Posts Tagged ‘trust but verify’

It’s The Quad Annual “Why Would You Trust A Campaign” Weekend

Posted: November 2, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, media, politics
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Scott Pelley: Did you, well, she had pneumonia. I mean –

Mike Cernovich: How do you know?

Scott Pelley: Well, because that’s what was reported.

Mike Cernovich: By whom? Who told you that?

Scott Pelley: Well, the campaign told us that.

Mike Cernovich: Why would you trust a campaign?

60 Minutes via Instapundit

There are four days till election day. Tens of Millions of people have already voted and every single bit of the next four days campaigning both in person and online is to convince you of their message.

The basic Trump message is that we have momentum and the only thing that can keep us from winning is cheating.

The basic Harris message is we’re still in this and the tide is going our way.

Additionally there are a ton of paid surrogates online (For the record I’m not one of them) out to spin people toward these things.

I presume that anyone whose living depending on advancing a narrative is going to earn their money.

So don’t assume anything asserted is automatically true, even if it advances the side you are for and as for the media and spokesmen remember this key phrase from my favorite Yes Prime Minister episode when the PM tell his press secretary to release a statement about some troop movements: EMPHASIS MINE

James Hacker : [phone rings]  Oh, yes, Paul. You know you have an airborne battalion on standby in Germany? Never mind how I know. Well, since it’s not being used, I want them to fly straight off to St George’s Island. Sort of between Africa and India. A goodwill visit. Just showing the flag. They have been invited. Yes. Leave in… six hours. Yes, an instant goodwill visit. Tell your press office to announce it at once. No, no, leave me out of it. A routine visit. All right – a routine surprise visit. Well, say they were invited earlier, but the NATO exercise got in the way. Now they’re not needed, they’re going anyway. All right. Nobody knows it’s not true. Press statements aren’t delivered under oath.

Have faith in God, from all others demand evidence, particularly until things are all over.