Posted on 02/12/2017 5:32:31 AM PST by SkyPilot
They're well-produced, but they're still "clever fakes."
Many reporters were shocked this week after racially charged videos surfaced online purporting to be campaign ads created in 1969 for Fred Trump, the late father of President Trump.
This particular media feeding frenzy was set off by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, who mentioned the videos in an essay published this week by the London Review of Books.
Blumenthal wrote:
In 1969, Fred Trump plotted to run for mayor of New York … He made two test television commercials. One of them, called 'Dope Man', featured a drug-addled black youth wandering the streets. 'With four more years of John Lindsay,' the narrator intoned, 'he will be coming to your neighbourhood soon.' The ad flashed to the anxious faces of two well-dressed white women. 'Vote for Fred Trump. He's for us.'
The other commercial, 'Real New Yorkers', showed scenes of 'real' people from across the city, all of them white. Fred Trump, the narrator said, 'is a real New Yorker too'. In the end he didn't run, but his campaign themes were bequeathed to his son.
Soon after Blumenthal's essay appeared online this week, the videos he mentioned were widely shared on social media by reporters in various newsrooms. The Washington Post's fact-checker Glenn Kessler, was one of the first to circulate the videos on Twitter, and his note was shared by several of his colleagues.
..... There is only one problem with the supposed Trump ads mentioned by Blumenthal: They're fakes.
Fred Trump never ran for mayor in New York City, and he never had ads made up for his supposed campaign. It's all fake.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The London Review of Books, which apparently was completely up-to-date on the entire history of Fred Trump’s life (yeah, I believe that one!) issued a disgusting correction in its pages.
Anyone who was alive at that time - a very fractious time in NYC - knew that FT didn’t run for office. And I doubt that slimy newspaper of reviews even knew of his existence.
“Dope Man”’s dope man looks like a take-off of Linc from “The Mod Squad.” The whole ad has SNL written all over it.
Now one knows what the right thinks of the 1960-1970 era. The era of the alt-right’s parents. Skilled move someone who produced this.
The original version of this piece contained two passages that require correction and clarification. ... A paragraph referring to Fred Trump's campaign for mayor of New York, although it accurately reflected Trump's racial attitudes and his hostility towards Mayor John Lindsay, has been removed because the campaign ads referred to appear to be clever fakes.
They just couldn't contain themselves to write something they have no proof to even suggest Trump's father hated blacks. Thus smearing Donald with the same brush. This is how the leftists always retract their fake news stories. Well this isn't true, but it is true that they were racists so you can see why we were so easily fooled. No, it's not called stupidity, it's called bias that you accepted as truth and deemed it was not necessary to vet for the truth.
It’s just too easy trolling these nimrods.
Fake but accurate, IOW. Dan Rather is pleased.
It’s just too easy trolling these nimrods.
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Indeed. I guess actually researching before publishing a story is just too hard. Besides which, when the primary focus of today’s so-clled journalists is agenda driven, then facts are irrelevant if not downright injurious. Instead, they push the lie they want to spread, and if caught, they reluctantly may print a half-hearted retraction.
...and the MSM wonders why its trustworthiness is in the tank.
So, can the estate she Sid Viscous Blumenthal and the Washington comPost?
I get it. How is the “ad” racist, fake or not?
“Fake news”.......
Well surprise, surprise, surprise! Who would ever thought?
Truth doesn’t matter. If the lie convinces even a few people, it’s allowed by leftist dogma.
I remember a campaign for Clerk of Court in Baton Rouge years ago with all black people and the candidate using the exact same line, “He’s for us,” with the ‘us’ meaning blacks. A real ad as racist as their fake one.
“Set off by Sidney Blumenthal......”
This should be one of Sessions’ highest priorities. Along with Hillary that vile, caustic, rabid liberal needs to be put down. Permanently.
This is hysterical. The left wing media is so hungry for dirt on Trump it will buy into anything regardless of the risk. We need a “fake news” factory to overload the MSM to the point it will collapse under the weight of its own lies.
Many reporters were shocked.
Fish takes bait
Note: this topic is from 2/12/2017. Thanks SkyPilot.
This particular media feeding frenzy was set off by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, who mentioned the videos in an essay published this week by the London Review of Books... The Washington Post's fact-checker [sic] Glenn Kessler, was one of the first to circulate the videos on Twitter, and his note was shared by several of his colleagues.
The guy with the big afro is from an old anti-drug video that used to run on the “FBI Insider” channel on Roku XTV.
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