The media and various liberal pundits are again shrugging this week after the exposure of another false story targeting a conservative or Republican. In this case, Vice President JD Vance was criticized for ordering the raising of the river near his Ohio home to improve his family’s canoeing experience. First appearing in The Guardian, the story took off in the media and was featured on shows like The Colbert Show when Stephen Colbert mocked “insane spoiled baby emperor move.” The problem is that it was entirely untrue. The Secret Service raised the river for security reasons with no contact with the Vice President or his family.
The hit piece was curious because The Guardian admitted that it could not confirm the allegation. Nevertheless, it breathlessly reported on “Canoe-Gate” with the headline, “JD Vance’s team had water level of the river raised for family’s boating trip.”In the article by Guardian writers Stephanie Kirchgaessner and David Smith, the outlet’s writers suggested that the water-raising was done for recreational reasons, stating “one source with knowledge of the matter who communicated with the Guardian anonymously alleged that the outflow request for the Caesar Creek Lake was not just to support the vice-president’s Secret Service detail, but also to create ‘ideal kayaking conditions.’” They then added, “The Guardian could not independently confirm this specific claim.”
Hmmm, that “specific claim” is the entire story.
USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi explained that the USSS conducted a trip to the Ohio area ahead of the vice president’s trip, and one of their vessels actually ran aground. That is why the USSS asked for the increase: “It’s very normal, it’s very routine.” He said that the decision was made without input or involvement from the vice president’s office.
Instead of confirmation, they went with confirmation bias, reaching out to familiar figures who immediately expressed disgust or outrage.
This included ethics experts Richard Painter and Norm Eisen. What was most interesting was Eisen’s statement that it did not matter if this was entirely due to security and was not the result of any request from the Vice President or his staff: “While there may well be security-related explanations or justifications that come into the analysis, my reaction is: I don’t care. We shouldn’t be utilising government resources in this way. I never would have allowed it.”
The usual media crowd jumped on the story as an example of facts too good to check. The New Republic ran a headline claiming: “JD Vance Abused Power to Raise River Levels for Family Kayaking Trip.”
HuffPost declared: “JD Vance Had A River’s Water Level Raised For His Family Vacation.”
The Daily Beast said this: “JD Vance Ordered a River’s Water Level Raised for His Family Boat Trip.”
Keep in mind that many of these voices were supportive of the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts to combat “disinformation.” Indeed, there is an alarming uptick in such false claims being spread by figures who are most vocal in calling for the censorship of others.
Take Hillary Clinton, whose campaign secretly funded the false Russian collusion conspiracy claims. Last week, Clinton was back spreading another false story. After the White House announced the start of construction for a new ballroom, Clinton posted a false story that then spread over the Internet.
Clinton claimed that the project is being funded by taxpayers when citizens cannot afford groceries.
When the announcement was made, it was expressly stated that Trump and private donors would pay for the entirety of the project and would not, as she claimed, be “spending $200 million of taxpayers’ money.” She has never taken down her false claim.
It does not matter that the statement is false. This is not the type of disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation that the left felt justified censorship. When Clinton went to Europe to demand that it force the censorship of fellow Americans (after Musk bought Twitter), she clearly was not speaking of Democratic disinformation which is done with the best of motivations.
The same is true with “Canoe-gate.” It does not matter that The Guardian could not confirm the allegation or that it was false that Vance ordered the raising of the river. This is good disinformation to help democracy. For these figures and outlets, the important thing is that the media is still paddling in the same direction, even if it is against the factual current.
The picture has an interesting nuance ‘La Chasse-Galerie’ by Henri Julien has symbolism to the devilish intent of those flying around in the thin atmosphere of deceit. The paintings meaning obtained from the Canadian Encyclopedia:
“French Canadian variant of the Wild Hunt, a legend which interprets strange noises in the air as relating to a hunter condemned to hunt throughout eternity. In Chasse-Galerie, one or several persons together are able, with the help of the devil, to travel in a canoe through the air at tremendous speed. They must take care not to have any blessed object on their person or to pronounce the name of God, lest the canoe crash. The name appears to be derived from the French chasse, “hunt,” and Galerie from Sire de Gallery, a condemned hunter.”
