I mentioned Josh Rogers’ hit-piece on Don Bolduc in my post Massive Unforced Mistake By Don Bolduc. Rogers’ hit-piece … and another subsequent hit-piece by Rogers on Bolduc … merit a post of their own because Rogers is such a fount of misinformation that he represents a threat to the democratic process.
Let’s start with Rogers’ first hit-piece:
In this hit-piece Rogers writes:
Bolduc added he does still think the 2020 election was marred by fraud. Repeated investigations into the election have found no evidence of widespread fraud.
Rogers implies that “widespread fraud” was necessary to impact the 2020 election. That is patently FALSE. Presidents are not popularly elected. All that was needed to tip the election to Biden was to tip a few of the “swing states” … and that is exactly what the nearly half a BILLION of Zuckerbucks did. From Mollie Hemingway, who has exhaustively examined and documents how the 2020 election was rigged:
[Zuckerberg] directly funded liberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations. In fact, he helped those groups infiltrate election offices in key swing states by doling out large grants to crucial districts. …
… [For example] Trump-voting counties [in Georgia] received an average of $1.91 per registered voter, compared to $7.13 per registered voter in Biden-voting counties.
… Trump won Georgia by more than five points in 2016. He lost it by three-tenths of a point in 2020. On average, as a share of the two-party vote, most counties moved Democratic by less than one percentage point in that time. Counties that didn’t receive Zuckerbucks showed hardly any movement, but counties that did moved an average of 2.3 percentage points Democratic. In counties that did not receive Zuckerbucks, “roughly half saw an increase in Democrat votes that offset the increase in Republican votes, while roughly half saw the opposite trend.” In counties that did receive Zuckerbucks, by contrast, three quarters “saw a significant uptick in Democrat votes that offset any upward change in Republican votes,” including highly populated Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb counties.
I am sure Rogers’ response would be that this was not fraud; that Zuckerbucks was legal at the time. So why not mention it in his hit-piece on Bolduc? Because most fair-minded people would not care whether Zuckerbucks was technically legal or not. They would see it as rigging the election. Which is why Rogers and the rest of the Fake News always talk about “widespread fraud.”
Additionally, there actually was a widespread rigging of the 2020 election. If the FBI-inspired Big Tech censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop is not widespread rigging then nothing is. NewsMax reports that eight out of ten Americans polled have said that they believe the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop changed the outcome of the election. But, of course, no mention of the Hunter Biden laptop in Rogers’ hit-piece.
The foregoing is more than enough to say that Rogers’ misinformation represents a threat to our democracy. But there is more.
The very next day Rogers dropped another hit-piece on Bolduc. This one on abortion:
Not a single candid word in this hit-piece about Hassan’s position that there should be no restrictions whatsoever on abortion EVER; that is that Hassan supports abortion for ANY REASON up until the baby is born. And not a single word that Hassan’s position is EXTREME and not supported by a clear majority of Americans.
Rather, Rogers writes that Hassan merely opposes “any gestational limit on procedures.” What a lovely euphemism, “gestational limits.” To sugarcoat Hassan’s extremism on abortion with euphemisms such as “gestational limits” is misinformation. It’s no different than crediting Biden for bringing gas prices down without noting that it was his policies drove gas prices into the stratosphere and that gas prices under Biden remain much higher than under Trump.
Additionally, the so-called “national ban” … which Bolduc opposes on the grounds that abortion should be a matter for individual States to decide … would only ban abortion after 15 weeks, which is hardly a national ban. So that’s even more election misinformation.
Rogers is not in the least constrained by facts. He is single-mindedly focused … indeed one could say obsessed … with electing Democrats. He is NO journalist; he is a threat to our democracy.