Fake News; Moslem student a liar and Texas elector a liar as well

These days the press is in a war, the first casualty of which is truth. There are few journalists out there looking out for facts; last week one British journalist, Genevieve Roberts, bravely stood up to the most Goliath Daily Mail when she twitted to the world that their front page story on Myanmar soldiers abusing children was wrong. The Daily Mail has yet to apologize. Most of Roberts' colleagues just accepted the lies and do not dare take on the paper with the most widely read internet news portal in the world.
And here in the US we can expect little apology from the press which gave us another round of fake  news, including a story on a Moslem woman who was allegedly set on by three white Trump supporters on the train - and  how nobody came to her aid.  Nobody came to her aid because nobody ever attacked her. And then there is the hero worship accorded Chris Suprun, the Texas elector who refuses to cast his vote today in the Electoral  College for Donald Trump. Chris supposedly was a first responder on 9/11. Chris is a liar.

Here then is a look at both stories to see who the press in the US, like the press in the UK, needs a fact checker. And oh, later today, we can see what the Electoral College does, let's hope Clinton has not booked another big party for herself replete with fireworks. Cause there ain't gonna be any honey!

Moslem Student story debunked:

17 Dec. NY Post by Rick Calder and Jamie Schram - Mayor de Blasio is furious at the Muslim student who lied about being the target of a hate crime on the subway...
"I am really angry at this young woman for, in effect, doing a huge disservice to everyone," the mayor said, speaking of Yasmin Seweid during de Blasio's WNYC radio call-in show Friday.
Seweid, 18, of North New Hyde Park, LI, admitted to cops this week that she had made up her story of being accosted Dec. 1 by three white drunks who called her a terrorists, taunted, "Donald Trump!" and tried to pull off her headscarf.

Chris Suprun debunked:


16 Dec. NY  Daniel Harper The Texas Republican elector who gained notoriety after pledging not to vote for Donald Trump falsely claimed he was a 9/11 first responder, it was reported Friday.

WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, said it turned up evidence to rebut Chris Suprun’s claim that he rushed to the attack at the Pentagon on 9/11 while serving as a firefighter in Virginia.

“He claimed to be a first responder with the Manassas Park [Virginia] Fire Department on September 11, 2001 and personally told us stories ‘I was fighting fire that day at the Pentagon.’ No, I was on a medic unit that day at the Pentagon and you make a phone call to Manassas Park and you find out that he wasn’t even employed there until October 2001,” a source told the radio station.

Manassas Park — which is 30 miles from the Pentagon — confirmed to the outlet that Suprun was hired a month after the attack on Oct. 10, 2001. That fire station, moreover, did not respond to the terror at the Pentagon.’ No, I was on a medic unit that day at the Pentagon and you make a phone call to Manassas Park and you find out that he wasn’t even employed there until October 2001,” a source told the radio station.

Manassas Park — which is 30 miles from the Pentagon — confirmed to the outlet that Suprun was hired a month after the attack on Oct. 10, 2001. That fire station, moreover, did not respond to the terror attacks that day.

“It’s no different than stolen valor for the military; dressing up and saying ‘Hey, I earned a Purple Heart’ when you weren’t even in combat.’ There’s a big difference between shopping at Old Navy and being a Navy SEAL,” the source said.

Suprun did not respond to a request for comment.Rick calder,