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Saturday, September 5, 2020

The Poison Pill Philosophy" of the right wing

 What you see here is intentional misdirection by a repugnant republican politician it is what they do and what the CPC has learned from them.


Plant the seed, let it grow then scrub it as though it never existed. In the meantime their base repeats it thousands of times before the lie is removed, but the lie is embedded in the mind of their followers and verally repeated countless times in discussions and on the internet.

It is political swamp philosophy of putting a poison pill into the minds of the gullible.
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"Last week, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise tried to use my computer-assisted voice to rob me of my agency, too. In a video aimed at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, shared his team’s manipulated footage of an interview I conducted with Biden to make it appear I had said words that I never uttered, in an effort to distort Biden’s views and harm his electoral prospects.

"Scalise eventually scrubbed the video from his Twitter feed after being criticized for the manipulation, but the ominous lessons of the episode remain: the ability to use technology not only for good but to mislead and manipulate; the willingness of those with political agendas to resort to such disinformation and propaganda; and the way in which America has cleaved into two separate information universes, with a conservative media ecosystem amplifying falsehoods that then take root.

"The entirety of the Scalise video painted a bleak picture of the country, with cleverly spliced scenes designed to make major cities look like places of anarchy and violent chaos. That’s already disingenuous; protesters demanding an end to centuries of racial violence have largely been peaceful. But what made it so remarkable wasn’t just that Scalise twisted the truth about Black Lives Matter. His video went a step further, altering a question I had asked Biden about law enforcement to make it sound as though Biden had agreed to defund the police. I’m in favor of defunding the police, so I wish that were the case. But Biden has been clear that isn’t his position."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/02/ady-barkan-op-ed-scalise-video/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2LjZevT9yavB0k7C4U-C8G8zuVQikgjFMIQN6DGst_USrLf8wiCNF_3ws

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