Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 6:55pm

The Lying Season Comes Early This Election

 

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—An anonymous report from anonymous sources confirmed without a doubt that Trump has punched a baby directly in the face, completely unprovoked. According to the anonymous sources that are so anonymous they speak mainly through quiet whispers carried along on the north winds, Trump was in the Oval Office when he saw the innocent baby and ruthlessly assaulted him.

“That baby, he looked at me funny,” said Trump, according to 48 sources who wish to remain unidentified. “I know a funny look when I see one. What a dope! That baby looks like a complete and total loser. You want a piece of me, baby?” 

Secret witnesses who have not been named are confirming that Trump wound up and punched the baby square in the face, even though the baby had done nothing aggressive or right-wing that would rightly provoke such an attack. “I prefer babies who aren’t total losers,” said Trump. “That baby was a complete disaster. Looked at me funny. Probably a member of Antifa. Sad.”

Nancy Pelosi has confirmed that the anonymous sources cited by the media have leaked further information on Trump’s alleged altercation with the baby. She has assured the public she will be conducting a thorough and anonymous investigation.

The media has reached out to the baby, who chooses to remain anonymous. According to media investigators, the baby, in his first words, has anonymously endorsed Biden for president.

Go here to read the rest.  The internal polls for the Democrats must be heading South for the Dems quickly, since they released the Trump hates Vets libel so early.  This type of completely “anonymous” lie is normally reserved for late October.  Interesting how it was timed with the release of a Trump bashing ad from the astroturfed, Left wing Vote Vets sockpuppet organization repeating the same lies:

Shortly after publication, The Atlantic’s anonymously-sourced reporting was making viral rounds on the internet and provoked immediate reactions from well-organized rapid-response teams from all corners of the political arena. True to form, Democrats and legacy media predictably latched onto the latest accusations built entirely on secret sources as an illustration of the president’s corrupt character, highlighting previous public comments on McCain as evidence to support The Atlantic’s credibility relying on anonymous insiders.

The White House on the other hand, vehemently denied Thursday’s allegations while conservatives called out The Atlantic’s flouting of journalistic values of transparency publishing what could have very well been made up. After all, The Atlantic did just that in July, and refused to correct the record for days after it got caught.

By early Friday morning, just hours after The Atlantic’s “bombshell” story went live, Vote Vets, a progressive veterans group released a highly produced ad on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” featuring veteran families discussing their fallen loved ones in a rebuke to Trump. The ad featured direct quotes exclusively featured in The Atlantic report.

Go here to read the rest.  We of course know it is a lie because everyone who was there who has commented on the record, you know, using their actual names, says it is a lie, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who, if it were true,  said he would have dedicated a chapter to it in his Trump bashing book.

My friend Jay Anderson, who did not support Trump in 2016 and is not supporting him this year, gets to the essence of the smear:

I notice with some amusement that many of the same people who have spent the last 4 months trashing our country, its Founders, it’s flag, its national anthem, and the people who protect and defend our laws and public order suddenly want to get on their “patriotic” high horse and denounce Trump over what is OBVIOUSLY a bogus story in The Atlantic. Unidentified sources dredging up a two-year-old story with completely new “details” just two months before an election. Please.
Donald Trump is a crass, craven, and completely self-centered individual who is wholly unfamiliar with notions of self-sacrifice. These are among the reasons I have never supported him and will not be voting for him in November.
But even I found the alleged “facts” in this story SO ridiculous — even for Trump — to be even remotely believable. And now folks have done the research that the author of The Atlantic piece apparently didn’t want to do, lest it interfere with a story that was “just too good to check.”

When it comes to getting Orange Man Bad, we have entered the lying season early this election cycle, although with Trump the lies about him have never really ceased since election night four years ago.  I assume by this time next month cannibalism allegations will be getting made.

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David WS
David WS
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 5:50am

“Donald Trump is a crass, craven, and completely self-centered individual who is wholly unfamiliar with notions of self-sacrifice.“

Yes… but I wonder how many other millionaires/billionaires in their 70s instead of retiring to a life of golf, would serve their country by wading into the DC swamp while being attacked from every conceivable angle.

