You may have seen the New York Times headline this morning, framing the January 6 hearings as a political stunt by Democrats to boost their midterm chances.
This headline was seized on by sleaze bag Josh Holmes, former campaign manger for Mitch McConnell and current propagandist, dirty operative and lobbyist. He retweeted the NYT headline with the comment “At least we are all on the same page as to what this is.” By working the refs, conservatives have enormous power in shaping the narrative the general public sees and reads. Holmes has been working the NYT and all media and he is certainly getting what he wants out of them.
We, as Democrats, need to work the refs. We must. We cannot cede this arena to Josh Holmes and Matt Schlapp. We need to stuff graphic January 6 images down their throats at all times -— especially after the BS “both-sides, bad-motives-Dems” crap published by the NYT this morning.
Over this past year I have collected in a Word document a large collection of links to tweets which contain videos and images of January 6 violence. And I tweet these out constantly, especially as replies to media accounts and GOP pols.
Sadly there is no operational leadership on this issue or instructions to activists from Jaime Harrison, the DNC or the messaging team at the White House. So we have to do it. We have to create, shape, frame and push the narrative ourselves — January 6 was a violent, bloody insurrection and coup attempt by Trump and many many GOP politicians and operatives. And pictures speak louder than words.
Here are tweets you can COPY AND USE throughout the hearings. Flood twitter.
(officer deliberately crushed in door)
(officer Goodman chased by the mob)
(mob shatters doors, Ashli Babbitt tries to break in — graphic)
(possibly the worst one)
Accounts on twitter that are already doing this prolifically that you should follow and retweet: @bellboy905 and @rhonda_harbison.