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Anatomy of a Really Vile Bit of Propaganda
American Thinker ^ | 10 Jul, 2022 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 07/10/2022 4:33:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Last week at American Thinker, in discussing the Dobbs case, I prophesied, “and if your media sources resemble those I’ve seen, the moral angle will be played to the hilt with stories of exceptional cases being treated as the rule.”

How right I was, as the story of a 10-year-old who was raped and had to travel to Indiana from Ohio to get an abortion was highlighted in multiple media everywhere and used to discredit the Supreme Court justices who decided Dobbs and pro-life politicians.

Megan Fox has done a fine bit of journalism exposing this propaganda coup and the Blaze details her work. Ms. Fox broke the story in a numerous series of tweets. In order to make her work easier to follow I’m reframing it in a more conventional, easier to understand way, but you are invited to the source to see how this unraveled. Each of her factual assertions is accompanied by links to them.

The sole source of the story is an ardent abortionist. The story is unverifiable and peddled by those who share her views with no apparent independent efforts to confirm the tale. If nothing else, this shows you how easy the job of a news editor at the named publications is. You don’t have to do anything -- just let your reporters rattle off the headline-framing tales of a figure who advances the desired narrative. Do not demand even the merest investigation of claims, particularly if they sound outrageous. (Like Trump hiring prostitutes to pee in a hotel bed in Moscow because Obama had slept there.)

The Megan Fox account asserts that an unnamed “child abuse doctor” called Dr. Caitlyn Bernard, an Indiana abortionist, for help. And she called the media with the account which published it without any questions asked.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; agitprop; caitlynbernard; dobbsruling; leftism; propaganda

1 posted on 07/10/2022 4:33:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The truth is just an inconvenience to leftist journalists.


2 posted on 07/10/2022 4:33:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: upchuck

Here is your Sunday Clarice ping.


3 posted on 07/10/2022 4:34:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 07/10/2022 4:37:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


5 posted on 07/10/2022 5:24:45 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: nopardons

*waves*


6 posted on 07/10/2022 5:25:02 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Last week at American Thinker, in discussing the Dobbs case, I prophesied, “and if your media sources resemble those I’ve seen, the moral angle will be played to the hilt with stories of exceptional cases being treated as the rule.””

This is the strategy the Left has been using for the last 50 years.


7 posted on 07/10/2022 6:39:52 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Yep. Your prediction was spot on.


8 posted on 07/10/2022 6:42:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If your objective is to kill babies, why would you hesitate to lie?


9 posted on 07/10/2022 6:48:10 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: MtnClimber
The morbidly obese Russian 10-year-old general who was raped by Vladimir Putin and had to go to Lviv to get an abortion because Clarence and Ginny Thomas fired hypersonic missiles at Finland and Sweden to start the January 6th insurrection.

And people still believe all this Clown World "news" that the Media Mitts in our faces all day.

10 posted on 07/10/2022 6:59:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude; MtnClimber

Governance by anecdote.


11 posted on 07/10/2022 7:00:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MtnClimber

Most of the media is agenda driven, not truth driven. And therein lies our biggest problem.


12 posted on 07/10/2022 7:15:15 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: MtnClimber

by any means necessary


13 posted on 07/10/2022 7:28:23 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: MtnClimber

If you heard about something, anything, from the liberal media it is without a doubt made up lies and BS.


14 posted on 07/10/2022 8:27:04 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: MtnClimber; 5th MEB; Albion Wilde; American in Israel; bitt; BlackAdderess; bobfeland; burghguy; ...
Thanks for the ping MtnClimber.

Welcome Principled.


Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, usually issued only on Sunday morning, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

15 posted on 07/10/2022 9:26:41 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: MtnClimber

I had posted on a website that it was all made up, and people called me sick, said I needed help,etc.
And now, here we are...
It was the perfect lie. A lie the Left wanted to believe. Due to age and Hippa, no one could verify or deny.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 11:25:37 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (What did Socialists use before candles? Electricity)
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