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AP redact name calling Tweet about migrants (Original Post) laserhaas Oct 2018 OP
This is how "the media" is BumRushDaShow Oct 2018 #1
Exactly! laserhaas Oct 2018 #2
+1 dalton99a Oct 2018 #8
aaaand they got to say it again during the retraction 0rganism Oct 2018 #3
"poorly chosen"? how about, "pure BS reichwing propaganda we were spewing"????? niyad Oct 2018 #4
Did they change it to "wretched refuse"? William Seger Oct 2018 #5
K & R DonViejo Oct 2018 #6
Okay laserhaas Oct 2018 #9
The people are refugees & asylum seekers NOT migrants. CottonBear Oct 2018 #7
not "poorly chosen"--DELIBERATELY chose-- reichwing propaganda at work. niyad Oct 2018 #10

BumRushDaShow

(129,068 posts)
1. This is how "the media" is
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 01:40 PM
Oct 2018


No different than calling POC "looters" or "rioters" while calling whites "finders" or "overly jubilant".

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
7. The people are refugees & asylum seekers NOT migrants.
Mon Oct 22, 2018, 06:28 PM
Oct 2018

The AP and all of the MSM have poorly chosen the wrong label for these people who are fleeing violence and terror.

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