By Clay Waters ~
The 2020 presidential election hasn’t been decided as of this writing, but the New York Times is bitter and panicky about Joe Biden’s surprisingly big loss in Florida and dug up a pathetic excuse: Hispanics were the victims of “disinformation”! In Thursday’s edition, reporters Patricia Mazzei and Nicole Perloth trotted out “Experts Call Disinformation Targeting Spanish Speakers an ‘Emergency.’”
It’s a follow-up to their story that miscategorized conservative opinion and hyperbole as “misinformation” and dangerous falsehood, to boost Biden among the Latino community of South Florida, including those Cuban Americans the paper has never quite trusted for voting anti-Communist because of their experience with tyrant Fidel Castro. Calling “moderate” Biden a “socialist” is now a “lie”:
The posts proliferated on election night before anything remotely definitive was known about the results of the presidential race. “Robado,” they falsely repeated again and again in Spanish: President Trump was being robbed of a victory. He had won Arizona. George Soros was funding violent “antifa riots.”
The baseless social media messages to Latinos trying to delegitimize the election and the results for Joseph R. Biden Jr. circulated online on Tuesday night and into Wednesday, part of a disinformation campaign to undermine Latino confidence in the vote as it unfolded.
Ahead of Election Day, false news in Spanish tried to turn Latinos against Black Lives Matter and tie Mr. Biden to socialism, tactics that experts said could depress the Hispanic vote. Now that voting is complete, the rampant falsehoods have only garnered larger audiences — including among immigrants less familiar with the institutions of American democracy. The gist of the falsehoods is that the election is “rigged” against Mr. Trump.
Get a load of this condescension-reeking photo caption:
Supporters of Mr. Trump gathered in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami on Tuesday. It is difficult, if not impossible, to know how much false claims influenced Latino voters ahead of Election Day.
So Cuban-Americans, perhaps ignorant of American democracy, were hoodwinked by rhetoric into voting against their interests? Here’s what they claimed: “On another Spanish-language channel, Informativo G24, with more than 500,000 subscribers, hosts compared Democrats to Nazis on Tuesday. The video was seen some 350,000 times.”
Republicans get called Nazis everywhere, all the time, without disapproval or even notice from the New York Times. Those claims by both sides may be irresponsible, but they do count as opinions. But for the Times it’s flat-out false to suggest Biden is a socialist, even though his party has been infected with Democratic Socialism, a movement the Times proudly pushed before Biden won the Democratic nomination. Now, when the Democrats have an election to win, it’s a smear.
The paper piled on the condescension toward Trump-leaning Latino voters:
It is difficult, if not impossible, to know how much false claims influenced Latino voters ahead of Election Day. But the hub of much of that misinformation was South Florida, home to a diverse community of Latinos, many of whom fled left-wing authoritarian regimes and are receptive to messaging about socialism.
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Juan Pablo Salas, a Colombian political analyst in Sarasota, Fla., said he worried that the misinformation involving Bogotá, Miami and Washington could be a coordinated effort between right-wing interests in Colombia and the U.S., “to essentially turn our Colombian-American community into the tip of the spear of the offense played by the extreme right.”
The paper gets awfully mad when you criticize liberal billionaire activist George Soros.
On Tuesday night, Eduardo A. Gamarra, a professor of political science at Florida International University, agreed to analyze the election on NTN24, a television news network based in Colombia. He found himself on the air debating Omar Bula Escobar, a former United Nations representative notorious for, among other false claims, saying that Mr. Soros controls the Democratic Party, an anti-Semitic trope embraced by QAnon.
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Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, a Democratic Latino issues strategist in South Florida, said she spent four hours on Tuesday trying to debunk false claims on Spanish-language radio that Mr. Biden, a moderate, was a left-wing radical.
Going by his voting record, Biden is no “moderate.” And he will be pushed by socialists in the Democratic Party who want to use him to further their policy goals. Biden certainly hasn’t disavowed their support. He installed a very liberal VP choice, Kamala Harris, as his running mate.
