Posted BY: Kelen McBreen
MSNBC military analyst cries Russia after making bonehead mistake
MSNBC “military analyst” and four-star General Barry McCaffrey blamed “Russian trolls” and “US Twitter friends of Putin” for mocking him after he posted video game footage and claimed it was a Russian jet being shot down in Ukraine.
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The now-deleted original post can be seen below:
After being lambasted online, McCaffrey took to Twitter, writing, “I retweeted a bogus UKR combat video that actually came from some video game. Promptly deleted error when corrected. Generated a massive Russian troll attack. Also generated abusive reaction from US Twitter friends of Putin.”
TWITTER LEARNING EXPERIENCE. I retweeted a bogus UKR combat video that actually came from some video game. Promptly deleted error when corrected. Generated a massive Russian troll attack. Also generated abusive reaction from US Twitter friends of Putin.
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) May 19, 2022
The macho military man claimed he received an “abusive reaction” from the mean keyboard warriors of Twitter.
Independent journalist Eva Bartlett joked, “So, I guess all of you are ‘Russian trolls’ because you took issue with @mccaffreyr3 (the 4 star General of Video Games)’s use of a video game as evidence of Ukraine’s military successes.”
How's your video game reporting on Ukraine's wins going, @mccaffreyr3 ?https://t.co/F3Yw0cTxAh
— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) May 18, 2022
Notorious nitwit and warmonger Max Boot also posted the fake footage and deleted it after learning it was from a video game.
He echoed the claim that those who mocked him for pushing fake news are “pro-Trump/pro-Russia trolls” and ironically asked when “all these trolls [will] apologize for all the lies they spread.?
TWITTER LEARNING EXPERIENCE. I retweeted a bogus UKR combat video that actually came from some video game. Promptly deleted error when corrected. Generated a massive Russian troll attack. Also generated abusive reaction from US Twitter friends of Putin.
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) May 19, 2022
The left is so hungry to push the narrative that Ukraine is winning the war against Russia that they can’t even wait to verify if what they’re sharing is real.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/16/suppressed-history-hidden-1952-text-reframes-20th-century-as-fake/