▪️If you ever wonder why the media creates fake narratives, it’s because they stick in people’s heads and, even when debunked, are still declared as truth years later. Then, propagandists like OD even add new details, like changing which World War it was 🤦♂️
▪️This had nothing to do with soldiers who gave their lives at Normandy in WWII, it was in reference to visiting the Aisne-Marne cemetery honoring soldiers who fought at Belleau Woods in WWI.
▪️This scared about his hair narrative began when the Atlantic reported anonymous sources told them that Trump didn’t want to visit the cemetery because the rain would mess up his hair and that it was “filled with losers.” The story came out in Sept 2020, just before the election, yet the supposed incident happened in 2018.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
▪️It was vehemently denied by Trump and the White House. Several high ranking officials went on record denying the story, while to this day no one has come forward on the record to verify the claim.
▪️Buzzfeed later FOIAd documents from the Navy which revealed emails showing the Navy canceled the helicopter transport due to weather.
https://twitter.com/jasonleopold/status/1301673157699407873?s=61&t=wYS_HEkyKg4NfAC06jGdAg
▪️John Bolton also addressed it in his book, which was extremely critical of Trump, but on this topic said:
🔹 “Marine One’s crew was saying that bad visibility could make it imprudent to chopper to the cemetery. The ceiling was not too low for Marines to fly in combat, but flying POTUS was obviously something very different.”
🔹”If a motorcade were necessary, it could take between ninety and a hundred and twenty minutes each way, along roads that were not exactly freeways, posing an unacceptable risk that we could not get the President out of France quickly enough in case of an emergency. It was a straightforward decision to cancel the visit ...”
🔹”The press turned canceling the cemetery visit into a story that Trump was afraid of the rain and took glee in pointing out that other world leaders traveled around during the day. Of course, none of them were the President of the United States, but the press didn’t understand that rules for US Presidents are different from the rules for 190 other leaders who don’t command the world’s greatest military forces.”
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 ...
