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  1. Same people that were “Shocked! Shocked, I say.”, on being told that Hamas was using offices in the same building that they inhabited in Gaza.

  2. National Review Online ran an article penned by an Arizona Republican Rep who thinks that by stating he voted for Trump gives him credibility in his attempt to trash the Miacopa County audit as conspiracy theory. While he parrots the four or five claims that the media and Democrats have been making, he never mentions any of the already released issues that have been raised. In addition, he never talks about NH, MI, PA or GA.

    The problem or malpractice is not in what is written, but in what is conveniently ignored.

  3. The state of American journalism is illustrated by the fact that you can get more information about the election fraud from the Daily Mail than any U.S. newspaper. My local rag always refers to any such claims as baseless or false with no explanation as to why that is the case. It is the narrative that they need and they are not changing. New facts from the audits? Nothing to see there, move on. Now we know what it was like in Russia in the days of Pravda.

  4. The AP along with the rest of the MSM fulfill all of the qualifications for malpractice suits. Free speech is not a license for malpractice.

    Malpractice requires the satisfaction of the 4 ‘D’s. Violation of Duty, Deviation from Established Professional Standards, Direct Causation, and Damages.

    The media has a duty to endeavor to provide accurate information to the public. Journalism, by definition is a public service.

    Journalism has well established professional standards of objectivity.

    Much of the American public’s demonstrated ignorance is a direct result of the media’s violation of journalism’s professional standards.

    Any honest, unbiased observer would testify that the damage to society is massive and undeniable.

    Nothing will change until media malpractice results in personal consequence.

  5. There have been very interesting developments in the Windham NH audit. Watch the YouTube channel by Nick Moseder for lots of detail. In the most recent one, https://youtu.be/bHQA_7_djjc, he summarizes how an auditor found evidence of a machine being wiped illegally by a Dominion tech. Look at the four most recent videos for discussion of all the fraud, including multiple machines that flip “overvotes” from Trump to Biden in Windham and now other counties that they’ve checked.

    One is a video of the NH Secretary of State and a buddy in 2008(!) illegally trying to move a ballot box from a secured room out into the hall where they can come back later and do whatever with them. Even the tamper proof tape he put on the box, isn’t.

  6. “I found this propaganda masquerading as news in the NY Post, which is a newspaper ordinarily on the right. Just goes to show what sort of reach and power the AP has.” – Neo

    I have noticed this in all the “conservative” outlets from time to time, and it is infuriating. Someone just pulls these off the AP wire and throws them online without even reading them, much less editing (or, better, trashing) them.
    With friends like these….

    Roy is right, of course. And since AP “reporters” never noticed who their building-mates were, why should we trust their observations about anything else?

    “..home of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.” – Neo

    Notice that the tarring by association (and Corey only lives in the same town, not the same building) only ever goes one way.

    However, there are some indications he is at least aware of the audit. The internet search results (Brave browser/DDG) are all over the left-center axis (aggressively involved pushing Trump’s baseless claims vs. reasonably concerned about election integrity; no right-wing sites on the first page), so I tried to pick a couple of stories with less inflammatory rhetoric, although the political views of the authors are still evident.

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36399683/corey-lewandoski-windham-new-hampshire-ballot-recount-2020/

    From the AP: (which is quoted in most of this post)

    The crowd at the Monday meeting had been fired up by conservative media, which in recent weeks has seized on the town’s election results for four seats in the state House as suspect. The attention, fanned by a Donald Trump adviser who happens to be a Windham resident, has helped a routine recount spiral, ultimately engulfing the town in a false theory that the national election was stolen from Trump.

    You may recall Corey Lewandowski as a particularly revolting member of the original brain trust employed by the previous president. That was a very high standard, but Lewandowski rarely failed to meet it. Apparently, he’s the brains behind this caper.

    Of course, the rest of the AP article says nothing of the kind; an unbiased reader (not that there are any these days) would not see anything remarkable about any of Lewandowski’s comments.

    https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-trump-taking-personal-interest-in-windham-election-controversy-audit/36345527

    Former President Donald Trump has taken a personal interest in the discrepancy between the Election Day and recount vote totals in the town of Windham – as well as in the resulting audit — his confidante and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says.

    But Lewandowski, a resident of Windham, denied Wednesday that Trump was alleging there was widespread voter fraud in the town of 14,000 residents – or in the state of New Hampshire –when he again alleged that the November election was rigged during a cameo appearance at a wedding reception at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/05/27/trump-cheered-an-election-review-in-this-tiny-new-hampshire-town—auditors-just-said-theres-no-proof-of-fraud/?sh=15b882144690

    Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a Windham resident, told local TV station WMUR the former president doesn’t necessarily think the town was beset by widespread voter fraud, but he’s still interested in finding out why there were discrepancies.

    Corey’s not in this post, but it’s an interesting nugget of information that apparently hasn’t made it past the AP gate-checkers, although Conservative Treehouse noticed it. (May 14)

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/hold-new-hampshire-election-audit?utm_medium=social_media&utm_source=twitter_social_icon&utm_campaign=social_icons#article

    An audit team sent to conduct a forensic examination of the 2020 election results in Windham, N.H. started the process off well enough on Tuesday. But by Wednesday, they hit a major snag: The live stream cameras that had been broadcasting the audit room around the clock went offline for close to 90 minutes, potentially obscuring any problematic intervention.

    The team decided Thursday morning to reinspect the ballot machines on camera in an attempt to maintain observers’ faith in their process. They needed to determine whether the machines had been tampered with over night when the cameras mysteriously went down.

  7. “There have been very interesting developments in the Windham NH audit. Watch the YouTube channel by Nick Moseder for lots of detail.” – Paul

    How long will Moseder’s videos be available?
    I hope he is double-posting them on the right-wing social media outlets.

    “The problem or malpractice is not in what is written, but in what is conveniently ignored.” DanJ1

    Given the current “oh yeah, about those debunked false theories regarding the Wuhan Lab Leak theory of Covid…” and the boasting post about “fortifying the election” by committing rampant fraud and then calling Republican questions “baseless claims without evidence” of the things they just admitted doing, I’m assuming that anything removed or suppressed in any way by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, etc etc etc will be close to 100% true.
    or

  8. DanJ1 (1:45 pm) concluded, “The problem or [of?] malpractice is not in what is written, but in what is conveniently ignored.”

    Yes. The mainstream media has the power to select what’s important, to amplify, to exaggerate, to spin/slant, and to misrepresent (i.e., *lie*), but an immensely important power, one often overlooked as a *power* but near the top of the list of powers wielded by the mainstreamers, is the power to *ignore*.

  9. M J R— The most glaring example of that “power to ignore” is the spiking of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the run-up to the election. This would include informal polls and inquiries of Biden voters who expressed, generally speaking: “I wish I had known that before I voted.”

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