NYT Article:
A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out
Quote:
By Matthew Rosenberg and Julian E. Barnes
- Published Aug. 11, 2020Updated Aug. 12, 2020, 1:31 p.m. E
WASHINGTON — For some of President Trump’s loudest cheerleaders, it was a story too good to check out: Black Lives Matters protesters in Portland, Ore., had burned a stack of Bibles, and then topped off the fire with American flags. There was even a video to prove it.
The story was a near-perfect fit for a central Trump campaign talking point — that with liberals and Democrats comes godless disorder — and it went viral among Republicans within hours of appearing earlier this month. The New York Post wrote about it, as did The Federalist, saying that the protesters had shown “their true colors.” Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, said of the protesters, “This is who they are.” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, tweeted that antifa had moved to “the book burning phase.”
The truth was far more mundane. A few protesters among the many thousands appear to have burned a single Bible — and possibly a second — for kindling to start a bigger fire. None of the other protesters seemed to notice or care.
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A few protesters WERE burning bibles - how about that? So it turns out that actually happened and was not Russian Disinformation. So there was some truth to it.
The way the story is written and the response some of you have is that the entire things is Russian disinformation , ergo. The Anti-Antifas are all dummies.
Now LEFT Disinformation writes the entire story as fake, and you fall for it and repeat it. Well Fcking Done.
The problem is that it did happen which is what i was threading on, not that Russia then ytook it to stoke the flames. I wonder if RUSPROP knew that NYT and many other leftynews would do their work for them
Burn it all to the ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/u...-meddling.html