{"id":1729788,"date":"2022-11-08T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729788"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:32:45","slug":"nbc-surprisingly-publishes-article-calling-out-dem-election-denialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-surprisingly-publishes-article-calling-out-dem-election-denialism\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Surprisingly Publishes Article Calling Out Dem Election Denialism"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnbc-surprisingly-publishes-article-calling-out-dem-election-denialism%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=1729788&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\/11\/2022.11.08-10.08-thepoliticalinsider-636a2a8c0473b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>They say a broken clock is right at least twice a day \u2013 and NBC News must have landed on the exact right time on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking move, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trumps-denial-second-big-lie-ask-hillary-clinton-rcna55764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published a column<\/a> pointing out the reality that Democrats paved the way for the \u2018Big Lie\u2019 by playing the role of Election Deniers<strong>\u2122<\/strong> following Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential election victory.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall all the Russiagate stuff, intrepid reader.<\/p>\n<p>The column, written by Lev Golinkin, who came to the United States as a child refugee from the former Soviet Union, points to instances of repeated election denialism many years after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, he notes that Trump\u2019s refusal to accept the 2020 election results was the \u201csecond Big Lie\u201d only made possible by the actions taken by Democrats after 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2016 election denial paved the way for Trump\u2019s lies four years later,\u201d the column reads. \u201cIt\u2019s far past time we acknowledged this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Millions of GOP voters are primed to distrust the midterm election results, writes Lev Golinkin.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats need to be honest about the consequences of their actions after the 2016 election:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e5TI3V1XM9\">https:\/\/t.co\/e5TI3V1XM9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News THINK (@NBCNewsTHINK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNewsTHINK\/status\/1589649865151320064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/elon-musk-endorses-a-red-wave-urges-independents-to-vote-republican\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk Endorses a Red Wave, Urges Independents to Vote Republican<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Democrats: The Original Election Deniers<strong>\u2122<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Fortunately for readers of The Political Insider, we have acknowledged the fact that Democrats were the original Election Deniers<strong>\u2122,<\/strong> having objected to the election results in 2016 officially and during the proceedings certifying <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-slams-democrats-media-after-lawsuit-to-block-her-re-election-is-allowed-to-proceed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electoral votes<\/a>\u00a0<em>11 times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But having NBC News point this out is remarkable. Having them do so on the eve of an election Democrats have staked as a vote to save democracy from Republican Election Deniers<strong>\u2122<\/strong> is otherworldly.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, here we have Golinkin revealing the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A rare dose of honesty about how Russiagate was the Democrats\u2019 form of \u201celection denialism\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymL1ikP4bA\">https:\/\/t.co\/ymL1ikP4bA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Mat\u00e9 (@aaronjmate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate\/status\/1589702364323512320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While he doesn\u2019t address the objections to certifying the 2016 results, something Democrats now define as \u201cinsurrection,\u201d the author points out how top politicians from Hillary Clinton, to Chuck Schumer, and on to Nancy Pelosi crafted a narrative to cast doubt on Trump\u2019s legitimacy for years \u2013 and for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Trump voters, Golinkin points out, \u201cwere told, over and over, by senior members of the Democratic Party that their president \u2014 and therefore their vote \u2014 was, at least partly, illegitimate, that their vote may have been controlled by Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBC News calling out Democrats and Hillary Clinton for spreading baseless conspiracy theories about \u201cillegitimate President\u201d Trump stealing the 2016 election? Am I in the Twilight Zone? Did Christmas come early? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B2lG2a3cXD\">https:\/\/t.co\/B2lG2a3cXD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JC (@homoconsunite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/homoconsunite\/status\/1589584543761444864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/gop-chairwoman-if-republicans-win-control-of-congress-theyll-work-with-biden\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP Chairwoman: If Republicans Win Control of Congress They\u2019ll Work With Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Media Helped Play a Role<\/h3>\n<p>The NBC News column also points out the media\u2019s role in covering up Democrats\u2019 actions as Election Deniers<strong>\u2122<\/strong> while thoroughly amplifying Republican doubts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GOP\u2019s 2020 denialism has been met with robust and rigorous debunking,\u201d the column states. \u201cFact-checks of the 2016 denialism were far more anemic and all too often unchallenged.\u201d Behold:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How insane are Trump\u2019s claims that \u201cmillions of ballots\u201d were altered or that dead people \u201cvoted\u201d in Michigan? Just as insane as the claims that the KGB recruited Trump in the 1980s or that a bank server in Trump Tower was beeping and booping secret messages to Moscow or that Vladimir Putin had a hidden blackmail tape of Trump being urinated on by prostitutes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, it took the media years to finally acknowledge the Steele dossier was a bogus document full of salacious lies. And they did so grudgingly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s something Joe Biden DOES NOT want you to see.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: 10 minutes of Democrats denying election results. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJRbzEcIO2\">pic.twitter.com\/bJRbzEcIO2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1587944473606213632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, Golinkin claims that election denialism from 2016 and beyond did not exactly equate to Trump\u2019s actions, although it did pave the way.<\/p>\n<p>That said, don\u2019t for a minute let anyone cast doubt that Democrats undermining of the election results in 2016 did not lead to violence in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>It most certainly did.<\/p>\n<p>They may not have swarmed the Capitol complex, but there was violence in the streets and Democrat lawmakers were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-allies-january-6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most assuredly trying<\/a> to \u201cobstruct, influence, impede or delay\u201d the certification of the presidential election, just as Republicans are accused of doing on January 6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The extremists who attacked the US capital in January 2017 to stop inauguration of Trump carried large banners of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Antifa?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Antifa<\/a> before destroying property &#038; starting fires. The violence was cheered on by the left &#038; police were condemned for making arrests. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/51b8WFlpvr\">pic.twitter.com\/51b8WFlpvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1479202821278949379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUntil we truthfully admit our mistakes, any attempts to reassure voters about election integrity will be framed as nothing more than hypocrisy,\u201d the NBC News column concludes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not framing, sir. It\u2019s actual tangible hypocrisy that the left has been engaging in for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, when taking the Al Gore\/George W. Bush election denialism into account, we\u2019re pretty much on to the \u2018third Big Lie.\u2019<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say a broken clock is right at least twice a day \u2013 and NBC News must have landed on the exact right time on Monday. 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