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McAuliffe Ads Point to 'Fake News' Sites on the Campaign Homestretch

Chris QueenOct 27, 2021 1:00 PM ET

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Democrats and their dirty tricks

In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe is working hard to earn a second stint in the governor’s mansion, and he certainly didn’t count on the race becoming as tight as it has.

As the campaign enters the final stretch, McAuliffe and his team have resorted to a tactic that screams desperation. The campaign has spent over $100,000 on Facebook ads that link to fake news sites that look like legitimate news sources but resort to partisan propaganda.

Fox News reports:

The Democrat’s advertisements, which have been viewed up to 3.5 million times so far, are hidden on a Facebook page with a similar name to a local news website. The ads link to third-party websites that ostensibly publish local news, but exist to promote Democratic candidates. The websites have been widely described as disinformation and “partisan propaganda.”

The Facebook page is called The Download, and it looks and sounds like a page that promotes actual news stories, but it’s a plant from the McAuliffe campaign. Some posts on the page point to actual news sites, but many of the posts, which are promoted with advertising dollars, link to sites like The Virginia Dogwood, a “news” site that publishes left-wing propaganda and boasts George Soros among its bankrollers, and The American Independent, another liberal opinion outlet that masquerades as an unbiased news site. The American Independent receives its funding from prominent Clinton ally David Brock.

Related: They’re at It Again: The Left Is Using Its California Playbook in Virginia

Both The Virginia Dogwood and The American Independent have received “fake news” labels from watchdog groups and media ethicists. Of course, these links could be honest mistakes, but the money trail suggests that the campaign knows exactly what it’s doing.

The McAuliffe campaign has spent a total of between $90,200 to $106,398 on advertisements linking to the Independent and the Dogwood. Those advertisements have garnered the campaign a total of between 3,290,000 and 3,470,000 “impressions,” a term that Facebook uses to describe the number of screens that an advertisement has reached.

Each ad contains a disclaimer that it was paid for by “Terry for Virginia” and authorized by the candidate himself (Facebook requires candidates to add disclaimers like these to all political ads). But none of the advertisements disclose that the websites are considered to be “fake news” or that their information may be misleading.

The Democratic National Committee has remained silent on McAuliffe’s tactics, and the McAuliffe campaign has declined to respond to Fox News’ requests for comment about the ad buys.

McAuliffe’s opponent, Glenn Youngkin, has engaged in less than savory tactics of his own throughout the campaign, even as Youngkin’s campaign has called out McAuliffe for the fake news links. Youngkin campaign staffers called local talk radio shows throughout the state, pretending to be regular citizens who had good things to say about the GOP candidate.

In one of the tightest races in recent memory in Virginia, both sides are proving that politics continues to be a dirty game, but McAuliffe’s big money for fake news ads shows how desperate he is to pull off a victory.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2021/10/27/mcauliffe-ads-point-to-fake-news-sites-on-the-campaign-homestretch-n1527339

'You Should Resign in Disgrace, Judge': Tom Cotton Rips Attorney General Garland. Robert Spencer

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Carrying water for democrats is not Garlands forte, um, um, um. I just posting because this picture says it all

Attorney General Merrick Garland generally enjoys the protection of the sycophantic Leftist media that works night and day to conceal the galloping disaster that is the Biden administration. Garland himself appears to harbor a taste for forcibly suppressing opposition voices, as became clear yet again when he set his FBI onto the trail not of jihad terrorists, or migrant criminals, or any other group that the Left would like to pretend doesn’t exist, but of disgruntled parents protesting at school board meetings against the implementation of the race-hate propaganda known as critical race theory in public schools. As Stacey Lennox noted, this “can only be described as a tactic to suppress dissent.” On Wednesday, however, Garland had an unusual experience: He ran into a dissenter. It wasn’t pretty.

