Millions of Americans watch only Fox News, and don’t get news from any other source, which is a great big problem. It’s a great big problem because Fox is propaganda, not news. It’s brainwashing, not informing, its audiences. Its top opinion-shaper, Tucker Carlson, is a Russia symp[...]
Posts Tagged ‘GOP voting conspiracy theories’
January 13th, 2023 - 10:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The Kari Lake Comedy Hour
Yes, it’s come to this: Defeated GOP candidate Kari Lake is a comedian. She’s made herself a laughingstock, not by refusing to concede, or her sore-loser attitude, but by the crazy stuff she says. Last week she called herself the “real and duly elected” governor of Arizona, e[...]
Pennsylvania county recounts 2020 election
“More than two years after the last ballot was cast in the 2020 election, Lycoming County plans to recount all presidential votes by hand — an extraordinary step no other Pennsylvania county has taken,” Raw Story reported (here) on Monday, January 9, 2023, adding, “County commiss[...]
A conversation between two election crackpots
Fox talk-show host Maria Bartiromo, who used to be a respected financial journalist before she left CNBC to become a flack for Trumpism, dished up a plate of Kari Lake election denialism on her show on Sunday, January 8, 2023 (see story here). Formatted as an interview, but in actuality a backscratc[...]
Kari Lake appeals court defeat
Last week, a judge ruled that Kari Lake failed to prove she lost the Arizona governor’s race because of election misconduct. The judge wrote in his opinion that “every single witness” refuted her misconduct allegations, and her assertion that faulty ballot printers cost her “[...]
Kari Lake collides with reality and rule of law
Kari Lake (photo, left) copycatted Trump more than any other 2022 candidate. Lake, a former newscaster-turned-rightwing agitator who ran for Arizona governor, began squealing about a “stolen election” months before the voting even began. That probably was a calculated appeal to TrumpR[...]
Kari Lake loses election challenge
Kari Lake (photo, left) has lost her election lawsuit. An Arizona judge rejected her exaggerated claims of election problems, and false claims of fraud by election workers (read his decision here). As expected, the judge ruled the defeated GOP candidate didn’t prove Maricopa County’s ele[...]
December 20th, 2022 - 6:25 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Kari Lake’s “power of prayer” flops
Kari Lake, who prayed for a legal win and got a tiny one, turned it into a big boast: The tiny win was the judge ordering a trial on two of her factual claims. Where her prayer flopped was his dismissal of her malfeasance allegations against Katie Hobbs, making Hobbs’ testimony irrelevant. As [...]
Arizona losers file election lawsuits
Arizona is a hotbed of GOP election denialism, and a slate of Trump-inspired election deniers won the 2022 GOP primaries there, then lost in November. Now they’re filing lawsuits to overturn those results (read story here). I scanned defeated governor candidate Kari Lake’s 70-page filing[...]
December 7th, 2022 - 1:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP’s latest straw-grasping election conspiracy theory
Arizona is a leading hotbed of GOP election conspiracy nuttery. Principal actors in this Theater of the Absurd include: Kari Lake, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for governor; Mark Finchem, defeated 2022 GOP candidate for secretary of state; and Kelli Ward, GOP state party chair and 2020 fake elector. [...]