And the media is lying about it.
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FACT CHECK: Senator Claims $50M in Condoms Needed to âKeep Malnourished Babies Alive in Gazaâ
And the media is lying about it.
January 31, 2025 by
Daniel Greenfield
Sen. Chris Murphy (D â Tehran) doesnât seem to have gotten the memo that the famine hoax has fallen apart and Hamas tossed it aside after the Biden â Witkoff deal allows it to claim victory.
But after the Trump administration froze the gravy train of aid, including $50 million in condoms for Gaza, Sen. Murphy tweeted that âItâs a lie. Made up. There was no U.S. funding for condoms in Gaza. What he stopped is programs to keep malnourished babies alive in Gaza. Aid groups say infants will start to die next week.â
Everyone knows the perpetually malnourished infants in Gaza canât live without condoms. That then get turned into bombs.
In fact the
governmentâs own website shows $45 million being sent to the UNFPA to âSUPPORT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) CARE CLOSE TO THE DISPLACED POPULATIONSâ under the State Departmentâs BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION. The UNFPA is the United Nations Population Fund which acts as the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
None of this has anything to do with âmalnourished babiesâ.
The media quickly went into âfact checkâ mode.
Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trumpâs story is true â CNN
Trump Administration Makes Unsupported Claim About $50 Million for Condoms to Gaza â Fact Check
The âfact checkingâ had the media play its usual game of declaring that the claim was âunsupportedâ, nitpicking at the details and diverting attention away to the International Medical Corps for Gaza (which is where Sen. Murphy got his starving babies nonsense) and direct shipments rather than the UNFPA.
This is a game that the mediaâs fact-checking ops routinely play. Itâs called playing dumb.
Bidenâs former guy on the scene
came closest to admitting the truth.
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, calls the claim âoutlandish.â
âItâs possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,â he tells The Times of Israel.
Multiple lefty sites (and CATOâs libertarian Reason spam factory) quoted Millerâs âoutlandishâ claim, but not his follow-up admission. It appears to even be reasonably accurate in that the $50 million didnât just cover condoms, but âsexual health programsâ aimed at various forms of birth control.
Selectively quoting Miller demonstrated the mediaâs calculated dishonesty.