Salem Media Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’

Deadline ^ | 06/01/2024 | Ted Johnson

[joesbucks]

In its statement, Salem said, In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots. We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.

[kiryandil]

And I stand by that. You on the other hand support fraudsters like D’Souza.

I'll let rlmorel rebut your time-vacuuming:

"Protect Democracy (which is as much of a Communist Front Group as any that Joseph McCarthy would have encountered back in his day) but today, as it was back in McCarthy’s times, we have the same communist douchebags, including some in this very forum, who, when they aren’t intellectually capable enough to discern that they are anti-American Communist front groups, wholly endorse and support them."

I like that - joescommunistdouchebags.

[absalom01]

Those two accounts are just posting low to zero effort talking points that could be obtained in a more entertaining fashion by tuning in to MSNBC(bs) for a half hour during the evening drivetime.

They’re not contributing anything, and appear to be interested only in wasting people’s time.

But a couple of good points are getting lost in the smoke:

Who is funding “Protect Democracy”, which is nothing but a bunch of Obama white house lawyers with a partisan axe to grind. Wait, don’t bother, it’s the usual suspects. But why are they keen to attack this particular bit of opposition media “2000 Mules”, and in this particular way? Dinesh, per usual, managed to get out over his skis on a couple of particulars, where he’s being attacked in a way that Salem have decided to cut their losses, thereby “discrediting” the much larger point that while the 2020 election was certainly rigged and stolen, it can’t necessarily be proved that it was stolen in this exact way by this exact guy that Dinesh fingered.

But the election still was rigged and stolen. That’s obvious. And the ruling regime is using any means necessary to attack, destroy, and imprison their political enemies, obviously because they’re planning on doing it again. Seems to me that it’s a shot across the bow to warn anyone who might object to the regime stealing this current election that there are some new rules, and indeed that the gloves have come off.

It’s a mistake, IMHO, to defend the likes of Dinesh in the particulars. He’ll gladly stretch the truth to pander to whichever person or group he’s trying to curry favor with at the moment. And, at the moment, he’s pretending to be an ally of the MAGA/Trump populist movement, because that’s directing he thinks the wind is blowing. He’s a loose cannon, and a liability. Spending any time on him or his projects is a distraction. Which is doubtless the reason that these two cranks are spending time on the matter.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, I kind of got caught up in this Dinesh thing. Dinesh is a bad timewaster, he seems to be a little lazy with his research.

Now True The Vote, they are much better.

And anyone who claims Trump got a fair trial needs to be off this forum.

[Lazamataz]

Because [True The Vote] never presented their gps information.

Oh, then I guess the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Public Broadcasting got it wrong.

AJC: Oct 21, 2021 · True the Vote purchased GPS data to map travel patterns of 1.2 trillion mobile signals late last year, then mapped those signals to find whether they had come close to ballot drop boxes,...

GPB: According to a letter obtained by GPB News, GBI Director Vic Reynolds said that cellphone data provided by Texas-based True the Vote that allegedly shows 279 cellphones that were tracked multiple times within 100 feet of an absentee drop box alone was not evidence of a crime.

Once again, True the Vote has proven itself untrustworthy and unable to provide a shred of evidence for a single one of their fairy-tale allegations,

Well, you'll have to take up your argument with the GBI, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Georgia Public Broadcasting. They appear to take issue with your presentation.

Nah. In that one you can’t.

Turns out I can.

And I did.

Suck it, buddyboy.

[kiryandil]

I think we can file this link under "Laz rebuts joestimevacuum", and post it any time joescucks starts in with his time-vacuum schtick, on any topic.

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joeslyingcuck wrote: Because [True The Vote] never presented their gps information.

Lazamataz smacks down: Oh, then I guess the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Public Broadcasting got it wrong.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4241643/posts?page=124#124
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Just like with his "I believe Trump has had a fair trial" horseplop.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4240700/posts?page=148#148

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Can joesbucks be zotted for posting the lie “Trump got a fair trial?” I guess that I want to see what he says after Merchan announces the sentence. Some sentence possibilities are beyond the Pale for me.

[Lazamataz]

Workin’ on it. 😁

[joesbucks]

The statement made by rlmorel was If you followed what was going on, you would know they presented their methods, and the data, on the stand, in court.

