Showing posts with label lies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lies. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

What really happened with the National Guard on Jan. 6

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Another late posting, written 9/26/24. This has been a question but I didn't realize how contentious it was with plenty of accusations o...

Anatomy of a MAGA viral lie: Haitians eating cats

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Another late posting, written 9/27/24. "They're eating dogs," or something like that fell out of Trump's mouth in the deba...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

My take on the Georgia indictments

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Fascinating . Nineteen people are indicted so this is a contrast to the federal charges where Trump was the only named defendant. There is a...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Conservative media lies again, Chapter XXX

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For all the complaints about the real bias in the MSM, they have standards for not lying, and they rarely do what conservative media has jus...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Weather-gate and Trump's stubbornness

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Trump lies again and again. This isn't a surprise by now, but it's getting dumber. Trump made a mistake by saying Alabama was in ran...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Epstein death cranks up the conspiracy machines

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I've written about Epstein , the pedophile, before. He's a favorite of those who like to lie about Bill Clinton because Epstein was ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Those crazy Trump people

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Trump, or rather his quisling Wilbur Ross, was caught trying to change the census form on false pretenses. False pretenses, hokey lies, no s...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

A third case of conservative distortion: The Attorney General

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Benjamin Wittes, who writes for Lawfare and lately also for The Atlantic, rakes Bill Barr (the new Attorney General) over the coals. Barr is...

Two cases of conservative distortions

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Double header!! First up is an article from WaPo detailing how Fox News distorted one news story from January 2018. The New York Times repo...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Lies, damned lies, and GOP lies

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The Mueller report is finally out. As I wrote earlier , there weren't many surprises. Most of the information had been revealed either i...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Finally there is a real voter fraud scandal

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Conservatives have been lying about voter fraud for nearly two decades. Or let me clarify. They have vehemently been making unsubstantiated ...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Right-wing media lie, again

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The Washington Times was sued about a Seth Rich story it published, and has had to settle the case with a full retraction . That's how m...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Crazy week in Russia-related matters

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Trump, glowingly thinking he does great at summits, decided to have a summit with Putin. It was set for a Monday. The Friday beforehand, Mue...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Making stuff up

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I think there is a lot of fake news floating around, and I suspect conservatives channel a lot of it. Remember the scare about Jade Helm? Ho...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Spies from the FBI, oh my!

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Since it was leaked that the FBI had an informant contact members of the Trump campaign, Trump has been trying to frame it as though his cam...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Memo frenzy

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House Republican Devin Nunes, who did some underhanded shit to cover up for Trump last spring, now has a new plan. He's claiming that h...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

The Roy Moore saga

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I'm late writing about this story, but that's OK because the themes of the story are timeless. (I'm also going to be more free-f...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

December links

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I collected a bunch of links in November but didn't get to write about them. Here they are. As usual, an interesting bunch. White nati...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Antifa Apocalypse bust

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I guess no one but fevered corners of the media want a repeat of Charlottesville. A couple weeks ago, White Lives Matter rallies in Tennesse...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Links (1 of 2)

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My tabs overfloweth. Decoding anonymous sources. A good guide from Lawfare . How to interpret what reporters write, indicating how many s...