RE: Noteworthy News
February 15, 2023 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2023 at 9:00 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(February 14, 2023 at 4:18 pm)Helios Wrote: So not long ago Matt Walsh got absolutely fact-checked by Joe Rogan and called out for the liar he is for claiming millions of kids were on puberty blockers only for Joe to cite actual numbers that weren't even close to a million.
https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-pund...ms-1757863
Now his sycophants insist he wasn't lying he was giving an estimate because we don't know the numbers so he had to guess. That's bullshit. If you don't know the numbers say you don't know and then shut the fuck up or do what Joe did and look it up before speaking. It may not be a perfect number but it's one backed by actual data. Anything else and your pulling numbers out of your ass and that's dishonest.
In fairness, it's possible that he came through those numbers through something that's less bald-faced lying and more through a delusional attempt at logic from someone who can't understand jack shit about the issues he's building his livelihood on.
Case in point, during his famous campaign against the Boston Children's Hospital, he interpreted this video:
as "According to Boston Children’s Hospital, literally every toddler who has ever been born, or will ever be born, is trans." (The quote comes from Walsh's YT video "The Trans Militants Must Be Stopped | Ep. 1001")
If this is the sort of leap you take, suddenly, deciding that millions of kids are on puberty blockers seems like a comparatively sensible conclusion. Granted, it's one that only makes sense if you're deeply unhinged, but "millions of kids are being put on puberty blockers" is the sort of take that's so batshit and so blatantly removed from reality that it's hard to imagine that anyone who's deliberately lying about it could expect people to believe it. Even in a world where preposterous right-wing conspiracies are mainstream now, it just seems to obviously bullshit of a take for any liar to seem convincing.
TL; DR:
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