Red Dawn: Grand Junction Billboard Notes Russian-Republican Connection

Colorado Times Recorder ^ | July 24, 2018 | Erik Maulbetsch

[Fedora]

Louise Mensch’s time as a romance novelist and conservative politician taught her the art of appealing to the public’s worst impulses. She put those skills to use peddling optimistic conspiracy theories to dismayed liberals in the wake of the 2016 election, and for several months she did a remarkably good job. She appeared on MSNBC twice earlier this year, and in March she was interviewed on Real Time with Bill Maher and given an op-ed in the New York Times. Once she had her foot in the door with the liberal press, however, she upped the ante and began pushing the limits of their credulity. In April, she claimed the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, Missouri was a Russian plot and accused Bernie Sanders of being a Russian agent. In May, Mensch and frequent collaborator Claude Taylor, a freelance photographer who tweets under the handle @TrueFactsStated, reported that the Supreme Court was preparing “Articles of Impeachment” against Trump and covertly replacing him with Senator Orrin Hatch. In July, Mensch tweeted that the government was considering executing Trump and Steve Bannon. My sources say the death penalty, for espionage, being considered for @StevenKBannon. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this. — Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) July 19, 2017 Needless to say, the vast majority of Mensch’s and Taylor’s allegations were untrue. An August report in the Guardian showed that several of the duo’s stories came directly from a hoaxer claiming to work for the New York Attorney General’s office. According to that hoaxer, Taylor “did no vetting whatsoever” and “asked leading questions to support his various theories.” Based on this faulty information, Mensch and Taylor claimed that Trump’s modeling agency was the subject of several “sealed indictments” for sex trafficking, and that Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani were set to testify for the prosecution. In response to being outed as frauds, Mensch and Taylor dug in their heels. “I don’t claim to be a journalist-I am offering a feed of raw, often unfiltered, human intelligence,” Taylor tweeted. For her part, Mensch claimed her scoops on the attorney general’s office were “accurate in every particular” and accused the Guardian of being a front for Russia’s Federal Security Service. By this time, the mainstream liberal press had become wise to their grift and stopped allowing Mensch and Taylor a national platform, but the damage was done. Desperate to hurt Trump at any cost, MSNBC and the Times ended up legitimizing his accusations of media dishonesty. Thanks a lot.: Where are the #Resistance phonies now?

[piasa]

Good catch.

[central_va]

This is getting out of hand. These sub human mouth breathers are sick and demented.

[central_va]

Anne was A-OK with obama bowing to the Saudi king, weren't you dearie?

Don't play that game. It's a hoax you post give her stupidity creedence and moral equivalence.