Two items of disinformation related to President Trump’s photo op in front of St. John’s church are debunked:

• The police did not use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protestors in Lafayette Park, nor were the protesters the police dispersed “peaceful.”
• The president did not hold up a Bible at the church in imitation of Adolph Hitler; the photo showing Hitler waving a Bible was photoshopped.

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This woman is far from alone.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-sole-justification-offered-for-the-riots-is-a-fiction/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

I don’t suppose that empirical data matters in the least, but I do suppose that it should.

This fellow has the right idea.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/27/what_the_obamagate_scandals_mean_and_why_they_matter.html

With the distance of hindsight it is becoming easier to summarize and explain the scandal.

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A case study in media/political distortion.

To be fair to media, selling Covid-19 early on as, essentially, a severe seasonal flu epidemic might have been equally misleading. Still, one wishes for better accuracy in reporting matters that affect public policy.

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The short answer is neither Yes nor No, according to the writer, but Unknown.

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The writer outlines the history of the technical concept of social distancing as a response to epidemic and finds that it is a very recent — and originally controversial — innovation.

Continue reading “AIER: The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea” →

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/trump-russia-investigation-obamagate-not-conspiracy-theory/

David Harsanyi makes the case that denial is no longer an option.