Sorry, but more people will think it’s REAL!!! This is NOT funny anymore.
This is all ‘fake news’ Fred Trump did not run for Mayor, Governor or anything else, and he didn’t make any ads...
And why in the hell would anyone bring up a Sitting President’s father who is dead but the ‘fake news’ media and the ‘insane’ left idiots...
Really people, you need to find a REAL JOB!!!
This was tried during the campaign, around December 2015 is I remember correctly. It is complete BS!
The keep trotting out the same BS hoping something will stick. Shows they got nothing.
The problem is that the ads were honest..?
I don’t get it.
I vote for his dad, too..!
FAKE NEWS!
WaPo is a bordello staffed by presstitutes.
If this is true, the media sucked the big one.
In 1969, I was hoping conservative Republican John Marchi would be elected mayor of New York City, but the Big Town has too many liberals, and Republican mayor John Lindsay, whose political views were similar to those of George McGovern was re-elected. It was said at the time that Lindsay benefited from euphoria among New Yorkers after the Jets won the Super Bowl followed by the Mets winning the World Series.
Since when does the MSM care whether something bad they report about Republicans is true or not?
I would give the maximum donation if someone would convince Fred to actually run this time.
Even if it were true...and it’s not...do the RATS really want to play a game of ‘Sins Of The Father’...Barry and Bubba have nothing to brag about in that dept.
WAPO #FAKENEWS
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.
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.
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.