11-13-2016, 07:18 PM
ROFL. I decided to check that SNOPES link. Besides the title reading as "GOP Platform Proposes to Get Rid of National Parks", the underlying boldface text is "The Republican Party platform likely isn't calling for the abolition of all national parks and national forests." and points out that ThinkProgress is fear mongering
So selective ThinkProgress is, they again produced a false narrative. Snopes itself relayed that...
This being that they were talking about other lands owned by the Nation being returned to State Jurisdiction, not the destruction of National parks.
Oh, and that Breithart article about ThinkProgress being Punked was easily backed up by links to ThinkProgress's idiotic story as well as KCTV7's parody story they thought was true... and one of the Top 10 Hoaxes and Fake Stories of 2014.
Quote:Four days later, ThinkProgress ran that information under the alarmist headline of "GOP Platform Proposes to Get Rid of National Parks and National Forests."
Are Republicans planning to make the abolition of national parks and national forests a policy goal? Probably not.
The platform language quoted by ThinkProgress mentioned only "certain federally controlled public lands"; it didn't specify national parks and forests or reference "all federally controlled public lands":
So selective ThinkProgress is, they again produced a false narrative. Snopes itself relayed that...
Quote:The term "public lands" encompasses much more than just national parks and national forests. The National Park Service only accounts for 12% of the land held by the federal government — agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, also oversee large areas of federally owned land.
This being that they were talking about other lands owned by the Nation being returned to State Jurisdiction, not the destruction of National parks.
Oh, and that Breithart article about ThinkProgress being Punked was easily backed up by links to ThinkProgress's idiotic story as well as KCTV7's parody story they thought was true... and one of the Top 10 Hoaxes and Fake Stories of 2014.