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Archae

(46,345 posts)
1. Yup, floated a clumsy lie, and ignored the actual source of the original picture.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 02:31 PM
Jul 2016

On CNN, Lewandowski Defends Antisemitic Meme Sourced To Neo-Nazi Site



Trump's camp came out after a few hours claiming it was really just like if they had used a sheriff star and that we were being way too sensitive, delicate flowers that we are. Here is a sheriff's star:



And oops...a huge development overnight...one that shows just how incredibly inept, clumsy and stupid the Trump campaign and their marketing team is....the true original source for the ad was discovered by Esquire. And it is bad. Like, really, shocking, worse than most of us in the media expected.

Turns out the ad was a meme taken from a alt right Internet message board. It was apparently created on June 22nd.

alt_right_image.jpg

Esquire reports that the message board is a "digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Donald Trump's rhetoric."

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/former-trump-campaign-manager-criticism

 

frankieallen

(583 posts)
6. So if I understand correctly, people are saying the tweet on the
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 05:04 PM
Jul 2016

Left, has a six point star, and that its anti-Semitic? Like the Star of David?
Bit of a stretch, but ok.

Archae

(46,345 posts)
7. It's not "a bit of a stretch." It's pure anti-Semitic propaganda from a white supremacist site.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 05:17 PM
Jul 2016

These anti-Semitic pictures keep popping up on the Facebook and Twitter of right-wingers.

Ted Nugent had one tying "Jew money" to New York politicians who are "anti-gun."
Including one who is from "Jew York City" and another who sent money to "Jews in East Europe" supposedly.

As to the 6-pointed star on top of lots of money, you figure it out after viewing this Nazi Germany propaganda picture.

TeamPooka

(24,254 posts)
2. you should post as much info about the story as possible so we don't have to go to CNN and
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 03:09 PM
Jul 2016

give them clicks and views.
if you watched it tell us what happened.
don't encourage traffic for CNN
that tells them they did the right thing hiring Corey

TeamPooka

(24,254 posts)
3. better link , more info.....
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 03:16 PM
Jul 2016
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/former-trump-campaign-manager-criticism

Lewandowski, former campaign manager/bully/bodyguard for Trump. the tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon, was on CNN today with Brianna Keilar offering his highly intelligent thought provoking, well presented case as to why this was not a totally antisemitic post. Kidding. He sounded...like a Trump surrogate.

LEWANDOWSKI: A tweet is a simple tweet. You can read into things that aren't there. You know, this is a simple star.

KEILAR: Are you saying that...wait wait wait, wait wait wait...you are saying that is a simple star, a simple star that you would expect, you would give a child a sticker, would have five points, not six. You are saying that people are reading too much into this?

LEWANDOWSKI: It is a star that sheriff's departments across the country use all over the place to represent law enforcement. To read into something that isn't there...is main stream media trying to attack Donald Trump...

KEILAR: If there is nothing there, Corey, then why did they pull it?...replace it with a circle?

LEWANDOWSKI: This is political correctness run amok

jehop61

(1,735 posts)
5. Beginning to think
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 04:07 PM
Jul 2016

the Lewandowski firing was a sham to get ole Corey infiltrating the media. He should go now!

no_hypocrisy

(46,185 posts)
8. Waiting for Ivanka to defend her father on this one.
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 09:23 AM
Jul 2016

She converted to orthodox Judaism before she married Jared Kushner and three of Trump's grandchildren are Jewish.

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