Posted on 11/02/2021 6:37:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
The last ditch November surprise to paint Republican candidate for Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin as a white supremacist was launched at a political rally in Loudoun County on Monday night.
The Youngkin rally drew hundreds of raucous supporters and opponents of the radical agenda of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.
Republican rally size this large in Loudoun county warms my heart pic.twitter.com/ck0utVBkPG
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 2, 2021
Youngkin has experienced a surge in support in the closing weeks of the governor’s race and is now running in a dead heat with McAuliffe. The latest Fox News poll even showed McAuliffe trailing by eight points in a survey of likely voters.
But as MSNBC covered the Youngkin rally a suspiciously familiar tactic was deployed to slant the political candidate’s optics on the verge of election night. A photo of a man with a confederate jacket at the rally appears to have been first posted on Twitter by WUSA (CBS affiliate) reporter Mike Valerio at 10:22 pm.
Nov. 1, 2021 – Glenn Youngkin takes the stage here in Loudoun County — the final rally of his campaign… pic.twitter.com/CJLqZUN7lS
— Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) November 2, 2021
Within two minutes, an MSNBC reporter named Gary Grumbach (a ‘usual suspect,’ see more later) had reposted it onto his Twitter account.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — pic.twitter.com/3pdnUHyQtT
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) November 2, 2021
A Salon “investigative reporter” then picked up on it five minutes after Grumbach and showed a slightly different angle.
pic.twitter.com/mhd0gkLNKB
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) November 2, 2021
However, despite the man being right in front of the press area, no one got a clear shot of the man’s face.
Yeah I’m sure the guy just *happened* to stand right in front of the press in his confederate jean jacket at the Youngkin rally.
Imagine actually falling for this? You’d have to be a journalist. pic.twitter.com/aCbqUrn3XJ
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) November 2, 2021
It looks like someone finally got a clean profile shot. There is some speculation about the man’s identity, but it is currently unverified.
pic.twitter.com/KfcKKLlJ7t
— Cameron Gilmore (@CamGil88) November 2, 2021
A closer look a the man’s jacket reveals a few things: First of all, the confederate flag patch is freshly sewn on. Secondly, the jacket is new and appears to be newly bought or rarely worn. This does not fit the profile of a neo-confederate supporter who would go to a Youngkin rally.
How do you do, fellow confederates? Just me, racist confederate with an extremely new-looking confederate flag patch in a very normal place on my jacket at a Glenn Youngkin rally, who is also a racist pro-confederate. https://t.co/Ip22bvrJt4
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 2, 2021
Then there is the matter that none of the ‘journalists’ who hand-picked this one guy to portray as a Youngkin rally-goer were interested in interviewing this neo-confederate-supporting super-racist for a ‘scoop’ interview on why he was supported Youngkin. (Even though this would certainly be great for a soundbite on the morning shows.)
Interview this guy, post his name and identifying information, so that we can check his voter registration and any affiliiation with the Lincoln Project, Virginia Democrts and/or the McAuliffe campaign. Thanks in advance for doing a journalism!
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 2, 2021
There is a critical point here that will go down as a media-driven ‘hoax’ regardless of the man’s identity. It may turn out he is affiliated with the Lincoln Project, the Virginia Democrats or the McAuliffe campaign. He may not be – and it is a matter of time before his identity surfaces.
Ironically, Grumbach had earlier started an Internet firestorm by doing just that: He found an ostensible Trump supporter at a Michigan ‘Save America’ rally named Lori Levi and interviewed her. She made waves by expressing her view that a ‘civil war’ is coming.
WATCH: At yesterday's "Save America" Trump rally in Des Moines, I spoke to Lori Levi of Michigan, who told me she is very unhappy with the Republican party as it stands today, and says she believes a "Civil War is coming." pic.twitter.com/JB1zOLAxGR
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) October 10, 2021
The major context for the confederate-flag wearing man photo is that the media appear to have learned their lesson from a recent proven hoax that the Lincoln Project claimed credit for. On Friday, the media seized on a similar photo of unidentified persons bearing tiki torches in a reference to the Charlottesville incident.