Neither of those stories have any reference to being on the stand, in court with the GPS info.

From the Georgia Public Broadcasting link (never thought I’d see public radio or tv used as fact source in this site) the note: The letter also states that despite claims of "a source" that can prove ballot harvesting, the Georgia GOP chairman and True the Vote have not provided that source to the GBI or Federal Bureau of Investigation "despite repeated requests."

Since the AJC is behind a paywall, I can’t see the whole article. But what I can see, I see nothing. But C’mon, man. You can do better.

[kiryandil]

joeslyingcuck wrote: Because [True The Vote] never presented their gps information.

Lazamataz smacks down: Oh, then I guess the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Public Broadcasting got it wrong.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4241643/posts?page=124#124

Au revoir to your time-vacuuming lies, cucks.

Toodles, scumbag.

[absalom01]

Seems to me that your post from the other day about the lawfare used against Trump is more pertinent.  The regime has openly copied both the third-world gangster politicians "For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law.", and put on a show trial that would make Stalin blush.

It's not clear what exactly comes next, but it is clear that business is no longer possible, either.

[kiryandil]

What's fascinating is that joesthetimevacuum is claiming he can't see behind the AJC paywall.

26 years on FR, and he doesn't know how to circumvent a paywall. All of 15 seconds.

What a lying sack of time-wasting Democrat dog feces!

If it was a pay-walled article about how to volunteer to orally clean up after a Tater diaper bomb, he'd break his keyboard trying to key in the work-around.

[rlmorel]

Regardless of what you think of Dinesh D’Souza, the data compiled and analyzed by True The Vote is no “distraction”.

Dinesh D’Souza speaks out and puts it on the line when so many in our sphere just shut up and put their heads down. So when he made that documentary, I see it as a grave mistake by people on our side to throw out the baby with the bathwater, which is what some people do.

Dinesh D’Souza may be excused for underestimating the length via lawfare that Leftists will go to in order to discredit him and his message. I didn’t think five years ago they would do this so brazenly and openly.

But I will not accept the Leftist talking points that Dinesh D’Souza is a “loose cannon” and needs to be silenced.

I understand that you may feel differently about “defending him” and leaving him to the tender mercies of the Left.

I disagree with your view on this, as I have my opinion.

I will defend anyone who stands out and says what needs saying, and I don’t care if they have their own monetary agenda as they try to get rich in the process such as people accuse Dinesh D’Souza and Tucker Carlson of doing.

If we wait around for the perfect opinion that will stand up to repeated waves of Leftist Lawfare, we won’t have a country worth fighting for by the time we see it. And we may already be there.

[rlmorel]

It may be hard to find, as it took place possibly in the early fall of last year, or maybe even the spring.

[joesbucks]

I don’t think so.

[joesbucks]

Not in court, on the stand. And what’s this I’m suspised to suck?

[rlmorel]

I did not see that letter from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

What a corrupt, mealy-mouthed letter that was from Vic Reynolds. He is complicit in this 2020 farce, IMO.

[joesbucks]

I think D’Souza should be given every opportunity to have his say. Thankfully it tends to only resonate with those easily hoodwinked.

Now why did Salem payoff when it was time for depositions?

[rlmorel]

Last Saturday I spent three hours standing by the side of a road in this bluest of blue states holding a sign in support of Trump, and listening to the stupidity emitting from the passing cars while watching them display their emotional maturity of four year olds as they stuck their middle fingers out at us.

I expect to hear the vacant stupidity from the Leftist denizens of this state. I don’t expect that pap from this site (which I pay monthly) from the likes of these people we see on this thread and others. Everyone knows who they are.

But here they are. We have them. Right here.

[rlmorel]

Yes.

The posting behavior is typical. Nothing new that isn’t scraped from Politico, WaPo, NYT, CNN, FactCheck and Mediaite.

Then, he/she/it reposts it with the equivalent of “I know you are, but what am I?”

[WarANDPiece]

The one “mule” they found turned around and sued him and everyone involved in 2000 Mules.

He was dropping off his ballot along with four other family members who asked him to, which isn’t a crime.