President Joe Biden officially announced his run for a second term Tuesday, and released a campaign video highlighting the importance of personal freedoms. The Republican National Committee countered with its own anti-Biden advertisement that featured … computer-generated (i.e. fake) images of a future apocalyptic world run amok, thanks to Joe Biden. They really did that.
The choice by the brainiacs at the RNC to concoct something entirely out of thin air is not surprising. It lines up perfectly with the decades-long trajectory of a political party hellbent on minority rule and authoritarianism. On Wednesday, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel took time away from trying to scare parents about “rainbow fentanyl” Halloween candy to go on Fox News and talk about the completely fake attack ad Republicans unveiled the day before.
McDaniel explained to the Fox News audience that not only did they not see what they just saw, she was going to tell them what they saw—and they were going to say they saw it.
“So first of all it is A.I.-generated. So we’re sharing that up front, ethically, so it’s not a deepfake*. Every single image was A.I., but we are painting a picture of a future Biden America.”
*Merriam-Webster: “deepfake: an image or recording that has been convincingly altered and manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said”
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Hold on to your seats!
McDaniel didn’t get her job by having a conscience. She got it because she has a Ted Cruz-like willingness to say and do anything, with zero shame or self-reflection. But her willingness to plow through every fact, even when checked in real-time, can get in the way. Later in the interview, Steve Doocy, father of former White press secretary Jen Psaki punching bag Peter Doocy, asked McDaniel about likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He wanted to know why Trump was ranting away on social media abyss Truth Social that he was not being told about debates.
McDaniel sidestepped the question to assure the host that “President Trump never shies away from a debate,” to which all of the Fox News hosts almost simultaneously reminded the RNC chair that Donald Trump “skipped ours in 2016.” McDaniel admitted that but then said, “But you know, he was in the center of the debate stage in 2016 and he never left it.”
Is your brain hurting? Shhhh, go to sleep. Let Ronna tell you what’s real and not real.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, “1984”
The past week seems to have packed in a month’s worth of news. Markos and Kerry tackle it all, from Joe Biden’s big announcement to Tucker Carlson’s early retirement from Fox News.
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