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An illustrated look at the evolution of the 'inject Lysol' anti-Trump hoax: How Media Creates a False Narrative
American Thinker ^ | 04/26/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/26/2020 6:39:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: twyn1

Brainstorming is not something you do at a press conference in front of a rabidly hostile audience.


41 posted on 04/26/2020 9:51:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What's not being said is that President Trump corrected himself about "injection" a few minutes later in the briefing.

Here is the part of the briefing where President Trump speaks of "injection." It occurs 25 minutes into the briefing.

Four minutes later in the same briefing, President Trump corrects himself after a question from Jon Karl.

Karl: The President mentioned the idea of a cleaner, like bleach or isopropyl alcohol... there's no scenario where that can be injected into a person, is there?

President Trump: It wouldn't be through injection. I was referring to a cleaning, sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't work, but it certainly has a big effect if it's on a stationary object.

In order for the "inject Lysol" meme to work, the MSM has to ignore the comments made just four minutes later. Bias by omission is one the major ways that the MSM corrupts the reporting of the news.

-PJ

42 posted on 04/26/2020 10:00:29 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Trump opened himself up for this. I saw the briefing and it was a dumb a$$ thing to muse about in that venue.


43 posted on 04/26/2020 10:03:27 AM PDT by damper99
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To: SeekAndFind

Forwarding this to friends.


44 posted on 04/26/2020 10:20:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts.)
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45 posted on 04/26/2020 10:37:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Eisenstein did it

Do you mean Sergei Eisenstein, the acclaimed Russian director of "The Battleship Potemkin?" I didn't know he dabbled in theoretical physics as well as cinema.

46 posted on 04/26/2020 10:41:43 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vermont Lt

I made that same point in other posts and was attacked by the Trump-worshippers. The fact is that he sometimes lets his mouth run away with him and he ends up looking either petty or foolish. He needs to restrain his impulsiveness. He’s giving away a lot of ammunition to his (and our) enemies.


47 posted on 04/26/2020 10:44:44 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vermont Lt

I made that same point in other posts and was attacked by the Trump-worshippers. The fact is that he sometimes lets his mouth run away with him and he ends up looking either petty or foolish. He needs to restrain his impulsiveness. He’s giving away a lot of ammunition to his (and our) enemies.


48 posted on 04/26/2020 10:56:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: OttawaFreeper

> Trump could have instead walked on water that day...

That would prove he’s a witch!


49 posted on 04/26/2020 11:33:44 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

>>>So basically, Trump has to be 100% perfect in everything he says or does<<<

Yes, he and any Republican. The idea they don’t realize it by now is ludicrous. You don’t hand the Enemy Ammunition.

Same goes for Insider Trading, but that’s another topic for another thread.


50 posted on 04/26/2020 11:39:58 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes, I see what the press is trying to do. They are despicable liars who are anti-American.

But yes, Trump needs to stop it. They are getting him off topic. Also, there are many more of them, and there is only one Trump.

They are trying to wear him down, and they may be doing it.


51 posted on 04/26/2020 12:34:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: SeekAndFind

To illustrate how pervasive their hoax has become already, this afternoon I was in a dollar store in the checkout line.

As the very garrulous, loud clerk was checking another customer out (6 feet in front of me of course), she said to basically everyone in the store, “According to our President, all we have to do is inject Lysol into our bodies and we’ll be instantly cured.”

I was too annoyed to let this pass. I rather curtly said, “He did NOT say that.”

She insisted: “Yes, he did.”

Me: “The media completely twisted what he did say.”

Another customer, a younger man stepped up and said to me, “I believe you; you are right.”

He then turned to the clerk, shaking his head, and said. “Please do not believe that.”

He was a rather attractive young man, so she backed down and claimed she didn’t really believe it.

Yes, I agree he shouldn’t have speculated out loud along these lines but I do get annoyed at how the lying media is always ready to pounce on and distort anything he says.


52 posted on 04/26/2020 12:59:29 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I’m not saying whether Pres. Trump should or should not brainstorm during a press conference. My point is, IF it had been Obama doing/saying this exact same thing, the response would have been totally different.


53 posted on 04/26/2020 1:46:20 PM PDT by twyn1
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