Though my RedState colleagues and I have documented numerous instances of it happening, I have lost count of how often Vox.com “journalist” Aaron Rupar has been caught tweeting out deceptive video clips of Republicans (and sometimes Fox News reporters) where he purposely takes them out of context to make what they’re saying to sound like something stupid or troubling.
To make things worse, his purposely vague or bogus descriptions are often retweeted uncritically by supposedly objective reporters and Democratic politicians alike who don’t actually watch the videos or ask about the context before they share them.
The latest instance of Rupar trying to pass off a whopper as a fact came this morning when he was doing his usual monitoring of Fox News programming. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who like many Republicans is against lockdowns, was being interviewed at the time about his anti-lockdown bill and made a statement about how President Biden had been a proponent of wanting to lock the country down during the pandemic.
“The second part of the bill says, ‘look, the president cannot unilaterally lock down the country’ as Joe Biden had said that he would want to do, luckily never did, but now we put it into law,” Crenshaw told “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy.
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