CNSNews.com does like to attack Rep. Rashida Tlaib — to the point that it misrepresents her words and takes them out of context to make them look bad. Managing editor Michael W. Chapman leaned that way in a May 13 article:
Commenting on Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) remarks that the Holocaust gives her a “kind of calming feeling” because it was her ancestors, Palestinians, “who lost their land,” their “livelihood,” and “their human dignity” to “create a safe haven for Jews” in Israel, President Donald Trump tweeted that Tlaib “obviously has a tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.”
Chapman did later put Tlaib’s comments in context — then repeated right-wingers taking them out of context and accusing her of being anti-Semitic, falsely claiming that Tlaib said that the Holocaust gives her a “calming feeling.”
Still, CNS went on to embrace the out-of-context narrative. Craig Bannister fully went there in a May 13 article by claiming that “House Majority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are calling on President Donald Trump and Republicans to apologize to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for criticizing her comment that she gets ‘a calming feeling’ from thinking about the Holocaust.”
Bannister followed up the next day by taking her out of context again: “Appearing on NBC’s Late Night on Monday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) suggested she may have to “talk like a fourth grader” in order to get through to “the racist idiots” who were offended by her comment that thinking of the Holocaust gives her ‘a calming feeling.'”
Chapman returned to be slilghtly less bad in another post: “House Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) remarks that the Holocaust produces a ‘calming feeling’ in her because some of her Palestinian ancestors ‘lost their lives’ to ‘create a safe haven for Jews’ in Israel are deceitful, said the world-renowned Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.” Chapman didn’t mention that Boteach is a self-promoting, Trump-loving rabbi who is apparently only somewhat less obnoxious than CNS’ favorite Trump-loving rabbi, Aryeh Spero.