Republican Congressman Devin Nunes—unhappy with his ability to spread false stories only through press conferences, television appearances, and “memos” drafted up by his staff working in tandem with the White House—had to come up with a new way to spread more lies more quickly. So he turned to his friends for inspiration.
The campaign committee for House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes has been funding a website billed as a local news outlet.
The site, CARepublican.com, features headlines ranging from national politics stories to state and local matters and college football. Many of the posts link out to conservative sites like National Review and The Federalist, and the Facebook page for the site labels it a media/news company that is focused on "delivering the best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis."
Working in exactly the same way as fake news sites created by Russia sources previous to the election, Nunes sprinkled his fake news site with stories in praise of Devin Nunes and attacking Democratic representatives.
Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news company” and claims to deliver “the best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.”
But Nunes’s site isn’t local and it’s not news—except the news that it’s another Nunes-generated fake. And once the truth about “The California Republican” came out, the site went down.
“Due to heavy traffic and an attack on our servers, you may encounter an error message when attempting to reach The Republican,” a message on the Facebook page for the “California Republican” read on Sunday evening. “We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Not every Republican has a Fox & Friends ready to sooth their giant egos and provide talking points for the day. So Devin Nunes decided to just make his own.
Headlines from the site shared recently on its Facebook page include “Understanding the process behind #ReleaseTheMemo” and “Sacramento mandates push CA Dairies to pack up milk cartons and shutdown plant.”
That second headline was designed to appeal to the large dairy interests who are one of Nunes’s biggest supporters—and it’s also Nunes’s own area of real expertise.
In fact, the man charged with oversight of our nation’s spies is a dairy farmer.
Nunes has three college degrees—all in agriculture. Which obviously makes him outstanding in the field of out standing in a field, but none of which suggests he’s in any way qualified to take over the role of handling intelligence intelligently. In fact, Nunes’ tactics do resemble those of a bull—blindly charging ahead, going all in on one lie after another—and creating a lot of bullshit in the process.
Devin Nunes held two news conferences to “break the news” of the fake scandal of unmasking. Then he went to the White House to conduct a fake “briefing” for the people he’d worked with create the fake scandal. Then Nunes announced three fake investigations into the Uranium One fake scandal based on shocking new testimony that has already proven to be a fake. Then Nunes drafted a fake memo to support fake allegations against the FBI and DOJ. And now he’s started a fake news site spreading fake stories.
All of which suggests two things: First, Devin Nunes took the stories of Russia’s actions before the 2016 election as a How-To guide. And second … you really, really should think twice before eating any of Devin Nunes’ dairy products.