George W
Oh GW what a wonderful story. Thank you . I shall also research it. Henri Julien…I wonder if PT knows that story?
Thanks again.
It couldn’t be a more perfect choice, GW, 😂 the bewitched canoe 😂. The wild hunt of MSM.
I LOVE IT.
^^ Addition, the painting is part of Canadian culture. Let’s hope they have the wisdom to preserve it as we did not and still are not as the looters rampage and destroy tearing down history.
A stitch in time…
The Bewitched 🛶
GW: That’s very interesting. I was wondering what is going on in that painting. Thank you.
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The Guardian is always wrong.Their bias has effected their brains.
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“Most Americans are worried about the cost of groceries.”
– Hillary Clinton
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Stop right there!
This is the problem with all the parasitic, un-American illegal alien communists in this country who are here for the “free party,” the “free stuff,” and the “free status.”
Government has nothing to do with groceries; government has to do with simply ensuring freedom and security.
Americans are free to buy groceries or operate a grocery store; pick one and go do it.
Most government agencies and departments are illicit and unconstitutional, and private property, which is private property not public property, holds supremacy over governmental decree.
The Constitution actually does very little if you read it.
It is the people who are provided the freedom to do everything as self-regulating private property free enterprises of free industries in the free markets of the private sector.
Including buying groceries or operating grocery stores.
It ain’t none of Hillary’s or the government’s business.
Freedom and Self-Reliance are the American Thesis.
They constitute the American Way.
The government doesn’t prevail; freedom does.
Hillary sounds like a zealous communist apparatchik rather than a patriotic American.
What the —-, over?
So the media moonbeams published another incredulous lie. I’m aghast! Stunned, literally gobsmacked!
And just since when has the media told the truth about anything, hmm? I’d say one would have to go back to Edward R. Morrow or longer before his time, which would necessitate going back beyond the yellow journalism of the late 1800’s. Couple that with our modern entrenched deep state anti-American government operatives that lie, censor, and plant fraudulent stories and spurious accusations from unnamed and unverified sources or through intelligence community pay rolled (bribed), journalists and editors, and the head scratch isn’t that the media outlets just continually lie or forget to tell the truth, the head scratch is that there is no accountability at any level for what is so obviously a network of co-conspirators in corruption, malevolence, chaos, and insurrection.
The Mayflower Doctrine which demanded fairness and accuracy in the media, was watered down by the FCC and replaced with the Fairness Doctrine. These doctrines emerged from the Radio Act of 1927 and was reinforced by the Communications Act of 1934, which established the FCC. The FCC aimed to ensure that broadcasters served the public interest. What novel thinking… In 1969, the Supreme Court upheld the Fairness Doctrine in the case of Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, affirming the FCC’s authority to enforce it.
Despite that however, by the 1980s, the doctrine faced criticism for potentially infringing on free speech rights. In 1987, the FCC repealed it, citing a “chilling effect” on free expression. Following the repeal, Congress attempted to reinstate the doctrine through the Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987, but it was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan.
Sooo then, that leaves the National public of today steeped in ignorance; intellectually drowning in lies, spurious and unfounded and imaginary accusations; 24 hour tit for tat political commentary, and artistically created Marxist propaganda, with nothing of the actual news, let alone the essential truth, and welcome to our brave new world. Wait till the AI gets a hold of all this. The fun’s just starting,
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–Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
There must be a change in the way these types of clearly intentional reporting and disseminating of wrong facts are punished. Other than shooting the perpetrators, which would sent a clear message, massive penalties short of being shot MUST become law. This is, in a word, disgusting.
Another Turley attack piece against mainstream media, so as to try to lend credence to MAGA media. Here are the facts–you judge: the water level WAS raised ahead of Vance’s planned trip on the river, and this was AFTER a Secret Service boat ran aground because the water level was too low. Non-MAGA media said that the reason was to benefit the Vance’s trip–which makes sense, but they couldn’t confirm this. Pro MAGA media says that this is something that is routinely done. The reason–i.e., to benefit Vance’s little trip, came from an anonymous tipster. So, based on denials by the Trump administration, Turley attacks mainstream media and various personalities as liars. That’s only the case IF you believe anything that comes from the Trump administration, which more and more people do NOT, after the Epstein Scandal, Trump’s broken promise to release the file, the sanitization of items by the FBI to hide Trump’s involvement and that of his friends, the sweetheart deal he gave Maxwell, and asking a judge to release the Grand Jury transcript, which they KNOW does not contain anything incriminating against Trump, and which they KNOW the judge won’t do–all for show, of course, a fake effort to appear cooperative.
