Republican Lies category archive

David takes several calls. The first one is about Kari Lake and David’s response is, in my opinion, quite en pointe.

Aside:

I’ve visited Denmark. It is a very nice place.

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has the back story. Here’s a bit:

A brief review of the record is in order.

Lake lost her challenge to the Nov. 8 election in Superior Court.

She lost at the Arizona Court of Appeals. She largely lost at the Arizona Supreme Court, though the justices returned one claim to the trial court judge for a second look.

And on Monday, she lost that one, too, after a three-day trial in which Judge Thompson relaxed the court rules and allowed her bumbling attorneys a remarkable amount of latitude to make their case.

But, natch, Kari Lake vows to keep on fighting.

David comments on the shamelessness of it all. (Warning: Short commercial at the 4 1/2 minute mark.)

Sam and his crew take a look at right-wing media’s attempt to pretend that there’s a there there.

Farron points out that Republicans can’t tell time.

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts looks at failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s latest attempt steal invalidate the election she lost. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:

After six months, two trials and too many Twitter tirades to count, Lake is asking a judge to toss out the results of last year’s election because the county worked too quickly to review signatures on early ballots.

Funny, it was just six months ago that she was lambasting the county for working too slowly to finish the count and announce a winner. But I digress.

(Broken link fixed.)

Another victim of a Fox News disinformation campaign has sued Fox for defamation of character.

The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat looks at the recent sedition trials of Jan. 6th defendants.

His observations are disquieting. Here are a couple of snippets; follow the link for context.

The verdicts ought to put to rest the Republican historical revisionism that Jan. 6 was simply a protest or legitimate political discourse. Three different juries have now handed to sedition-related verdicts to 14 people . . . .

(snip)

To this day, thought, these . . . beliefs are an animating core of the Republican Party. They are the war cry for the current front-runner for the party’s nomination for president.

David talks with the person who debunked Mike Lindell’s bunk, a person who, I would note, considers himself a Republican.

It’s an interesting discussion and an example of something we hear too seldom: civil discourse between persons of differing political positions.

David debunks de bunk.

Falsified frolics.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

Methinks Werner Herzog’s Bear makes a valid point. For those of us who believe in facts and truth, it’s satisfying that Tucker Carlson got his walking papers, but it doesn’t mean that Fox News and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers are considering mending their ways or that they will stop spreading lies and twisting facts.

Here’s bit of Mr. Bear’s article (emphasis added):

Yesterday’s news that Fox let go of Tucker Carlson was met with some rejoicing in liberal circles, but the wise heads were not moved. In the first place, this fits a larger pattern. Fox has dumped Beck, O’Reilly, and Dobbs, and their message has not moderated a wit. A new demagogue will surely take Carlson’s place. Liberals also fail to understand that the audience has the agency here.

People like Tucker aren’t just radicalizing their audience, they are also responding to their audience’s radical demands.