I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

[Bricker]

@MaxTheVool

Well, first of all you’re passing on a story that was already posted by professional journalists (assuming WAFF TV isn’t some parody site or other), which takes a LOT of burden of verification off of you because you at least in theory can trust that they have been doing their job.

Aside from that, I dunno… I don’t know enough about unions and how they usually act during emergencies and so forth to be able to reasonably assess how much of an outlier (if at all) that story was. If, for instance, there are other examples in other emergencies in which unions DID act more or less precisely that way, but in this particular instance they did not, then it was clearly reasonable for you to believe that story.

Overall, I’d say that’s closer to plausible than immediately suspect, but that’s coming from a place of general ignorance.
Of course, I’m not sure how that’s relevant though, as at no point was I accusing you of having a double standard when it comes to retractions.

A smattering of the responses I got for the WAFF story – which is a real TV station and not a parody site:

@Lobohan

What’s this? A Republican ideologue being gullible enough to be taken in by lies and misinformation?

Sounds about right.

@drew870mitchell

Bricker, you just played the fish to this crummy bait of a story.

@Fear_Itself

Bricker needs to stick to what he is good at, and leave spreading baseless propaganda to professionals like Fox News.

@MsWhatsit

You should be embarrassed by lapping up misinformation like this and then re-spreading it so quickly. Just embarrassed.