Atlantic reporter Edward-Isacc Dovere and host of the Atlantic’s podcast The Ticket: Politics from The Atlantic. Went off the rails on Feb 18th about Ted Cruz’s jaunt down to Cancun, tweeting, or retweeting 17 times in just one day.
But of course, while claiming he’s utterly shocked whenever he hears anyone accusing the media of having a liberal bias.
Isacc Dovere tweeted zero, count them ZERO times about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo covering up how many elderly New Yorkers died due to his insidious COVID-nursing home order.
10:19 AM – No one goes to Cancun for 11 hours unless they don’t expect to be spotted on the plane in the middle of a state emergency.
No one goes to Cancun for 11 hours unless they don't expect to be spotted on the plane in the middle of a state emergency.
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
10:23 AM – 11 hours seems like enough time to maybe make it to Pasta and After
11 hours seems like enough time to maybe make it to Pasta and After
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
11:03 AM – of course, while Ted Cruz was on the plane to Cancun, he was wearing a mask – even though he said in July:
“If it ends up that Biden wins … I guarantee you the week after the election, suddenly [Democrats] will say, “Everything’s magically better”
of course, while Ted Cruz was on the plane to Cancun, he was wearing a mask – even though he said in July:
“If it ends up that Biden wins …
I guarantee you the week after the election, suddenly [Democrats] will say, “Everything’s magically better”— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
11:16 AM – another question raised by the Cruz’s trip: since he clearly hadn’t been planning on coming back so soon before he got caught, he couldn’t have been planning much of a quarantine between international travel and going back to work in the Senate and being among colleagues & staff
another question raised by the Cruz's trip: since he clearly hadn't been planning on coming back so soon before he got caught, he couldn't have been planning much of a quarantine between international travel and going back to work in the Senate and being among colleagues & staff
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
12:21 – Meanwhile, in Mexico:
Meanwhile, in Mexico: https://t.co/auJhGsd7Da
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
12:42 PM – today in populism: a man flies home early after being caught on his Cancun vacation and asks for an escort to speed him through the airport
today in populism: a man flies home early after being caught on his Cancun vacation and asks for an escort to speed him through the airport https://t.co/9oHaTrRnqv
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
12:43 PM – Ted Cruz, apparently, went to Cancun specifically to *help* Texas relief
Ted Cruz, apparently, went to Cancun specifically to *help* Texas relief https://t.co/YOmyMEgAlv
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
12:50 PM – Biden’s executive order from Jan 21 puts a requirement for a negative COVID test before coming back, which Cruz would have had to get pretty quickly this morning before booking his rushed flight home in order to comply
Biden’s executive order from Jan 21 puts a requirement for a negative COVID test before coming back, which Cruz would have had to get pretty quickly this morning before booking his rushed flight home in order to comply pic.twitter.com/dAEGt25lGE
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
1:19 PM – Cruz’s defense of his own flying to Cancun in the middle of a state emergency is to explain that his daughters decided to take advantage of school being canceled during the emergency to take a vacation in Cancun and he just went with them
Cruz's defense of his own flying to Cancun in the middle of a state emergency is to explain that his daughters decided to take advantage of school being canceled during the emergency to take a vacation in Cancun and he just went with them https://t.co/bkHYGtdXft
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
1:37 PM – Cruz’s defense of his own flying to Cancun in the middle of a state emergency is to explain that his daughters decided to take advantage of school being canceled during the emergency to take a vacation in Cancun and he just went with them
So in sum: either Cruz decided to take a vacation to a Mexican resort in a pandemic and while millions in his state are without power and water, or he backed his daughters' taking that vacation while school was canceled because millions in his state are without power and water
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
1:45 – for the rushed flight home, he has switched to a Texas state flag face mask
for the rushed flight home, he has switched to a Texas state flag face mask https://t.co/QTAHs3SKxA
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
2:25 PM – who doesn’t have a Ritz Carlton employee accompany him to the airport in Cancun for a trip that was prescheduled though the ticket was bought at 6 a.m., when he was just being a good dad flying his 10 & 12 yr old daughters to a resort that was their idea amid an emergency?
who doesn't have a Ritz Carlton employee accompany him to the airport in Cancun for a trip that was prescheduled though the ticket was bought at 6 a.m., when he was just being a good dad flying his 10 & 12 yr old daughters to a resort that was their idea amid an emergency? https://t.co/sIggIzRu4v
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
2:56 PM – Can’t believe a windmill made Ted Cruz fly to Cancun
Can’t believe a windmill made Ted Cruz fly to Cancun
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021
and to finish out his Ted Cruz tweetstorm.
7:00 PM – Edward-Isacc Dovere tweets out this meme about Ted Cruz’s wife and daughter…Nice!
Summary: pic.twitter.com/rEHjWIpQMh
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 19, 2021
Edward-Isacc Dovere will never be accused of being an honest, ethical reporter.
In 2019 Dovere’s tweeted out what he described as a “Scoop” that went vile claiming that long-time journalist David Sirota, who had just been hired as Bernie Sanders’ speechwriter and senior adviser.
SCOOP @davidsirota, just hired as Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and senior adviser, has been quietly writing speeches and advising him for months without disclosing it but while bashing pretty much every candidate in the field: https://t.co/VBSp7dBbyx
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 19, 2019
In his story “Bernie Sanders Just Hired His Twitter Attack Dog” Edward-Isacc Dovere claimed that:
Since December, David Sirota has, on Twitter, on the website Capital & Main, and in columns in The Guardian, been trashing most of Sanders’s Democratic opponents—all without disclosing his work with Sanders
As you might have guessed, Edward-Isacc Dovere’s big scoop was a complete lie
The Atlantic attempted to ‘fix’ Dovere’s story through after publication edits and “updates”.
- * This article originally mischaracterized the website Capital & Main.
- ** This article originally misstated one of the publication dates of a Guardian op-ed. It was published on December 22, not December 31.
Here's a statement from the Guardian calling upon The Atlantic to correct the story by @IsaacDovere regarding the work hats of David Sirota: pic.twitter.com/RSwL8766hD
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) March 19, 2019
Most critically, if what Dovere had written was true. It would have meant David Sirota’s earlier published investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s voting record, donors, and funding sources would now be seriously tainted.
You can read more details about Lie in Glenn Greenwald Intercept article titled:
The Crux of the Accusations Against David Sirota From the Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere is False
To take his lying a step further, the same day he published his story Dovere doubled-downed on his lie.
Sirota deleted 20,000 tweets last night after I contacted him about this, including all of the ones in which he has gone after O’Rourke, Biden, Gillibrand, Booker, Harris, Bennet, Hickenlooper and more.
He said he was doing this as a journalist. Here’s a deleted tweet: pic.twitter.com/SIuhKDhyfa
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 19, 2019
In fact, while still having never apologized for his lie, Dovere stepped on a rake when he tweeted out PROOF that he lied.
Since Sirota’s piece on Beto was published on December 10, 2018, then Dovere’s own tweet proves he made up his story:
spokesperson for The Guardian told me that Sirota told the paper in Jan he was interested in working for Sanders.
Publisher of Capital & Main, Sirota’s precious main job, told @farhip Sirota told him of interest in working for Sanders 2nd week of Feb. https://t.co/idkoI35Tkz
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 21, 2019
short trip to Cancun https://t.co/dS6UQZuKss
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 18, 2021