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Be very afraid, the caravan is coming to getcha!
WHYY ^ | October 23, 2018 | Dick Polman

Posted on 10/23/2018 11:04:12 AM PDT by conservative98

Donald Trump’s current con job – spreading lies about the migrants who are walking through Mexico, seeking to terrify his fans into voting on November 6 – is just his latest attempt to weaponize fear for political gain. He’s been playing that card, successfully so, since he rode his escalator on day one of his craven candidacy, but his “caravan” demagoguery actually reminds me of a tactic that right-wingers concocted way back in 1934. I’ll explain that shortly.

By now you’ve probably heard the fake news, because it’s virtually impossible to escape it. For his closing argument on the eve of the midterms, Trump in recent days has decreed, naturally without a shred of evidence, that the migrants have been infiltrated by “people from the Middle East,” by “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners,” by “some very bad people,” by “MS-13, you’re going to find Middle Eastern, you’re going to find everything,” and guess what, “I think the Democrats had something to do with it.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: caravan; dick; dickpolman; enumerated; fakenews; post61mustread; smellywalmartpeople; trump; whyy
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1 posted on 10/23/2018 11:04:12 AM PDT by conservative98
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Dick’s full article:
https://whyy.org/articles/be-very-afraid-the-caravan-is-coming-to-getcha/

Forgot the excerpt.


2 posted on 10/23/2018 11:06:43 AM PDT by conservative98
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I said this in another thread. If they are looking to enter the US illegally, they are ALL criminals.


3 posted on 10/23/2018 11:07:34 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: conservative98

Polman is a sporkweasel pretending to be a columnist.


4 posted on 10/23/2018 11:07:43 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Hey, low-T journalist writer, funny how Trump’s “no proof” keeps coming out correct.

Back to your studies classes. Evidently, you were too dumb even for that group.


5 posted on 10/23/2018 11:07:53 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Oh look, WHYY. So glad they get public funds for this garbage.


6 posted on 10/23/2018 11:09:40 AM PDT by Shadow44
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The jerk needs to do some research. An embedded reporter , Hispanic reported there were muslims in the horde. Anyone think there aren’t terrorists and MS13?


7 posted on 10/23/2018 11:10:08 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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All the Leftist blather will not change by one iota, that this "caravan" is a direct attack on our right to self-government, won by General Washington & his valiant army in our Revolution. The marchers have shown utter contempt for our rights, wishes & heritage--again, our very sovereign rights to self-government.

An American Immigration Policy

8 posted on 10/23/2018 11:10:15 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Is Dick pull a man being sarcastic?
Cause reading this was funnier than Any Schumer’s comedy routine.


9 posted on 10/23/2018 11:10:42 AM PDT by Leep (Th)
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Glad you think it's a joke, Dick.


Dick Polman, moron

You're not a journalist. You are a propogandist that hates this country. You big dope.

10 posted on 10/23/2018 11:12:35 AM PDT by conservative98
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11 posted on 10/23/2018 11:12:52 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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LOL, a pro-LBGT, pro-abortion Democrat.


12 posted on 10/23/2018 11:13:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Even if NONE of them have hostile intentions, it doesn’t matter.

They still can’t just come in! That would be illegal. So stop them, process them, vet them, whatever. But they don’t just get to come in because they’re “escaping poverty”....

The Dims miss the point all the time.


13 posted on 10/23/2018 11:13:39 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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"seeking to terrify his fans into voting on November 6 – is just his latest attempt to weaponize fear for political gain"

It was not that many years ago that Democrats would put up signs outside retirement homes claiming Republicans were going to take their social security. The Dems are lying bastards. They have no room to talk.

14 posted on 10/23/2018 11:13:47 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: conservative98

Dick Polman, WHYY

15 posted on 10/23/2018 11:13:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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Dick forgot to put his home address in the article.


16 posted on 10/23/2018 11:14:45 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Is this column of would=be invaders really “walking through Mexico”?

If not, then who is the liar here?


17 posted on 10/23/2018 11:14:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Go push granny off the cliff...ok?


18 posted on 10/23/2018 11:15:00 AM PDT by BRL
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Be very afraid:
Dick Polman and millions of people with his lack of mental function get to vote.


19 posted on 10/23/2018 11:15:01 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: conservative98

Yet they never use this “no evidence” mantra when they talk about Russia and attribute it to a confidential source.


20 posted on 10/23/2018 11:16:17 AM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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