• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    The same administration who…

    • hired a FEMA Director who didn’t know the US has as hurricane season
    • hired a Social Security Administration boss who had to Google what social security was after he accepted the job offer
    • hired a completely unqualified Secretary of Education, whose major prior experience was in a wrestling federation
    • hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be Secretary of Defense
    • hired a drunken talking head from a fake news station to be the attorney of DC

    (…the list goes on and on and on…)

    Is making claims about a foreign news organization and what they published on their website… Yeah, I think I’ll believe the BBC on this one.

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        27 days ago

        Oh TACO Belle? Yeah, she’s a prime candidate of cluelessness too. But there are so many trump hires who fit this bill, and only so many characters allowed in a Lemmy comment field.

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    It said the White House had conflated that incident with a “completely separate” report by BBC Verify, the corporation’s factchecking team, which found a viral video posted on social media was not linked to the aid distribution centre it claimed to show. “This video did not run on BBC news channels and had not informed our reporting,” it said. “Conflating these two stories is simply misleading.”

    BBC is misunderstanding this. They didn’t conflate the two separate things intentionally.

    I fully believe they did it out of sheer incompetence and ignorance, and when they realised the mistake, they did what they always do and doubled down on it. The dimwits who elect them will get confused otherwise.