story has been updated to include comments from some journalists on the border who did not see whipping occur.

Nobody saw whipping occur because whipping did not occur. It did not happen.

It’s one thing when the media misses a key detail, or mishears a quote, or otherwise craps the bed. That’s just reporters screwing up. But this whole “whipping” thing is a deliberate lie. And now that the lie has been exposed, the media is workshopping alternate lies to replace it. It’s all garbage. Those Border Patrol agents did nothing wrong.

If you tell the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop, you get banned by Silicon Valley. If you lie about the Border Patrol, you get quoted by the president.

If politicians and “journalists” will lie about what you’ve seen with your own eyes, what else will they lie about? An entire generation has been taught there’s no such thing as objective reality, and this is what happens when they enter the workforce.

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jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL

Day 28 of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.

But don’t worry, everything’s fine over there. America’s new pals the Taliban are taking care of everything.

Associated Press:

The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past.

The past 20 years didn’t need to be a complete waste, but that’s what Joe Biden wants. Everything that’s happening right now is because of Biden.

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And the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series goes to…

Tom Elliott @tomselliott

@brianstelter WaPo’s @crampell: Media focusing too much on the pricetag of Dems’ $3.5T bill: “The bill itself will not cost $3.5T in the sense it will be entirely, or at least partly, paid for. So the actual cost will be smaller than that, perhaps zero, although I think that’s unlikely"

What a relief! And here I thought government spending was out of control.

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Sometimes a story comes along that just… I dunno…

jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL

"A former forestry student-turned-shaman & yoga teacher has been charged with starting a huge California wildfire that has destroyed 41 homes... after claiming the blaze was triggered accidentally while she tried to boil bear urine so she could drink it."

dailymail.co.ukWoman arrested on suspicion of starting California wildfireForestry student-turned-shaman, 30, faces nine years in jail for ‘starting California’s Fawn Fire’ that has burned 8,500 acres and destroyed 41 homes: DA suspects she could be ‘serial arsonist.’

I don’t know if this woman is innocent or guilty, but I do know one thing: that’s a very accommodating bear.

“Hey Boo-Boo, buddy, let’s go get us some pick-a-nick baskets!”
“Just a second, Yogi, this nice lady needs me to pee in a cup…”

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The Democrats have never met a problem they couldn’t rename.

The Hill @thehill

California to replace "alien" with "noncitizen," "immigrant" in state laws hill.cm/4JI4y8o

Whew! You wouldn’t want to offend somebody who’s living in this country illegally.

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Scientists are saying a solar superstorm could knock out the internet for several months, so you might want to stock up on memes and hot takes now. Always keep a stockpile of hashtags and viral videos on hand in case of emergencies.

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I went grocery shopping yesterday, here in the great Midwest, and maybe one in 10 people were masked. I’m vaccinated, so I don’t care either way. It wasn’t crowded, and everybody minded their own business, and it was just a typical Sunday.

Meanwhile, Down Under:

Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi

More insane police overreach in Melbourne. Guy put in handcuffs for being a few hundred metres from his home. Police say “he has no valid reason to be there” & “wasn’t wearing a face mask”. He says he was getting lunch & having a cigarette.

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The final season of the lunatic lawyer show Goliath¹ is really hitting home with me, because Billy Bob Thornton is taking on pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioids. After my accident a while back, I was in constant, excruciating pain for almost two years. If it hadn’t been for the painkillers I was prescribed, I don’t know how I would’ve survived it. As I healed up and regained some mobility, my doctor weaned me off that stuff gradually over a period of months. Now I just treat the lingering pain with topical analgesics and constant simmering anger. But a lot of people get hooked on those pills, and I can understand why. Painkillers are a godsend to people in chronic pain, and they also can be nightmarishly addictive.

I don’t expect David E. Kelley to come up with a solution to the opioid epidemic on a streaming TV show, but he’s pitting Billy Bob against J. K. Simmons and it’s really something to see. To give you an idea of this show’s nuance and subtlety, Simmons actually does a five-minute Broadway-style musical number where his character justifies manufacturing dope, and he’s a pretty decent singer.² Is there nothing J. K. Simmons can’t do?

Also, Bruce Dern plays a crazy old man. I think every character he’s played for the last 20 years has just been called Crazy Old Man.

What a nutty show. I’m gonna miss it.

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Thanks for reading. The other day I got a complaint that I’m writing too much, which really bummed me out. This is from someone who just unsubscribed:

I will, I guess. But damn, that’s dispiriting. I’ve been working really hard on this newsletter for months. Does anybody else want me to write less? Because I can do that. My daily noon deadline is self-imposed, and I’ve been maintaining this schedule because I don’t want subscribers to feel ripped off. But if you guys just can’t keep up with me…

1. I mean that in both senses: It’s a show about a lawyer who is a lunatic, and it’s also a show made by lunatics.

2. That Goliath musical number was written by Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne (“Stacy’s Mom,” “That Thing You Do”), who died of the coronavirus last year. He was just a few months older than me, which is one reason I don’t listen to anybody who tells me the virus is nothing to worry about.