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More salvos from the left’s circular firing squad
Earnest teens passionately pitch the Green New Deal to geriatric Senator who smugly interrupts, rebuffs, and lectures them with callous condescension, turning the encounter into a tense, testy clash.
Duped by deceptively edited viral footage calculated to fuel outrage, media outlets have run with this irresistable story — despite its manifest falsehood.
Had reporters done their due diligence before publishing — by viewing the original, unedited livestreamed footage and doing a little background research — then they could have reported the encounter more accurately.
Here is what really happened:
- The youth activists showed up without an appointment. Senator Dianne Feinstein made time to see them, anyway.
- The activists asked her to support the Green New Deal. Feinstein said she had her own Green New Deal plan, and asked her staff to bring copies for them.
- Without waiting to see the Senator’s plan, the activists repeatedly demanded that she endorse the Ocasio-Cortez/Markey resolution.
- Despite incessant interruptions from the kids and their chaperone, Feinstein patiently imparted a practical civics lesson. After…