Within hours of the terrorist attack on Israel numerous Democratic organizations came out in support of Hamas and blamed Israel for the attack. Several Democrat members of Congress also voiced their support for Hamas. Now they all are trying to walk it back or simply deny it ever happened. Unfortunately for them it isn't going to be that easy.
Nevilledog (48,529 posts)
Will the Media Fall For It Again? Conservative Activist Shares Playbook to Tie Hamas to Democrats
No paywall link (It kills the nasty ads)
https://archive.ph/Q0Hmr
Conservatives are so confident about their ability to play the mainstream media that they’re now saying the quiet part out loud. After his successful work at getting the mainstream media to carry his anti-“woke” anti-“critical race theory” narratives, American conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo instructed them on the next step to tie terrorist organization Hamas to BLM and more.
“Conservatives need to create a strong association between Hamas, BLM, DSA, and academic “decolonization” in the public mind. Connect the dots, then attack, delegitimize, and discredit. Make the center-left disavow them. Make them political untouchables,” wrote the Senior Fellow at the center-right Manhattan Institute.
When his fellow conservatives pointed out that he was saying the quiet part out loud, he admitted it happily, “Lots of debate in the replies. Many critics arguing that I’m “saying the quiet part out loud.” To which I respond: Yes.”
Maybe you’re thinking, how much can one activist really do just tweeting his “ideas,” and sadly the answer to that is: A lot.
“How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory,” is the New Yorker‘s title over a 2021 piece on him. They note, “To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.” Rufo wrote to them, “‘Critical race theory’ is the perfect villain.”
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Will the media fall for what? All these groups went on record supporting terrorism and blamed the murdered Israelis for their fate.
maxrandb (14,439 posts)
10. Doesn't matter, because their aim is too manipulate the media
and take advantage of the MSM being browbeaten as "biased".
They have been successful at getting the MSM to carry their water for 40+ years now.
I would like the media to stick to facts and report the truth. Not exactly an extreme or biased demand.
GuppyGal (685 posts)
2. LOL Whut ?? Talk about an overreach and it's just laughable.
Nobody gonna listen to that shit that's my prediction
Not overreach, that's what happened.
andym (5,361 posts)
5. Conservatives know how to manipulate the media into popularizing their propaganda
using the media's unwritten rule to provide balanced coverage. But when one side wants to create false crises and gaslight Americans with faux attacks about imagined bogeymen, the tendency for "fairness" by the media is actually unfair to American citizens and the US itself. That's because such attacks are nearly impossible to defend-- along the lines of "When did you stop beating your wife?"
No, more along the line of "When did you stop writing letters supporting Hamas?" or "When did you stop marching in the streets calling for the elimination of Israel?" or "When did you stop chanting "Gas the Jews"?" Gaslighting is denying these things have actually happened in the past week.
CurtEastPoint (18,210 posts)
6. How does this smug smegmaface hateful dildosucker face himself in the mirror? Shameful.
Now I'm sure this DUmmy would claim that wasn't meant to imply that this individual was gay, even though the only word missing from that sentence is the word "faggot". But that's alright. Being a DUmmy means that racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, etc. are all OK as long as they are directed at the people they don't like. Discrimination against people that don't agree with them is not just acceptable, but expected.
tritsofme (16,364 posts)
13. Here's an idea for BLM and DSA chapters, don't give this asshole so much material.
Elessar Zappa (12,411 posts)
17. Yeah those organizations haven't been very helpful to our cause.
I expected the DSA to react how they did but I was disappointed in some of BLM chapters’ response.
Oh no, a couple of them actually speak the truth.
inthewind21 (4,230 posts)
15. More important
question. Will the public fall for it?
Will the public look at the videos and read the statements that were put out and voice their opinion that killing Israelis in cold-blood is not something that should be condoned? Or will they see the false narrative that the Dems are trying to put out that it never happened? All of them are trying to distance themselves from their original Hamas support, but it's all out there in their own words and actions.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218367297
