Media Propaganda

Here’s How They Do It…

The following are excerpts from CNN’s Election Day coverage yesterday, August 2, 2022. I have BOLDED text to highlight the bias (propaganda) which is designed to INFLUENCE readers, not to INFORM them…

Rep. Billy Long and Mark McCloskey, a lawyer who became famous after he and wife wielded firearms from their property as a protest against police violence passed by in June 2020, were also on the long GOP ballot. (The protest DID NOT “pass by”, they entered his property illegally and he was protecting it with his 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. – The Liberator)

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GOP secretary of state: The Arizona Secretary of State race is shaping up like the governor’s race, with Trump-endorsed election denier Mark Finchem facing more moderate businessman Beau Lane, who has been endorsed by Gov. Doug Ducey, as well as former Arizona Govs. Jan Brewer and Fyfe Symington.

Finchem attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally and has peddled the QAnon conspiracy theory. Lane is an advertising executive and his campaign emphasizes the need to “restore confidence” in elections with Arizona voters, but he rejects conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Two other candidates join them on the ballot: state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, who has said the election was “rigged” and state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who sponsored a bill that weakened the state’s permanent mail voting list.

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GOP governor: The rift between Trump and other GOP leaders is on display in the Arizona GOP gubernatorial primary, with endorsements splitting the field. Kari Lake, a former television anchor, received Trump’s endorsement. Lake has denied the results of the 2020 election and spread lies about voter fraud. Her main competitor is Karrin Taylor Robson, a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents, who was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and GOP Gov. Doug Ducey. While Taylor Robson has said that the 2020 election “was absolutely not fair”, at a recent debate, she was the only candidate who unequivocally said they would accept the results of the primary. 

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GOP Senate: Arizona Republicans are competing to take on Sen. Mark Kelly in what is expected to be a competitive general election contest. Trump has backed venture capitalist Blake Masters, who worked closely with billionaire Peter Thiel, who backed Masters’ bid financially. Masters has spread lies about the results of the 2020 election and accused Democrats of trying to “change the demographics” of the country. 

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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs will win the Democratic nomination for governor, CNN projects, potentially setting the stage for a November general election focused on the integrity of the state’s largely mail-in election system. 

Hobbs is seeking to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Doug Ducey. 

She was heavily favored against Marco Lopez, the former mayor of Nogales who worked as the head of former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s commerce department and later, as chief of staff for US Customs and Border Protection during Napolitano’s tenure as Homeland Security secretary. 

Hobbs emerged as a national figure as she defended Arizona’s 2020 election results against a raft of unfounded conspiracy theories advanced by former President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters in the state. 

Republicans in the Arizona Senate commissioned a partisan review of the 2020 results in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix. That review did not change the reality that now-President Biden won in 2020. Cyber Ninjas, the inexperienced company hired to conduct the review, and its subcontractors cast doubt on the veracity of tens of thousands of votes, though elections experts immediately pointed out Cyber Ninjas’ errors. Still, election deniers seized on the partisan review to advance their false claim that Trump was the victim of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. 

Hobbs has signaled she will focus on the issue of election integrity in November. Over the weekend, in an op-ed in The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, Hobbs said that lies about election fraud have led to threats against local elections workers and placed a burden on law enforcement officers who she said are now on “high alert.” 

“This is not a partisan issue,” Hobbs wrote. “These attacks are happening because radical conspiracy theorists have spotted the gaps in our voting rights and election laws and are using loopholes like the Civil War-era Electoral Count Act to manipulate our democracy to their will.”

(Notice the lengths to which CNN went to show Hobbs in a good light and show Republicans unflatteringly. This is a huge election for Democrats in November. – The Liberator)

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Kris Kobach will win the GOP nomination for Kansas attorney general, CNN projects.

Kobach is a former Kansas secretary of state and lost bids for governor and US Senate in recent cycles.

Others running in the GOP primary Tuesday for state attorney general included former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi and state Sen. Kellie Warren. 

A staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, Kobach served on Trump’s voter fraud commission in 2017 and was endorsed by the President during his 2018 run for governor, a race he lost to Democrat Laura Kelly in deep-red Kansas.

Kobach has prioritized issues such as border control and was the general counsel and board member for a private border wall project that was at the center of a fraud investigation in 2020. 

On the campaign trail, Kobach, who was endorsed by GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former US Attorney General John Ashcroft, vowed to take on the Biden administration if elected attorney general.

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Rep. Peter Meijer became the second of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump to be ousted in a primary Tuesday, losing to Trump-endorsed conservative challenger John Gibbs in the GOP primary for his seat in Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District, CNN projects.

Meijer, a freshman, voted to impeach the then-President just days after taking office, after the insurrection at the US Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021. Gibbs, meanwhile, backed Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.  

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CNN Projection: Blake Masters will win the Arizona Republican Senate primary 

Blake Masters will win the Arizona Republican Senate primary race, CNN projects.

He’ll face incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly in November.  

Masters is a venture capitalist who former President Donald Trump backed. He also worked closely with billionaire Peter Thiel, who backed Masters’ bid financially.  

Masters has spread lies about the results of the 2020 election and accused Democrats of trying to “change the demographics” of the country. 

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CNN Projection: Mark Finchem will win the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state  

Mark Finchem will win the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state, CNN projects.  

Finchem is a Trump-endorsed election denier. Finchem attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally and has peddled the QAnon conspiracy theory. 

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And there you have it, folks. Not news, but propaganda, all in a single story covering the mid-terms across the country. And they wonder why they are so unpopular. Actually, they don’t wonder, and they don’t care. They are proud of their role as the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. – The Liberator