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October 24, 2017 03:28 PM UTC

Neville wants me to grow up, man up, and accept his fake news

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

neville patrick on kaepernick saying he'd stand for anthem if he could play againRep. Patrick Neville, the leader of the Colorado House Republicans, has called me a “snowflake” for politely asking him, in a blog post last week, to remove news from his Facebook page that’s been retracted by CBS and the Associated Press.

Before being hit with the snowflake accusation, I thought Neville and I would quickly agree that he should cleanse the Kaepernick “news” from his Facebook page. It was thought to be accurate when he shared it Oct. 17, but not anymore.

But, alas, no, he didn’t agree. Instead, he tweeted this at me:

Neville: @BigMediaBlog needs to stop being such a #snowflake. End the #fakeoutrage #growup #moveoutofmomsbasement

So I’m a snowflake because I don’t want to see falsehoods on the Facebook page of one of the state’s top Republican lawmakers? Neville Screen shot 2017-10-24I need to grow up, man up, and accept fake news?

On Twitter, Neville called my blog post “fake news,” and he wrote that on Facebook he was “agreeing with and sharing someone’s post” about Kaepernick.

Neville referred to an an “update” on the Kaepernick “news” that he posted, saying there “are conflicting reports now on whether Kaepernick would or wouldn’t stand for the national anthem.”

But, again, both AP and CBS retracted the Kaepernick news, so it’s false to assert that “Kaepernick tells CBS he’ll stand during national anthem.” So the news is demonstrably false, even if you don’t want to accept Snopes’ identical conclusion.

I reached out to Neville again for this blog post, and I’m still hoping to hear back from him. It’s unusual for him to back off from any debate, especially with snowflake like me.

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13 thoughts on “Neville wants me to grow up, man up, and accept his fake news

  1. Like all bullies, Neville lacks logical arguments, so he resorts to personal attacks. He confuses "manhood" with manipulation, and journalism with jingoism.

  2. The biggest problem with my Representative Neville is that he’s about only half as smart, and maybe 10% as tactful, and 5% as virile, as his old man!

    1. We can’t know for sure what history will record . . . 

      . . . but we can be dead certain that Republicans will lie about that, too.

      (. . . and then, of course, call that “free speech,” as though lying was somehow a patriotic duty . . . )

  3. It is a bitch, Moddy, but as a whiny snowflake bitch, you'd know that, right?  The point is that the First Amendment does not change facts.  The First Amendment does not define what is true and not true.  Apparently, only your authoritarian party that routinely tramples the First Amendment cannot understand the difference between truth and fiction.  But power is intoxicating, and you have clearly drunk deep, plunging headlong into the idiocracy.  Enjoy rolling in the mud with your fellow kakistocrats.  

  4. Breaking “News”: Patrick Neville reportedly likes to spend his evenings diddling small barnyard animals.  #pnbunnythumper. #patricknduckplucker, #pnevillechickenstuffer.

     

    (Disclaimer:  This breaking “news” may not be true, but if you “agree with” and would like to “share” portions of this post, I’m sure Patrick is enough of a big boy to enjoy the joke!)

    (Disclaimer 2:  Of course this breaking “news” isn’t true . . . there’s no evidence, and conflicting reports, whether Patrick’s evening proclivities are limited to small barnyard animals . . . )

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