The Wrap-Up Smear Redux

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-10 14:39:28 | Updated at 2024-12-25 17:20:54 2 weeks ago

The Wrap-Up Smear Redux
American Thinker ^ | 10 Dec, 2024 | https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/the_wrap_up_smear_redux.html

Posted on 12/10/2024 4:46:46 AM PST by MtnClimber

What is destructive to the Republic is the deliberate fabrication and dissemination of calumnious narratives. By the time they’re exposed irreparable reputational damage has been done and trust in our institutions is eroded.

I've written before about the Left's habit of resorting to lies, projection, and one or more of the Logical Fallacies. They do this because if they stated their intentions openly, more often than not rational people would laugh them out of office.

Telling folks who never went to college or who paid off their loans that they would soon be on the hook for someone else's $100K tab for a master's degree in Lesbian Dance Theory is a good way to find yourself unemployed. Changing the language is another leftist tactic. Call someone anti-choice rather than pro-life, or anti-migrant instead of pro-sovereignty and you change the entire discussion.

Dan Bongino frequently says that you can judge the rightness of your actions by the degree of outrage it engenders in your opponent. If the Left reacts like rabid dogs to your choice, you know you're on the right track. If they're quiet or even worse, supportive then you should probably rethink your decision.

One despicable tactic was described by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She was deep in the throes of psychological projection when she said this on CNN: “It’s called a wrap-up smear. You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge. It’s a tool of an authoritarian.”

A classic example of this is the "Pee Tape" hoax against President Trump.

They've been doing it for years, especially when it comes to nominations of Republicans to Cabinet positions and seats on the Supreme Court.

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1 posted on 12/10/2024 4:46:46 AM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

If the left was not lying they would have nothing to say.

2 posted on 12/10/2024 4:46:57 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: MtnClimber

3 posted on 12/10/2024 4:48:44 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)

To: MtnClimber

Yet more proof (as if more is necessary) that the left/leftists are mentally ill. They all suffer from sociopathy to one degree or another. Top that off with drugs (rx’d or street) and you have an unpredictable hot mess on your hands.

4 posted on 12/10/2024 5:17:14 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)

To: MtnClimber

The simple fact of the matter is that Leftists discovered that they can break the law and then, with no evidence, accuse their enemies of doing what they just did.

Their enemies (us) are often caught by surprise, stumble, bumble, and become the story.

It has worked very well for them.

5 posted on 12/10/2024 5:36:44 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)

To: MtnClimber

The simplest and quickest way to begin rectify this situation is for people to tell the truth.

To democrats/leftists, the truth is like holy water to a vampire.

6 posted on 12/10/2024 5:39:35 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)

To: rlmorel

Democrats use Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, every day, all day.

7 posted on 12/10/2024 5:52:02 AM PST by Clean_Sweep

To: hal ogen

Yes. Liberal-leftism is most generally located in the Axis II category, personality disorders. Fits best in Cluster B.

8 posted on 12/10/2024 6:08:27 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)

To: Clean_Sweep

When Obama was running for office, that was the first time I had heard of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, so I tried to get it from the library because there was no way I was going to buy it.

I had to wait 8 months to get it, and when I read it, I had a very difficult time doing so because I found the content so repulsive. It was real work reading it.

Then, when I grasped the evil incarnate inherent in the work, I realized it would be a good thing for other Conservatives to know about, and I resolved to make an audiobook recording that I would offer to my friends who I thought should know about this evil, which by all accounts is the playbook the Left runs off.

I have zero reservations about copyright protections for that hideous and reprehensible work, but would not put myself in a situation where that could come to the fore.

But when I tried to dictate it (something I do, as I dictate audiobooks) I could not hide the disgust in my voice. Just could not do it. And I have found that, to make it palatable for a listener, I cannot have that disgust in my voice. It makes it unlistenable.

It was one of the most immoral books I have ever read.

9 posted on 12/10/2024 6:29:24 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)

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