Yet somehow this standard exaggerated campaign rhetoric becomes a “lie” when Republicans do it: “The Republicans called him a socialist, in those four hours, 20 times,” she said. “And a radical five times, and a Castro-Chavista” — a reference to Fidel Castro of Cuba and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela — “three times. Repeat a lie and repeat it until it becomes the truth.”
Clay Waters was the director of Times Watch a former project of the Media Research Center .
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John Stankevicius
Mon 11/09/2020
Dear Mr. President
Congratulations on your term as president and greater congratulaions to Mrs Trump for handling the depravity of theDemocrats and media.
Never in my life have I seen the perversity of attacks on a single individual. My disgust is as great as the population who cowardly in heard mentality mocked you. They are pathetic who lopped the tall poppy. It just shows the stupidity of people in what they think is real as they prefer to sink in the ship rather than pull themselves up on a rope of life.
Returning creative masculine jobs in manufacturing, scientific endeavour eg fracking you returned skilled and productive jobs which improve society.
Unfortunately the female Medusa’ s dont like this with the Eunich males who brag they are lawyers, journo’s and English teachers but can not even turn on a stove to boil water but brag how smart and moral they are.
Your decisions to end the war in Aphganistan was amazing and life changing. What it proved was the war mongering of the Democrats and the destruction they bought to Syria and the Middle East.
They are truly sick.
You have risen above this.
I hope Patrick continues the fight wiyhe the USA being a proud republic and not the empire which most Kerr has mentioned.
Thank you for what you have achieved under the most sick situations.
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Sun 11/08/2020
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mosckerr
Sun 11/08/2020
Dear Mr. President,
It appears that through hook and crook the Democrats have put their man as the 46th President. This report, if accurate, places you and your capable family/dynasty into the Opposition. Pelosi’s days i suspect that she shall not long remain Speaker of the House. The first responsibility of Government: to prevent Civil War among the American people. The GOP now shall desperately require your leadership. Expect horrid corruption, worse than under Grant, with the Biden Administration. Your campaign to re election merits full amazement and respect for your energy and drive. Four years of Democrat corruption shall bring hard times upon the American people, the minority populations in particular.
As the leader of the GOP opposition you can possibly shape the Party that surpasses Goldwater’s influence, seeing that he never sat as a US President. I hope my country Israel shall fully support your opposition to the corrupt Democrat rule. We have a tremendous debt of gratitude to your wonderful leadership and vision. Biden most probably shall attempt to mend fences with the Europeans. But time most certainly will reveal the incompetence of this man and his Administration.
Leading the Opposition to the Party in power obviously has its limitations. But the influence of Obama and Clinton, and the Bush family ended with their two terms as President, her 3rd major defeat, and low energy Jeb; during your first 4 yr term these once powerful folk sat, for the most part, upon the margins of the political arena. Your situation more closely resembles the Wilderness years (a reference made by Winston Churchill as a back bencher of Parliament) of Ronald Reagan. I remember the Reagan Opposition and his speeches he delivered by means of radio. Twitter, it and Facebook now serve as a hostile political format. Rush Limbaugh, he’s a dying man. You can fill his shoes and give a vision of hope to the American people. FDR with his fireside chats accomplished this during the travails of the Great Depression.
America faces hard times. Debt, the Federal debt, has reached its crunch. The RATS have no vision how to drastically reduce the size of the American government. Better for the house of cards to collapse under their treasonous regime. American society, our civilization, faces a new Hoover, an Administration comparable to that of the insanity of the syphilis infected brain of George III. That brain dead fool caused England to lose the American colonies – thank G-d! Biden, received a lot of honest votes by silly American reactionaries. From day 1 of your Presidency the treasonous DemoRATS sought to poison your good name in the eyes of the politically uninformed within our society.
