Erick-Woods Erickson
Being a progressive means you can lie with impunity and the media will declare you a truth teller. The other day on CNN, Democrat strategist Elliott Williams defended Democrat claims that Donald Trump is a “threat to democracy” because of Trump’s refusal to accept election results. Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and every Democrat who thinks Bush stole it from Gore get a pass. But Trump is a threat to democracy. Democrats get to lie and the media blesses their lies as truth.
In Springfield, OH, Republicans conjured up stories of stolen pets being eaten by Haitians. Someone came forward with a video of a woman in Canton, OH, who suffered from mental illness and ate a cat. Another video surfaced of two men from Congo barbecuing a cat in Dayton, OH. No one has produced any evidence of stolen cats being eaten by Haitians in Springfield, OH. The one lady who claimed her cat had been stolen and eaten by Haitians actually had her cat return home. But the stories prompted foreign actors to call in bomb hoaxes to local schools. The media and Democrats promptly blamed Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for what happened to the schools.
That leads me to twenty-eight year old Amber Nicole Thurman of Georgia. Democrats have repeatedly lied that abortifacient drugs are “as safe as Tylenol.” Thurman might say she disagrees if she had not died after taking those abortifacient drugs. Nine weeks pregnant, Thurman attempted to get an abortion in North Carolina. She missed her appointment. The clinic sent her home with the drugs. In a story all too common for these, again, “safe as Tylenol” drugs, Thurman had complications and a reaction. She contracted sepsis. She thereafter died.
Thurman’s family says she delayed seeking medical care because of Georgia’s fetal heartbeat law. To the extent Thurman believed this, she believed a progressive lie that Georgia’s law would prevent treatment. The Georgia law, which prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, specifically exempts medical emergencies and procedures when no heartbeat is detected.
But progressives have lied repeatedly about that. Progressives have made wild claims about Georgia’s law prohibiting procedures to deal with ectopic pregnancy or to perform a D&C, etc. The left wing publication Pro Publica, which reported the story, has tried to blame the Republican law in Georgia for Thurman’s death. Sympathetic progressive journalists and pundits have echoed the claim. Kamala Harris has used the Pro Publica story as a way to generate support among women in Georgia. To make its case, Pro Publica had to selectively phrase its explanation of Georgia’s law.
Pro Publica and the left then rely on journalists like Kaitlyn Collins at CNN to regurgitate talking points formed via advocacy groups that claim the drugs are safe — just like Tylenol. The data actually shows 1 in 300 people suffer serious adverse effects, including death, from the abortion drugs. If 1 out of every 300 people died from Tylenol, would you or Kaitlyn Collins think it is safe?
Of course not. But the Obama Administration caved to progressives and put women’s lives at risk with a drug that can kill one in every three hundred patients.
Progressives actually used their institutional capture to claim it and the media, instead of questioning how a concerted lobbying effort could undo FDA restrictions on a medicine that can be fatal to 1 in 300 patients, has decided to reguritate the lie that it is “as safe as Tylenol” and we are supposed to treat it as truth.
The whole story is premised on a lie from progressives and that lie cost Thurman her life. She believed she would not be able to get treatment the law clearly and unambiguously allowed, but that reporters from national news outlets to local outlets lied about. Those lies, spread by outlets from the New York Times to CNN to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, cost this woman her life. And now they’re blaming Republicans.
Here is a Washington Post writer and CNN commentator who is also spreading the Pro Publica story with a wild lie blaming Republicans that, again, the writer, the Post, CNN, Pro Publica, and others will insist is the truth.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance will be blamed for foreign hoaxes perpetrated in Springfield, OH, but the progressives and reporters who convinced a woman she could not get medical help will be treated as truth tellers.
This pattern plays out over and over. Progressives believe Donald Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021, so he can be vilified as the second coming of Hitler. Kamala Harris routinely lies denying she helped raise money to bail out the rioters who burned down Minneapolis, MN, and the media gives her a pass. The media was fine calling Harris the “border czar” until it became a political liability, then denied the term ever applied to her.
Republicans must always be on their A-game. The press has always been out to get them. The press has never been fair. But Republicans used to play smarter. Instead of stolen cat memes, the GOP could be focusing on the growing number of illegal alien violent gangs. Instead of suggesting someone’s puppy might get eaten by a Haitian, they could focus on Kadrian Lamirical Harris, a 23 year old mother killed in a car crash in Georgia by an illegal alien allowed in the country by Kamala Harris.
The Democrats are helped by the press in pushing lies that get people killed. Republicans need to combat their lies with truth, not memes. And there is a mountain of truth that can bury the Democrat and media lies.
This article is dedicated to Mayor Scott Conger and Frank McMeen