Sunday, September 25, 2022

The "Headline Lie" Game

Since Good Golly Miss Molly isn't getting traction with lies and distortions in the text of a story, Little Local Pravda is moving those up to the headlines.

To wit:

Tim Michels now says he would back legislation allowing abortions in case of rape and incest despite decades of opposition

It has the disadvantage of being NOT TRUE, but hey!  Print it anyway!!
 
Michels has long held that he disapproves of ALL abortions.  No exceptions.  And he's on firm moral ground there, which is why Little Local Pravda hates his guts.
 
In the present case, Michels said that 'IF a bill came to him from the Legislature which DID allow abortion under certain circumstances, THEN he would SIGN it.
 
"SIGN" is one thing.  
 
"BACK" is another thing entirely; the connotation is that Michels would actively push it.   Good Golly Miss Molly knows that very well; it's actually the way she reported it--mostly.
 
 Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels now says he would sign legislation creating exceptions to Wisconsin's abortion law for rape and incest, despite opposing such exceptions for at least two decades and saying as recently as this month that he would not change his position.  ...
See how Good Golly Miss Molly implies that Michels 'changed' his position?

There's a reason that Michels said what he said.

..."Yes, I would sign that bill," Michels told O'Donnell. "And let me say a couple of things about that. I am pro-life and make no apologies for that. But I also understand that this is a representative democracy. And if the people — in this case, the legislature — brought a bill before me, as you just stated, I would sign that."...
 
Miss Molly and the Little Local Pravda cadre want their Governor to be a dictator, not a democrat.  That's why they desperately want Evers to win.  
 
Too bad they're in the wrong country for that, eh?


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