Democrats Used Disinformation Campaign in Alabama Senate Race

[wvkeeper(HN)]

 

[HerdBuckeye]

Hummmm. Time to do something about election fraud/ interference???? Remember the trump committee that was effective.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Who would have ever thought to make that accusation if not for a certain candidate, you know, actually having this happen and benefiting from it. No collusion, of course.

And let's not be distracted from the fact that Roy Moore lost because he is a pedophile. Sixty-two percent of Alabamians (that sounds funny, is that right?) didn't give a hoot Ivan was helping Trump. That was fine and dandy with 'em. But 14 year old girls was a bridge too far.

Bottom line: the horse is out of the barn. Just assume anything you read online that isn't from one of the news outlets Trump calls FAKE NEWS is actually fake.

 

[dherd]

ever heard of fox news, rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann coulter, the republican party, Russia
24 HR A DAY 365 DAY A YEAR COAST TO COAST DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN.

 

[wvkeeper(HN)]

"It's ok if Democrats do it and it is targeted against a bad person."

@GK4Herd want to weigh in?

 

[extragreen]

"It's ok if Democrats do it and it is targeted against a bad person."

@GK4Herd want to weigh in?

Its ok if Russians do it, but bad if Democrats do it? Or is it because it doesn't change people's votes? Cons want to weigh in?

 

[wvkeeper(HN)]

"We can't comment on the story itself because the orange man is bad and did the same thing."

 

[GK4Herd]

"It's ok if Democrats do it and it is targeted against a bad person."

@GK4Herd want to weigh in?

Of course it’s not ok. The politics are dirty on both sides. I’ve made it perfectly clear I didn’t vote for Hillary so I’m not invested in the outcome of either political party.


But I’m not so sure you are scoring any points here. The article states the fact that the Russians meddled in the 2016 election to favor Trump...

An internal report on the Alabama effort, obtained by The New York Times, says explicitly that it “experimented with many of the tactics now understood to have influenced the 2016 elections.”

Some will do whatever it takes to win,” said Dan Bayens, a Kentucky-based Republican consultant. “You’ve got Russia, which showed folks how to do it, you’ve got consultants willing to engage in this type of behavior and political leaders who apparently find it futile to stop it.”

So which premise are you going with?

*The Russians didn’t meddle.
*They meddled but with no effect.

If they didn’t meddle than this whole $100,000 dollars spent in a 51 million dollar race (from the article) was spent for nothing if it was to imitate a practice that never existed. If the Russians meddled with no effect than why would the money be spent to try to imitate it?


Again, it is deplorable for any political party to use these methods. The use of disinformation is straight out of the Orwellian playbook. But I’m interested in what side you stand on...do you believe that spreading disinformation as a political tool is a bad thing making it nearly impossible to defend our president, or do you believe it’s okay and by virtue of that approval tacitly justifying the democrats who do it also?

 

[extragreen]

That's your best course.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

"It's ok if Democrats do it and it is targeted against a bad person."

I don't see anyone claiming that (dherd does not count).

 

[wvkeeper(HN)]

Did you read your own first paragraph?

"Who would have thought to make that accusation..."

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Did you read your own first paragraph?

"Who would have thought to make that accusation..."

Context....tie it in with the last sentence....from here on out, assume anything othet than a "hard news" source to be bullshit....which smart people should have done anyway. That being fact does not make it OK.