Posted on 12/05/2024 6:28:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
2024's Flaming Feculence Awards go to Charles P. Pierce and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.
Today’s post is not about politics but, rather, about contemporary journalism’s compulsion to besoil itself in the service of politics. The excess and carelessness engendered by political servility plopped squarely this week upon the heads of Charles P. Pierce (Esquire magazine) and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (ABC’s The View). Both sought to justify Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden by pointing to peculiar antecedents. Pierce cited George H. W. Bush’s pardon of his son Neil, and Navarro-Cárdenas cited Woodrow Wilson’s pardon of his brother-in-law Hunter deButts. Their examples were peculiar because (1) Neil Bush was never convicted or even charged with any crimes, and (2) Hunter deButts never existed. Navarro-Cárdenas learned of Hunter deButts’s pardon from the often-hallucinatory ChatGPT. Pierce apparently bypassed electronic sources, plumbed purported facts from the depths of his own imagination, shunted them past whatever vestigial fact-checking routines exist at Esquire, and shot them out to gullible readers. Across the Internet some of those readers are yet spreading the Parables of Neil Bush and Hunter deButts.
(Excerpt) Read more at graboyes.substack.com ...
Charles P. Pierce is a notorious lying partisan gasbag on Twitter/X.
“A day after Ana Navarro-Cárdenas claimed the 28th president pardoned his fictional brother-in-law, she responded by blaming AI.”
- Ana “I Are Stoopid” Navarro
Ana “deButts” Navarro
bttt
Everyone knows of the legendary English lord Seymour O. deButts...
All these hateful lefty lowlifes and pigs are a dime a dozen these days.
“Esquire regrets the error.”
OK, how about “Esquire fired Pierce”?
Perhaps Navarro should adopt the Dan Rather phraseology: Fake, but accurate.
The “True Pandemic.”
Snopes is saying, “Well, Trump *did* pardon Jared Kushner’s father, so it’s partly true.”
Kushner was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to two years. His 2020 pardon was thirteen years after his sentence was completed.
Incredibly good and insightful writing. If you are the author, hats off to you.
Lie confidently and do what the DNC pimps tell them to do. Then by the time the lie has been spread around the galaxy faster than light, issue a stupid “apology.” Esquire didn’t even admit they led just “A report incorrectly stated Neil Buch was pardoned. We regret the error.”
ERROR!? My arse it was an error. It was a deliberate sneering “poppy Bush” fabrication.
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