Andy Ngo has been on a roll covering the ridiculous number of fake hate crimes that have taken place since Trump became president in 2016. The lengths the Left has been willing to go in order to prove that ORANGE MAN BAD is shocking. Heck, look at what Jussie Smollett did.

You guys remember him, right? He’s conveniently disappeared from the media but still.

This time around Andy pressed a Portland outlet on how they verified a story about a ‘brutal gay bashing’ story written in 2016 and the jouno’s and editor’s reactions are … interesting.

Take a look.

Reporter @BlairStenvick wrote about brutal gay bashing in downtown Portland in '16. I emailed to ask how she independently verified story. She ignored me. I inquired again & she said: "I’m not interested in discussing this with you." @alex_zee, do you know?https://t.co/CJCKej6hA6 pic.twitter.com/QEO9EGiFP6 — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 1, 2019

‘I’m not interested in discussing this with you.’

Huh?

Why not?

A news editor responded as well.

I do know! (I'm cc-ed on that email.) — Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) March 1, 2019

I saw. Please follow-up with me here or by email. Thanks. — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 1, 2019

Thanks. Dude is a class act, true story.

No thank you. We're not interested in contributing to your reactionary narratives. — Alex Zielinski (@alex_zee) March 1, 2019

Asking them to verify a story they wrote about a brutal gay bashing is reactionary narrative.

Alrighty then.

Response from the news editor of @portlandmercury when I asked what steps their reporter took to independently verify an unreported claim of a brutal, vicious gay bashing in downtown Portland that had witnesses all around. https://t.co/2sdwmn6P2u — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 1, 2019

We’re actually pretty shocked and that doesn’t happen all that often anymore.

Transparency is paramount in media ethics. That @portlandmercury news editor would respond this way when asked for verification process is wrong. I could find no police, media, witness reports supporting story of brutal gay bashing in downtown PDX. @WmSteveHumphrey, do you know? pic.twitter.com/1X14IW49Ym — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 1, 2019

Wow.

Sounds like someone might have made something up for taps and clicks …

Oh, and that account Andy tagged in? That’s the editor of the paper and as far as we can tell he hasn’t bothered to respond.

Should be nice and easy corroborating this with so many witnesses, including the staff, eh? If the story is true, it's a hate crime and disgusting, and the perpetrators should have been prosecuted. If not…shame on the Portland Mercury, absolute shame. — Meetal Leeka (@Meetal_Leeka) March 1, 2019

Absolute shame indeed.

They just make stuff up and their entitlement leads them to believe they can’t be challenged! — insert name here (@Runner5_H1gh) March 1, 2019

I had always thought most reporters are happy to talk about their journalistic work. After all, it’s a story they’ve chosen to tell. Unless….. — Nicholas Augusta ✯ (@naugusta) March 1, 2019

Unless they’re full of crap.

I doubt she even made an attempt to verify it. She's a stenographer on a mission. — Don't Start (@nivlag2018) March 1, 2019

Uncritically printing victimhood narratives is exactly what the Nathan Phillips row was all about. Jussie Smollett. Activists in the press eager to give fellow-travelers unfiltered access to their ink 2 stain any they don't like. These ppl don't WANT 2 learn; it gets in the way. — Joseph Ronaldson (@J_Ronaldson) March 1, 2019

This is a potentially very, very serious breach of professional ethics. — Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) March 1, 2019

Something like that.

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Dropped on his head?! We could watch James Woods SCHOOL Andrew Cuomo on the Constitution all day LONG