Wrapping up from Monday’s post
First, from the comments section, Nate Winchester writes:
I like to call the second method the “chaff” method (referencing missile defenses of planes). Especially since it’s pretty effective to throw up so much stuff people get too exhausted to ever bother seeking out the truth.
Chaff, that’s perfect and catchier than my term “diversion.” Thank you, Nate. Consider your idea stolen.
Second, regarding the media’s use of chaff, I cited a clip from NBC News which placed the second Trump assassination attempt within the context of “increasingly fierce rhetoric” by implicitly linking Republican claims about Haitians in Springfield to bomb threats in that city.
This is the classic “tomato, tomahto ploy” used to depict both sides as guilty of a misdeed (when only one is), so let’s just call the whole thing off. Except that on Monday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated:
“Thirty-three threats; Thirty-three hoaxes,” Gov. Mike DeWine announced during a press conference. “I want to make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all.”
DeWine said during the press conference that many of the threats came from “overseas.”
“We have people unfortunately overseas who are taking these actions,” DeWine added. “Some of them are coming from one particular country.”
Overseas? Well now. I doubt there are many people overseas who are being incited by JD Vance to call in bomb threats, so what do you think is going on? DeWine used the term “many” and not “all”, but I bet the rest of them stemmed from the same information warfare campaign chaff dispenser, one that also has the dual purpose of depicting the average Trump voter as a “gap-toothed Cletus.”
As far as Lester Holt and NBC News goes, mission accomplished.
And… as far as the identity of that “one particular country,” does anybody know what Thierry Breton is up to these days or where he is? He’s all into misinformation, meddling in our elections, and I heard he’s got time on his hands.
Third, I had the over/under of the Trump assassination story disappearing as Thursday. Well it looks the under was the way to go. Yesterday the top headlines on CNN, New York Times, and the Washington Post were P. Diddy, exploding pagers, and Kamala at NABJ. Well yes there is the NY Post and Fox, but only them. As for the through the day, a story or two about the near-assassination would emerge way down below the digital fold, like the body of a Mafia victim that briefly bobbed to the surface of the water before sinking forever into the deep.
Maybe a defamation suit against those ‘foreign persons unknown’ would allow DeWine to be subpoenaed and the identity of the nation of origin of the threats to be determined.
DeWine is old fool who would never name the country the hoaxes came from or make the hoaxers pay a price because we’re better than that(tm).
Anyway, the actual opposition to the left now has a tool to use against the lying vermin of the media: X. The Trump campaign and its allies should do everything they can to get people to go there for news.
You can listen to the regime tell no pets were eaten in Springfield because the city manager said so or you can go to X and get a swarm of first person reports about what’s actually happen.
Choose wisely.
now this resembles a spate of threats against synagogues in this country, directed by a former intercept editor, and some crazy kid in israel
”DeWine is old fool who would never name the country the hoaxes came from or make the hoaxers pay a price because we’re better than that(tm)”
He is not only what you say but a squish as well. I guess I took what he said as the glass half-full because at least he said something, it’s not like anybody else did – like say the feds whose job is track such things.
To use a military concept, Springfield has become a meeting engagement. A place where no one expected to fight, but each side pouring in forces in order to create a decisive symbol for the campaign.
The hits keep coming. From CNN:
“Springfield’s mayor claims emergency powers”
Notice how the framework they are using
1) They will report on what one group says without checking to validate their claims (state of emergency over hoaxes)
The contrast with CNN both invalidating Trump & Vance’s claims, without providing first-hand reporting, and implying racist intent that can be linked to the fore-mentioned emergency is illuminating. It’s something an honest editor would catch
2) There is no mention that the OHIO GOVERNOR himself said that these are all hoaxes and that many of them are coming from overseas… which would lead a reader to conclude that this was a hysterical reaction to foreign operatives meddling in our elections rather than a existent threat from racial MAGAites.
The next time you meet someone from CNN ask them whether their mother is proud of them for being the biggest yellow dog journalists since Joseph Pulitzer (yes that Pulitzer)
Ask them if they want to get a job where they can hold their heads high, I can teach them how to drive a forklift – I still have my instructor certification
To use a military concept, Springfield has become a meeting engagement.
That’s quite an interesting way to put it. In that contest, it’s also interesting to see that Trump so far isn’t backing down, according to that CNN piece. I say so far because every other GOP candidate of my lifetime would have either never mentioned events in Springfield or would have immediately started groveling to the media if they had and been questioned about it.
But that’s why Trump is the nominee and not someone like Mike DeWine. By the way, I’m old enough to remember when Mike DeWine was a perfectly good and acceptable Republican and I wouldn’t have anything bad to say about him.
I recall something a German officer during World War I said about the Austro-Hungarian army- fighting as their ally was like being chained to a corpse.
It seems to me that Trump supporters have essentially been chained to the corpse of the old dead GOP since as soon as Trump went down that escalator in 2015. When it comes to political fights, the old establishment simply won’t show up.
If DeWine actually wanted to show up for this fight, he would have been angrily demanding that the regime stop dumping an endless stream indigent foreigners into his state well before anyone noticed that they were eating cats. Instead, he came out after Trump made an issue out of it, yammered for a while, and then did nothing effective at all.
DeWine is every bit as relevant to current events as the Austro-Hungarian army is now.
You can’t steal my idea, I’m giving it to you! XD