By Christopher M Peeks November 2nd, 2024
Introduction To Fake News
Until Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States, I had never heard the term "fake news" before. At first, like most, I did not understand the true meaning. Even after googling the previously unknown phrase, I still did not have a good understanding. In due time, the definition became clear.
*Caroleen Dobson's KKK Ties
Bill Britt, owner of The Alabama Political Reporter, along with Josh Moon, epitomizes fake news in regards to the online news blog's coverage of the United States House of Representatives Alabama House District 2 race. The most recent election news on Britt's website tells of the second Congressional District Republican nominee Caroleen Dobson's KKK ties and her denial. Are her denials truthful? Yes, I will take her at her word. You see, these alleged ties happened 160 years ago with a great- great-great-great-grandfather.
https://www.alreporter.com/2024/11/01/caroleene-dobson-dismisses-kkk-ties-calls-claims-baseless-distraction/
*Michael Harriot Waste Of Time
This all started with an opinion piece by on national politics by Michael Harriot in The Grio in which the author spent what looks like an extraordinary amount of time researching Dobson's lineage back to the 1840s and owning slaves. As if Dobson's ancestors are somehow indicative of her and applicable in her 2024 Congressional race.
If only this story ended there.
Josh Moon Race Baiting
The Alabama Political Reporter published an opinion piece by
Josh Moon on October 10th. Moon starts off by telling readers that Carolyn Dobson's backstory is bunk. What is bunk is his rambling, incoherent op-ed, in which journalist Jim Ziegler of 1819 News exhibited too much kindness in explaining this codswallop. Moon painted Dobson's ancestors as slave-owning, KKK-forming racists who stole land from Native Americans. And in the next sentence, he writes that she is not responsible for her family's past. Really, are you enlightening us that you are absolving her of her ancestors deeds? How forging! You are a gentlemen and a scholar. So why did you feel the need to inform people? Moon, as you will see, is attempting to influence the 2024 Congressional race using the abhorrent tactic of race-baiting that he puts on public view.
Dumfounded
Moon, leaving me dumbfounded, blasts the Dobson campaign for attempting to make her look like she climbed the ranks through hard work, instead of slave ownership. Yeah, Josh! What a brilliant idea! Let's make this a signature part of the campaign. That Dobson achieved her success not because of hard work, but on the "backs of enslaved people." Put that before a market group and tell me the response.
Josh Moon Civil War Knowledge
Next Moon tells how slavery created "generational wealth." Josh needs to get an 8th grader to help him with his Civil War history because obviously he skipped that day of instruction. The wealthy Southern Aristocracy lost there fortune when ... wait for it .....the Thirteen Amendment freed the slaves. Nor did he attend class when the teacher went over Jim Crow.
Moon claims the Minstrel laws aimed to maintain "generational wealth," but history.com states they were actually enacted to marginalize blacks through disenfranchisement, segregation, and other measures.
Josh Moon And His Infinite Wisdom
Following that Moon, in his infinite wisdom, chastises Dobson for not wanting CRT in the curriculum. Imagine academia ,in an effort to educate through the arts and sciences, not to teach an unproven "THEORY." And he next attacks Dobson support for abolishing the Department of education. Moon puts his ignorance on full display by claiming the department is responsible for "providing children a halfway decent education."I suppose Josh missed the memo that the department has no direct bearing on a child's education. Following that epic fail he blames the second district Republican nominee for the private academy she attended having never admitted a black student. Absolutely incourageable.
Even More Asinine
In what may be the most asinine part of Moon's op-ed, he calls Dobson "slimy" for running in a district that the "most conservative US Supreme Court ever" ruled on regarding the gerrymandering of Alabama's House District 2. See if you can encompass that logic.
Josh Moon Removes All Doubt
There are a few adages that can describe this disaster published by Alabama Political Reporter. The one about "remaining silent and looking foolish instead of opening your mouth and removing all doubt" and then one by Mark Twain that I love: "get your facts straight first and then you can distort them all you like. "Josh Moon, in all his glory, writing this hit piece brought out into the open that, when writing on historical as well as political subjects he is supposed to be well-versed in, he is below an eighth-grader intellectually.
Conclusion
Josh is not receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his op-ed on Dobson, and I'm not sure if there is an award out there we could give him for writing this "journalistic masterpiece." There should be, though, and if by chance there is, without question, first place is his, and I will be at the ceremony to lead the deafening chorus of applause when they hand him the trophy for writing the stupidest political analysis that made this year's election news.
Christopher M Peeks
Reporter and Columnist
Alabama Political Contributor
What a stretch. Good Lord
What a liberal moron
Great informative and indicative of the democratic oppositional playback
Throw as much "slime" as you can into the fan and run out of the room.