Glancing at the headlines today, we see nothing but misdirection and misinformation. It's a steady stream of polished propaganda being presented as truth, the very pinnacle and epitome of trickery. With some fresh shock and awe and race-baiting terror burying anything of substance, today's game is one of discernment: What really matters right now?
Let's start by identifying three lies and half-a-truth:
Today's first headline was Liz Cheney's response to the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, wherein Payton Gendron, "a rifle-toting 18-year-old from Conklin, New York," allegedly drove hundreds of miles to hunt down black people at a Tops super market. Make no mistake, this was a despicable racist hate crime of the highest order.
But was his murderous impulse driven by GOP rhetoric? According to his 180 page manifesto (which was essentially identical to a prior white supremacist manifesto), the jaded Gendron claims he was "deep into communist ideology," and on the political compass he would fall in the "mild-moderate authoritarian left." As you might expect, there is much more to the story.
