Here is a nomination for Truth Teller in Media Award: Max Kellerman.
De Take first host described people at the intersection of SEC football fans and Trump voters (the Venn chart may not be a flat circle, but it’s very fucking close) as “sensitive to high quality information and easy to propagate and almost immune to facts” . “
Kellerman’s full statement, to Stephen A. Smith:
‘You made the argument a few weeks ago, you thought if SEC football was not played that the general election could swing because people in the Trump base would be very upset that they did not have football, which is practically a religion over there. I did not agree because he would simply shift the blame because the pandemic was raging. They seem to be sensitive to information of very low quality and easy to propagate and almost immune to facts.
“Because, as Kellyanne Conway, a Trump adviser, said, they have alternative facts. If they stayed in their propaganda silos – like the Fox News propaganda silo – it would not matter what happened, because they would say that the handling of the pandemic was great.The handling of the pandemic has been the worst in the industrialized democratic world, far in the United States, far at the federal level, it has been a disaster.And as a result, and yet I do not think that would affect voters, because the blame would be shifted.
“If the NFL does not play football – I think the NFL players have a lot of power here – if they do not play football, at some point the core will remain, but the (NFL) football base goes all over the country. It does not only hit some political basis, but insofar as there is such a thing as voters still swinging, it would absolutely affect some of them.If the NFL season is not played when it is interrupted, due to problems with social justice – and of course we understand that this is all against the backdrop of the pandemic … I know we exist in this sports bubble and we have this too big idea of the effect of sport, but I think that is actually political may have consequences in a general election. “
Seems to me the most inaccurate part of Kellerman’s statement is to refer to the US as part of the democratic world instead of a Putin-style kleptocracy. Lost (a) political centralists can shrug their shoulders and say, “Yes, so?” But the ESPN clip went viral when right-wingers lost their goddamn thoughts.
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Let’s not lose perspective here, this happened at the same time as teenage thug Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of premeditated manslaughter in the murder of two people in a protest against police violence in Kenosha, Wis., Side of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, is cited by Tucker Carlson as someone who “decided they had to keep order like no one else would.” Rittenhouse is a “Blue Lives Matter” fanatic and was seen at a Trump rally in Iowa beginning this year.
Rittenhouse, 17, told the Daily Caller that it was part of his “job” to “protect people” shortly before he allegedly started shooting. “If someone is injured, I run into the road. That’s why I have my gun. I have to protect myself, of course. ”
Tucker Carlson is a special kind of evil for our particularly evil times. But if a media personality with the imitation of Carlson does not recognize the tragedy of the young man’s militant, foreign, right-wing, right-wing act of radicalization, then we must recognize how far we have fallen as a society. Or perhaps, how low we have always been, that the fascists have always been there and are just powerful enough to take up arms against “the others.”
It’s SEC country, where QAnon is wingnut Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is on its way to Congress with the blessing of Trump. Greene is a run-of-the-mill QAnoner, believing in the “deep state”, the debunked “Pizzagate” theory of a democratically run pedophile ring. Speaking of Pizzagate, there was a gunman named Edgar Madison who was sentenced to four years in prison for “investigating” the conspiracy and firing an AR-15 into a pizza parlor. Sounds like another person who is sensitive to low quality information. Greene also claims the murder of an innocent bystander at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was “an indoor track.” Greene also said that the Democratic Party keeps Black people in slavery with their vote and that Black people should be proud to see Confederate statues.
It is impossible to make everything over 20,000 ridiculous lie that Trump voters bought from his husband in orange since his inauguration (you can start with the size of his inauguration class), but keep in mind that the Twitter meme says, “There’s always a tweet” from Trump – that is his full owner because he is worthless and amoral – exists for a reason.
It is also noteworthy that Kellerman adapted the judge for just tell the truth in a way that some traditional political journalists have.
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