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9 January 2019

A crash course in whataboutery from the Associated Press

Don’t do this, kids.

By Media Mole

Some absolutely top-shelf max-strength you-have-to-ask-the-pharmacist-for-it-specifically whataboutery from the Associated Press in this “Fact-check” tweet it posted on Tuesday. Try to see if you can spot the flaw in the logic here:

Not really much to add to that, is there.

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