Anti-immigrant hoax exposed and a Republican actually admits it
The state Attorney General’s Office said Friday it is looking into reports that a nonprofit organization in the Hudson Valley erroneously claimed that homeless veterans placed in hotels were kicked out last week by migrants bused there from New York City.
Another week, another Republican hoax. Earlier this week, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post pushed a story with a blaring frontpage headline "VETS KICKED OUT FOR MIGRANTS: Outrage as upscale hotels tell 20 homeless veterans to leave." It was based on an unverified claim from the head of a veteran's nonprofit, and whether the Post bothered to do even the most minimal fact checking on any of those claims is, ahem, unknown.
The story was everywhere in conservative circles. Fox News screamed about it, of course, with a Republican state assemblyman calling it a "slap in the face to veterans" who are "being cast aside to allow for asylum seekers to come here." The story was picked up by all of the conservative outlets you can think of but are embarrassed to know about, and we ain't linking them here.