David WS
David WS
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 5:55am

The quoted statement above is Jay Anderson‘s comment of course.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 8:38am

Irony of ironies. The same people who lionize those who spit on our soldiers returning from Vietnam, calling them baby killers, all the while supporting the most prolific form of baby killing, are outraged about Trump allegedly saying something they themselves believe.

Father of Seven
Father of Seven
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 8:53am

So Jay Anderson will go with the candidate who simply fakes his character flaws better than the incumbent, but who in reality actually has many more? For instance, even Joe’s own running mate believes the woman who says lyin’ Joe Biden sexually assaulted her. None of that is disqualifying for Jay’s vote because Jay “knows” President Trump is “completely self-centered” and isn’t even familiar with the concept of “self-sacrifice”? Nice analysis Jay. In many respects, President Trump is more honest than almost any politician in my lifetime. There is no question the American public knows what he’s thinking and where he stands better than almost anyone except Regan. As far as the specific criticisms, how self-centered is it for the most powerful man in the world to improve the lives of convicted black men and women where 92% of their own communities voted against him? How self-sacrificial is it to run again for an elected office in order to literally save America from destruction, when the last four years holding that office have been so difficult that few would have the fortitude to withstand the daily onslaught? Something tells me Jay “being mean outweighs protecting innocent human life” Anderson wouldn’t have a chance. Jay’s analysis accurately reflects the quality of vitriol and character assassination our moral betters, such as Jay Anderson, have descended to. Clearly, Jay would get along well with Pierre Delecto. Well, get the plank out of your own eye, Jay. Then, maybe I’ll listen to you when you talk about the splinter in President Trump’s eye. Because in light of what’s going on in this country and what’s at stake, particularly for the unborn, crassness and being craven (here-I don’t even know what Jay means) are merely splinters.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 8:56am

Not voting for Trump in 2016 is understandable. Not voting for Trump in 2020 is stupid.

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 9:46am

In fairness, Jeffrey Goldberg is not one to trash the country. However, The Federalist has been building the case that the fact-checking operation at his publication isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit. The media being the way it is nowadays, I wouldn’t put it past Goldberg to be a willing conduit for DNC / Deep State psyops, either pretending he was up to something else or self-consciously.

Goldberg is not a young guy and landed his first job as a reporter at the tail end of the Newseum ear in American journalism, so may be less untrustworthy than some others.

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 10:00am

Donald Trump is a crass, craven, and completely self-centered individual who is wholly unfamiliar with notions of self-sacrifice.

Crass – yes
Craven – not at all.
Completely self-centered? That’s a tougher call. His family life is quite uneven, but the known resentments of his sister and his niece don’t arise from the Donald’s self-centeredness. The menu of broken relationships we’ve seen in the Administration is distressing, but some of these people were asking to be given the gate (Rex Tillerson, for one).
Wholly unfamiliar with notions of self-sacrifice? Possibly. I cannot help but note that he’d have an easier life if he were doing something else with it, as would his family. I cannot help but note also that his advent has coincided with something like a visit from the bank examiner. We’ve learned more than we knew in 2014 about the media, the security state, the Democratic Party, the Capitol Hill nexus of the Republican Party, and Obama and his camarilla. We’ve learned that a lot of our proverbial loan portfolio consists of delinquent notes.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 10:25am

What gets tiresome about these criticisms is that they boil down to complaints about character or style. “Trump isn’t Presidential.”

What they ignore (besides the obvious “I thought Republicans were all about substance, not symbolism”) is that the diminution of the Office of President is entirely the fault of the Democrat party and their many sins of commission ( the long litany of attacks on every Republican President, the refusal to accept the legitimacy of either Bush 43 or Trump, the promotion of style-based cults of personality around Democrat Presidents —Obama and Kennedy in particular) and omission (failing to hold their own accountable e.g. the Clinton frat house, and now slow and getting slower, gropey Joe the plagiarist grifter).

Trump has an enviable record of achievement. Maybe that’s because of his chaotic management style, rather than despite it.

