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Republican Lies category archive

The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0

As Farron mentioned, documented cases of voter fraud seem invariably to fall at the feet of Republicans.

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A Mute Hawley? 0

Josh Hawley holding a megaphone labeled

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Republicans are not even trying to hide their intentions any longer.

Read the article Farron discusses.

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Narrowcasters 0

Title:  More Insurrectionists To Be Rounded Up.  Image:  Rupert Murdoch saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Pillow of the Community, Reprise 0

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All the News that Fits, “Narrowcasting” Dept. 0

Via C&L.

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Chronicling Covidiocy 0

Gene Collier tells the “The Curious Case of the Skunk in the Moonlight.”

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The Summons 0

Rudy Guiliani says,

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

ITV newscaster says,

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

The drum beat goes on.

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Read the Footnotes 0

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executes a tour-de-force debunking of duplicitous drivel.

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All the News that Fits 0

Gene Collier looks at the deep distrust with which some Americans view the news media and considers the source(s). A snippet (emphasis added):

Released this week to Axios, it (the annual Edelman Trust Barometer–ed.) showed that 56% of Americans agree with the statement, “Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things that are false or gross exaggerations.” Even more, 58% think “most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing people.” When Edelman re-polled Americans postelection, those figures were even more discouraging. As it stands, 57% of Democrats trust the media, 18% of Republicans.That last number makes perfect sense when you understand that most Republicans — 60% in a recent analysis by Pew — get their news from Fox News, where the whole panoply of sources would be a comic absurdity if only its deep vein disinformation, especially on coronavirus, weren’t so deadly.

In a related vein, Beth Rabinowitz offers a look back at the era of yellow journalism and how objectivity became a journalistic value.

(Broken link fixed.)

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Unfamiliar Territory 0

Couple watching White House press briefing on television.  Man says,

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Left Unfinished 0

Donald Trump walking to helicopter as man calls after him,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Shep Smith Is Not Holding His Breath 0

Shep Smith discusses why he left Fox News.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

They’re at it again.

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The Chronicler 0

Daniel Dale looks back on four years of tracking Trump’s lies. A nugget; follow the link for more:

The lying sometimes continued until I had gone to sleep. Every time I felt like I had caught up, Trump would lie about something new — while still keeping many of the old lies in regular rotation. When I started tweeting fact checks of Trump’s rally claims moments after he made them, admirers viewed this as a kind of magic trick. In truth, it was pretty easy. The President kept saying the same false stuff over and over.

It was, in sum, a lot. In September 2020, I had to abandon my effort to produce a comprehensive count of the false claims: Trump was doing so much lying during the campaign that I physically could not keep up. By then, I’d tallied about 9,000 false claims since September 2016.

Via Atrios.

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Warped Speed 0

We need to vaccinate ourselves against lies and lying liars.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Jamelle Bouie looks at the long history of Republican attempts to gut out the vote and at the racism that underlies them. A snippet (emphasis added):

(In 2008–ed.) McCain and the Republican Party devoted much of the last weeks of the election to a voter fraud scare campaign with ACORN as the villain. And while, in the wake of the election, these allegations of illegal voting never panned out, the conservative fixation with voter fraud would continue into the Obama years and beyond.

Not that this was a shock. As an accusation, “voter fraud” has been used historically to disparage the participation of Black voters and immigrants — to cast their votes as illegitimate. And Obama came to office on the strength of historic turnout among Black Americans and other nonwhite groups. To the conservative grass roots, Obama’s very presence in the White House was, on its face, evidence that fraud had overtaken American elections.

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Herding Trumples 0

The AP goes on the lies round-up. A snippet:

The United States, that self-described beacon of democracy, that supposed shining city on a hill, came under the flickering shadow of his gaslight.

“Who’s the banana republic now?” asked newspaper headlines an ocean apart in Kenya and Colombia.

Trump leaves Joe Biden with repair work to do on the government’s credibility in a country where millions went along with their president’s fantastical ride — believing his persistent falsehoods about masks, election fraud, socialists in the halls of power, antifa rampant in the streets, his tormenters at every turn.

It’s a legacy of “magical thinking,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. “They have a full-blown independent reality, totally cut apart from the world of facts.” He said that is the road to fascism.

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