“As a conservative and Republican I hate when people, who are supposedly on our side, lie to try to make a point. It serves no purpose other than to hurt the cause. The Democrats are providing plenty of ammunition, we don’t need to cheat” – The current top comment on the New York Post article “Longtime advocate lied about vets getting kicked out of NY hotels for migrants,” posted Thursday.
Last week the Post had reported that nearly two dozen homeless veterans had been evicted from a Hudson Valley hotel being used to shelter them to make room for an influx of migrants bussed to NYC by Texas Governor Low Energy Greg Abbot. The story was based solely on a claim by advocate Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation and naturally the story spread all over MAGA social media as an example of libs putting “illegals” first over veterans.
Turns out Toney-Finch, allegedly a veteran herself, was not only full of shit, but had been party to a scheme by unknown individuals to pay random homeless men $200 each to pretend they were veterans evicted from the hotel when meeting with Republican New York state Assemblyman Brian Maher – who had pushed so hard to use it to gain attention for himself before the whole thing unraveled due to some superb investigative reporting by MidHudsonNews.com staff.
The moral of the story is that right wing media consumers evidently prefer to be angry about made-up outrages over being angry about said made-up outrages being exposed by incompetence.