Bob Garrett, the Twitter blue-badged Dallas Morning News Austin bureau chief wrote that the governor of Texas said, “Peaceful protest is a core tenant of the US Constitution; violence & mayhem are not.”
Garrett is a man of words, but the word is tenet not tenant.
He also introduced the gibberish &d to the English language.
In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Brian Lopez, Luke Ranker, and Eleanor Dearman repeated the wrong word tenant. Civilly, the three reporters’ email addresses are in their byline.
In the capital city, in an article titled, indeed, “Fact Check: Without evidence, Texas Attorney General Paxton says ‘antifa’ involved in Capitol riot,” Kate Winkle of KXAN-TV, Austin wrote that a spokeswoman for the governor referred the television station to the unfortunate statement.
Such a person, Renae Eze @RenaeEze, “Press Secretary & Senior Communications Advisor for @GovAbbott” retweeted Garrett’s message.
Wnkle’s quote of Abbott made it to another domain, valleycentral.com, the website address of KVEO-TV, Brownsville. Its news director is Amy Sullivan.
An eighth person to spread the the misuse of the word tenant is Emmy award-winning reporter, anchor and podcaster Grace White of television station KHOU (in, of course, Houston). She wrote
Abbott’s office sent us this statement:
“Peaceful protest is a core tenant of the United States Constitution; violence and mayhem are not. The violence and mayhem must stop. America is founded on the rule of law, and the law enforcement officers working to restore order at the United States Capitol must be heeded.”
Persons Nine and Ten responsible for spreading the word tenant are big shots. An item under the byline “CBS Austin and Associated Press” dutifully repeats the T word with the attribution “Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement through spokesperson John Wittman.” #TX #n26257
The news director of CBS Austin is Rob Cartwright (at least, according to a newspaper). #2101C #n1971
A solution is a phrase checker. That’s like a spell checker, but for multiple words. For instance, Hugh Scott is not, never was and never will be Senate Majority Leader (because he is dead). #Error9