While I’ve long admired the work of David Simon (Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, The Corner, The Wire, etc.), he posted something on Twitter that was not only wrong, but an exact inversion of the truth, contending that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “intervened” in U.S. politics, when in fact it was the Obama Administration that blatantly intervened in Israeli politics in an attempt to defeat Netanyahu.
So the following Twitter thread ensued:
What Netanyahu intervention? It was Obama who intervened in Israel's elections, sending campaign staffer Jeremy Bird to Israel to work with V15 to oust Netanyahu: https://t.co/P2XdNaJPJU
This happened way before Trump was even nominated.
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) October 29, 2018
GFY you lying piece of shit. Total propaganda bs. Perhaps you forgot Obama's attempts to affect the outcome of the Israel election.
— Terry Hood (@HoodTerry) October 28, 2018
They're not "debunked memes," there were numerous news stories on Obama's attempts to affect Israel's elections at the time: https://t.co/P2XdNaJPJU
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) October 29, 2018
There were plenty of news reports of Obama's attempts to influence the Israeli election. Here's one from Israel's left-wing Haaretz:https://t.co/TilNCakyhY
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) October 29, 2018
"State Department Sent Taxpayer Funds to Group Trying to Oust Netanyahu":
State "funneled tax dollars to a group that worked to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Senate report released Tuesday." $465,000 for OneVoice https://t.co/rHaWKiPCLh— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) October 29, 2018
Result:
No wonder our liberal media elites are constantly blind-sided by unexpected events, if they keep constructing reality bubbles around themselves to keep from having to deal with unpleasant facts about the world that run counter to their ideology.
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, David Simon, Democrats, Israel, Israeli Elections, Jeremy Bird, Media Watch