One of the most amazing facts about the Harris campaign is that its candidate is the worst in recent history, but the campaign itself is extraordinarily good at creating illusions.
It's Hollywood, baby!
Of course, this only works as well as it does with the cooperation of almost every institution in America, who are all in on their version of the Truman Show. Just as the MSM, corporate media, politicians, and our government class pretended that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack when it was obvious that he wasn't, they are now amplifying hoaxes and lies in order to create the illusion that Kamala Harris is running a campaign that generates excitement and promises a greater future for America.
A perfect example happened yesterday.
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— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 23, 2024
Harris, who has spent a career undermining law enforcement, bailing rioters and murderers out of jail, and pushing to "reimagine" policing by defunding the system, is claiming to have snagged an endorsement from a "leading law enforcement organization."
As you likely know, Trump got the National Fraternal Order of Police endorsement--for obvious reasons--and the chances that a "leading law enforcement organization" would back Harris hover near zero. So what happened here?
It is, to put it kindly, a fiction. To put it bluntly, a hoax. The organization was formed for this purpose and no other, and barely has any members. "Dozens" was the vague number that was put out.
The single most astroturfed Presidential campaign in modern U.S. history.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 24, 2024
The stunning endorsement that “normally backs Trump?”
They are referring to the Police Leaders for Community Safety, which was founded in March of THIS YEAR.
It’s a fake group. pic.twitter.com/g3vZfpKFAR
What makes this a hoax and not simply a sleight of hands is this: members of the media pretended that this organization had a history and that it would "normally" endorse Trump.
"Normally?" It was formed with no intention but to endorse the Democrat presidential candidate. And something that has no history also has no "normal" to compare it to.
In other words, media figures conspired to echo Harris' lies to create a false reality.
Kamala Harris’ campaign has bolstered this endorsement as a “leading national law enforcement group.”
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 24, 2024
It was launched just 3 months ago and only represents a couple dozen partisan Democrats in law enforcement.
It’s all fake. pic.twitter.com/eJX1NrYLYI
Stories came out promoting Harris' "stunning" endorsement from "Police Leaders for Community Safety." It's not just an endorsement, but a "stunning endorsement." It's like a Drudge siren of old--pay attention folks! It is STUNNING!
This is an insane example of media propaganda on full display.
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) September 24, 2024
"Harris gets stunning endorsement from group that normally backs Trump."
The Police Leaders for Community Safety was ESTABLISHED IN JUNE 2024. pic.twitter.com/H0Fft9txRn
This is how it works, folks. The Harris campaign coordinates with an astroturfed group, and the mainstream media pushes out a hoax that the police are all lining up behind Harris, dropping their previous support for Trump.
Harris is just THAT GOOD on defending Americans from crime!
Kamala Harris supported defunding the police. "For far too long, the status quo thinking has been to believe that to put more police on the street, you’re going to have more safety. And that’s just wrong. That’s not how it works." pic.twitter.com/c67s4ukEuo
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) July 22, 2024
We expect political campaigns to engage in puffery and politicians to spin and even lie. But we used to be able to expect the mainstream media to push back, at least a little bit, against the lies. And, most importantly, to reject the hoaxes.
That time is GONE. The MSM is 100% on board with PUSHING hoaxes. The Steele Dossier got the New York Times and Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize. The "fine people" hoax has been a staple of Democrat talking points for years. Project 2025 and a Trump national abortion ban are both floating out there with media support.
It's all lies, and the media is a partner with the Democrats. They are two sides of the same coin.
That's why, once again, I am asking for your support of HotAir and Townhall Media. We dig into stories. We suss out the truth. We call it like we see it--even if that means we don't always please conservatives. We do our best to tell you the truth, and when we get it wrong we set it right.
The blob is trying to strangle our revenue. Google suppresses many of our stories; the advertising monopolies steer big accounts toward the MSM and away from us. Fake "fact check" organizations label us "misinformers."
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