To say the left fell for the Andrew Tate pizza box hoax is the understatement of the year. These are just from The Other 98% in the last day! It happens so many times; a narrative that seems too perfect probably is, just wait a day and see what comes out before running with it.
▪️The Romanian authorities say the pizza box had nothing to do with their investigation. Tate owns a home in Romania and has recently posted he was in Romania. It’s not like police have no other method of locating people than waiting helplessly to piece together some 4chan-style internet sleuth project.
https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew
▪️Further, it appears he wasn’t even arrested. It’s hard to sort out with translation and everyone’s lack of knowledge about Romanian law, but news reports there say he was detained and the court would decide if he is to be arrested later.
https://www.gandul.ro/actualitate/exclusiv-fosta-politista-ridicata-de-diicot-in-dosarul-de-trafic-de-persoane-deschis-pe-numele-fratilor-tristan-si-andrew-tate-femeia-ar-fi-lucrat-pentru-cei-doi-19899738
▪️The sole evidence for the pizza box narrative came, not from any Romanian source, but a left wing Twitter activist. Which went viral and got shared by countless reporters, sophisticates and rubes alike. Few stopped to ask for any evidence or question why the narrative seemed so perfect.
▪️Of course, most of those who ran wild with it think that misinformation (on the other side) is a big problem on social media. Indeed, the very person who started the hoax testified in front of Congress about the dangers of extremist “hate speech” on social media!
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
