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 ‘Republican liars’
February 17th, 2023 - 11:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake untethers from truth
And that’s a huge red flag in a candidate for public office. Before the 2022 election, in which Lake ran for Arizona governor, she repeated Trump’s election lies and claimed her own election wouldn’t be fair unless she won. That’s a slap in the face — no, a hard punch &[...]
George Santos has a doppelganger
Anna Paulina Luna (photo, left), was elected to Congress from Florida in 2022. She’s an extremist who claims Trump won the 2020 election, supports total abortion bans, and calls LGBQT rights “radical left-wing gender theory” (details here). She’s a fan of “2000 Mules,&#[...]
January 24th, 2023 - 1:35 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The boy who cries wolf
Serial liar George Santos, who won a U.S. House seat last year under false pretenses, now claims he was the target of an assassination attempt. He also claims he “was the victim of a mugging in New York City in the summer of 2021,” The Hill says (read story here). Now that part is believ[...]
January 4th, 2023 - 6:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake goes “stolen valor”
Kari Lake, the defeated GOP candidate for Arizona governor who refuses to concede after losing the election, a recount, and a court challenge, is going around calling herself Governor Lake (see story here). Gee, where have we seen this before? Here? In videos like the one below? I remember when to [...]
December 30th, 2022 - 2:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Embattled congressman-elect chose the wrong mentor
The TV series “Sopranos,” about a gangster family, is fiction and hopefully didn’t inspire copycats. Donald Trump is a serial liar with a gangster mentality whose aberrant behaviors include seeking revenge against anyone who criticizes him. No one should copy him, either. But New Y[...]
December 26th, 2022 - 6:54 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP Rep.-elect admits falsifying bio, but won’t resign
George Santos (R-NY), who won a House seat last month, admitted Monday to lying about his biography. He didn’t just lie; he spewed whoppers (see my posting here). But on Monday he “claimed that he hasn’t committed any crimes and intends to serve in Congress,” CNN reported (here).[...]
Do facts matter in politics?
To Republicans, no. But that comes with a cost in credibility and social standing. No one trusts liars. If you can’t get facts straight, people won’t listen to you. Climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, and election deniers are considered flakes, and aren’t taken seriously. And Republican[...]
December 2nd, 2022 - 12:17 pm § in Republicans
The GOP’s “stolen 1960 election” myth debunked
Republicans have been lying about elections for a very long time. From Raw Story (here): “Grab the nearest Republican and ask them, ‘How did John Kennedy win the election in 1960?’ Most will answer, ‘Mayor Daley stole the election in Chicago.’ In the modern era, that [...]
November 8th, 2022 - 1:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
“Violent crime” campaign ad is full of falsehoods
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who’s in a close race for New York governor, has a campaign ad claiming to show “actual violent crimes caught on camera in Kathy Hochul’s New York,” including police shooting a black man named Saheed Vassell. But Vassell committed no crime. He was a mental[...]