Republicans embrace their phoniness

[hue]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-republicans-embrace-their-phoniness/2014/08/13/f01ee0ca-2319-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

The Republican Party has finally admitted what has been fairly obvious for much of the past six years: It produces fake news.

This is not an earth-shattering revelation to anybody who has been paying attention, but, still, it’s an important step for the party to embrace the phoniness.

“NRCC Launches Fake News Sites to Attack Democratic Candidates” was a headline in the National Journal on Tuesday.

As Shane Goldmacher reported, “The National Republican Congressional Committee, which came under fire earlier this year for a deceptive series of fake Democratic candidate websites that it later changed after public outcry, has launched a new set of deceptive websites, this time designed to look like local news sources.”

These two dozen sites, with names such as “North County Update” and “Central Valley Update” look like political fact-checking sites; the NRCC’s spokeswoman, Andrea Bozek, called it “a new and effective way to disseminate information.”

An NRCC official told me the sites are legal because, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you’ll find, “Paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee” in small print. “They’re not fake Web sites,” the official said. “These are real attack Web sites.”

Real attacks, but fake news: This is a fairly accurate summary of what the GOP’s scandalmongers have been purveying during the Obama years.

There was the assertion that the White House was covering up high-level involvement in Operation “Fast and Furious,” a gun program under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives that went awry. No evidence was found.

[Turbineguy]

1. Rat Fucking

was the term coined by somebody in the Nixon campaign team.

[Laelth]

2. k&r for the truth. n/t

-Laelth

[UCmeNdc]

3. The GOP uses a well known propaganda technique called disinformation.

They are spreading lies wrapped in a messaging platform to make their lies seem to be truth. It is also a way to spread confusion about the Democratic candidate and their message.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. I personally prefer "rat fucking" because it creates a visual.

Though disturbing, effective immediately.

~Lmsp

[littlemissmartypants]

5. The NSA approved this thread. eom

[riqster]

6. And Lee Atwater created the phenomenon.

[hatrack]

7. And before him, Donald Segretti

[riqster]

8. I thought they were peers. Thanks for the info!

[blkmusclmachine]

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