Monday, April 26, 2021

Both facts and fact-checking a threat to GOP

 

      Republican junk jams my spam email file, scores of panting messages every day. A quick sample: “Biden Threatens War With Russia” and “Exposed: Biden’s Plot To Crush Gun Owners” and “FIRE Fauci.”
     Almost every communication ends with a plea for cash, all hyperventilating with the frantic, the-house-on-fire-save-the-baby! hysteria that is the official GOP tone: cry doom and rattle the cup. To be fair, Democrats do it, too, though I don’t get nearly as many. I’m not sure why.
     Maybe the same trolls who sign me up for fringe gun nut groups under the mistaken notion it bothers me also donate in my name to Republican candidates. Maybe the emails are sent to every known address including mine. Who can say?
     I usually never click on them or even read the subject line. There are too many. But I do sometimes open the spam file to take a peek before deleting everything, like someone glancing into the toilet bowl before flushing.
     Occasionally, something catches my attention, such the subject line, “My family’s story is being fact-checked?!” from U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), who will give the GOP response to President Biden’s speech to a joint session of Congress April 28.
     Fact-checking is a good thing in the world of the mainstream media. But then again, so are facts. The idea that fact-checking would be used as a cry of grievance is like someone shouting out a window, “Help me, my kitchen is being cleaned!” It certainly is intriguing.
     The email from Scott, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, begins:
     “The mainstream media has decided to fact-check my family’s story of ‘cotton to Congress in one lifetime.’ That’s right, The Washington Post has been investigating my family’s history in the South and downplaying the struggles and racism they faced. It’s shameful. Plain and simple.”


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7 comments:

  1. I doubt that Scott or Haley are writing thee replies. No doubt some aide is doing it.

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  2. It would be funny if the liars that put on such shows were at least self aware of their own bullshit. Instead it's shameful. Plain and simple.

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  3. If you look at the GOP statements sideways, squinting your eyes, and putting your glasses on upside down, they make perfect sense. Otherwise, not so much.

    John

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  4. If you look at the GOP statements sideways, squinting your eyes, and putting your glasses on upside down, they make perfect sense. Otherwise, not so much.

    John

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  5. "Maybe the emails are sent to every known address including mine. Who can say?"

    Well, I can say that I don't get emails like that. I get junk emails semi-regularly from one left-leaning statewide Dem org., but that's about it.

    "I usually never click on them..." Nobody asked me, but I've seldom, if ever, liked that combination of usually with never. ; )

    "with your help we can continue spreading the positive message of conservatism." Hmmm... Would that positive message be "abortion is murder," "a corporation is a person," "any attempt to regulate guns is unconstitutional," "climate change is a hoax," "only suckers pay taxes," "covid is a liberal plot," "vaccines are poison," or "rioting to overturn a valid election is okay by me," I wonder?

    They rail against fact-checking, but seem to appreciate it just fine when the lamestream media gets something wrong, as you point out. Why, some of them *still* are happy to mention Obama referring to "57 states" that one time... 13 years ago.

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  6. This from a party that spent eight-plus years questioning Obama's birth, citizenship, allegiance, religious beliefs and intent to "destroy America."

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