Since Trump is the biggest, and most pathological liar ever to occupy the White House, and since his administration contains people whose job it is to please him, to cover for him and to take orders from him, and since Trump has his own cadre of pro-Trump media that tries to justify its existence by attacking mainstream media, I don’t believe the denials. The timing is too coincidental.
Trump took food aid away from starving children and school lunch money away from needy kids here in the US, all to give tax breaks to the wealthiest. Now, desperate to save face over the promise to deport millions of migrants, they are giving away our tax money to the tune of $50,000 as a signing bonus and up to $60,000 of cancelled student loan debt to get people to sign up to work for ICE Barbie, cracking skulls, bullying people just trying to get by and support their families. And, ICE has waived some of the age limitations. And, for you MAGAs who fancy yourself to be good Christians or who otherwise follow the Old Testament but nevertheless support what Trump is doing to migrants, consider the following passage from Deuteronomy, Chapter 10:
For the LORD, your God, is the God of gods,
the LORD of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome,
who has no favorites, accepts no bribes;
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow,
and befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.
So you too must befriend the alien,
for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
Trump also is doing little to nothing to stop Israel from the deliberate genocide of the Palestinian people by starvation and continued bombing. In fact, he is using the power he stole by lying to get into office to bully universities that allow anti-Israel protests on campus under the guise of promoting”anti Semitism”. There are plenty of Israelis who oppose the starvation of innocent people, but they didn’t give Trump hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions to do everything possible to support Israel like Miriam Edelson did. If you don’t speak up, you are complicit.
Let me explain something to you, Anonymous. The false tip might have been a false flag by MAGA just to trip you guys up. Your clowns are getting too predictable.
And Trump’s approval is still within the range he’s been tracking since he was elected, contrary to your other claims. I just factchecked that with the pollsters who got 2024 right.
And nobody on our side really believes that returning Epstein’s preferred clients (your Democrats) to power is better than Trump. Keep dreaming.
And no AMERICAN children are being starved by anybody. Democrats have been running that old chestnut against the GOP for 30 years.
And yes, I–and millions more–voted for this and would, again. Sorry to disappoint.
MAGA MAGA MAGA GIGI GIGI GIGI
Get new material, you loser
Seek a mental health professional, you sound absolutely nuts, to use a clinical term.
Independent media is not reporting on this. They know it is a BS, hit piece. What they have that MSM like the Guardian lacks is journalistic integrity. Some anonymous person, who may not even exist and the Guardian cannot verify if it is even true or not. Per the USSS, USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi explained that the USSS conducted a trip to the Ohio area ahead of the vice president’s trip, and one of their vessels actually ran aground. That is why the USSS asked for the increase: “It’s very normal, it’s very routine.” He said that the decision was made without input or involvement from the vice president’s office.
I would believe the USSS over anything MSM, who got their information from some anonymous person and cannot verify if what they claim is even true.
Those are the facts.
*. PT always pays homage to art and artifacts. Love the canoe and USSS in his choice today 😂. Look at the faces!
Thanks
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’ preacher C. H. Spurgeon in 1859
$200 million for a ballroom sounded like a lot until I read that Phillips Exeter Academy is spending $70 million to redo its assembly hall. They’re rotating it 180 degrees. They have 1,000 students.
California would probably spend $1 billion on a train depot, with another one a mile away in each direction. Then ICE would arrest all 15 passengers.
Correction: California’s billion would go to accommodate the homeless so that they might live in and ruin the train depot.
They’ve been living there 12,000 years. It’s an indigenous burial ground that must never be disturbed. The depot will need to be a mile away from the tracks. Either that or 200 feet underground.
Homelessness must be criminalized and the homeless sent to homeless prison with harsh, ascetic, and austere conditions.
“Homelessness must be criminalized and the homeless sent to homeless prison with harsh, ascetic, and austere conditions.”
