Jeff Tiedrich - The New York Times hits a new low in false equivalencies
do you believe that Democrats are adrenochrome-harvesting lizard-people? do you insist that Italian military satellites altered vote counts in Arizona’s voting machines?
do you believe that the email lady was trafficking children out of the basement of a pizza parlor that has no basement? that Barack Obama spied on the Trump White House with his magical microwave oven? that Dr. Fauci created covid? that Michelle Obama is a man?
if you believe any of that patently-false fucknuttery, congratulations — you’re a member of the American right wing. because that’s where these fever-swamp hallucinations are born — and flourish.
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if you’re The New York Times, you both-sides the shit out of it.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/the-new-york-times-hits-a-new-low
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here, the Times reporting just turns silly.
These conditions have paved the way for even bizarre claims to catch national attention. A vulgar, untrue joke about Senator JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, spread rapidly after he was added to the ticket, with nearly 400,000 mentions and 4.6 million interactions from July 15 to July 31, according to online and social media data analyzed by Hootsuite. The joke became fodder for late-night television hosts and even for the Harris campaign, which alluded to it on social media and during a rally.
holy shit, Times — it’s not a bizarre claim, it’s a fucking joke. the percentage of people who actually believe that JD Vance used his freakishly tiny trouser trout to violate a sofa is a rounding error away from zero.
it’s not our fault that Couchfuck McGee seems exactly like the kind of freak who would engage in a little late-night cushion pushin’.