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 10:47am

the diminution of the Office of President is entirely the fault of the Democrat party and their many sins of commission

Don’t know about ‘entirely’, but they certainly diminished the office sub rosa during the Kennedy-Johnson years (Harold MacMillan on the Kennedy Administration, “the Borgia brothers have taken over a respectable north Italian town”) – which included corrupting the Secret Service. As for the Clintons, their signature was identified by Ann Coulter – “concealing the muck by hiding it behind a bigger pile of muck”. What we saw during the Clinton years was the broadcast media reduced to an extension of the White House press office (see Brent Bozell on this point) and the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for DC suborned to do political dirty work (the Livingstone-Marceca scandal and the White House Travel Office scandal). The Obama years saw the administration get away with abuse of power that went well beyond anything Richard Nixon’s crew was able to put into effect. Obama (like Justin Trudeau north of the border) was a manifestation of the complete breakdown of the peer-review function at the apex of a major party. (It’s testament to the stupidity of some partisan Democrats that they fancy that BO’s 12 years of ticket punching in legislative bodies is better preparation for the Presidency than Trump’s time in the business world).

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 10:53am

One other thing. In his public rhetoric, George W Bush was the least confrontational and least acidulous occupant of the office in my memory. He wasn’t willing to go nose-to-nose with the opposition on any domestic issue, either. Didn’t prevent him from being the subject of hideous attacks on his character.

Phillip
Phillip
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 1:06pm

“I assume by this time next month cannibalism allegations will be getting made.”

No, I suspect he eats baby seals for breakfast.

J. Ronald Parrish
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 2:16pm

George Bush’s most enduring legacy was eight years of Barrack Obama, and possibly John Roberts. He was part of the military industrial complex Dwight Eisenhower warned us about. Even today, he remains silent as an advocate of baby murder seeks the Presidency. I’ll take a crass, self centered, megalomaniac who protects innocent human life over his ilk any day. That it should even be a possibility that someone like Biden could be elected shows the depths to which we have descended. The pre Trump Republican establishment bear a measure of the blame.

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 2:56pm

George Bush’s most enduring legacy was eight years of Barrack Obama, and possibly John Roberts.

No, his legacy includes Roberts and Alito. Something isn’t your ‘legacy’ just because it follows you in time.

He was part of the military industrial complex Dwight Eisenhower warned us about.

He wasn’t. He had military service of ordinary duration for someone of his cohort and was never a civilian employee of the military or of any contractor.

Eisenhower’s remarks, btw, are seldom placed in historical context. He was a man who had spent the bulk of his career in the inter-war military at a time when about 1% of gross domestic product per year was devoted to military uses. The ratio of military spending to domestic product averaged > 10% each year during his time in office. It is currently < 4% per year. It was less than 5% per year all throughout George W Bush’s tenure.

Even today, he remains silent as an advocate of baby murder seeks the Presidency.

He hasn’t said much at all in public fora in the last 11 years. I’d fault him for that in re problems which have arisen de novo in that time. Abortion is not a novel problem. He’s said his piece about it in the past.

J. Ronald Parrish
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 4:58pm

You are absolutely correct about Justice Alito. He is an outstanding jurist. I ment no criticism of Mr. Bush’s personal service in the military, and I certainly believe we need a strong armed forces. My disagreement is the foreign policy which has engaged us in endless foreign wars, a policy which has crossed party lines at times. I respect the fact there are those who have good faith disagreements with this. While abortion may not be a novel problem and a determining factor in any single election, I respectfully submit it should be. It is increasingly difficult to see how God will continue to allow a nation which sanctions the murder of now over 60,000,000 unborn human being to be as blessed as this nation has been. I had the pleasure of voting for Mr Bush twice, since his opponent also supported baby murder.

Art Deco
Saturday, September 5, AD 2020 6:46pm

My disagreement is the foreign policy which has engaged us in endless foreign wars, a policy which has crossed party lines at times.

We’ve lost about 7,000 servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan (v. 33,000 in Korea). As of 2016, there were about 25,000 American troops deployed some place in the Near East, North Africa, or Central Asia. The number of American billets in Japan exceeds that. About 13,500 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan that year. American billets in VietNam during the period running from March 1965 to January 1973 averaged 360,000. The only point at which American billets were as low as 13,500 was during the Kennedy administration’s ‘advisory war’. Deployments exceeded 13,500 around mid 1963.

The former president and his family irritate me to no end. You’re condemning him because he’s not on speaking tours sponsored by the National Right-to-Life Committee. Just who is at this time?

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