Cenk Uygur
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Retired General HUMILIATES Himself With Nonsensical Social Media Post
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7:12Now PlayingRetired 4star general and MSNBC contributor Brian R. McCaffrey unknowingly spread a TikTok from the firstperson shooter video game Arma 3 thinking that it was actual footage of Russian fighter jets getting shot down by Ukrainian antiair defenses. Even though the footage was fairly realistic in itself. the original video clearly showed that the footage was from the video game. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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“Retired four star general and MSNBC contributor Brian R. McCaffrey quickly deleted a tweet on Monday after he was informed by critics that what he appeared to think was actual war footage was just a snippet from a video game.
The tweet, originally published on Monday, has been captured as a screenshot by numerous Twitter users, including National Journalism Center program director Becket Adams.
“Russian aircraft getting nailed by UKR missile defense,” McCaffrey wrote. “Russians are losing large numbers of attack aircraft. UKR defense becoming formidable.”
The tweet of a plane being shot down, however, was from the video game Arma 3. In the video’s description, it clearly says the game’s name. Arma 3 is an open-world military shooter game that launched in 2013. The original title for the short clip is “Russian MiG-29’s Get Shot Down By Air Defense System,”"
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