Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @ZcohenCNN: The fake certificates were created by Republicans in SEVEN swing states who sought to replace valid presidential electors w/… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows @kelseysham Ka-HONE! Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thefeverjones @kelseysham I’m trying Mary! — PolitiTweet.org

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@SbWisLaw @kelseysham How are you supposed to say that one? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sufeh In Kentucky it’s closer to Luhvull — PolitiTweet.org

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@ICdrew @kelseysham Yeppp that one got me too — PolitiTweet.org

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“Loueeville,” as we say it up in Canada, has also gotten me Kentucky-mocked, now that I think of it — PolitiTweet.org

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@querywhether @kelseysham WOW! That one is out of control — PolitiTweet.org

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On one of my first Kentucky trips, I pronounced Versailles in the manner of Louis XIV and @kelseysham had to inform me it was, obviously, “Vurrsales” — PolitiTweet.org

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Key CDC comment: "In 91% of all deaths that mention COVID-19, COVID-19 is listed as the underlying cause of death." Yes, death certificates list other conditions as well; no, that doesn't mean they aren't Covid deaths. (We've been through this, I know.) https://t.co/tn8Ycm2tVH — PolitiTweet.org

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I also note them in the article, but a Twitter shoutout to @JamesSurowiecki and @allahpundit, who debunked the nonsense before I did. (Allahpundit on a conservative website to boot.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a full fact check on false claims from some on the right about the Walensky comments on the new Covid study - running through the ABC edit, Clay Travis’s wrongness, and what the CDC actually says about additional causes of death: https://t.co/CS2MtTyZHr — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s Biden’s public schedule for today. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/LyTNgrPNLT — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter has halted further direct sharing of the false Clay Travis tweet about the CDC director's comments, and attached a "stay informed" link to fact-check information. (However, people can still retweet the many others who previously quote-tweeted Travis' tweet.) https://t.co/VrZb1L4pVv — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Kevinliptakcnn: Of note: Trump actually voted in person in the 2020 presidential election. He voted early at a polling station in Palm… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wrongness upon wrongness. 1) Travis’ initial tweet was flat wrong about what Walensky said; 2) The new tweet is flat wrong about what CDC data says (spot the literacy error re “95%”); 3) Know that additional causes of death are often *caused by Covid,* like respiratory failure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@_beccaharrison You're right that many others have interpreted it the way you have - but respectfully, it's always my job to provide missing context. I did it for Trump, do it for Biden, do it for others. If people take revived context as a substantive defense of the speaker, that's their call. — PolitiTweet.org

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@_beccaharrison The once-missing context is very helpful in showing that some on the right were wrongly describing what she said. I have no position on how the context affects the separate controversy you're referring to, about her comments as they relate to people with illnesses/disabilities. — PolitiTweet.org

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@_beccaharrison @CDCDirector Here's what I'm trying to convey: I'm dealing with an entirely separate controversy -- *not* the one you're talking about ** in which some conservatives are falsely describing what Walensky said. I'm not talking about the disability controversy at all; it's not fact-checkable. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's always my job to provide context. But anyway: we have two different controversies about the same comments, swirling separately in two separate Twitter bubbles, and I'm addressing one but getting blasted by people assuming I'm addressing the other. Checking replies is fun! — PolitiTweet.org

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Like, I'm getting a ton of messages like this...even though I'm dealing with an entirely different controversy, about right-wing commentators wrongly depicting Walensky's comments, and not touching the argument that she demeaned disabled people, which is not fact-checkable. https://t.co/vEEN9kURQH — PolitiTweet.org

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@_beccaharrison @CDCDirector Becca, I'm fact-checking an entirely different controversy in which her words are being falsely described on the political right. https://t.co/FHm79CN7vM — PolitiTweet.org

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There are a bunch of "the unedited comment changes nothing, she was still devaluing disabled lives!" tweets. That's subjective; people can debate it all they want. But the unedited comment clearly shows that the other controversy is based on a misinterpretation of what she said. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not sure if everyone on the left is aware that the controversy about Walensky's comments as they relate to people with disabilities has been followed by a separate controversy on the right about the same comments as they relate to Americans' risk of dying of Covid. — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a very false claim Friday about how many children are seriously ill with Covid-19 — saying “over 100,000” are in “serious condition” though, actually, fewer than 5,000 people under age 18 were in hospital with the virus at all: https://t.co/8cOEYIlADs — PolitiTweet.org

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Good Morning America added this note at the end of the extended footage: https://t.co/CfZn9vYpkn https://t.co/VjDWcJKZha — PolitiTweet.org

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Top: Edited Walensky comments that aired on Good Morning America on Friday Bottom: Full Walensky comments the show posted online on Monday Even the edited version showed she was describing one study of vaccinated people, not all Covid-19 deaths, but that's way clearer unedited. https://t.co/ZEt7opmDCY — PolitiTweet.org

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And here’s a link to the study. Goodnight! https://t.co/eRcC50Ebcq — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the clip to watch. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lots of unvaccinated people who’ve died of Covid have also had lots of comorbidities. My point, which has been made by others, is that Walensky’s comments on Good Morning America are being inaccurately described — PolitiTweet.org