Frank wrote on Sep 18
th, 2024 at 8:15am:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 16
th, 2024 at 11:45am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 16
th, 2024 at 9:29am:
John Smith wrote on Sep 16
th, 2024 at 8:44am:
She's got bigger balls than trump too.
Best of all, she has a brain - unlike Trump!
She has compassion and empathy.
Headline of the week:
Harris’s lies fuel toxic mix of hate and chaos in the US election
Greg Sheridan 5:00AMSeptember 17, 2024.
It's very typical of you that all you care about is the headline.
The article doesn't make a compelling case at all that in the two examples of the lies they claim were told by Harris.
Trump did in fact say there would be a bloodbath for the country if he didn't win,
Harris also claimed in the debate that Trump had described neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville as “very fine people”.
He did,
Quote:Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"
Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.
Full contextTheir two smoking guns they point to in the article are anything but.
And throughout the whole thing, they are very critical of Trump and the lies from the Right too, but you don't seem to have read past the headline, as usual, so I don't think you noticed that right?
The article focuses primarily on Kamala Harris and the Democrats, seemingly in an effort to argue that their rhetoric is as, or even more, damaging than Trump's. It does briefly acknowledge that Trump is a “bombastic and complicated politician” who "often says hateful and untrue things about other people." However, it quickly shifts its focus to criticising the Democrats for allegedly exaggerating or distorting Trump's actions.
In reality, he's trying to downplay Trump's actions, trying to insert context to make it sound like he was talking about those for or against the statue in Charlottesville, not the clear topic they were talking about, being the neo-nazis who started the violence.
By highlighting Harris's supposed "lies" and the Democrats' harsh criticisms, the article seems to deflect attention away from Trump's own falsehoods. And it does a poor job of it too.
But it's a nice headline, and it's telling you what you want to hear, so why bother questioning it or checking the claims?
Easy peasy.
For anyone interested you can read the article here without having to subscribe to The Australian 🤮
https://archive.is/El8ZD#selection-967.0-967.123
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