On Monday, Brian Stelter traveled to The ReidOut on MSNBC to declare “it is not biased or partisan to tug on the side of truth,” as he argued the media needs to be willing to be more active in its denunciations of Donald Trump, but what about host Joy Reid? Because on Friday, Reid spread fake news in order to fawn over South Africa’s preposterous claim at the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
During an interview with executive director of the misnamed Human Rights Watch, Tirana Hassan, Reid claimed “This is the deadliest conflict in modern history, more dead than even in places like Aleppo.”
This is why writers are required to use citations. According to Hamas’s fake numbers—fake because they do not distinguish civilian from combatant— 23,469 Gazans have been killed since…
