{"id":2341846,"date":"2024-09-16T13:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-issues-bogus-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:40:10","slug":"politifact-issues-bogus-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-issues-bogus-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Issues Bogus Fact Check Of Springfield Geese Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fpolitifact-issues-bogus-fact-check-of-springfield-geese-hunting%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=2341846&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--><p>A PolitiFact reporter named Loreben Tuquero\u2063 attempted to discredit a report from The Federalist about Haitian immigrants seen hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio. The report stemmed from a police call where a local resident reported witnessing a group of Haitians with dead\u200b geese, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-urges-education-department-to-investigate-crt-complaints-biden-introduces-civil-rights-nominee-who-may-approve-of-crt\/\" title=\"GOP Urges Education Department To Investigate CRT Complaints. Biden Introduces Civil Rights Nominee Who May Approve Of CRT.\">amid growing concerns<\/a> in\u200b the community over \u2064an\u200c influx of Haitian migrants. Tuquero criticized the report, stating that there was no\u200b evidence to substantiate the claims, despite acknowledging that the call was genuine. Additionally, she pointed out that the caller could not provide complete identification of the vehicle involved,\u2064 even though the caller \u200cindicated\u2064 they had seen the license plates. <\/p>\n<p>Tuquero&#8217;s refutation of the goose-hunting story coincided with Meta labeling related \u200cposts as &#8220;false\u2063 news,&#8221; despite recent \u200bpromises\u2062 from company&#8217;s CEO Mark Zuckerberg against \u2062election interference. In another instance, Tuquero, alongside another PolitiFact writer, challenged claims made by Senator J.D. Vance related to legislation in Minnesota concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/god-loves-me-10-year-old-trans-child-quotes-bible-to-tell-tx-legislators-why-they-shouldnt-ban-trans-surgeries-procedures-for-minors\/\" title=\"\u2018God Loves Me\u2019: 10-Year-Old Trans Child Quotes Bible To Tell TX Legislators Why They Shouldn\u2019t Ban Trans Surgeries, Procedures For Minors\">gender-affirming care<\/a> for minors. \u2064They \u200casserted that Vance misrepresented the law, stating that it does not remove parental rights \u200bor allows the government to \u2063take children based solely on parental objections to such care. the\u200c article highlights concerns over media representation of immigration and legislative issues, emphasizing the differing \u2063focus and scrutiny involved.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A &ldquo;misinformation&rdquo; reporter for the far-left fact-checking organization PolitiFact who tried to discredit The Federalist&rsquo;s report on Haitian immigrants hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio, has a history of whitewashing far-left radicalism.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Loreben Tuquero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2024\/sep\/15\/a-caller-told-clark-county-ohio-officials-he-saw-h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought to undermine<\/a> Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/exclusive-police-audio-report-confirm-haitian-goose-hunting-in-ohio-they-all-had-geese-in-their-hands\/\">coverage<\/a> of an audio recording of a police call in Springfield wherein a local resident reported a group of Haitians carrying dead geese.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sitting here, I&rsquo;m riding on the trail, I&rsquo;m going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people, there was about four of &rsquo;em, they all had geese in their hand,&rdquo; the caller told the public services dispatcher. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m time crunching here, and I saw that, I&rsquo;m like, &lsquo;Yeah this has got to be reported.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The police audio came as other residents in the community of roughly 60,000, overwhelmed by more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2024\/07\/10\/biden-floods-ohio-town-20000-haitian-migrants-ten-bedroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20,000 <\/a>Haitians, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/democrats-immigration-crisis-pushes-ohioans-to-the-breaking-point-whos-protecting-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained <\/a>of spotting immigrants hunting geese in the local parks. Tuquero said the call was problematic, however, because officials &ldquo;found no proof.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The caller said he couldn&rsquo;t identify the full license plate number of the car the group was traveling in,&rdquo; Tuquero reported, despite the caller making clear in the recorded audio that the car drove away as he made note of the plates. <\/p>\n<p>According to Tuquero, Meta flagged posts related to the story as &ldquo;false news and misinformation&rdquo; on its platforms despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/zuckerberg-admits-facebook-helped-feds-on-covid-censorship-election-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaration<\/a> just three weeks ago that the company would refrain from the kind of election interference Silicon Valley engaged in during the 2020 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Existence of the audio and report does not &lsquo;confirm&rsquo; goose-hunting is happening,&rdquo; Tuquero reported. &ldquo;Clark County officials did not dispute that the nonemergency call was real. But they have said they found no evidence &mdash; such as videos, photos or dead geese &mdash; to substantiate the claim.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But while Tuquero aims to discredit the news of Haitian migrants hunting geese in the local parks because the first instinct of residents in a dilapidated blue-collar town isn&rsquo;t to take a cell phone out, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., has easily escaped substantive criticism.<\/p>\n<p>In late August, Tuquero teamed up with another PolitiFact writer named Grace Abels to claim &ldquo;J.D. Vance misrepresents Minnesota law on kids seeking gender-affirming care.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, criticized his vice presidential campaign opponent, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., about signing a law that seeks to protect parents who bring their children to Minnesota for gender-affirming care,&rdquo; PolitiFact reported. The piece highlighted a comment from Vance at a campaign rally in Wisconsin early in the month. