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HuffPo reporter doesn’t know difference between earplugs and rubber bullets

earplugsIt’s bad enough the media is utterly biased.  It’s even worse when reporters assigned to cover crime stories like the Ferguson shooting don’t even know the difference between earplugs and rubber bullets.

But that’s exactly what happened Sunday Morning when Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/statuses/500981295359741952

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Naturally, those a bit more in the know schooled Reilly.

https://twitter.com/AnnaZ/status/501000413877772290

That’s because they ARE earplugs…

Agreed…

Probably true.

This made me laugh…

https://twitter.com/JessaNaomi/status/501000954104123392

Very true.  Is anyone taking notes over at the Huffington Post?

For Reilly’s benefit, this is a rubber bullet.

rubberbullet1These are also rubber bullets:

rubber bullets2These are earplugs…

earplugsAny questions?

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Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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