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What was the response?
Obama's comments generated sharp rebuke.
Critics pointed out that children's education is not part of the "trumped up culture war" as Obama claimed, especially considering that McAuliffe has said parents shouldn't have a say in school board decisions.
As many others pointed out, Loudoun County Schools also stands accused of "covering up" two sexual assaults as they pushed controversial LGBT policies.
"Sorry, but McAuliffe saying that parents shouldn't be in charge of their children's education and the Loudoun County school board lying to parents about sexual assaults in bathrooms isn't 'trumped up cultural wars,'" Ben Shapiro said.
"Let's be clear: THEY are waging the culture war. WE are fighting back. Covering up a sexual assault in school restrooms to push a transgender policy in gov't schools is the definition of waging a culture war," radio host Larry O'Connor said.
"Barack Obama is telling parents they have fake outrage over school boards covering up sexual assaults and teaching critical race theory," Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) reacted.
"The 'right-wing media' tricked Terry McAuliffe into telling parents they should influence school boards. @GlennYoungkin is surging because he's got answers for Virginia's public education's failures," radio host Hugh Hewitt pointed out.
"Two girls were sexually assaulted on school property, and school admin officials publicly lied about their knowledge of it to parents," reporter Susan Crabtree pointed out.
"My child's education is not a trumped-up culture war," Michael Needham, chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), fired back.
"Here in WA: I was fired for refusing an experimental vaccine, I saw the COVID pts. Vax passes start Monday in Seattle. An elementary school has a gender unicorn on the wall. A high school handed out a sexual survey asking when kids first had anal. But sure, it's Trumped up anger," another person said.
"Gaslighting at its finest," one person observed.
"Zero self-awareness. Zero accountability," another person said.
"Schools cover up sexual assault. That's not trumped up. That's not culture war. That's a dereliction of public duty. The failure to address it is a failure of leadership. Saying otherwise is a deflection," another person said.
Obama is the latest high-profile figure to stump for McAuliffe. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have also been campaigning for McAuliffe, which signals the race to become Virginia's next governor is much tighter than Democrats anticipated.
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An investigation has found that former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) has spent nearly $100,000 promoting "fake news" websites on Facebook that give favorable coverage to his Virginia gubernatorial campaign against Republican Glenn Youngkin.
McAuliffe's campaign has purchased Facebook ads that link to third-party websites that are designed to look like local news sources but instead publish disinformation and "partisan propaganda," Fox News reported. The ads have been viewed up to 3.5 million times so far in a tight election, with McAuliffe and Youngkin tied in the polls just one week from Election Day.
Fox News describes the McAuliffe campaign's fake news ads as "sophisticated and opaque."
The campaign operates a Facebook page called "The Download Virginia," which was launched in June. The page's name sounds like the name of a news outlet, but according to Fox News it has not published any posts or photos and only 104 people are following it at the time this article was published.
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By looking through Facebook's Ad Library Report, a tool for journalists and researchers, Fox News discovered that the McAuliffe campaign has spent $471,044 on ads distributed by this page since June.
"The advertisements generally contain a comment and a link to a mainstream news article that covers the campaign favorably. But sprinkled among the links to legitimate media are seven separate advertisements (and dozens of variations) that promote websites widely considered to be 'fake news,'" Fox News reports.
A July advertisement, for example, featured a favorable comment about McAuliffe's views on small businesses and then linked to an article published by a third party website called the Virginia Dogwood.
The Dogwood is designed to look like a local news website and it claims to publish "credible, fact-based reporting." But the website discloses it is owned and operated by Courier Newsroom, a group that was founded by the progressive dark money group ACRONYM and funded by multibillionaire Democratic donor George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several Hollywood movie producers. Courier Newsroom has since been purchased by former Democratic strategist Tara McGowan's group Good Information Inc., a public benefit corporation that says it aims to fight "disinformation" by investing in local news companies, which is financially supported by many of the same progressive donors.
A Washington Post editorial from February 2020, written by a correspondent for a fact-checking organization, said that Courier Newsroom creates "hyperlocal partisan propaganda" through websites like the Dogwood.
Another advertisement from the Download in October claimed that Youngkin has a "very concerning" policy on vaccination and linked to an article published by the American Independent.
The Independent describes itself as a platform for "progressive news" and admits it is funded by the American Bridge 21st Century Foundation. The foundation is a liberal dark money group founded by David Brock, "a wealthy and influential Democratic donor who is also a close ally of the Clinton family," Fox News reported. In 2020, Brock's group spent $59.7 million to oppose Republican candidates, according to OpenSecrets.
Both the Dogwood and the Independent are labeled "fake news" websites by OpenSecrets. And Fox News reported that the McAuliffe campaign has reached millions of Facebook users through ads promoting disinformation from those websites:
The McAuliffe campaign has spent a total of between $90,200 to $106,398 on advertisements linking to the Independent and the Dogwood. Those advertisements have garnered the campaign a total of between 3,290,000 and 3,470,000 "impressions," a term that Facebook uses to describe the number of screens that an advertisement has reached.
Each ad contains a disclaimer that it was paid for by "Terry for Virginia" and authorized by the candidate himself (Facebook requires candidates to add disclaimers like these to all political ads). But none of the advertisements disclose that the websites are considered to be "fake news" or that their information may be misleading.
The Democratic National Committee, which has publicly condemned misinformation on social media platforms, did not respond to Fox News' requests for comment on the McAuliffe campaign's fake news ads.
The McAuliffe campaign also did not respond to Fox News' requests for comment, but the network reports that two advertisements that linked to the American Independent as recently as last week were disabled after Fox News made inquiries.
A spokesperson for the Youngkin campaign said "disinformation practices are standard for McAuliffe, whose lies go into overdrive when he's desperate."
The spokesperson added that "not a single left-wing propaganda arm disguised as a news organization will turn the tide" of this close election.
That old McAuliffe is an unethical prick.
Nothing new there. That goes waaay back
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That old McAuliffe is an unethical prick.
Nothing new there. That goes waaay back
What's not new?
The former governor has a history of dirty tricks or this is par for the course in American politics?
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