Idiot America Indeed

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-06 02:49:02 | Updated at 2024-12-22 11:07:46 2 weeks ago

Idiot America Indeed
Bastiat's Window ^ | 5 Dec 2024 | Robert F Graboyes

Posted on 12/05/2024 6:28:49 PM PST by Rummyfan

2024's Flaming Feculence Awards go to Charles P. Pierce and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.

Today’s post is not about politics but, rather, about contemporary journalism’s compulsion to besoil itself in the service of politics. The excess and carelessness engendered by political servility plopped squarely this week upon the heads of Charles P. Pierce (Esquire magazine) and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (ABC’s The View). Both sought to justify Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden by pointing to peculiar antecedents. Pierce cited George H. W. Bush’s pardon of his son Neil, and Navarro-Cárdenas cited Woodrow Wilson’s pardon of his brother-in-law Hunter deButts. Their examples were peculiar because (1) Neil Bush was never convicted or even charged with any crimes, and (2) Hunter deButts never existed. Navarro-Cárdenas learned of Hunter deButts’s pardon from the often-hallucinatory ChatGPT. Pierce apparently bypassed electronic sources, plumbed purported facts from the depths of his own imagination, shunted them past whatever vestigial fact-checking routines exist at Esquire, and shot them out to gullible readers. Across the Internet some of those readers are yet spreading the Parables of Neil Bush and Hunter deButts.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: ananavarro; bastiatswindow; charlespierce; charlesppierce; hunterdebutts; idiotamerica; idiotamericaindeed; neilbush; robertfgraboyes; seymourbutts; seymourodebutts

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1 posted on 12/05/2024 6:28:49 PM PST by Rummyfan

To: Rummyfan

Charles P. Pierce is a notorious lying partisan gasbag on Twitter/X.

2 posted on 12/05/2024 6:30:51 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )

To: Rummyfan

“A day after Ana Navarro-Cárdenas claimed the 28th president pardoned his fictional brother-in-law, she responded by blaming AI.”

- Ana “I Are Stoopid” Navarro

3 posted on 12/05/2024 6:32:49 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )

To: Rummyfan

4 posted on 12/05/2024 6:33:51 PM PST by frogjerk

To: Rummyfan

5 posted on 12/05/2024 6:37:07 PM PST by linMcHlp

To: frogjerk

Everyone knows of the legendary English lord Seymour O. deButts...

6 posted on 12/05/2024 6:39:34 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )

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