Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Philip Bump takes down GOP consultant after lie about Biden Admin immigration policy on CNN (Video)
Philip Bump
Just did a quick hit on CNN in which I noted that a claim made by a GOP consultant was false. He said it wasn’t. So here are the receipts.
Philip Bump
Lesson: Don’t lie about stuff I know more about than you do.
Video in tweet below
8:30 PM · Oct 3, 2024
Just did a quick hit on CNN in which I noted that a claim made by a GOP consultant was false. He said it wasn’t. So here are the receipts.
Philip Bump
Lesson: Don’t lie about stuff I know more about than you do.
Video in tweet below
8:30 PM · Oct 3, 2024
Philip Bump - The right’s newest false outrage centers on misrepresented federal data
No, the Biden administration didn’t welcome 13,000 immigrant murderers into America.
Column by Philip Bump
September 30, 2024 at 12:54 p.m. EDT
A few days before the 2016 presidential election, a deeply weird mini-controversy emerged: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or her staff were maybe Satanists?
The path to that conclusion was a meandering and patchy one, as you would expect, involving a (probably willful) misinterpretation of an email released by WikiLeaks after having been stolen from Clinton’s campaign chairman by Russian hackers. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others suggested that a dinner invitation from a well-known contemporary artist was instead an evil ritual that perhaps informed the motives and ethics of the woman who would be president.
I think about that flare-up regularly because, while it seemed idiotic in the moment, it offered a glimpse of what was to follow. A month later, a man brought a rifle to a D.C. pizza joint because he believed there were children being trafficked out of its nonexistent basement. A few years later, the idea that an anonymous government official dubbed “Q” was predicting a war against rampant pedophilia ensnared tens of thousands of Americans (or more) in the QAnon movement. In each case, small, imaginary things were taken out of context and amplified through right-wing media outlets to be presented as huge threats. The “spirit cooking” email Jones highlighted was just a microcosm.
These were also just the most obviously ridiculous offshoots of a rampant pattern embraced by the Republican nominee for president. Few people, if any, have been as relentless as Donald Trump about picking out bits of information that are misrepresented as something catastrophic. Trump does it so often, in fact, that it has become something like background noise to his political career: the most powerful person in right-wing politics once again saying something false based on something he’s misrepresenting.
/snip
No, the Biden administration didn’t welcome 13,000 immigrant murderers into America.
Column by Philip Bump
September 30, 2024 at 12:54 p.m. EDT
A few days before the 2016 presidential election, a deeply weird mini-controversy emerged: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or her staff were maybe Satanists?
The path to that conclusion was a meandering and patchy one, as you would expect, involving a (probably willful) misinterpretation of an email released by WikiLeaks after having been stolen from Clinton’s campaign chairman by Russian hackers. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others suggested that a dinner invitation from a well-known contemporary artist was instead an evil ritual that perhaps informed the motives and ethics of the woman who would be president.
I think about that flare-up regularly because, while it seemed idiotic in the moment, it offered a glimpse of what was to follow. A month later, a man brought a rifle to a D.C. pizza joint because he believed there were children being trafficked out of its nonexistent basement. A few years later, the idea that an anonymous government official dubbed “Q” was predicting a war against rampant pedophilia ensnared tens of thousands of Americans (or more) in the QAnon movement. In each case, small, imaginary things were taken out of context and amplified through right-wing media outlets to be presented as huge threats. The “spirit cooking” email Jones highlighted was just a microcosm.
These were also just the most obviously ridiculous offshoots of a rampant pattern embraced by the Republican nominee for president. Few people, if any, have been as relentless as Donald Trump about picking out bits of information that are misrepresented as something catastrophic. Trump does it so often, in fact, that it has become something like background noise to his political career: the most powerful person in right-wing politics once again saying something false based on something he’s misrepresenting.
/snip
Excellent job, Phil!
It's great to see the media do its job and slap down these lying GOP punks whenever possible!
Link to tweet