Oopsie…

Sooo… There is much ado about the Trump campaign PAYING for data from Facebook. It’s trying to be blown up into a major scandal, right? We’re seeing that plastered across the MSM almost daily.

But…

It appears Facebook violated Federal Election Laws in 2012 with the Obama campaign!

According to Carol Davidsen, the former media director for Obama for America, Facebook gave the 2012 Obama campaign direct access to the personal data of Facebook users in violation of its internal rules, making a special exception for the campaign. The Daily Mail, a British newspaper, reported that Davidsen said on Twitter March 18 that Facebook employees came to the campaign office and “were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

Full article, HERE. Of course the MSM isn’t covering it, and supposedly, ‘the statute of limitations’ has run out…

And in another oopsie, March for Our Lives ‘overestimated’ their crowd…

The March for Our Lives was big, just not nearly as big as organizers said it was.

The problem is that two separate expert analyses, using aerial imaging and photographs, put the march crowd in the 200,000 range, or about a quarter of the widely touted 850,000 figure.

Full article, HERE at the Washington Times.

Interestingly, this follows a pattern, if you will, of the left/socialist/MSM of grossly overestimating the crowds that attend various functions…

I remember the Everymom protest that was supposedly held AT the NRA in Louisville, that was actually in a totally different part of town, and they claimed ‘multiple hundreds’ of protesters. While actual wide shots of the protest showed maybe 100 protesters total. Of course the ‘explanation’ was that it was taken after the protest had ended, but I remember there was still a speaker at the podium when the picture was taken…

And a potential oopsie to come… The upcoming NFL season…

After two years of kneeling players and plummeting ratings, NFL owners are expected next week to put the finishing touches on an $89 million social justice package intended to defuse the sideline protest problem that began with Colin Kaepernick in 2016 and put the focus back on what happens on the field.

Full article, HERE, again from the Washington Times. But nothing about the players standing for the anthem… If they don’t, I personally don’t think the fans will put up with it, and even more will leave.

 

Comments

Oopsie… — 11 Comments

  1. Silly rabbit – everything Obama did was good. Everything Trump does is bad. Its just that simple.

    Just listen to MSM – they tell us what we need to know and how to think. They are the media – they would not tell a lie.

  2. Perhaps the NFL owners are beginning to feel the effects of the season ticket holders that are not renewing their season tickets.

  3. Leftist playbook. A Colorado (P)regressive candidate for governor can’t fill a room so his staff limits the number of chairs. Photo op shows “standing room only”. Or, figures don’t lie, liars figure.

  4. I got my first lesson in the politics of the media some 47 years ago, and the lesson stuck. Of course, I was playing for a different team then, and so was the media. But the revelation that they were going to print what suited them, and not what actually happened, was only NOT shocking because I enjoyed being an oppressed victim of the Establishment at that time. Help, help! I’m being repressed!

  5. As for Facebook, it would appear that that is a donation of services in kind. With a monetary value exceeding that allowed by law.

  6. They have been doing this for decades; they overestimate crowds for liberal causes and underestimate them for conservative ones, and then later quote whatever numbers makes the liberal protests look better.

    Another question I haven’t seen answered is where the money came from to get the participants to Washington DC. Connected with that is the claim that only 10% of the participants were students and the rest were adults. (probably many of which were paid to be there!)

  7. The NFL waited waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to do this. I figure it’s not going to work. Not that I’ll know, for I don’t watch NFL football.

  8. Clearly, insanity such as the “March for Our Lives” would not happen if we had common sense speech control laws in place. We all know that the pen is mightier than sword; by extension, there’s much more reason to restrict speech than arms. Let me offer A Modest Proposal for Speech Control. Only sober, mature individuals should be allowed to exercise the right. Nobody under the age of 21 should be allowed to express a political opinion in public, nor to participate in a march. Sanctions should be placed on any financial entity transacting business with those publishing, quoting, or expounding the views of those under 21. Transportation of those under 21 for political purposes shall be considered a felony punishable by not less than two years in prison.

  9. Let me see if I get this right.

    It’s a CRIME for the Trump campaign to BUY the data.

    It’s NOT A CRIME for Farcebook to SELL the data.

    Is that it?

    • And it’s not a crime to have GIVEN it to the Obama campaign.