Garland Garland, however, insisted that the FBI was only concerned about threats of violence, not about simple dissent. Referring to the directive he sent to agents, he told Cotton: “Nothing in this memorandum or any memorandum is about parents expressing disagreements with their school boards. The memorandum makes clear that parents are entitled to have vigorous debates.”

However, Megan Fox recently did a deep dive into the supposed “threats” that school board members had supposedly received and that justified FBI intervention, and came up empty. Fox concluded:

Cotton was clearly aware of that, and pressed Garland: “So what is the National Security division [of the FBI] doing? They’re supposed to be chasing jihadists and Chinese spies. What is the National Security division have to do with parents at school boards?”

Garland stuck to his story, ignoring the fact that it was already in tatters: “This is not, again, about parents at school boards. This is about threats of violence.”

Cotton immediately called him on his dishonesty: “The very first line in your memorandum refers to ‘harassment and intimidation.’ Why do you continue to dissemble in front of this committee that you are only talking about violence and threats of violence?”

Cotton continued: “You’ve cited, as the basis for that directive [telling the FBI to watch school board meetings] the National School Boards Association’s letter of September 29. Was that directive being prepared before September 29, before the School Boards Association letter was issued?” Cotton was asking if Garland had planned to crack down on dissenters from critical race theory even before the National School Boards Association handed him an opportunity to do so.

Somewhat equivocally, Garland denied this: “I don’t believe so. Certainly I didn’t have any idea –”

Not about to let Garland off the hook, Cotton stated: “So you keep citing the school board letter and ‘news reports.’ News reports. One of the news reports cited in that letter, which you presumably mean, is from Loudoun County, Virginia.”

Garland tried to explain that the notorious Loudoun County story was not what he meant at all: “No, that’s not, that is not what I was talking about.”

Cotton was having none of it: “Well, you keep citing ‘news reports’ and that is the most prominent news report that anyone in America has seen. That refers to Scott Smith, whose 15-year-old daughter was raped. She was raped in a bathroom by a boy wearing girls’ clothes and the Loudoun County School Board covered it up because it would have interfered with their transgender policy during Pride Month. And that man, Scott Smith, because he went to a school board and tried to defend his daughter’s rights, was condemned internationally. Do you apologize to Scott Smith and his 15-year-old daughter, Judge?”

The short answer was “No,” but instead Garland gave Cotton this:“Senator, anyone whose, uh, childwas raped has,uh, is the most horrific crimeI can imagine, and is certainly entitled and protected by the First Amendment to protest to their school board about this.”Now

Cotton pressed Garland on his contradiction: “But he was cited by the School Board association as a domestic terrorist–”

Cotton: “– which we now know, that letter and those reports were the basis for your dir–.” Garland: “No. No, Senator, that’s wrong. That’s –”

Cotton concluded: “This is, Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, Judge.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/10/27/you-should-resign-in-disgrace-judge-tom-cotton-rips-attorney-general-garland-runs-afoul-of-a-dissident-n1527492

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Democrats approve of communism on schools because they want no part of tgeuf children’s lives

Shock Poll Reveals Just How Little Virginia Democrats Care About Kids' Education

Matt Margolis

AP Photo/Steve Helber, File

Parental rights in education have become a key issue, if not the primary issue, in the Virginia gubernatorial election. While it seems like an obvious loser for Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe to take the side of school boards over parents when it comes to controlling schools’ curriculum, he’s actually taking a mainstream position within his own party.

According to a recent Suffolk University/USA Today poll, a stunning 70% of Democrats in Virginia want school boards to have more influence on a school’s curriculum than parents. This position is by no means mainstream overall, as 50% of Virginians prefer parents having more influence, and only 39% preferred school boards. In contrast, 79% of Republicans and 57% of Independents want parents to have more control over a school’s curriculum. A mere 16% of Democrats preferred parents over school boards.

With less than a week to go, Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are in a dead heat.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/10/27/shock-poll-reveals-just-how-little-virginia-democrats-care-about-kids-education-n1527288

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