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Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – POLITIFACT
We guess the approach is he is saving billions…?
One of the most shameful aspects of the Biden years is the fact that they have dropped billions of dollars – with a "B" – on a project nobody seems to demand. Biden has had this bug up his colon to force-feed America onto electric vehicles (EVs), even though they do not work and few people actually want them.
This administration has dumped $7.5 billion on installing a grid of EV charging stations across the country. The long-running report has been after that tidy sum, we have received all of about two handfuls of chargers to show for it. Representative Michael Rulli commented on this unacceptable result, but PolitiFact strides in to correct the congressman on being inaccurate and unfair to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, claimed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spent $7.5 billion on eight electric vehicle charging stations. The claim pulls from a March article, but 30 more stations have since been completed, with more planned. https://t.co/OZGAPeAmeV
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 10, 2024
That totals out to about 197,000,000 per charging station, and the viscounts of vérité feel this is a reasonable amount. We have no reason to be upset about this, so zip it, you cranks.
BlueAnon – MSNBC
Give her a few minutes, and she'll make the connection.
With everyone discussing the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder, Rachel Maddow had to join in, and of course, she had to take it to the logical extreme – tying this to Donald Trump. But, how?
Just leave it to the conspiratorial expert to craft a tale that makes…well, not sense, but plausible-sounding logic to her devout fans. Maddow learned that the shooter once posted a favorable review of a book by Ted Kaczynski on the Goodreads site, so she was able to invoke Trump because one time Blake Masters had referred to Kaczynski as a "subversive thinker." Ah-HA!
Masters was just nominated to be the director of the ATF, so now she can say that a Trump appointee shares a love of the Unabomber with the UnitedHealthcare killer! Which means…we are not sure.
Rachel Maddow finds a way to make the Luigi Mangione arrest about Trump lol: "the fact that he's a professed Unabomber fan is unsettling. I might venture it's even more unsettling that Donald Trump's reported choice to run the ATF is also a self-professed fan of the Unabomber." pic.twitter.com/9IiqY22b9f
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 10, 2024
Anti-Social Media – THE ATLANTIC
Say, guys? Making this assassination acceptable is sort of a bad look.
For some reason, there is this desire by a growing number of people in the media to make the UnitedHealthcare murder an acceptable act. At The Atlantic, they try to suggest that assassinating a CEO on a sidewalk in public is not the act of a fringe thinker or an extremist.
These are the same people who cry out when Trump is granted an even-handed platform and decry that he has become "normalized."
The UnitedHealthcare-CEO shooting marks a new moment, writes @alibreland—“one in which acts of political violence are no longer confined to extremists with fringe views.” https://t.co/6cZc8kHKlM
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 13, 2024
Gilded Reframe – VARIOUS OUTLETS
My, has something changed?
After four years of defensive journalism, deflecting reporting, and various other ways of shielding Joe Biden and the Democrats from the facts, a president in the lame duck session suddenly sees the press covering stories like the border, inflation, Hunter Biden, and other topics in a more straightforward fashion.
We have to guess, their four-year vacation is just about to conclude!
Would You Look at What Happens in Biden’s Final Weeks – the Press Has Suddenly Discovered Journalism!https://t.co/BnLez5HTL8
— RedState (@RedState) December 13, 2024
Matching Media Memorandum – VARIOUS OUTLETS
So the FBI using cutouts on that fateful day means they were not involved, goes the thinking.
An Investigator General's report on January 6 has been released, and we see that the FBI did, in fact, have a number of contacts on site that day reporting back to the Bureau, with some actually entering the Capitol and/or the restricted areas that day.
But we see a collection of reports telling us that FBI involvement on January 6 has been debunked? How can these two realities exist?
Well, out of convenient interpretation. See, those people on site were not actual FBI employees but were "confidential human resources," they say. Uh-huh, sure – that's a huge difference, we have to swallow.
As a result, the press can still say no "agents" or "undercover" members of the Bureau were there. This blows up the conservative story that the FBI infiltrated the crowd that fateful day, they claim:
The DOJ inspector general said Thursday that while no undercover agents were at the rally, 26 confidential human sources – or paid FBI informants – were in Washington that day, none of whom were authorized to break the law themselves or encourage others to do so.
As POLITICO explains, this completely debunks the claims of FBI involvement. Also, as POLITICO explains, the dozens of FBI contacts that day were rather active:
Among the tens of thousands of Trump supporters who flooded Washington that day, 26 were people who had served as informants for the FBI. Those informants — known as “confidential human sources” or CHSs — are not government employees but occasionally provide intelligence to the bureau. Of those 26 informants, only three had been specifically tasked by the FBI to track individuals they suspected of potential domestic terrorism activity. The other 23 informants attended Jan. 6 events “on their own initiative” and were not tasked with any activities by the FBI, the report said. Some of them proactively contacted the FBI amid the riot to report potential crimes.
And then there was also this nugget:
Just four of the 26 informants went into the Capitol, and nine others trespassed on Capitol grounds, Horowitz found.
So half of the FBI contacts involved were violating the law to the level that hundreds of others have been arrested and held for years.
ABC News: There's no evidence that feds were involved in inciting the January 6 attack
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 12, 2024
Reality: The FBI had 26 Confidential Human Sources on the ground on January 6th pic.twitter.com/ZtVL6o22Yq
Reporting on the Mirror – INFO WARS / THE ONION
This is a story that seems to get stuck on the bottom of your shoe.
For some reason, this is a tale that keeps cycling through the news. As a result of Alex Jones being sued by the Sandy Hook victims' families, his media empire(?) is being auctioned off to help pay off the settlement. As a result, The Onion has stepped up to take control of all of the property, which had plenty of people in the media excited that the once-humorous outlet would do something outrageous and bring down Jones.
But now, a judge has declared the auction was not completely legitimate and has blocked the acquisition. There is a legal wrangling playing out now as all of the activity has become delayed.
BREAKING: A federal judge rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with illegal collusion. https://t.co/zNuWwhTOHe
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2024
