Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This prediction:
“[Haley’s] a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant . . . I don’t see how she becomes the nominee of that party.”
— MSNBC’s Joy Reid, Monday
We say: If you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail — and if you’re an MSNBC talking head whose shtick is “Republicans are racist,” well, “brown lady” Nikki Haley doesn’t have a shot.
Earth to Reid: Heavily Republican South Carolina (where Donald Trump beat Joe Biden 55% to 43%) elected Haley twice, and Trump himself made her his UN envoy.
Yes, Trump, not Haley, is now the GOP frontrunner, but not because Republicans dislike “brown ladies.”
This claim:
“[Biden’s] kept us from, you know, having a complete breakout of uncontrolled war.”
— Biden climate czar John Kerry, Wednesday
We say: What a sick spin! On President Biden’s watch, Russia unleashed a horrific war on Ukraine.
Hamas triggered catastrophic fighting in Gaza, with another major conflict looming in Lebanon.
Tehran’s proxies attack US assets in Iraq and target Red Sea shipping. Iran and Pakistan have struck each other, and China’s threatening to take Taiwan by force.
Fact is, Biden’s fear of “uncontrolled war” has emboldened belligerents and sparked much of the fighting.
With him in charge, the nightmare Kerry claims Biden avoided may now be just a matter of time.
This tweet:
We say: Let’s hope The Washington Post offers employees mental-health insurance, because WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz clearly needs help.
COVID variants are not particularly lethal, in Gaza (which has far bigger problems) or anywhere else.
Nor are they “cooked up” by Americans who fail to “advocate for masking” (which science has shown to be ineffective against COVID spread in any case).
This charge:
“Police officers died . . . because of the injuries that they sustained on [Jan. 6].”
— WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Tuesday
We say: Will Democrats never stop peddling that flagrant lie? No officer died in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
One passed away the next day from “natural causes,” per the medical examiner, and a few committed suicide in the weeks after — but no one’s ever proven any links between those cases and 1/6.
Wasn’t the riot bad enough without Dems desperately embellishing it?
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