Posted on 10/12/2024 12:07:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The first thing I thought of while watching Senator JD Vance of Ohio refuse to say whether Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election in a recent interview with this newspaper was “The Manchurian Candidate,” John Frankenheimer’s 1962 psychological thriller.
The linchpin of “The Manchurian Candidate,” of course, is the scene in which we learn that the sterling and charismatic Raymond Shaw, a war hero, was actually captured and brainwashed during his time during the Korean War. He was programmed as a sleeper agent to kill on command, and his handlers also brainwashed his fellow captured soldiers so that the truth of his identity would be kept under wraps. When asked about Shaw, those soldiers repeat the same robotic statement, that Shaw is “the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
My colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro gave Vance five opportunities to answer a single simple question: Did Trump lose the 2020 election? And each time, Vance gave the same rote response. “Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?” he asked.
Each refusal to answer was more chilling than the last. It was as if Vance had just been repeating a set of programmed answers, unable to deviate from his commands. Of course, Vance isn’t the victim in a Hollywood thriller. He is a willing participant in an effort to degrade and destroy the truth in order to win power.
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Jamie seems to be describing himself.
NYT in burst mode today.
I’ve never seen the NYT in more desperation mode.
It is a beautiful sight.
Dear God just give it up. Everybody... even dems, know they stole 2020 with election fraud.
JD Vance will be a MAGA star for a long time. His performance has been awesome.
The New York Times seems to have become something other than a newspaper.
“My colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro”
A London born Cuban/Panamanian.... badgering an actual American.
Editorial cluster bombing today, I see.
Other than birds that might look down at the bottom of their cage before pooping, no one looks at the NYT except the looney leftists anyway!
You know what this thread needs?
A CZJ pic.
Excellent observation.
There is going to be massive election denial after November 5th.
The democrats will be the ones engaging in it.
This is nothing but trivial bullsh!t
Yup, makes every thread better.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR Weekend Edition Host
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