Troll harder
Then ICE would arrest all 15 passengers. ≈
Typical government conman statement: 1) wildly over estimate income/aka ridership; while 2) wildly under estimate expenses/TWO stations a mile apart @$1 Billion each🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
MORE like 10 riders in total AND $2 Billion per station 1/4 mile apart 🙀🙀🙀🙀
The problem with humanity is that we have limited memory and the internet makes it even shorter.
Limbaugh and the media covered a much more egregious.
TLDR = Al Gore’s campaign had a Connecticut dam opened and released 4 BILLION GALLONS of water in a drought situation to float his carcass in a canoe in 1999 and thought nothing of it.
https://nypost.com/1999/07/24/critics-paddle-gore-in-dam-rowing-row/
Awesome sauce!
CRITICS PADDLE GORE IN ‘DAM’ ROWING ROW
We are “critici[zing] media for a false story” ????????????????
That’s all we got? Thank the First Amendment for allowing us to publish our criticism?
So this is the Frankenstein that we have created in the name of a First Amendment free press.
We have allowed the sequential takeover of MSM and news aggregators by left-leaning owners and managers (including through shareholder takeovers). We have politely allowed “Fox News” to carry our burden while we criticize? or complain that the Left has taken over our news?
We argue that “More speech” and/or presentation of opposing views is the hallmark of a First Amendment hold.
But when I turn on my laptop, I am looking at Microsoft’s “widgets” across the screen, or a MSN homepage that likewise purports to ostensibly present a thumbnail sketch of today’s national NEWS..
-IT IS WOEFULLY DOMINATED BY AND OVERLOADED with extreme leftist (and virtually unknown) news from “Slingshot News, “Raw Story,” “Atlanta Black Star,” “Mediaite,” “Irish Star,” “Alternet,” “Huffington Post,” “The Atlantic,” -even GB’s “The Guardian.” ALL of these little-known sources are independently rated as either “Lean Left” or pure unadulterated “Left.” BUT the ratio of them to “Fox News” appearing in the homepage, desktop news is easily 10-1.
(yeah, yeah, I get it. I know that I can remove widgets and MSN news. But that’s not the point. Microsoft has a commanding presence here, folks, -and I speak for the “selective” State of the News presented in general.)
The imbalance of anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican slant of headlines is close to stunning. (Recent example, “Trump tells Texas to come up with 5 more congressional Republican districts.” The Truth: DOJ, not Trump, notified Texas that several Democrat congressional districts were unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered. Trump followed up with Gov. Abbott on that finding.)
Even Google algorithms are so left-leaning that neutral search results for inquiring students are truly a joke. Likewise, Wikipedia, with its policy of allowing anyone to edit its content, leaves us with a very slanted presentation of the topic at hand.
We have allowed this to happen. What did Dr. Frankenstein’s “laboratory” do?
We’ve got the money and the know-how. What do we have to do to restore BALANCE in mass communications?
True, Lin.
*. It’s a reading processing and comprehension problem. On a multiple choice test with the question what is most likely to be true given these set of facts question. Choice B is: to improve VP Vance’s canoeing experience
Choice D: not enough information
The question remains as to the reason the USSS thought raising the water level added to increased security after they ran aground.
The left does this. One Harvard student thought John Locke was justifying taking land from the American Indians after Locke’s treatise on working the land created a right to ownership in the commons area. Locke was a Puritan as unknown information.
They read for the worst reason if there’s any link that can be fabricated. True, Vance will have an improved canoe experience. Because that is true it is not a deception. They believe it and repeat it.
What is the USSS reason? PT? It’s also the reason for unfilled reservoirs in LA and wasted money on high speed rail. In Clinton’s deception the donated money could be spent in other areas deferring tax money.
It’s reading processing. It indicates learning disabilities or brain damage from drugs and alcohol. AI cranks it out which is a disability on its own.
C: running aground can impede evacuation should the VP be endangered.
^^^ choice A: Frogs will enjoy the increased fluid dynamics.
It is time for news outlets including TV to be held accountable for their created acts of individuals that never happened. These people are a disgrace to ethics, integrity and morals!!!!!!!
What we don’t need is pearl clutching over the absolute lies told by the prog/left – we are well aware (or else willfully ignorant) of the constant propaganda machines of the prog/left churning out their mythologies.