Mr. President, famine years – perhaps comparable to the plague during Yosef’s years as 2nd in command of the government of Par’o – years of Depression fast approaches America and the entire world. In the opposition you can shine a vision of direction and leadership that you could never have done while sitting as the Head of State. America must change its course. Incompetent Biden will attempt to throw money to solve a long term, post WW2, disease: the American empire which replaced the American Republic as Center Stage. Your ‘America First’ stands up to bat, so to speak, when the political curtain falls. National Debt and perfidious Government corruption, sticks to the DemoRATS like flies on shit. Humanity remembers the vision of the prophets as they sat as the vocal opposition to the misrule and injustice imposed by the ancient kings of Israel and Yechuda.
The prophets, these leaders did not foretell the future, rather they commanded a mussar that applies to all generations of people who make fundamental bad choices, like the American people did when they chose Biden. Please Mr. President, it’s a tuma Yatzir to permit feelings of bitterness to drive your emotions!!!!!!! A wise man separates external events from personal internal feelings. Reactionary fools assume that what they feel determines and shapes the reality they live in. The Pelosi Opposition against your Administration, her attempt to impeach you exposed an illogical ad hominem irrationalism which dominated the DemoRATS mind and clouded their judgments. The curtain’s fast coming down upon the post WW2 American ‘policeman of the planet’ empire. Your leadership at this time has the potential to far surpass the Ron Paul Opposition to the GOP in the 4 years prior to his 2nd attempt to rule as POTUS.
Unlike Obozo, that shoe shine boy who sat in the White House for two terms of Office, you have the Constitutional Right to run again for the Office of POTUS. Once you lived the life of a businessman, but you chose to enter the field of Politicians. You have set your course not just for yourself alone but for your capable children. This defeat before a moron, a bitter pill to swallow. But humility defined the spirit of Moshe, the man who served as the servant of HaShem. Command your children that they reject the reactionary narishkeit which dominated the treasonous DemoRATS throughout your first term of Office – do not permit the feeling and emotions you feel to “form & shape” your perceptions of the American political realities. Remember that European countries opposed your Government. The Biden Administration shall foolishly attempt to re-connect America to the European economy. The Ron Paul Opposition followed the leadership taken by Andrew Jackson. As President, who has yet to rule two terms of Office, American society needs to reject the model established by the Whig Prime Minister Walpole. The issue at stake: not socialism but rather Patronage!!!! The latter political concept of leadership holds that the Central Government has a “mandate” that determines the Corporate monopolies which dominate the domestic markets of the United States.
The Democrat Wilson, through slight of hand, succeeded in getting Congress to establish the Federal Reserve. This accomplishment did not just happen. The post Civil War governments in Washington, specifically the radical Republicans, greatly restricted Lincoln’s ‘greenbacks’ in circulation and thereby concentrated wealth into the hands of the robber barons, which set the stage for Wilson’s Xmas eve passage of the Federal Reserve. The Great Depression witness again a powerful restriction of the American money supply, this time by the Federal Reserve rather than post Civil War Congress. The ensuing Depression permitted Democrat FDR to concentrate farming ownership into the hands of great Corporate monopolies. These Corporate monopolies demand huge Federal monetary support. Patronage not only establishes Corporate monopolies but the Federal bureaucracies which protect these “to big to fail” Corporate monopolies – established by the Federal Government.
The Walpole vision of Patronage shaped all post Civil War governments in Washington to this very day!!!! Mr. President, had you won this last election, the treasonous DemoRATS would have tried to provoke a second American Civil War. The first rule of governing: prevent your Country from falling into a Civil War. You must not permit yourself or your family from letting feelings of bitterness to color your perception of current American politics!!!!! Mr. President, let the American people express our extreme bitterness against DemoRAT perfidy. You as the leader of the Opposition must never permit neither you nor your capable family of expressing reactionary bitterness and rage. The Torah commanded Aaron and his children not to publicly mourn the dead of his two eldest children. Emotions must never shape political reality.
Best Regards,
your faithful servant
mosc kerr
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