{"id":67768,"date":"2021-06-03T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67768"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:44:14","slug":"snopesgate-look-at-how-low-the-cias-mockingbird-media-fake-fact-checking-platform-has-stooped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67768","title":{"rendered":"SNOPESgate: Look at how low the CIA&#8217;s <i>Mockingbird Media<\/i> fake fact-checking platform has stooped!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Todd Starnes: Snopes Labels Attack on Rep. Nancy Mace&#8217;s Home as a &#8216;Rumor&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67772\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67772\" class=\"wp-image-67772 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-2021-06-03T085120-851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-2021-06-03T085120-851.jpg 600w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-2021-06-03T085120-851-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina. (Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Todd Starnes | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Snopes, the left-leaning \u201cfact-checking\u201d website, sent Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, a note demanding to know if she was responsible for vandalizing her own home, the Republican lawmaker said on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddstarnes.com\/\"><strong>Todd Starnes Radio Show.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mace announced on social media earlier this week that her Charleston home had been vandalized with vile graffiti along with Antifa symbols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a very, very jarring experience,\u201d she told me on my radio program. \u201cAnd no one should feel like they&#8217;ve got to look over their shoulder every day. It doesn&#8217;t matter what your political leanings are, Republican or Democrat or indifferent, everyone should feel safe in their own homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace said she was especially troubled because she is a single mom with young children.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-todd-starnes-show\/the-todd-starnes-show-rep-mo-brooks-r-al-lt-col-al\"><strong>Click here to listen to the full interview.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should be safe in their homes. Their families should be safe,\u201d she said. \u201cYou should be able to have the ideas that you want without retribution in this country. That&#8217;s what freedom is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attack was widely condemned by Republicans but garnered hardly any national news coverage or denouncements from congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Rep. Mace won\u2019t be deterred by such cowardice, but every Member of Congress \u2013 on both sides of the aisle \u2013 should denounce this kind of attack,\u201d House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,\u00a0said. \u201cPolitical disagreements are no excuse for harassing and vandalizing someone\u2019s home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charleston Police confirmed they are investigating the incident along with several other nearby acts of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cowardly acts of vandalism are not who we are and they will not be tolerated. Here in Charleston, we don\u2019t deface monuments and we don\u2019t vandalize people\u2019s homes,\u201d Mayor John Tecklenburg wrote in a statement. \u201cBasic human decency is not a political issue \u2013 and people who don\u2019t understand that will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone is convinced that Rep. Mace was the victim of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Snopes, a notorious fact-checking website that targets conservatives and Trump supporters, refused to authenticate the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they posted links to several keyboard conspiracy theorists who suggested that the freshman lawmaker had committed the vandalism instead of Antifa.<\/p>\n<p>Snopes labeled the incident as a \u201crumor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we can\u2019t independently confirm or deny the Mace rumor, we are not yet issuing a rating for this rumor,\u201d the website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/nancy-mace-rumor-alert\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mace told me that a Snopes representative actually reached out for a comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe even got an email from Snopes today asking if I did this to myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI&#8217;m sort of like, in what upside-down world? Are you high? Like, what is going on here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace said the reality is that political violence has increased and conservatives are being targeted by the left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people out there want to destroy the lives of conservatives,\u201d she said. \u201cIt&#8217;s past time to hold people accountable. We&#8217;re seeing people be assaulted. We&#8217;re seeing cities burned to the ground, people&#8217;s property being attacked, and we&#8217;ve got to hold people accountable in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace said she hopes the vandals will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And she also had a message to the bad guys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who thinks that they\u2019re going to intimidate me by showing up on our front porch will have thought wrong,\u201d she told me. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be intimidated by this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And for good measure, Rep. Mace is a law-abiding gun owner who is not afraid to engage in her Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a frequent visitor of my firing range and I have a concealed weapons permit as well,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is a drastic measure no one would ever want to take, but I live in a society today where I have to take precautions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/toddstarnes\/antifa-snopes-rep-nancy-mace-rumor\/2021\/06\/03\/id\/1023747\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/toddstarnes\/antifa-snopes-rep-nancy-mace-rumor\/2021\/06\/03\/id\/1023747\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Starnes: Snopes Labels Attack on Rep. 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