Posted on 02/12/2017 12:24:22 PM PST by montag813
WaPo updated article:
“No, Donald Trump’s father didn’t create racist ads for a mayoral bid”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/reporters-fall-for-fake-racist-trump-campaign-ads/article/2614592
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.
The videos in question were created and published online last year by a group called "Historical Paroxysm," which specializes in producing "found footage from alternate realities."
The footage used in the group's "Dope Man" ad, which ends with a banner reading, "Paid for by the Committee to Elect Frederick C. Trump," is from a 1969 short film called "A Day in the Death of Donny B," according to the Post.
Also, as noted by Gizmodo's Matt Novak, U.S. political campaigns started adding the "paid for" disclaimer at the end of ads only very recently.
After Historical Paroxysm's fake Trump ads went viral this week thanks to reporters and Blumenthal, the art project group removed the videos from their YouTube and Vimeo accounts with no explanation, Politico noted.
Several reporters, including Kessler, have also issued mea culpas admitting they were fooled by what they thought were authentic campaign ads from the early 1970s.
EVERYTHING is a BOMBSHELL with these media hacks - turn them off and STOP purchasing their rags.
WaPo updated headline:
“No, Donald Trump’s father didn’t create racist ads for a mayoral bid”
Twenty years ago they would have gotten away with it. Sidney Blumenthal is pond scum.
The “Homie “ in the “ad” kinda resembles Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch. I was in 8th grade at the time. Our social studies teacher spent a lot of time on current events. We followed John Linsay’s (or as Don Imus called him, New York’s Barbie Doll mayor) re election campaign and Fred Trump’s name NEVER came up.
Birthers? They've got at least sixteen dudes now who are Obama's
daddy and about nine chicks, who can keep track anymore.
Point being it all amounts to nothing, not a damned thing.
WaPO doesn’t appear to be trying to promulgate this story.
The really chilling thing is THEY DON’T CARE...!
There is the world on the one hand, and their paradigm on the other, and they prefer their paradigm.
And this BUTTRESSES that paradigm:
SO IT’S GOOD.
Liberals would rather believe 1000 lies about Trump than one truth.
Amen! Actually I have ignored them for the most part for a long time now... The exception is to show their Lies at times, but in no way do I buy their product, deceit and toilet paper...
God Bless
So did this same Compost “reporter” also expose the Obamas sitting in a racist “church” for 20 years?
Or was (s)he part of the vast left wing media conspiracy to hush it all up?
Exactly. We're supposed to be outraged by these ads? Even if they were fake? "Dope Man" would eventually arrive in neighborhoods all over NYC.
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Sid Blumenthal knew he was lying - that’s what he does for a living. Surely, it would be easy to check who ran for mayor in those hectic years - just a quick glance at Jimmy Breslin’s writings should have shown him the truth. This is why I say he was lying and knew he was lying.
Phylis Greco(RIP, Youngstown), 1947; quote to my two brothers and me:
(Deep Italian accent), “If you gonna be a ditch digger, be the best damn dig ditcher, you can be!”
God Bless her and her words!
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