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The Left Is Trying to Gaslight You About the Sydney Sweeney Ad Outrage, but Here Are the Receipts
PJ Media ^ | August 08, 2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 08/08/2025 3:26:53 PM PDT by george76

The reaction of the far left to the infamous Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad campaign was, to say the least, absurd. . leftists know it .. they’re not desperately trying to rewrite history and claim they were never bothered by the ad in the first place, and the whole thing was a right-wing fabrication.

This attempt at rewriting history comes courtesy of the New York Times, and it’s a perfect example of Orwellian revisionist history. The article begins by recounting conservatives mocking the left’s reaction to the ad campaign, insisting that they “claimed that progressives were up in arms over the intentional double-entendre with the word ‘genes,’ suggesting it was winking at eugenics or white supremacy,” before declaring definitively that “In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all.”

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the two key conservative culprits the left blames for amplifying the Sweeney ad campaign outrage didn't even start talking about it until after both Salon and MSNBC had already been talking about it.

The left-wing media didn’t just notice the outrage; it legitimized it, amplified it, and blasted it into the mainstream. Leftists didn’t roll their eyes or dismiss it; they doubled down. And now that the outrage has become politically inconvenient, they are gaslighting you. The left is rewriting the narrative to suggest that it never really cared in the first place. But the receipts tell a different story: this wasn’t a handful of fringe voices that conservatives were amplifying. This was a wave of leftist outrage, with left-wing media fueling and promoting it, that turned into a full-scale campaign to cancel Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle.

It’s a textbook example of how leftists operate. When the backlash becomes politically toxic, they don’t own up to it; they scramble to backtrack, rewrite history, and pretend it never happened.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: sweeney; sydney; sydneysweeney
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1 posted on 08/08/2025 3:26:53 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Sweeney’s Baskin Robbin ad is worth watching...


2 posted on 08/08/2025 3:29:58 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: george76

Everyone I know is getting a big kick out of the left’s outrage and the homely women who are whining on the internet.


3 posted on 08/08/2025 3:33:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: drwoof

I must be the only person on the face of the planet who doesn’t think she’s all that pretty.


4 posted on 08/08/2025 3:37:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I must be the only person on the face of the planet who doesn’t think she’s all that pretty.

When it comes to the American Eagle ad, I'd agree. In the Baskin Robbins ad, it starts out with a soft focus ice cream spoof of Paris Hilton, but in the "reality" shots she comes across as a really sweet kid, and in that light she's beautiful.

5 posted on 08/08/2025 3:43:05 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: BenLurkin

I believe that is what makes her so attractive.

Her beauty is not artificial or excessive. Very natural “girl next door” with an exceptional figure.


6 posted on 08/08/2025 3:43:44 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: george76
...a perfect example of Orwellian revisionist history...

C'mon Matt
7 posted on 08/08/2025 3:47:38 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: BenLurkin

As a matter of fact, you are.


8 posted on 08/08/2025 3:49:01 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ComputerGuy

Oceania has always had good relations Sydney Sweenia!


9 posted on 08/08/2025 3:58:14 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

with Sydney Sweenia!


10 posted on 08/08/2025 3:59:35 PM PDT by xp38
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To: george76

Sydney Sweeney’s ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness

Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna221630


11 posted on 08/08/2025 4:02:45 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: george76

Shares of American Eagle (AEO) are moving higher after President Trump said via Truth Social: “Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are “flying off the shelves.” Go get ’em Sydney!” American Eagle in midday trading is up 17%, or $1.88, to $12.62.

-—from Yahoo Finance


12 posted on 08/08/2025 4:06:04 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: sjmjax

**Her beauty is not artificial or excessive. Very natural “girl next door” with an exceptional figure.**

An accurate description of the girl I married 47 years ago next tuesday. And though 68 now, she still has her hourglass figure, and her 3 and a half feet long hair is only about 10% gray, giving her light brown hair a blonde tint (its marvelous).


13 posted on 08/08/2025 4:07:13 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: george76

Ttiuwp


14 posted on 08/08/2025 4:10:03 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (What do Nitzy, Angelino97 and Liz have in common?)
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To: sjmjax

Sydney Sweeney showed off her skills at the gun range.

As if we don’t have enough reasons to love her.
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1952481212632801534


15 posted on 08/08/2025 4:10:18 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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Re: I must be the only person on the face of the planet who doesn’t think she’s all that pretty.

Whatever is someone's preference / opinion, what really tweaks the Left, especially the Feminazis, is that she is happy and smiling. The Party of Hate hates itself, and by extension, everyone else. Someone happy and smiling must be taken down.

The fact that she is blonde and blue eyed just increases their hatred.

How dare she!

16 posted on 08/08/2025 4:11:24 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: BenLurkin

No, you’re not...Glad you said it!!


17 posted on 08/08/2025 4:17:32 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: janetjanet998
She also knows her way around ICE vehicles.



18 posted on 08/08/2025 4:19:15 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Jamestown1630

I think it’s fantastic that the left has jumped the shark. They deserve only ridicule. They never were serious.
Watch them stomp their tiny feet and shake their little fists as they eat our dust. Sorry, not sorry.


19 posted on 08/08/2025 4:20:00 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: janetjanet998

A lot of movement but what did she hit?


20 posted on 08/08/2025 4:20:58 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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