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In red California, Trump’s lies about a rigged election echo among recall supporters
The Los Angeles Times ^ | September 6, 2021 | By Hailey Branson-Potts (D-LAT)

Posted on 09/07/2021 4:09:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

SUTTER CREEK, Calif. — Looking to oust the governor? Ed Brown has just the right merch for you.

Camouflage Recall Newsom hats and Recall Newsom masks. He’s got Recall Newsom yard signs. A stack of Recall Newsom pamphlets.

But just days before California voters decide whether to push Democrat Gavin Newsom from office, the trailer off Golden Chain Highway was mostly a shrine to former President Trump.

“As far as I’m concerned, Trump is the president,” said Brown, 67.

And as for the recall election?

“They’ll probably do something to cheat,” he said of Newsom’s supporters, adding that he will vote for Larry Elder because “he’s more like Trump; he’s for the people.”

And yet, in many ways, this election is still about a man named Donald J. Trump.

Conservatives talk about the recall effort through the lens of Trump’s lies that he won the 2020 election. By and large, they refuse to cast their ballots by mail, believing his false claims that mail-in voting leads to rampant voter fraud. If Newsom prevails, many won’t trust the results — just as they didn’t after Trump lost.

In Newsom, they have found an avatar for the Democratic Party and everything they hate about it — a political entity in opposition to many of the things they hold dear, including (and sometimes especially) Trump.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; election; journalism; newsom; press; recall
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1 posted on 09/07/2021 4:09:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Conservatives talk about the recall effort through the lens of Trump’s lies that he won the 2020 election. By and large, they refuse to cast their ballots by mail, believing his false claims that mail-in voting leads to rampant voter fraud. If Newsom prevails, many won’t trust the results — just as they didn’t after Trump lost.

This one sentence well illustrates the depths to which modern journalism has fallen. It has become indistinguishable from overt propaganda.

2 posted on 09/07/2021 4:17:17 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Ah, the lying, gaslighting, propagandist, Stalinazi Derp State media. What would we do without them ?


3 posted on 09/07/2021 4:17:22 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This headline could easily have read,

“In California, anti-corruption and fair election themes echo among recall supporters”


4 posted on 09/07/2021 4:17:27 AM PDT by Track9 (Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t think that reputable newspapers placed editorial opinions in the headlines of “news” stories.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 4:17:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ahh in other words the reporter means the clear thinkers who won’t deny the obvious.


6 posted on 09/07/2021 4:19:07 AM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: Track9

That sort of headline would require an honest, fair and decent media. We don’t have that.


7 posted on 09/07/2021 4:21:15 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I couldn’t tell because of the pop-up ad to subscribe to the garbage paper, is that on the opinion page?


8 posted on 09/07/2021 4:32:15 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (When is treason treason?)
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To: Blennos
It has become indistinguishable from overt propaganda.

That’s because it IS overt propaganda. Sorry, but I couldn’t get past LA Times.

9 posted on 09/07/2021 4:34:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: MulberryDraw
is that on the opinion page?

No.

10 posted on 09/07/2021 4:35:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Blennos

The more serious a challenge to the Junta, the crazier the propagandists get. A perfect example is right here..


11 posted on 09/07/2021 4:41:50 AM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew is the Prince no more...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For the commie Left, cheating and voting fraud is the norm, therefore, when the opposition points to such, the commie Left reverts to calling such “lies,” etc......despite the overwhelming abundance of evidences............................


12 posted on 09/07/2021 4:42:18 AM PDT by cranked
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13 posted on 09/07/2021 4:45:13 AM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, I used to live in that dump. Kalifornians have absolutely perfected the whole “election by fraud” machine.


14 posted on 09/07/2021 4:53:04 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by imposters masquerading as journalists.)
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To: Blennos

The press needs to quit bringing Trump’s name up in every conversation. Secondly, why do they give two craps about where, why, or how someone casts their ballot. The press need to grow up.


15 posted on 09/07/2021 4:59:58 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MaidenGate 2: Electric Boogaloo (How California is Setting Itself Up for A Vote-By-Mail Disaster)
https://somebitchtoldme.com/maidengate-2-electric-boogaloo-how-california-is-setting-itself-up-for-a-vote-by-mail-disaster/


16 posted on 09/07/2021 5:22:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wouldn’t even line my kitty litter box with that rag.


17 posted on 09/07/2021 5:48:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Conservatives talk about the recall effort through the lens of Trump’s lies...

Actually, it's The Los Angeles Times that lies.

When I was a lot younger, I had a job in downtown LA, and read the Times every morning on my way to work. I started noticing factual errors in their photos & related captions; in every instance, the 'error' (either fake photo or false caption) enhanced the drama of their presentation. My well-documented letters to the editor prompted no retractions, corrections, or apparent changes to procedure - the Times continued to emphasize drama over truth. As a result of their purposeful dereliction, I stopped reading the paper.

The Times lies, and has done so for decades...

18 posted on 09/07/2021 5:56:10 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I didn’t think that reputable newspapers placed editorial opinions in the headlines of “news” stories.
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They don’t.
It isn’t.

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19 posted on 09/07/2021 6:03:09 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t this the same racist paper that called Larry Elder the Black face of White Supremacy?


20 posted on 09/07/2021 6:16:36 AM PDT by Durbin
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