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YOU DON’T HATE THEM ENOUGH

It wasn’t groundbreaking work. I’m convinced that’s part of why it went so bonkers.

Nick Shirley’s video of Somali daycares and health care providers has eclipsed 140 million views on Twitter. I’m not even checking his YouTube, you get the point.

In journalism terms, it wasn’t anything snazzy. He just took a look at publicly available government payment records, saw who was getting paid, and visited their business to see if it looked legit. That’s it. He knocked on doors and asked questions.

There was no real confirmation of one thing or another. Did the business look real? That was the only question, and the answer in almost every case was decidedly no.

Enter liberal media. Their reaction to this story has been something else. The phrase “you can’t hate them enough” doesn’t even come close. 

With all the resources they have that Shirley doesn’t, the billions of dollars, the investigative heft, the highly paid reporters, how did they attack the story? By attacking Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old kid with a YouTube page and a coupla cojones.

CNN confronted Shirley on the street. (He was hilariously wearing a newly printed hoodie depicting the “Quality Learing Center”.)

“How do you know the allegations you’re making are true?” says Whitney Wilson.

“We showed you guys what was happening, and you guys can go ahead and make your own analysis,” Shirley replied.

In other words: I trust normal people to see what I’ve shown on video and make up their own minds about what’s happening.

Wilson took a few approaches from this point. One was to play it off like these fraud........

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