Saturday's Absurdity of the Week: The McAuliffe Clown Show Crashes and Burns in 10 Easy Tweets
The Terry McAuliffe Campaign, apparently in coordination with Young Virginia Democrats and the fake “conservative” pedophile-covering group The Lincoln Project attempted to play a classic Lee Atwater/Karl Rove dirty trick on the Glenn Youngkin Campaign Friday. But unlike Atwater and Rove, who were two masters of the dirty trick class, the coordinating Democrats and fake conservatives mounted the most buffoonish, amateurish scheme imaginable, one that had been completely exposed and communicated across Twitter and other social media within just a few hours.
This is a glorious story best told in tweets.
The day began with a reporter for a local Virginia TV outlet named Elizabeth Holmes - who I will generously presume was not a knowing participant in the plot, against my better judgment - sending out this tweet:
The implication is that these five uniformly dressed “men” (more on that later) carrying tiki torches, chanting “we’re all in for Glenn” were a pack of “white supremacists” intentionally reminding people of the infamous 2017 protests in Charlotteville. A blatant attempt to stoke fear among African Americans to get them out to the polls. Page 1 from the Democrat Playbook.
This reporter either was part of the plot or was just too dimwitted (again, my oh-so-generous assumption on her behalf) to figure out immediately that there are several huge problems with this silly scenario:
First, they’re all standing out in the rain on a dark, cloudy day wearing reflective sunglasses in an obvious effort to hide their identities.
Second, the guy on the left is actually a Black man, hardly the stereotype for being a “white supremacist.”
Third, the “man” second from the left is actually, upon semi-close inspection, a girl, though, to be fair, she may well identify as something else, and her preferred pronouns might well be something like “Cheerios” and “Saturn.”
Operatives for the McAuliffe campaign and dozens of blue-check media people on Twitter leapt to amplify this original image across the platform within seconds of the original tweet:
Meanwhile, a small army of suspicious minds went to work using this and other images of these “white supremacists” to identify them.
It didn’t take long to do.
The first to fall was this guy:
A Democrat operative.
Then the chick went down:
Another Democrat operative.
The Black “white supremacist” was the third to fall:
Yet another Democrat operative.
By this point, identifying the other two was a needless task; everyone had come to realize the real nature of this hoax, and the blue-check media wonders were frantically going back into their Twitter history to scrub all their re-tweets. This was late afternoon, and the McAuliffe campaign - already disastrously floundering in the polls - was no doubt in a mass panic and making calls to find someone, anyone, sympathetic to their cause who was either stupid enough or corrupt enough to assume the blame for this idiotic stunt.
Enter the fake conservatives at the Lincoln Project, who certainly meet both qualifications.
Shortly after 5:00 ET on a Friday - and thus too late to make the evening newscasts - the circus clowns at that operation - whose founder was outed in early 2020 as a serial pedophile - issued this statement:
The immediate reaction on twitter to this obvious falsehood was skepticism and ridicule:
Less than an hour later, the absolute comic geniuses at the Babylon Bee put the icing on this clownshow cake:
What a glorious day. The crashing and burning of this ludicrous stunt is the perfect metaphor for the entire McAuliffe campaign.
That is all.
McAuliffe can only win by cheating, which the democRATs will do.
If Biden had another junkie son.