Newsome Follies

It’s difficult to deal with this democrat trend of telling us that what we see is not the truth. Newsome repeatedly countered Hannity’s assertions on last night’s interview with statistics that, if not outright fabrications, could not possibly be verified on the spot. Hannity’s claim that business is fleeing high-tax California was met with Newsome countering that they are seeing a 47% increase in business startups this year. Is that true? Does that compensate for the number of businesses that have either failed or left the state?  And does that monetarily make up for high-profile successful businesses like Tesla leaving the state? And predictably this morning liberal news outlets leapt to his defense, spewing headlines that Newsome “pierced the Fox News bubble” calling their reporting a “fact check.” But even more predictably, the articles don’t fact check any of Newsome’s assertions, merely parrot his opinions that Biden is mentally competent to serve another term, calling his last few years a “master class in results”, or opining that conservative states are using migrants as “pawns.”  Claiming Biden has created “six times more jobs than the previous three Republican administrations combined” is not only hyperbole, to use a favorite Biden administration tag, but is both not factual and disingenuous as it includes the fabricated return to employment after a pandemic where the government shut down the economy then praised itself for a return to productivity when the shackles were removed. Manipulation of the facts. Newsome even went so far as to blame a Republican administration from 18 years ago for the current homeless crisis plaguing California cities. This guy is brash, slick, and smart and despite denying the possibility of a primary run against Biden, he is surely cueing up a presidential run in the future.  But when the time comes, be wary of this new trend in politics to have a prepared narrative full of questionable assertions and deliver that narrative even if it requires talking over the interviewer and ducking the important questions. And both sides are doing