Former Republican Sen candidate Christine O'Donnell tries to smear Biden with an easily-proved lie

[muriel_volestrangler]

and an ABC journalist irresponsibly reports the lie first, and buries her own proof that it's a lie:

What is really going on here, and it is going to accelerate and grow until or unless reporters, editors, and producers get their acts together, is a two pronged influence operation. The first part is to get misinformation about Vice President Biden out into the mainstream media as quickly as possible, Because once it is reported on, no matter how quick the debunking is, the misinformation will be seized on and promoted, while the debunking will, at best, get pointed to by people like me. Pezenik had a legit news story to break last night, but it wasn’t the story she broke. She even had all the pieces to break the real news, which was “failed Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is attempting to smear Vice President Biden with a false allegation, which we were able to debunk with two phone calls. We are continuing our investigation in an attempt to learn why O’Donnell is doing this.” That framing would have allowed Pezenik and ABC News to break the story last night. But that isn’t what they did. O’Donnell and whoever put O’Donnell up to this knows that reporters have a sweet tooth for this type of thing. And they also know that if they can get the allegation out there through a legitimate news source, they will have laundered the misinformation successfully because almost no one they’re trying to message to is going to pay attention to the debunking.

The second part of this influence operation is agitprop. It is to further the President’s, the Republican Party’s, the conservative movement’s, Fox News’s, prominent Republicans’, conservatives’, and their surrogates’ argument that the real and legitimate news sources in the US are actually fake. That they cannot be trusted to report accurately or fairly. It is to create cognitive dissonance where the false and debunked in real time accusations against Vice President Biden are accepted as true, while at the same time the argument that the news media is lying to everyone and can’t be trusted because they botched the story by reporting factually wrong information is reinforced. It is a have your cake and eat it too influence operation. It is also, exactly, what Putin has been trying to do within Russia, within the US, and around the world for well over a decade. It is the attempt to create the dynamic where because nothing is true anything and everything is possible.

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/05/03/watching-the-creation-of-anti-biden-misinformation-agitprop-in-real-time-all-lines-are-open-all-reporters-are-standing-by/

So the next day the reporter withdrew it:

Link to tweet

"Last night I posted a tweet about Vice President Biden. The allegations in my tweet had not been vetted or put through the ABC News standards process. I have since removed the tweet and I apologize for posting it."

And until there's huge reform in American journalism, and better training of existing and future journalists, these standards ensure there will be another Trump, soon. There's just too much easy gain and profit to be made for people to resist using journalists like this again.

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

The US corporate media values flash, not analysis.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213385198

[Cha]

6. Click bait and Shiny Things.

Thanks for the link, guill

[guillaumeb]

9. You are welcome, Cha.

Sad, and scary, that so many are so easily fooled.

[Cha]

10. 'Cause they wanna be.

[BComplex]

2. Democrats need to start getting ahead of all this. YOU KNOW they're going to keep doing this

to smear Biden, with every female this side of the Nile. We have to start hitting REALLY HARD at trump's rapes, child caging/disappearing at the border and his associations with Jeffrey Epstein, as well as Stormy Daniels and the Hollywood tape.

If we don't really go on the offensive, we're going to be sucking on hind tit until Biden loses to this monster. Nobody respects someone not fighting, when the stakes are this huge.

[sunonmars]

3. ABC should be getting a legal letter tomorrow morning.....

[AleksS]

4. And in the post-delete tweet she doesn't mention it was a GD Lie!

She mentions it wasn’t vetted, but DOESN’T mention that a minimal level of checking PROVED it was (in addition to not vetted) a GD Lie!


Such garbage. Disgusting.

[bigtree]

5. disproved

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[NurseJackie]

7. She's "not a witch" if I recall...

[StevieM]

13. Here is the ad. Paid for by the coven to elect Christine O'Donnell.

[lpbk2713]

8. "Yeah but .. but .. Benghazi."

These people are ridiculous. They don't seem to mind how stupid they look.

[mainer]

11. Haha they tried again saying it was a different year

Biden wasn’t there that year either. The girl could only be 14 one year.

[spanone]

12. The Lying Republican Party....every Democrat should refer to them this way....

Not a truth teller in the bunch.