"JD Vance defended his comments about Haitian immigrants eating pets during a Tuesday rally, saying that 'the media has a responsibility to fact-check' stories – not him."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 last edited by
@SmartmanApps I know, so uppity on the part of the media, isn't it, to say that a person lying is a liar?
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Strange Culpritsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Too little too late. Corporate media outlets turned a blind eye to Trump's obvious despotism for too long. Their silence enabled and normalized the mayhem.
Now that things are coming apart at the seams for the Trump campaign, corporate media wants to pretend they've been doing their job of holding powerful, dangerous bigots to account.
Legacy media, especially outlets whose ownership and executives look mostly like Trump and Vance, are already likely irrelevant. And we say good riddance. Enablers = accomplices
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Debunking the underlying supposed factual basis for the claims, while important, doesn’t debunk the racism, the xenophobia, or the corrosive effects on American civic life. Those explicit racist messages – not dog whistles, not coded, not euphemized – come through loud and clear to all who are listening, from white nationalists on one extreme to Republican voters to immigrant communities now feeling isolated and under siege."
~ David Kurtz
The More Desperate Trump Gets, The More Toxic His Rhetoric Becomes
INSIDE: JD Vance ... Kamala Harris ... Tom Cotton
(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
In a new article at Mother Jones, Anna Merlin surveys who's behind the attack on disinformation and lies disseminated in the public square – and she points the finger squarely and rightly at Republicans.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/6https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/disinformation-rollback/
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Russian government-linked efforts to interfere in the upcoming U.S. presidential election have increasingly shifted to target the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Microsoft reported in findings published Tuesday.
~ Maggie Miller
#Russia #disinformation #lies #KamalaHarris #Trump #ElectionInterference
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The new effort, which involves spreading fake videos discrediting Harris and her campaign, is the latest foreign interference linked to Russia in recent weeks, and shows a speedy pivot by foreign adversaries to targeting the Harris campaign after she replaced President Joe Biden on the ticket."
#Russia #disinformation #lies #KamalaHarris #Trump #ElectionInterference
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Last night, JD Vance was asked by a reporter why he didn’t fact check claims from his constituents who were saying, allegedly, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats. Vance insisted it was the media’s responsibility to fact check the residents of Springfield, 'not lie about them.'”
~ William Kristol
#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that Vance’s office did actually reach out to the Springfield city manager to see if there was any validity to the rumors about Haitian migrants. The staffer was told that it was all baseless. Vance, nevertheless, kept up his post on X about the rumors. And that night, Donald Trump went on the debate stage and just stated it as fact."
#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
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Peet Tetterooreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy typical for this kind of people,
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Unholy Ordnancereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
#lies #deliberatelies #endangeringlife
These deliberate lies endanger life and are intended to result in political entrenchment - this undermines the democratic process and should be treated as a crime.
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Brian Tatoskyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Ah the famous "you make me hit you defense"
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Thunderstrikereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
That's barely half a step short of "look what you made me do". 🤬
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Ëtikēmikreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I think this is the first time I’ve heard of a right-wing conspiracist saying “do MY research.”
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Strange Culprits last edited by
@StrangeCulprits Yes, this is a very good assessment of what’s going on, it seems to me. Thank you for putting the points so clearly.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Peet Tetteroo last edited by
@Pettet50 Sadly so.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Unholy Ordnance last edited by
@UnholyOrdnance I agree. Thank you for sharing.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Brian Tatosky last edited by
@virtualbri You’ve got it!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Thunderstrike last edited by
@tstrike78 Indeed. “See how you made me hurt you?” is their way of thinking.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ëtikēmik last edited by
@etikemik For sure.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Today, The Wall Street Journal published a fantastic exposé about Springfield, Ohio, urban legends, and the power of lies, titled, 'How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren't True.' I want to give credit to a job well done."
~ Parker Molloy
#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/11The Wall Street Journal Provides a Template for Covering the Right's Springfield Lies
Plus: Three other Springfield-specific reading recommendations
(www.readtpa.com)