McAuliffe buys 'fake news' ads in effort to sway voters, Fox News investigation finds

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcauliffe-fake-news-ads-effort-sway-voters

here’s the thing. I don’t necessarily disagree with this tactic because ignorant voting is not illegal. It is naturally a byproduct of democracy plain and simple.


However, what I do have a problem with is that democrats would call this voter manipulation and interfering in the vote. Facebook would take it down based on fact checking. So I do see some hypocrisies that need to be addressed. I think the obvious answer is to just allow free speech lies or not. The American public should be able to sift through the lies without FB getting involved in either side.

 

McAliffe would only do this is he was desperate and was really counting on the ignorant low info voters to come through for him.

 

From the article:
"But sprinkled among the links to legitimate media are seven separate advertisements (and dozens of variations) that promote websites widely considered to be "fake news".
Sorry, but posting a Fox news story, with not much to it, and then for them to make that statement, is hilarious.
Pot calling the kettle black
Does sound like a waste of money for his election funds to be spent on.
Sounds like these politicians have too much money to throw around.
The election of government officials in the United States could use some revamping, particularly in the money aspect. It would be nice to see some different parties step up, but the big money in the Dems and Reps PACs squash them. I would like to see reforms of campaign finance laws.

 

The pot calling the kettle black? If true then feel free to disprove this article.

 

Fox news regularly has "fake news" articles, although I haven't been paying that much attention lately.
Usually they are using another source as the origination of the "news" that turns out to be fake and then it disappears.
The last one I remember was a story about some Hillary Clinton aide who Clinton said something about. I can't remember the exact story line, but it was really bad about Clinton, if true. So I looked for it for awhile, and the only other place it was reported was on the site Fox news cited.
After a few hours, it disappeared from the Fox news site. The next day, I found another article about the incident, where one site basically made it up and Fox had bought into it for a few hours. There have been many more like incidences, enough to seem more intentional rather than accidental.
Small thing maybe, but Fox news has no business calling anyone else fake.

 

However, this article shows real fake news but you dismiss it because of that? Who else would report on it if not fox? All other news outlets lean too far left to point this out.

 

Did you read the entire article, including the links to lib websites?

 

I just read it and didn't see any specific instances of documented "fake news", just the words "fake news" repeated several times.
Can you point out specifically what the fake news they are referring to is?

 

Mcauliffe is fake news, he is backed by fake news, he has no respect for the parents, students or people of VA.

LORD MCAULIFFE: Washington Post Backs Terry McAuliffe In Telling Outraged Virginia Parents ‘Public Schools Don’t Belong To You.’

 

Well, we can sure as hell name them and shame them, though! Fake News, "messaging" and lies.

CNN Host Angry Conservatives Don’t Trust the Media, But Here’s a Few Examples Why.

They are liars who smear us, slander us and hate us.



"Gee, Brian, where to begin?"





DeSantis treats us with dignity and respect.

They don't hate Fox News and Trump, they Hate Us!

You think Fake News and Fakebook would even hesitate to coordinate to fix an election by working to turn out one side while suppressing the other?

 

Politics ain't beanbag.

Both sides use these tactics (or variations).
From Your Link:

The Youngkin campaign has also employed ethically dubious tactics. The Huffington Post reported in September that a person who called in to a right-wing radio show to heavily praise Youngkin was not a listener of the program, but a staffer for the former businessman’s campaign.

Anyway, anybody who objects to these commonly-used tactics (used by both sides) is always free to vote for the other guy (or not at all).
^Problem solved.

 

Nice Copypasta Dump.
Is your hard-drive running faster now?

And, who is this "us" that you refer to?

Is that the current term of art bring used to describe QAnon, The Bigfoot Society, The Flat Earthers, #StopTheSteal, Alex Jones, and the OAN/Newmax Crowd?

Cool.
I'll remember that.

Now, back to the Link that is the Topic of the OP.

Everybody does it. BOTH Parties.

Fox (and their viewers) must think that McAulliffe is starting to pull ahead in the stretch.
Thus, here comes Fox (right on cue) with it's expected "Hey Lookie Here!" Faux Outrage piece.
As predictible as the Sunrise.

 

I wonder where he could gave gotten that idea from?

 

I just read it and didn't see any specific instances of documented "fake news", just the words "fake news" repeated several times.
Can you point out specifically what the fake news they are referring to is?

 

WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTY AND THE DAILY BEAST CALLS YOU OUT FOR YOUR LYING…: Lying Terry McAuliffe Said More Than 1,100 Kids Were Hospitalized With COVID. There Were 35.

Liar. Hates American Parents.​

Lying McAuliffe "said there were 8,000 coronavirus cases “yesterday in Virginia,” but there were "fewer than 2,000." Lying "McAuliffe said 1,142 children were in ICU beds with COVID" — "there were just 35 kids in hospitals, never mind intensive care." He repeated that lie weekly on consecutive weeks when over the entire pandemic a"total of 952 children" were hospitalized.

Don't vote for parent hating liars.

 

Oh...Oh...
That's IT!
McAulliffe is Absolute Toast...

Youngkin 99% McAulliffe 1%...
Terry, we hardly knew ye...

 

Oppose McAuliffe: The war on parents is real.

“Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Oct. 13 appointed National School Board Association president Viola Garcia to the National Assessment Governing Board, which develops the tests used to track student achievement across the country.”

Parents are rightfully concerned about all of this. "An ideologically-aligned cabal of people in various agencies of the federal government are working together to shut them down."

Dirtbag "Garland’s role is only to stifle speech and to issue a warning to parents to limit their challenges to" illegitimate authority or risk punishment.

Dirtbag Garland defends DOJ memo despite NSBA letter being withdrawn. It was always pretextual. As soon as the GOP regains the majority they need to launch an impeachment inquiry against Dirtbag Garland.

 

Mcauliffe - zero credibility

Fox News - zero credibility

Only the machines matter. In the week before the last election, the left functionally vanished online. They did not care. They knew the result was fixed. They are not worried about Mcauliffe losing....

 

Sounds good...
Just WIN, Baby...

 

His scummy little campaign isn't going so well.

Like this...

 

At this point, I doubt if McAulliffe cares about ridiculous, sophomoric memes.

As long as he Wins, all will be good.

 

Evidently you don't live in godforsaken Virginia.....

 

Your assumption is correct.
I reside in one of the other 49 States.

 

RP strategists are usually able to prove that DP pols are real stinkers. They have exposed the dangerous authoritarian Terry McAuliffe and driven down his poll numbers. The RP did the same thing to Newsome in CA.

How did that work?

 

Not well. CA is D+14. VA is D+2. In both states the Democrat is running downhill while the GOP is running uphill. It may be that McAuliffe is in a no lose position.