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s pretty weird to try to take children away from their parents if the parents don&rsquo;t want to consent to sex changes,&rdquo; Vance told a crowd on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact said Vance&rsquo;s &ldquo;claim mischaracterizes the reach of the Walz-approved law on parental custody&rdquo; because authors of the &ldquo;Trans Refuge Bill&rdquo; are denying the real consequences of the politically <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/13\/support-for-transgenderism-is-cratering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unpopular<\/a> legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The amended law does not do that, the bill&rsquo;s sponsor and legal experts said,&rdquo; PolitiFact reported. &ldquo;The law would neither &lsquo;take away&rsquo; a parent&rsquo;s custody rights, nor would it authorize the government to take custody of a child just because a parent objects to gender-affirming care.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The article, however, concedes the legislation Walz signed in 2023 grants Minnesota courts &ldquo;temporary emergency jurisdiction&rdquo; in custody cases for children seeking transgender treatments. <\/p>\n<p>Bobby Jindal and Heidi Overton <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/tim-walz-made-minnesota-a-sanctuary-for-baby-killers-and-child-mutilators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> about the Minnesota law for The Federalist this week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the child has fled from another state, Walz supersedes other state laws that might have more appropriate jurisdiction for custody decisions, granting jurisdiction to Minnesota courts simply because the child is in the state for &lsquo;gender affirming care,&#8217;&rdquo; they wrote. &ldquo;If a parent with custody is in another state and wants to bring his or her child home, Walz prohibits state officials from complying with child removal requests if the child is in the state for &lsquo;gender affirming care.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But this wasn&rsquo;t enough for Walz,&rdquo; they added. The governor &ldquo;added restrictions on subpoenas, arrests, or extraditions to other states, and he requires all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pritzkers-health-insurance-overhauls-cross-finish-line\/\" title=\"Pritzker&#039;s Health Insurance Reforms successfully completed\">state-regulated health insurance plans<\/a> to include coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walz-made-mn-a-sanctuary-for-baby-killers-and-child-mutilators\/\" title=\"Walz Made MN A &#039;Sanctuary&#039; For Baby Killers And Child Mutilators\">expensive transgender treatments<\/a> for children and adults as part of any insurance plan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tuquero and her colleague, however, rated Vance&rsquo;s claim as &ldquo;false.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter from the far-left fact-checking group PolitiFact, known for spreading &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; attempted to discredit The Federalist&#8217;s article about Haitian immigrants hunting geese in Springfield, Ohio. Loreben Tuquero aimed to challenge the Federalist&#8217;s reporting on a police call where a local resident described seeing a group of Haitians with dead geese. The caller mentioned, \u201cI\u2019m riding on the trail&#8230; and I see a group of Haitian people&#8230; they all had geese in their hand,\u201d prompting him to report it. This incident occurred as residents of the town, which has around 60,000 people and over 20,000 Haitians, expressed concerns about immigrants hunting in local parks. Tuquero claimed that the call was problematic because officials found &#8220;no proof.&#8221; She noted that the caller couldn&#8217;t fully identify the vehicle&#8217;s license plate despite him stating that he observed it as it drove away.<\/p>\n<p>Tuquero also reported that Meta flagged related posts as &#8220;false news and misinformation,&#8221; despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently stating that they would avoid election interference like what happened during the 2020 cycle. She argued that while there is an audio recording and report, they do not confirm goose hunting is occurring since Clark County officials stated they found no evidence such as videos or photos to support this claim.<\/p>\n<p>While Tuquero focused on discrediting reports of Haitian migrants hunting geese\u2014suggesting residents might not instinctively record such events\u2014Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota has largely avoided significant criticism for his actions regarding gender-affirming care laws. In late August, Tuquero collaborated with another PolitiFact writer to assert that J.D. Vance misrepresented Minnesota law concerning children seeking gender-affirming care after Vance criticized Walz for signing legislation protecting parents who bring their children for such treatments.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact contended Vance\u2019s claims mischaracterized Walz\u2019s law because its authors denied any real consequences from this politically contentious legislation. They stated that according to legal experts and bill sponsors, it does not strip parents of custody rights nor allow government intervention solely based on parental objections to gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s acknowledged within PolitiFact&#8217;s article that Walz\u2019s signed legislation grants Minnesota courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over custody cases involving children seeking transgender treatments if those children have fled from other states. Bobby Jindal and Heidi Overton discussed these implications in The Federalist recently.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed out how Walz\u2019s law allows Minnesota courts jurisdiction simply because a child is present in-state for \u201cgender affirming care,\u201d overriding other state laws regarding custody decisions. Furthermore, if a custodial parent resides out-of-state and wishes to reclaim their child while they&#8217;re receiving treatment in Minnesota, state officials are prohibited from complying with requests for removal under these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these points being raised by critics like Jindal and Overton regarding additional restrictions imposed by Walz\u2014including limitations on subpoenas or extraditions\u2014Tuquero rated Vance\u2019s assertions as \u201cfalse.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tristan Justice serves as The Federalist&#8217;s western correspondent and writes extensively about culture-related issues through his conservative newsletter Social Justice Redux; he has contributed pieces across various platforms including The Washington Examiner and Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2341847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2076775962_2e9b694f91_k-e1726502278386.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7380,13420,40998,8159,18909],"class_list":["post-2341846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-misinformation","tag-fact-check","tag-geese-hunting","tag-politifact","tag-springfield"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2076775962_2e9b694f91_k-e1726502278386.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341846","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}