What we need, now, are more postings continually providing facts that refute each and every lie sold by the progs to the point where the public is eagerly awaiting the deconstruction of each web of lies spewed from the left. It could become a wagering opportunity for a flagging Las Vegas as to the time and amount of destruction raining down on each prog lie with each new obfuscation.
Think of the betting opportunities and just how much money could be made while wokesters and old commies melt in anger….
Bravo! Well said.
*. Write a computer program that does that, whims.
I would imagine that such a sight as grok could do that but I have found that grok is a little bent to the left and far too cautious in its statements, not wanting to offend anyone with too much truth.
@whimsicalmama
I think so too. Even for trolls on a site like this. They were becoming very accustomed to no one checking their work or providing irrefutable facts to the contrary. Those days have ended, and regardless of what the future brings, it’s likely for good.
I remember people boasting nothing we said mattered because ‘they’ controlled the narrative – not anymore, or likely ever again.
And who is surprised by this?
Maybe I missed it. Did JT defend Representative Ramirez when she was accused, falsely, that she was first a Guatemalan?
The Blaze, claimed she said: “I’m a proud Guatemalan, before I’m an American.”
That was not true. She said…in fact, she said she was “very proudly Guatemalan,” but “First, I am American.”
But hey, why let the truth get in the way of a good story right?
Disgusting and despicable. Thank you JT for showing your bias.
“Disgusting and despicable. Thank you JT for showing your bias.”
You don’t speak Spanish, obviously. She said what she said, and then she even doubled down on it. Nice try, clown.
Your right. she said what she said, and she said…
very proudly Guatemalan,” but “First, I am American.”
You have a problem with that?
She clearly did not. And when called out, she didn’t even refute that. Why is this fact so difficult for you to grasp?
Because facts that don’t fit the narrative are so inconvenient to the left. And they always play the whataboutism card when it comes to Prof. Turley’s excellent posts.
No, she said Guatemalans come 1st and I am 2nd an American.
“. . . she said she was . . .”
That’s obviously a lie.
Her direct quote was: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”
Lost in translation, Sam.
“Lost in translation, Sam.”
Then why did she double down when given the opportunity to correct the record, hmmmm?
That is not true, she said it in Spanish so I am relying on the immediate interpreter, who would not have an axe to grind. She said she was Guatamalan first and then American. Listen for yourself and stop trusting the “News”.
“She said she was Guatamalan first and then American.”
And she doubled down later, when called out on it. It’s hard to deny the story at that point, but our trolls labor oh so hard to spin reality to fit their narrative.
Perhaps this Guatemalan should return to her homeland and just forget about a nation to which she, evidentally, does not wish to assimilate. She is the very epitome of the type of person we do not need or want here. All her attitude does is continue the fragmentation of our society.
Sure I have searched my ancestry on Ancestry.com and I find that my history is entirely British and Northern European but I do not pledge to great adherence to any nation other than the US because I choose to be an American. Even to the point that my family history was totally unknown to me since my relatives never mentioned who we were other than Americans who were here BEFORE the revolution – thus we were NOT immigrants, but founders. Perhaps that does make a difference.
Dare I say true happiness for America would be a Puerto Rican Socialist exiting the House forever with a Somali, a Guatemalan and a Palestinian in tow? A new amendment to the constitution should be passed to prevent first generation immigrants from entering political office. They have not seasoned as Americans yet, appear to care more from where they came and haven’t assimilated to our culture.
Norm Eisen is an ethics expert?
Yes he is, you read it here.
“Yes he is, you read it here.”
Let’s put it in terms that even your failed presidential candidate might understand. In the Venn diagram of ethics and Norm Eisen, there is no overlap. Giggle giggle.
“Norm Eisen is an ethics expert?”
Only when it suits his ideological biases. Read his bio, and then appropriately ignore anything further that he has to say.
This one’s too serious to understand a joke.
HRC should be indicted, tried, convicted and jailed immediately. The taxpayers tab for her dirty tricks and criminal behavior has been upwards of $100 M. Russia gate, Travel gate, Whitewater, Uranium gate and on an on. How much of her are Americans supposed to stand by and look the other way? No more! Accountability NOW!