Conservative Media Makes Up a Fake Florida Mansion for Nancy Pelosi It looks like this story was made up out of whole cloth, and spread by such reliable, "neutral, fair and balanced" news outlets like The Washington Examiner - whose article was used to start a thread in this very forum. What's particularly interesting is the circular and self-reinforcing sourcing of this lie: There is most definitely fake news out there, people. The thing is, the people who have been screeching about it the loudest are the primary purveyors of it.
it takes more than money to live on jupiter island. the ridiculous story (who would retire in florida if they own a nice home in san francisco?) could only be propaganda.
Manipulation is a problem on all sides. If it matters in any way to your political values that some politician buys a house... you're doing it wrong.
As soon as I saw this, I knew that some RW spreader of fake news on here would open up a thread about this with the theme "Pelosi is the devil". Didn't have to wait long....... Could have almost predicted who started that thread, too.
The right wing can't find anything in REALITY to attack the grown-ups in the government. So they have to make up scandals. This is just the beginning. Remember all the FAKE scandals made up during the Obama years. An administration almost completely void of REAL scandals (yeah... they DID wiretap AP). Well... consider that experience them just "warming up" for this political cycle. There will be cooked up scandals one after the other. They'll be throwing crap around hoping some of it might stick.
Shame on them for making this up! If you are gonna lie, at least go big Nancy already had an amazing mansion with walls around it so why would she need one in Florida? If I’m gonna get fake news about Nancy it should be entertaining Like “new evidence surfaces that Nancy was born in the 1600s and had been retaining her youth from the blood of slaves” That’s how you do fake news!
There is an undeniable pettiness that exists with a person that would take this "Florida Mansion" story and run to start a thread implying that there is something nefarious in her buying a Florida mansion even if the story were actually true. There is ALSO an undeniable pettiness with a person that would take this "Florida Mansion Claim is Fake" story and start a thread boasting that the former posted an incorrect story. The irony is that both people are two sides to the same coin, and despite their obvious similarity, they are convinced that the other is despicable and petty. When it is all said and done, who really cares about EITHER story?
Shame on those who keep being fooled again and again by these It's not like it's the first time. They have made up nonsense like Biden calling Trump a racist because of the travel ban and, believe it or not, there are still fools out there who repeat the lie. But ask them to QUOTE it and... that's how you will see them slip into deep deep silence.
When once-respected journalists move to the fringe In the abstract, there is nothing surprising about a guest on a prime-time Fox News opinion show offering a wild comparison between government officials battling the coronavirus and a notorious Nazi doctor who experimented on Jewish prisoners in concentration camps. This sort of rhetoric isn’t common on the network, but such extreme assertions are regular enough that, for example, the show’s fill-in host, Pete Hegseth, didn’t visibly react to the comment, much less reject it. What is more remarkable about the claim was the guest who was offering it: Lara Logan, once a star reporter at CBS News, until an entirely debunked report about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 tarnished her reputation. Now she mostly generates headlines not for her reporting but for her opinions, as was the case with her appearance on “Fox News Primetime” on Monday night. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/30/lara-logan-fringe-journalists/ Right wing cable TV has become the electronic media version of the National Enquirer.
Isn't Logan the one who thought that a stuck key on her keyboard was proof that the government was spying on her?
