{"id":1196304,"date":"2022-01-07T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196304"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:45","slug":"washington-post-reduces-tom-cottons-pinocchio-rating-over-boston-bomber-stimulus-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-reduces-tom-cottons-pinocchio-rating-over-boston-bomber-stimulus-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Reduces Tom Cotton&#039;s Pinocchio Rating over Boston Bomber Stimulus Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-reduces-tom-cottons-pinocchio-rating-over-boston-bomber-stimulus-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1231326590-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The<em> Washington Post<\/em> reduced Sen. Tom Cotton\u2019s (R-AK) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/09\/murderers-undocumented-immigrants-hyped-claims-about-whos-getting-stimulus-checks\/\">Pinocchio rating<\/a> from 2021 after it was revealed Boston Marathon bomber&nbsp;Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/boston-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-got-1400-covid-relief-payment\/BVKRJUHHHVEIFBVS5IM3INNDNI\/\">receive<\/a> a coronavirus relief payment from a bill Democrats passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, as Congress debated passing another coronavirus relief bill, Senator Cotton warned the piece of legislation would allow for violent criminals like&nbsp;Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Dylan Roof to receive a government check.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The left recognizes that this was a bad idea and that they&#8217;re going to pay a price at the polls. <\/p>\n<p>Get ready for campaign ads. <\/p>\n<p>So liberals and their media allies are trying to spin it for damage control.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1368933169337090055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was a problem. Congress (or at least Republicans) did not intend to send prisoners serving life sentences stimulus checks as part of CARES. <\/p>\n<p>Murderers in prison haven&#8217;t lost income because of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1368933171237187587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> argued Cotton had engaged in \u201cscaremongering\u201d as well as political \u201ctheater,\u201d asserting stimulus checks would not be sent to the Boston bomber.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe goal was to get checks out as quickly as possible without burdensome regulations,\u201d argued the <em>Post<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to craft rules that target mass murderers without also penalizing the families of people in prison for much less heinous crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston Herald: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Received Welfare Benefits: On Tuesday, Massachusetts Health an\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/fqQVTEVHGI\">http:\/\/t.co\/fqQVTEVHGI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/326909291393077248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several months later, it turns out Cotton told the truth and&nbsp;Tsarnaev actually did receive $1,400 in coronavirus relief payments that prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/01\/06\/video-boston-marathon-bomber-ordered-hand-1400-coronavirus-relief-victims\/\">are now demanding<\/a> that he pay to the victim relief funds. On Thursday, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> reduced the rating from two Pinocchios to just one Pinocchio \u2013 the equivalent of \u201cMostly True,\u201d knocking Cotton only for lacking context.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cotton primarily received the Two-Pinocchio rating because his comments lacked context. He suggested this problem was the result of something Democrats did, when he had previously voted for legislation with the same language that allowed for checks to be issued to prisoners. He also made it clear that he intended weaponize this debate for campaign ads.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Cotton\u2019s predictive powers should be acknowledged. He said the Boston bomber would get a stimulus check \u2014 and Tsarnaev did. Now, if the government is successful, this money will go to victims. So Tsarnaev still will not keep it. But in retrospect, the use of the phrase of \u201cscaremongering\u201d was inappropriate. Cotton had raised a legitimate issue of concern, even if he framed it in a political way. The term \u201chyped up\u201d in the headline went too far as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to the update, Cotton\u2019s press secretary James Arnold contacted the <em>Post<\/em>&nbsp;demanding that the publication fix the rating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou portrayed Senator Cotton\u2019s amendment as pure political theater\u2014\u2019not serious legislation\u2019\u2014warning of an outcome that, according to your article, was very unlikely to happen,\u201d Arnold wrote. \u201cNow that it has in fact happened, we\u2019re asking that you update your story to include that Senator Cotton\u2019s concerns did come true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reduced Sen. Tom Cotton\u2019s (R-AK) Pinocchio rating from 2021 after it was revealed Boston Marathon bomber\u00a0Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did\u00a0receive a coronavirus relief payment from a bill Democrats passed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}