Misinformation, Disinformation. (Silencing the ‘little people’ with help from big words and leftist friends.)

Thanks to the sore losers on the radical left and their enablers in the drive-by media, you’re going to be hearing the terms “misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ quite a bit over the next four years.  We’ve been getting lied to by these groups for years.  Why the sudden interest in calling out ‘misinformation’ / ‘disinformation’ ?

Lefties are out of power at the federal level. Drive-bys — thanks to their history of lying — are losing viewers and readers and revenue at an alarming rate.  The growth of social media and the Internet make Raleigh and DC elites and the  drive-bys less relevant and less in-control in the dissemination of information.  The drive-bys and the elites no longer drive the bus, and they’re panicking.

If you happen to call out drive-bys or elites for lying — or dare to contradict their spin / propaganda — you will be now and forever branded as a disinformation / misinformation specialist.  *If you don’t have a press pass, you are an illegitimate source who is not to be trusted.*

The N&O – Marxist McClatchy’s Raleigh-based cabal — is taking on conservative, grassroots efforts to fix our voting and elections processes:

[…] In the coming days, North Carolina’s State Board of Elections will direct election audits across all 100 counties before results are certified. Activists, including a grassroots group with ties to a lawyer who helped try to overturn the 2020 election, are using data cobbled together from public sources in an attempt to do the same. Some are gearing up to challenge North Carolina ballots before county boards certify the election Friday.

Experts warn that these efforts appear to use unreliable evidence of presumed election irregularities to undermine confidence in the final outcome. It’s a lingering effect of misinformation that mounted four years ago, said Ishan Mehta, director of the Media and Democracy Program at the government-watchdog group Common Cause.

“The foundation for everything we’re seeing is the ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 election was stolen,” Mehta said at a media briefing last week. “And then everything sort of builds on top of it, like a Jenga puzzle.”[…] 

“Government-watchdog group Common Cause” ???  So, the writer is basing this whole article on the word of Common Cause ???

That’s not even half the story about Common Cause  — thereby making this McClatchy article a fine example of misinformation and /or disinformation.   Here’s some more helpful  detail on Common Cause from The Capital Research Center:

[…] Common Cause was sired by an architect of the Great Society, so it’s no wonder this grande dame of “good government” groups is willing to sacrifice its own principles to boost big government and smear conservatives. Yet the mainstream media are always happy to parrot the line that the group floats high above politics.

At its founding, Common Cause described itself as a “nationwide, independent, non-partisan organization” that would be a watchdog of powerful politicians and push good government policies for ordinary people. The organization’s website still displays its founding document, which proclaims, “We want public officials to have literally millions of American citizens looking over their shoulders at every move they make. We want phones to ring in Washington and state capitols and town halls. We want people watching and influencing every move that government makes.”

That’s the kind of talk that would fire up a Tea Party rally or almost any conservative organization, and indeed, Common Cause has led efforts on laws to protect government whistleblowers, strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, and it has attacked crony capitalism. Sounds better and better, but not so fast.

For every good policy the group backs, often in the vaguest terms, it supports a dozen or so other loathsome policies. It calls for good government, but seeks to achieve it by empowering big government—which historically has done nothing but create opportunities for more corruption.

Over the more than four decades since its founding, the organization has made it one of its highest priorities to limit the political speech of individual Americans through various campaign finance reform ruses and various “media reform” schemes, all of which would allow government to have a hand in news content. It has also been hostile toward even the most modest election integrity laws. […]

Common Cause recently gained new leadership when Miles Rapoport became president in March. He is a former Democratic secretary of state and state legislator in Connecticut. Most recently, Rapoport was the president of Demos, a left-wing advocacy and research group.

It’s no surprise that the new president would be a Democratic politician. The last three presidents of the supposedly “independent, nonpartisan” organization have been Democratic politicians, one of whom went on to be involved in the kind of scandal for which she used to criticize other politicians.

Similarly, the chairman of Common Cause’s National Governing Board is Robert Reich, the former Clinton administration secretary of labor, a losing Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and author of Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America. Reich routinely condemns capitalism as a failed economic system, and his only criticism of the catastrophe known as Obamacare is that it’s not a fully socialist, single-payer system. […]

So, we’re attacking conservative efforts to reform voting in North Carolina with the words of a leftist warhorse.  Failing to properly and accurately identify Common Cause to readers is a clear example of misinformation and / or disinformation.  (*Where’s ‘Randy Andy’ Specht when you need him?*)

Here’s more M/D from The N&O:

[…] The North Carolina Election Integrity Team is part of a national network led by Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Mitchell was on the call Trump made to Georgia election officials asking them to find more votes for him. Jim Womack, the Lee County GOP chair, heads North Carolina’s team.

Womack, who made headlines last month when CBS reported that he told volunteers to flag “Hispanic-sounding last names” as potentially suspicious voter registrations, said he’s trained members to scour voter lists to find what could be ineligible ballots. The group, which Womack said is nonpartisan, has prepared nearly two dozen ballot challenges. It’ll continue to investigate voters until Wednesday, which is the last day to challenge absentee ballots. “Every vote must be scrutinized,” Womack told The News & Observer in an interview. “Every vote is sacred.”  […]

So, let’s make sure we understand this.  If you question what drive-by rags and TV tell you, you are into mis- and dis- information.   (*Got that?*)

All the while drive-bys, like the one publishing this hit on Womack and Mitchell, mislead their readers by misrepresenting the primary source for the hit.

It’s hard not to just hate these slimy newsroom rodents and their even slimier tactics.