Summary of Dan Pfeiffer's Battling the Big Lie

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I have been involved in politics for more than 20 years, and I have seen first hand the battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. While America is always quite divided, that division exists because of a shared set of facts and a mutual understanding of the challenges.
#2 In 2004, Tim Johnson, a Democrat, beat Thune, a Republican, by a margin of 524 votes. Republicans were convinced that voter fraud and media bias were to blame, and they did not accept the legitimacy of the election.
#3 The first of its kind, the conservative blogosphere helped fuel the Republican campaign to remove Daschle in exchange for the Black Hills of South Dakota. The old rules didn’t apply anymore.
#4 I can’t blame this initiative for the loss of Daschle, as the Democrats were hit with a tough election in 2007. However, I was disturbed by the fact that a random conspiracy theory mentioned by a Fox doofus could get a major network to fly across the globe to confirm that conspiracy theory.

Sujets

• Political Science
• Civics
• Citizenship

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822546981
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Dan Pfeiffer's Battling the Big Lie
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have been involved in politics for more than 20 years, and I have seen first hand the battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. While America is always quite divided, that division exists because of a shared set of facts and a mutual understanding of the challenges.

#2

In 2004, Tim Johnson, a Democrat, beat Thune, a Republican, by a margin of 524 votes. Republicans were convinced that voter fraud and media bias were to blame, and they did not accept the legitimacy of the election.

#3

The first of its kind, the conservative blogosphere helped fuel the Republican campaign to remove Daschle in exchange for the Black Hills of South Dakota. The old rules didn’t apply anymore.

#4

I can’t blame this initiative for the loss of Daschle, as the Democrats were hit with a tough election in 2007. However, I was disturbed by the fact that a random conspiracy theory mentioned by a Fox doofus could get a major network to fly across the globe to confirm that conspiracy theory.

#5

The 2008 Obama campaign was faced with a deluge of calls asking two questions about Obama: Was he Muslim, and was it true that he was born in Kenya. The callers had heard these rumors from three sources: friends and family who listened to talk radio, friends and family who read conservative news on the internet, and forwarded emails.

#6

After Obama’s victory, it felt like we had finally cracked the code and could fight back against an emerging strain of GOP disinformation. But we were wrong. We had won the battle, but we had lost the war.

#7

The release of the birth certificate did nothing to solve the issue. The conspiracy theorists changed the terms without blinking an eye, saying that Obama was born in Kenya, and not America. This was a truly absurd claim, but media outlets addicted to celebrity gossip and conflict lapped it up.

#8

The Obama-era Republican Party’s descent into madness and Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, the party’s most detested foe, proved that propaganda and disinformation are viable options for winning. Democrats, the press, and the public still haven’t fully comprehended the Republicans’ plague on the public consciousness.

#9

Until Democrats have a answer for Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA media, they will always be on the losing side.

#10

Too many years. It would be nice to still have this excuse. His name was Dick Wadhams, which explains in part why he went through life with such a bad attitude. If he had gone by Richard, he might have had a sunnier disposition.

#11

Politics has always been an argument between two sides using facts and anecdotes to make a case to the public about the best solution to a policy problem. The side that makes the best argument wins.

#12

The American information ecosystem is fundamentally broken, and it is a crisis that threatens everything. It is difficult to talk about, because it forces us to question some of our fundamental principles about how politics should work.

#13

The traditional media are unable to report on the Republican war on truth, as they are culturally and psychologically unable to do so. Most people still don’t use the right terms to describe what’s happening.

#14

The terms disinformation and misinformation are often used interchangeably, but they are actually two different things. Disinformation is the act of spreading incorrect information with the intent to deceive. It is a specific and deliberate strategy to pull the wool over people’s eyes.

#15

The Russian strategy of using disinformation to achieve a desired political outcome is a classic example of how to use disinformation to achieve a desired political outcome. It worked in 2016, as Black voter turnout decreased for the first time in 20 years.

#16

I was invited to offer my thoughts to the staff of Crooked Media on Election Eve. I was positive that Biden would win, based on the data. But it was much closer than I imagined. Biden won, but it was much closer than I thought.

#17

Trump’s postelection analyses focused on the political potency of GOP attacks about defunding the police and late-breaking news about Hunter Biden. However, there was little discussion of why these things mattered.

#18

Trump had two options: either do the hard work of addressing the virus and saving lives, or lie and say that the virus wasn’t his fault and wasn’t that big of a deal. He almost pulled off the impossible task of convincing people that the pandemic wasn’t his fault.

#19

During a press conference in which he was supposed to hand off to the next speaker, Trump instead delivered a speech about injecting bleach into sick patients. His supporters listened and numerous reports of sick Trump supporters following up his remarks followed.

#20

Trump’s suggestion that people inject bleach into their bodies to treat the coronavirus was just one example of how he used disinformation to blunt the damage from the pandemic. He wanted people to feel safe again, which would help them start spending money and get the economy back to normal faster.

#21

As the death toll climbed, so did conspiracy theories about it being inflated. The right-wing media began spreading claims that just because someone died from COVID-19, it didn’t mean they died from COVID-19.

#22

Trump’s reelection campaign aired a television ad that showed Fauci saying about Trump’s pandemic response, I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more. Meanwhile, Trump contracted COVID-19, and lived to tell about it.

#23

The 2020 election was very different from the 2016 election. In 2020, Trump won votes in urban areas with large Black and Hispanic populations, while Biden won votes in rural areas with large Hispanic populations.

#24

Disinformation played a large role in the Democrats losing votes in key demographics, and the party needs to understand how it happened and why it keeps happening if they want to prevent it from happening again.

#25

Republican forces have long tried to stop people from voting, and in 2020 they were trying to reduce Black turnout.

#26

Right-wing digital operatives picked up