{"id":1717925,"date":"2022-10-31T06:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717925"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:03:56","slug":"the-fetterman-campaign-appears-to-have-faked-vandalism-of-one-of-their-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fetterman-campaign-appears-to-have-faked-vandalism-of-one-of-their-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fetterman Campaign Appears to Have Faked Vandalism of One of Their Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-fetterman-campaign-appears-to-have-faked-vandalism-of-one-of-their-signs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1717925&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FettermannSign-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As we will be reminded by the mainstream media on an hourly basis (if not more often) every day until the election, dangerous hate crimes, often in the form of \u201cspeech,\u201d are being perpetrated by the \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d constantly. Sometimes they go further than saying unpleasant things or expressing views that hurt the feelings of liberals. Sometimes they resort to arson. That was clearly the implication in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1586360126339837954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet<\/a> that showed up in Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman\u2019s Twitter feed last night. A picture of a Fetterman campaign sign going up in flames is shown, along with a dire warning about \u201cviolence and intimidation.\u201d The arson is alleged to have taken place \u201con a farm in deep red Lawrence County.\u201d (I\u2019ve saved a screen capture in case this gets deleted today, which won\u2019t be at all surprising.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This happened last night on a farm in deep red Lawrence County.<\/p>\n<p>There is no place for violence and intimidation in politics. <\/p>\n<p>Our campaign is about bringing people together and rejecting hate + extremism.<\/p>\n<p>All Pennsylvanians should feel safe to show their political support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AIihG37bt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/AIihG37bt4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman\/status\/1586360126339837954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This would hardly be the first time that we\u2019ve seen reports of politicians\u2019 yard signs being stolen or damaged during a heated campaign. Some of those stories are even legitimate. But is that what we\u2019re seeing here? Even at a quick glance, hoards of people reacted immediately with skepticism or simply outright mockery. We\u2019ll get to the reasons for that in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>The first indication of something being amiss might be found in the lack of media coverage of this supposed arson attack. You\u2019d think that a story like this would play into the media narrative beautifully and elicit some sympathy for John Fetterman, right? Further, you can see that the dry grass beneath the sign was already on fire. Given the massive danger posed by wildfires around the country lately, this could have turned into a major disaster. And yet a Google search this morning for \u201c<em>Fetterman sign burning Pennsylvania<\/em>\u201d only produces a link to the tweet. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Fetterman+sign+burning+Pennsylvania&#038;hl=en&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsZ3JDSc8Iy45qRZ7LSXGpNUodhUPQ:1667123535793&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjW6ZaR14f7AhWxlokEHck5CnoQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&#038;biw=1552&#038;bih=833&#038;dpr=1.65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google News search<\/a> for the same term produces\u2026 nothing. Why the radio silence for such a huge story?<\/p>\n<p>With angry MAGA fanatics roaming the Pennsylvania countryside committing arson in an effort to intimidate supporters of the Fetterman juggernaut, shouldn\u2019t our dedicated press corps be on the trail of this outrageous act of right-wing domestic terrorism? Perhaps even Fetterman\u2019s most ardent supporters quickly realized that this was, as our President might say, a load of malarkey.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just call this what it was. It was a staged event. It was a hoax designed to try to profit off of the liberal wave of accusations about violent attacks by \u201cMAGA extremists.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t even a good hoax. Take a close look at <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FettermannSign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the picture<\/a>. Most of us are familiar with campaign yard signs. Having worked on multiple campaigns, I\u2019ve not only had them in my yard but I\u2019ve distributed them and picked them up after election day. They tend to be composed of cheap wire frames with mass-produced plastic (and generally fire-resistant) banners promoting the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The one pictured here appears to be a sizable wooden structure placed out in a field near a road. Note that the wooden frame is ablaze, as well as the sign. And the sign is burning in a conveniently neat fashion from left to right, with the majority of the candidate\u2019s logo still visible in the firelight. Wouldn\u2019t a true arsonist have doused the entire sign with some sort of accelerant before tossing a match and speeding off into the night?<\/p>\n<p>And yet the picture they captured is almost like a still frame from a movie set. Isn\u2019t that just terribly convenient? Someone just happened to come along at exactly the right moment to capture this act of arson while it was still entirely obvious what the sign said. And it had to have been burning for a little while for the frame to be alight in that fashion. But nobody managed to get a look at the arsonist or at least their vehicle? As of the writing of this post, the tweet has more than 8,000 replies and nearly 7,000 retweets. And the responses were almost uniformly less than kind, to put it mildly.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Team Fetterman didn\u2019t do themselves any favors by immediately following up the announcement of the arson attack with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1586569176994365440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pitch for more campaign donations<\/a>. But what else should we have expected? As I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JazzShaw\/status\/1586514096979120128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said later<\/a> on Twitter myself, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to come up with nominations for a politician \u2018fail of the week\u2019 this close to an election, but looking at all the RTs and replies, Fetterman may be the favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We are outraged at this deliberate act of hate we photographed while it was happening. Please donate.&#8221;&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6US7JhQmX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/N6US7JhQmX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0Up1jm4XB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/s0Up1jm4XB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1586569176994365440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we will be reminded by the mainstream media on an hourly basis (if not more often) every day until the election, dangerous hate crimes, often in the form of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}