I was watching the April 9, 2021 installment of the Dan Bongino pod-cast. Dan does a good job of dealing with current "progressive" misinformation. However, I have caught him a couple of times reporting his own tall tales. Today was one of them.
In a move reminiscent of a mainstream media mind game, Dan spoke of a Washington Examiner artcle with the following headline, "TSA allowing illegal migrants to fly without proper documents". Wanting to post such news here in the Cantina, I went in search of the original article. I happened to have a web page open for a different Washington Examiner article and just searched for the headline, to no avail, at least in the first couple of resulting pages. I then tried searching by the articles author name, with the same none results. Not being deterred, I used duck duck go search engine on a new tab and finally got a result.
Clicking on the supplied link, I was surprised to fin that yes, it did go to the Washington Examiner's website and, yes, it was one of their articles, but, It was from almost two years ago. The byline date on the article was June 6, 2019. Funny, I think someone else was in charge of the TSA on that date.
Everyone here knows, or would know if they had read some of my political posts, that I hold mostly conservative values with maybe a dash of libertarian thrown in. It may be that Mr. Bongino was unaware of the date of the article, or he may have been using a "rules for radicals" item against them. In my opinion however
not being aware of the date of the article is sloppy research in the least, and can come back to bite us at the worst.As mentioned, I have seen this tactic used by both sides, especially in posts on Facebook. Don't fall for it.
