Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

'2000 Mules' Is Attacked With Shameless Lies ...in a classic "disinformation" campaign to which I offer a point-by-point response. IT PAINS ME TO REPORT that the once-respectable Detroit News disgraced itself last week. In its Thursday, May 19 edition, the News devoted half of the first page of its 'Opinion' section to the very eye-catching beginning of an article entitled, "Could '2000 Mules' be wrong?", referring to the compelling and informative new documentary by Dinesh D'Souza which was released online a few weeks ago to very considerable interest and lots of viewings, and which began a round of theatrical screenings across the country this weekend (at one of which I watched the film for the second time yesterday afternoon). As suggested by its title, the article, which goes on to occupy another third of a page a little further into the section, purports to be an objective inquiry/analysis of a number of key points made in the new film in which massive and outcome-skewing fraud in the 2020 election is decisively shown. However, this "fact check" exercise is conducted by the Associated Press (AP) (under the byline of someone named Ali Swenson). As is to be expected from AP, which for many years has been a wholly-owned propaganda organ of what we'll call the "deep state" for the sake of simplicity, the piece is an exercise in blatant disinformation meant to suppress attention to the film and wider exposure of its remarkable revelations. The News should not have stooped so low-- especially since people high in the food chain there with whom I am acquainted had been given the opportunity to watch '2000 Mules' for themselves, and so must be suspected of having run the false hit-piece knowing its true character. Sadly, the News is not alone. This corruptly false attack by AP probably marred other papers across the country last Thursday, as well. Many one-time honorable newspapers have long-since abandoned in-house reporting in favor of the less-expensive pre-packaged sips of heavily-spun Kool-Aid churned out by the court stenographers at the wire service. It falls to the rest of us to debunk the litter of disinformation thus so widely and deeply cluttering the cognitive landscape. I will endeavor to do so here with regard to the AP's lies about '2000 Mules' to which the Detroit News and others have let themselves become party. Continued at https://losthorizons.com/N/194.htm#1