Posted on November 1, 2018, and tagged as
More map mayhem from the Tiffany Network.
Little details continue to elude Black Rock.
On October 30, The CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor fact-checked President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. is “the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States.”
A two-and-a-half minute report told us he was wrong (the number is precisely “at least 30”). To be sure, Mr. Glor needed to put a bow on it:
Here is a deeper look, by the way, at birthright citizenship. It is, in addition to the U.S., the law in Canada and most countries in Central and South America …
Evidently Mr. Glor didn’t look deep enough. On a map highlighting birthright citizenship countries, they neglected to include Alaska as a U.S. state.
(By the way, this isn’t the first time they got their geography wrong.)
Hey, CBS, you're not a fan of the president. I get it. But please, if you’re going to challenge him on the facts, get your facts straight first. (Two wrongs don't make a right, right?)
