Don’t lie to us

Actual literal journalists lying about the news. That’s useful. Reporter for CBS News:

That’s all lies. His SON told police that. His SON is under arrest on suspicion of murdering his father and stabbing his sister.

The hashtag is NotOurCrimes. It gets used a lot.

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6 responses to “Don’t lie to us”

  1. Piglet Avatar

    Also interesting that he went with a story of how a Scary Black Man broke in and did the stabbing.

  2. GW Avatar

    @1: Link? I didn’t find any articles that said that he claimed that the killer was a black man.

  3. ibbica Avatar

    Piglet & GW: a misreading or misquoting, perhaps? The police were told the home had been invaded by “two suspects wearing all black and ski masks” and/or (different sources, no direct quotes from police that I noticed) “two male intruders wearing ski masks”.

    Incidentally it is rather jarring to read articles calling the shooter’s initial claims a “web of lies” and “fake story” while also deferring to the same shooter’s delusions by referring to him as “her”.

  4. Catwhisperer Avatar

    I’m interested in how the man pretending to be a woman would have known the intruders were male – did they break in with no pants on? Or wearing pronoun badges?

  5. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    Well goodness gracious me what would no pants tell them??!

  6. Catwhisperer Avatar
    Catwhisperer

    Aww no, there I go again, applying the traditional rules for crotch-based identification of males and females. I’m such a transphobe.