Daily Wire's Knowles CPAC speech sends the mainstream media into a fake news frenzy
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Knowles called for a return to objective truth and compassion at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
“Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) March 4, 2023
These words were in a speech by a major right wing figure at a national conservative conference.
It’s a straight up call for genocide. That’s what this fight is about. They want us gone. pic.twitter.com/HHFyjbCejg
For this, Knowles was widely accused of genocide - the media's words, not mine-by an apoplectic journalism class, including Yahoo, HuffPo and Rolling Stone.
Daily Beast, HuffPo, Rolling Stone all LIE, claim Michael Knowles called for transgender people to be 'eradicated' during CPAC speech https://t.co/EUDs6NtSaQ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 5, 2023
Until Knowles threatened the libelers with libel.
.@michaeljknowles to @TuckerCarlson on being accused of genocide by media outlets:
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 7, 2023
"They just put words into my mouth that I never said...The libel laws in the United States have quite a high threshold to actually sue. This meets that threshold." pic.twitter.com/HCMKEt0voK
The misreporting of the content of Knowles's speech led to death threats against the Daily Wire personality and his family.
Left-wing online news sites misreport @michaeljknowles #CPAC2023 speech in sensational headlines inaccurately saying he is calling for the genocide of trans people. The stories have already inspired death threats against Knowles & conference attendees. https://t.co/ROMqbwpmZx
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 5, 2023
But Knowles is not backing down, although opponents are working overtime to cancel his future speeches, the content of which his detractors do not yet know.
The libs have apparently not succeeded in eradicating my speech tomorrow at the University of Buffalo. See you then! https://t.co/ILfNftbvTc
— Michael Knowles, falsehood eradicator (@michaeljknowles) March 8, 2023
Whether one disagrees with the content of the speech or how he said it, an average, sane person could not conflate the end of an ideology with the mass murder of those who believe the doctrine to be true.
A sitting Democrat congressman called me "a Nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power" because I said society should treat "transgenderism" as we did before 2015.
— Michael Knowles, falsehood eradicator (@michaeljknowles) March 7, 2023
Bowman should be censured for these outrageous and defamatory remarks. @SpeakerMcCarthy @HouseGOP https://t.co/xOxOexrwxd
Someone who got the story about Knowles's speech right THE FIRST TIME was Kennedy Hall from Lifesite.
I reported it accurately https://t.co/yJk2eC4q6T
— Kennedy Hall (@kennedyhall) March 4, 2023
Kennedy joins me tonight to discuss the Knowles controversy and the state of religious freedom in Canada.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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