Anonymous ID: 360546 May 12, 2022, 8:36 p.m. No.16264903   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5010 >>5086 >>5157

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Look at the date.

 

"The Hunt"

 

by Andrew Seidman

Updated Jul 26, 2021

The election wasn’t close. Pretty much no one expected Kathy Barnette to win, and there was certainly no shame in losing this one.

 

But for weeks after an almost 20-point drubbing in a strongly Democratic district in the Philly suburbs, Barnette, the losing Republican candidate, couldn’t shake the feeling that it didn’t add up.

 

It started to make sense for her, she recalled, as she was watching TV in late November, about a month after her loss to Democratic Congresswoman Madeleine Dean. Across the country in Arizona, a man was claiming as many as 306,000 “fake people” had voted in that state’s election. And he said he had spreadsheets to prove it.

 

Of course, “fake people” don’t vote in the United States. When Bobby Piton made that baseless charge — as Barnette watched from 2,300 miles away — it was an unremarkable moment in the evolution of Donald Trump’s political movement into one increasingly defined by his lies of a stolen election.

 

A few days later, Barnette said, she contacted Piton, an Illinois financial planner who spoke of “phantom” voters inflating Joe Biden’s numbers. With his data, Barnette and her supporters started knocking on hundreds of doors in the Democratic stronghold of Montgomery County, looking for evidence her defeat was tainted.

 

It was the beginning of a hunt for voter fraud that rippled across the American election denial movement.

 

The hunt helped launch the career of a once-obscure Cincinnati schoolteacher-turned-election denier whose ideas have now reached Trump himself. It led to meetings between Barnette’s team and state lawmakers as they undertook a massive election overhaul. It helped stir the frenzy for a new, partisan election investigation in Pennsylvania. It drew in a programmer who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy — and eventually attracted Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and most indefatigable election denier of them all.

 

And as Barnette energized the denial movement with her futile hunt for voter fraud on Philadelphia’s Main Line, which hasn’t been previously reported, the movement elevated her.

 

She’s now running in Pennsylvania’s critical 2022 Senate race, raising more money than better-known opponents. She’s become a familiar face in the MAGA media universe, with regular appearances on Newsmax and OAN. She even got an endorsement from Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser who’s become an icon on the pro-Trump right.

 

More at: https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/pennsylvania-voter-fraud-audit-kathy-barnette-20210726.html

Anonymous ID: 360546 May 12, 2022, 8:46 p.m. No.16264940   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5010 >>5086

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No, Kathy Barnette Did Not Support Black Lives Matter Riots or Demonize Police

 

Stories like this further demonstrate that it is not only the left who lies to you. Supporters of Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Republican running for Senate in Pennsylvania, are spreading blatant lies about Kathy Barnette, who is also seeking the GOP nomination. Barnette has soared in popularity over the past few weeks and is now neck-and-neck with Dr. Oz. She gained even more notoriety after savaging him during a debate. This development apparently has some on the right concerned that Oz might not get the nod from GOP voters.

 

Conservative podcaster Greg Kelly posted a deceptively edited portion of a video Barnette streamed on Facebook back in May 2020 amid the controversy over the murder of George Floyd. The excerpt was meant to make it appear as if Barnette supported the riots that occurred after footage of Floyd’s encounter with police went viral. It seems also intended to paint a picture of a high-profile black woman demonizing law enforcement. He wrote:

 

KATHY BARNETTE is NOT ready. Here she is saying how GREAT Black Live Matter Summer was. And how she feels COPS just want to SHOOT AND KILL black people. Kathy needs to do more THINKING and less Speaking. TOTALLY SILLY AND UNINFORMED !

 

KATHY BARNETTE is NOT ready. Here she is saying how GREAT Black Live Matter Summer was. And how she feels COPS just want to SHOOT AND KILL black people. Kathy needs to do more THINKING and less Speaking. TOTALLY SILLY AND UNINFORMED ! pic.twitter.com/WqYG4VCuR6

 

— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) May 11, 2022

 

In the video, Barnette can be seen saying:

 

“In broad daylight. It’s just absolutely reprehensible. And in that moment, I felt an entire nation come to the aid of what so many of us in the black community feel happens often enough. Some of us feel as though on every street corner there’s a police officer – they’re ready and waiting to shoot a black man.”

 

There is something missing from this video. The person who edited the video did not want you to see the remark she made right after these comments.

 

Here is the full quote about George Floyd in context:

 

“What happened to George Floyd. My heart goes out to his family. I cannot imagine. In fact, I couldn’t fully listen to the entire video that went viral that I’m sure so many of you watched. It’s sad. It’s sickening to see the indifference, deliberate indifference that was displayed there on that particular day. And in broad daylight. It’s just absolutely reprehensible.

 

And in that moment, I felt an entire nation come to the aid of what so many of us in the black community feel happens often enough. Some of us feel as though on every street corner there’s a police officer. They’re ready and waiting to shoot a black man. I do not believe that that is the case. And we’ll talk about that.”

 

Here are @Kathy4Truth's full comments in context so you can see the part @GregKellyUsa's and @RichardGrenell's tweets left out of the video clip.

 

She clearly says she does NOT believe police officers are waiting on every corner to murder black men.

 

They are lying to you. https://t.co/cx7uyNVkJM pic.twitter.com/ptyNDlaqR2

 

— Jeff Charles (@JeffOnTheRight) May 11, 2022

 

See the last line?

 

Barnette very clearly says she does not believe that police officers are waiting on street corners to murder black men. Funny how that part was left out, isn’t it?

 

But we’ve seen this before, haven’t we? Remember CNN’s “Fine People” hoax in which they attempted to make it seem as if former President Donald Trump called Nazis “fine people?” In the clip, they edited out the part when Trump says “I’m not talking about the white supremacists and neo-Nazis – they should be condemned totally.”

 

It’s the exact same trick. The difference is that it’s being done by a conservative who is trying to ensure that Dr. Oz, who is Kelly’s preferred candidate, gets the nomination.

 

But Kelly isn’t the only high-profile Oz supporter spreading deceptive narratives about Barnette. Former Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence Ric Grenell also got in on the act. On Wednesday, he quote tweeted a post from Barnette in which she used the hashtags #BLM #DefundThePolice.

 

Good God. Yikes. https://t.co/N8G4cyui7X

 

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 11, 2022

 

More at: https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/05/11/no-kathy-barnette-did-not-support-black-lives-matter-riots-or-demonize-police-n563065