This takes some real hubris, or maybe it’s simply that OAN knows its audience well. Maybe the people who view OAN never, ever turn on a radio, or the TV to any other channel and we believe that they don’t even know what a newspaper is, even though they all have a digital counterpart these days and are readily accessible. Check out this clip. This is pure propaganda. If these people are ever in need of work, North Korean television will hire them on the spot.
As noted by @brianstelter, OAN's coverage of the California recall result is extremely bizarre. They're refusing to admit that Elder lost and Newsom won, and are instead pretending the result isn't yet known.
This clip gives you the flavor. pic.twitter.com/WlfPtdUZhk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 15, 2021
I think this last commenter may be right. And the problem with that, is if the hard core loonies really believe elections are being stolen, that will lead to bloodshed. That’s the problem but that’s the direction we’re headed.
Just lose like normal people and stop making threats. (Gab) pic.twitter.com/xvwHx7Nbt3
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) September 15, 2021
I have to say this comment floors me. Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans two to one in California. It’s arithmetic. Plus, Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in the Golden State for 15 years. Yet none of those figures matter and this one was lost due to massive fraud?
Larry Elder sent out a fundraising email the day before election day to “investigate” voter fraud. I don’t know if he’s stupid enough to try to keep pursuing this. I guess we’ll find out in the next few days. His choices are simple: just go away and if he’s still interested in politics, find another avenue, or, he can decide to throw in his lot with Trump and the aggrieved proponents of the Big Lie and stand for that going forward. It will be interesting to see which one he decides to do.
As you know I don’t twitter. However, as to that last one in your article I can’t help but wonder if someone couldn’t resist taking a screenshot of his handle, and then edited it with Foghorn crossed out and replaced with Farthorn with the message “There – fixed it for you.”
LOL. The CA SOS site says that they have incomplete results from *every* precinct, as of 3am (there are mail and provisional ballots still not counted, but probably not many):
( 18,185 of 18,185 ) precincts partially
reporting as of September 15, 2021, 2:55 a.m.
Still 63+ percent No, as of 5:30pm PDT.
“Plus, Republicans haven’t won a statewide election in the Golden State for 15 years.”
And with the current crop of loonies who seem to populate the GOP, not even that Republican would be able to win an election. Schwarzenegger largely lucked in to the governorship thanks to Davis’s losing the recall vote and having the name recognition that let him sweep into office (WITHOUT a majority of the vote*). In 2006, though, he managed to win re-election by moving more to the center rather than constantly seeking the support of the far-right lunatics (who were, admittedly, just a small part of the party at the time) even as the national party as a whole was kowtowing to the far-right (as evidenced by the Party’s putting Sarah Palin on the ticket in 2008).
*I think California’s legislators need to consider a bill that changes the recall process. I read somewhere that California’s requirement to get a recall ranks as the lowest in the country (most recall efforts require valid signatures from 20-25% of the total vote cast in a previous election but California only needs like 12%–that’s insane for the most populated state in the country). And then, there was the whole sob story about needing an extension because of COVID (the backers of the recall were hoping to use COVID *against* Newsom but they turned around and whined that they needed more time to collect signatures because of COVID) and the judge who heard the case actually GRANTED it! (Again–insane. Given the majority of the people behind the recall effort were fighting against the shutdown and mask mandates and social distancing, for them to argue they needed more time to collect signatures should have been laughed out of the courtroom. The judge is the one who needs to be recalled or removed from the bench some other way.) The recall process needs to be restructured: First, you need at least 20% of the total vote cast in the most recent election; and second (and more importantly), you don’t get an extension to collect signatures–set a reasonable time limit (3 months following an off-year election, 4 months following a presidential election–due to the usual increase in voter turnout in the latter) and there is no additional time for ANY reason. (All signatures must be turned in to the Secretary of State’s office by NO LATER THAN 5 pm on the due date. If the due date falls on ANY day the office is closed to business, then those signatures must be in the office at PRECISELY 8 am on the next business day. If you can’t turn in those signatures by the deadline, you’ve forfeited the recall but ALL those signatures and the petitions are to be left with the SoS’s office to be destroyed so that another recall effort can be started anew–with at least 1 full week’s passage.)