The Washington Post seems to be conducting a Democrat-boosting ad campaign on Twitter, promoting their biased journalism. The latest one was boosting their "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler attacking "a trio of silly, false claims" by J.D. Vance against Kamala Harris for being a leftist radical. (Posties must fight back on this dastardly Republican message.)
The @washingtonpost is running a fact check for Kamala Harris as an ad on X. How is this not an in-kind contribution to her campaign? pic.twitter.com/aPDA3pC742
— Michael Duncan (@MichaelDuncan) August 14, 2024
Herr Kessler's subhead was "No, she doesn’t want to ban red meat or gas stoves or believe that people shouldn’t have children because of climate change."
Mister Glenn was so energetically "fact checking" that he claimed "The Biden administration never had a policy on gas stoves." Kessler was False! As Fox News reported, Biden admin backs off gas stove crackdown after widespread pushback. In other words, Kessler is attacking what he sees as overly harsh campaign rhetoric with some blatantly incorrect rebuttals.
Vance said Harris "even wants to take away your ability to eat red meat." Kessler ruled that was false: "Harris gave a long answer but, in essence, she said she would support a change in the guidelines, as there had to be incentives to encourage less consumption of meat — even though she loved a cheeseburger from time to time."
In other words, Harris wouldn't say No to a leftist questioner, she was slippery and signaled support that the government really should establish dietary guidelines, but did not commit to a meat ban.
Kamala Harris is literally on video talking about backing a ban on red meat consumption:
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 14, 2024
KAMALA HARRIS: The balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors. I mean just to be… pic.twitter.com/8LW4T2uqJW
As we know, "fact checking" -- especially with hot headlines about "silly false claims" -- can look like Democrat messaging, as a presumable authoritative takedown of claims Harris is radical. Now let's go back to the Post trend of using Twitter Ads to conduct a pro-Harris campaign:
Yep. I get pro-Kamala ads from them every single day https://t.co/acvb6JGHWS
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) August 11, 2024
And:
Is the Washington Post playing 6D chess? They're paying to run ads explaining how Democrats can pick a new nominee (presumably not Kamala) in their primary. The DNC has designed the updated rules to prevent that possibility. What is going on? Did someone forget to tell WaPo? pic.twitter.com/yop1W0pbbf
— @amuse (@amuse) July 30, 2024
And:
Is it weird that this WaPo exclusive is actually an ad? I must be out of the loop if this is typical of how a news outlet tells the news. Ads aren’t known for telling the truth, right?
— ConRocke99 (@Nohomie12CR) August 10, 2024
Besides, I think the Egypt $10 million was actually another Steele Dossier hoax. pic.twitter.com/wM7CwhHQFb
And:
Is the @washingtonpost going to register with the FEC to run ads like this?
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) August 9, 2024
What is this ridiculous promotion of Biden’s desperate and stupid court-packing plan?
You can’t even argue this is good for WaPo business because a boring op-ed isn’t driving new subscribers. pic.twitter.com/8L9t2x90Jc
Last November, the Post announced it would suspend advertising on X over some Elon Musk conspiracy comments. Clearly, the suspension is over! Just in time for a presidential campaign...