These men approached @GlennYoungkin’s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, “We’re all in for Glenn.” Here they are standing in front of the bus as his campaign event at Guadalajara started.@NBC29 pic.twitter.com/l681ejyBjc
— Elizabeth Holmes (@holmes_reports) October 29, 2021
Advertisements The sunglasses and hats were not enough to veil their identities: Two were exposed as connected to Virginia Democrats.
Alec Sears, who has reported for the Daily Caller and Washington Examiner, broke the story wide open. The following is what Sears reported in a Twitter thread:
This is so clearly a political operation organized by @AdamParkhomenko it’s not even funny.
And I have the receipts.
These men approached @GlennYoungkin’s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, “We’re all in for Glenn.” Here they are standing in front of the bus as his campaign event at Guadalajara started.@NBC29 pic.twitter.com/l681ejyBjc
— Elizabeth Holmes (@holmes_reports) October 29, 2021
Notice that the only people interacting with this story are Democratic Political Operatives, all retweeted by Parkhomenko.
Let’s take a look at this gentleman. He bears a strong resemblance to one Camden Layton, otherwise known as the finance director for @vayd.
Coincidence? I report, you decide.
This gross false-flag operation reeks of desperation from the McAuliffe camp who is currently trailing Youngkin by 8 points.
A confident campaign would never resort to such gross measures. We have a good idea of who some of the other individuals are, and are working to confirm, but if you have any information do share 👀
🚨 I am now confident that we have identified the woman in this group of political actors as Colleen Wachenfeld, with @vademocrats.
LMAO!!! I have years of experience in working with photo editing and can tell right off this is one very piss-poor attempt. We can smell the desperation from miles away. 😆😆😆
IMO, this is more proof that McAuliffe was responsible for the order to the VA state police to stand down and allow the Charlottesville riot to happen in 2017.
Freshly sewed on, and UPSIDE DOWN!
Attempt to connect Youngkin with Jan 6 - FAIL
Fake “death threat” against McAuliffe - FAIL
Fake “neo-Nazis” holding tiki torches - FAIL
Fake “Stars and Bars” guy at rally - FAIL
Good God, the dems aren’t even good at fakery anymore.
I know exactly what you mean about using a long focal length to compress apparent depth like that. Very plausible it was coordinated.
We all should attend Democratic rallies with CCP Flags......
We can thank Nikki Haley for making the CSA flag a bad thing...
Junior! (pardoned by President Reagan in 1986 for moonshining conviction)
I see the point...but we also need not accept the premise that wearing a confederate flag is evil.
This is what they do. They plant someone, then blame it on the Republican.
Phonies, all.
“This is what they do. They plant someone, then blame it on the Republican.”
Well, the Democrats were the slavers, started the US Civil War, instituted Jim Crow, Woodrow Wilson resurrected the KKK, disarmed blacks with gun laws, abandoned European Jews in WWII, put Japanese Americans in concentration camps, and destroyed the black family with the Great Society, drugs, and counter culture.
And yet call Republicans racist.
Being racist scum and blaming it on Republicans is what Democrats do.
they did this too at Jan 6 rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZHUotUfIE
my footage shows hundreds of flags, only one brand new rebel flag at the capitol...
few people fall for it, and they likely would not vote for youngkin anyway.
So. Literally a false flag operation then, eh?
Yes! Who cares. No politician can absolutely control who in a population of millions may do something wrong or say something racist or wear a Confederate flag on their jacket. If that were the case no politician would survive an election.
i like how the person in the black hat is blocking his jacket... as if to say... hey homie, we don’t play that here... and he turns a little to be identified.
My thought was black hat person was probably his wing man, covering his six.
That clean articulate half black man is not a natural born citizen and NONE of our elected or appointed would stand for the Constitution.
THAT is why we lost our country.
brand new patch... kinda like the brandy new battle flags with the creases still in then at the first incident
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