USA Today and Suffolk You conducted a survey among 1,000 Trump voters last week, identified through 2020 polls. The results again confirm that Donald Trump’s big lies are now part of the rock of the Republican Party. Riots denial, for example:
“Most Trump voters accept a version of the January 6 events that were uncovered by independent fact-checkers and law enforcement agencies,” Susan Page of USA Today wrote Sunday. When asked to describe what happened during the attack on the Capitol, 58% of Trump voters call it ‘mostly an anti-inspired attack involving only a few Trump supporters. “That’s more than double the 28% who call it ‘a rally of Trump supporters, some of whom attacked the Capitol.’ Four percent call it “a coup attempt inspired by President Trump.” ‘
Trump sometimes told the public not to believe their eyes and ears – and some of his supporters apparently agreed. The day of MAGA scare at the Capitol was washed away by Trump’s base in the memory hole. ‘Only 4% say they hear the accusation that they support Trump less; 42% say it made them more supportive, ‘Page wrote. “Fifty-four percent say it did not affect their support.”
The big lie about Trump winning the election, and Biden ‘stealing’ it, lives on largely because some people want to believe it and because a constellation of Trump propaganda sources is pumping out a diet of dishonest information that builds it up. But it’s also important to see how the Big Lie is still flushed and repeated in respectful TV shows.
Matt Negrin, a longtime critic of public affairs,
exclaimed ABC’s discussion of Representative Steve Scalise on Sunday: ‘He was rewarded with 10 minutes of airtime and pushed the lie again,’ Negrin wrote. “The networks are actively helping Republicans spread this lie.”
Negrin too
pointed out that law-abiding legislators have been welcomed into other network TV shows in recent weeks, saying that ‘the only Sunday show that does not discuss these big liars’ is’ SOTU’ ‘on CNN.
ABC representatives will say Scalise has been repeatedly challenged by host Jon Karl. They would say viewers see how Scalise evades the questions and see how Karl holds him accountable. They would say that
Monday’s “GMA” holds an exclusive interview with a police officer who defended the Capitol at 1/6. They would say that it’s all part of the mission of a news outlet. But is the defense convincing to you when democracy is at stake?
The new “Lost Cause”
>> Garry Kasparov
wrote in response to Negrin: “It’s like giving airtime to people who sell bleach as a miracle cure, except even more dangerous.” He said that “denying the integrity of the 2020 election is the new lost cause” and “the media will be partly responsible if it takes root.”
>> “Somehow,” CNN’s Jim Sciutto
observed, “the recognition of the truth today – on January 6 and the election – has become an extraordinary position in IDP and beyond.”
>> Agree or disagree? “The biggest threat of misinformation and disinformation is domestic, which is currently being led by the leaders of a political party and staged daily by a media pressured by ‘decades of bad faith under’ both sides’ism,” he said. the Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch
written …A “Classic Disinfection Campaign”
Researcher Kate Starbird
wrote Sunday: “The ‘big lie’ (claiming massive voter fraud in the 2020 election) has multiple features of a classic disinfection campaign, including: designed to sow doubt (rather than convince a single statement), and pushes various (even contradictory) narratives, functions to undermine democracy. ‘
“It’s not about finding a coherent story,” Starbird wrote. “It’s about creating doubt by throwing voter fraud spaghetti on the wall. And quite surprisingly, the next step is to use the same false and misleading narratives for future voter oppression, making it harder for people to vote next time. . ” CNN’s Zach Wolf recently wrote about it …
Story of two IDPs
Saturday night on “Judge Jeanine,” Lara Trump said her father-in-law “is the head of the Republican Party. He really is the person everyone will keep turning to to help them cross the border – or we’m talking about 2022. or further. ‘
Sunday morning on “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd for Rep. Will Hurd asked, “What role should former President Trump have in the future of the Republican Party? Or should he not have a role?” Hurd said, “I think very little, if not at all.”
Another takeaway from the new poll …
“In a US TODAY / Suffolk poll in October 2016, 58% of Trump voters said Fox was their most trusted source of news. In the new poll, it drops to 34%,” the aforementioned Susan Page reported. “Confidence has risen in two relatively new outlets that have made their reputation by advocating Trump. Newsmax is the most trusted among 17% of Trump voters, followed by 9% for” One America News.
>> Here’s what David Paleologos of Suffolk said: The findings may reflect a “seismic shift in the landscape of reliable news sources for conservatives …”
