{"id":50616,"date":"2021-09-05T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50616"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:24:21","slug":"twitter-trolls-are-lying-about-rachel-maddow-spreading-covid-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50616","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Trolls are Lying About Rachel Maddow Spreading COVID Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump and his Republican Party have embraced lying as an indispensable tool in their political tool chest. Their brazen disregard for honesty is demonstrated with nearly every public utterance they make. Trump alone has racked up an appalling record of more than 30,000 lies<\/a><\/strong> during his single term as president. All of which is obediently disseminated by their Ministry of Disinformation (aka Fox News).<\/p>\n

\"Rachel<\/p>\n

So naturally, these Olympic-grade truth manglers are anxious to project their reality warping antics onto the Democrats and liberals they so fervently despise. And, unsurprisingly, one of their primary targets would be MSNBC’s star host, Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning Maddow’s name was trending on Twitter. However the reason was typically devoid of facts or logic. The conservative Twitter trolls were all a flitter because they thought they had caught Maddow in a gross misrepresentation of coronavirus information. The subject concerned the dangerously inappropriate use of a horse dewormer, Ivermectin, to “cure”<\/em> COVID. That’s a subject that Maddow has covered in detail<\/a><\/strong>. But the latest melodrama all sprung from this tweet by Maddow and the right-wing’s knee-jerk rebuttal:<\/p>\n

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Why isn\u2019t @TwitterSupport warning people this is 100% false? pic.twitter.com\/rVO0Hql4AB<\/a><\/p>\n

— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) September 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n