{"id":55927,"date":"2023-01-05T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55927"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:13:54","slug":"fox-news-smears-hakeem-jeffries-as-an-election-denier-to-deflect-from-mccarthy-speaker-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55927","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Smears Hakeem Jeffries as an &#8216;Election Denier&#8217; to Deflect From McCarthy Speaker Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is now day three of the Kevin McCarthy House Speaker Spectacular as Republicans have failed repeatedly to secure enough votes to elect a leader. Despite frenzied lobbying, negotiating, and humiliating concessions by McCarthy to the most extreme crackpots in the GOP caucus, they remain stalemated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Smears Hakeem Jeffries as an 'Election Denier' to Deflect From McCarthy Speaker Fiasco%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55927\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-alert-3.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Alert\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40828\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite his having caved in to the wackos who seek to weaken and control his Speakership, McCarthy hasn&#8217;t budged the opposition in his party at all. Even Donald Trump, who ignored the race until after the first three failed votes, had zero impact on the results when he finally sunk to begging for votes with a lukewarm post on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55572\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, saying that Republicans should vote for McCarthy so they can <em>&#8220;WATCH CRAZY NANCY PELOSI FLY BACK HOME.&#8221;<\/em> Which aside from being something that isn&#8217;t going to happen, it is hardly a stirring endorsement of McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55919\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fellow Losers: Trump\u2019s Belated Support Proves Impotent as McCarthy Still Loses Votes for Speaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of this Republican ridiculousness, Fox News has struggled to find a narrative that would frame this in a positive light for the GOP. Consequently, they have shifted their focus to slandering Democrats. Specifically, they are going after the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who has enjoyed the unified support of his party and received more votes than McCarthy on every ballot. But rather than reporting that factual account of events, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-continue-handing-votes-jeffries-long-history-denying-elections\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went with<\/a> the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Democrats continue handing votes to Jeffries, who has long history of denying elections.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a creative spin, to say the least. Anyone with even the barest grasp of current political affairs knows that the Republican Party, and it&#8217;s Dear Leader Donald Trump, have been the fiercely delusional disseminators of the <em>&#8220;Big Lie&#8221;<\/em> that the 2020 presidential election was <em>&#8220;rigged and stolen&#8221;<\/em> from Trump. It&#8217;s practically the only thing that Trump talks about. But this isn&#8217;t an isolated attempt by Fox News to project the <em>&#8220;election denier&#8221;<\/em> label on Jeffries. They have previously run stories asserting&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RNC blasts \u2018election denier\u2019 Hakeem Jeffries moments after he wins Democrat leadership<\/li>\n<li>New Dem House leader Hakeem Jeffries labeled &#8216;election denier&#8217; by Republicans, who call for media scrutiny<\/li>\n<li>Election denier Hakeem Jeffries could replace Pelosi as House Dem leader<\/li>\n<li>Hakeem Jeffries called Trump&#8217;s 2016 election victory a &#8216;hoax,&#8217; referred to him as &#8216;so-called&#8217; president<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the record, neither Jeffries, nor any Democrat, have engaged in actual election denying activities. Democrats haven&#8217;t refused to concede elections that they lost. They haven&#8217;t filed an endless stream of bogus lawsuits to alter the outcomes of any race. And they certainly have never assaulted the Congress or staged a violent coup to overturn an election. No Democrat has been convicted of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government by insurrection, as members of Trump&#8217;s Oath Keepers have.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks that Fox News is claiming constitute election denial by Jeffries are common political commentaries by political partisans. For instance, after the 2016 election, Jeffries said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Russia interfered with our election, attacked our democracy, for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They were successful.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is an unambiguously true statement. It was affirmed by U.S. intelligence agencies, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even the Senate Intelligence Committee<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; led at the time by Republicans &#8211; that found that Russia had an extensive program aimed at disseminating disinformation intended to benefit Trump and to harm Hillary Clinton. What&#8217;s more, Vladimir Putin confirmed it with Trump standing right next to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38473\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s Own Words at the Treason Summit with Putin Are Dripping with His Guilt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, as usual, Fox News is manufacturing disparaging and dishonest depictions of Democrats. It&#8217;s the only thing they can do when their own GOP colleagues are being swallowed up in catastrophes of their own making. And despite how often Fox News does this, they really aren&#8217;t getting any better at it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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Despite frenzied lobbying, negotiating, and humiliating concessions by McCarthy to the most extreme crackpots in the GOP caucus, they remain stalemated. Click here to Tweet this article Despite his having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8],"tags":[1215,554,33,1454,1150,1211],"class_list":["post-55927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-alert-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ey3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56987,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56987","url_meta":{"origin":55927,"position":0},"title":"Squeaker McCarthy Desperately Lies About the Debt Ceiling Deal to Save His Shaky Speakership","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The morning after it was announced that President Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default, McCarthy began almost immediately misrepresenting the terms of the deal. 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