Liberals Rush to Spread Bogus Lauren Boebert Escort and Abortion Rumors

[demmiblue]

Democrats say they’re proof of Boebert’s hypocrisy. But they’re getting conned themselves.

Democrats have seized on a political action committee’s allegations that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) worked as a prostitute and had multiple abortions—claims that rest on zero actual evidence.

On Tuesday, American Muckrakers PAC, co-founded by Democrat and former North Carolina state Senate candidate David Wheeler, published allegations claiming that Boebert had previously worked as an escort on a sugar-daddy website and underwent at least two abortions, one of which was related to her supposed sugar-baby work.

For Boebert’s critics, the idea that the anti-abortion rights conservative had in fact had multiple abortions herself offered irresistible proof of Boebert’s hypocrisy. The allegations quickly circulated in anti-Trump “Resistance” communities online. Occupy Democrats, a popular liberal Twitter account, conceded that it wasn’t clear whether the allegations were accurate. But it urged its nearly 400,000 Twitter followers to retweet the claims “IF YOU THINK THAT IT SOUNDS TRUE” anyway. Boebert’s name trended on Twitter.

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At least one of the source’s claims can already be disproven. In the text message log, the source provided the PAC with a picture of what’s described as a picture of Boebert, wearing a short white dress, sitting on a bed. The source claims the photo was taken from Boebert’s profile on a sugar-daddy website. But the woman in the picture is actually Melissa Carone, a supposed voter-fraud witness cited by Rudy Giuliani, according to a Daily Mail report from 2020.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberals-rush-to-spread-bogus-lauren-boebert-escort-and-abortion-rumors

[greenjar_01]

1. Embarrassing

[eShirl]

2. that doesn't even look like her face

[Ocelot II]

3. Confirmation bias strikes again.

If you read something outrageous that’s consistent with what you already believe, go back, check and verify the source before passing it on.

[Brother Buzz]

4. So, Melissa Carone, the voter-fraud witness cited by Rudy Giuliani....

is an unlicensed employee of sugar-daddy.commie and Rudy Giuliani is a customer? That works for me.

[TwilightZone]

5. What a surprise. Not.

People here sure rushed to trumpet it, though.

And criticize those of us who wanted a little better source before jumping on the bandwagon.

[Ptah]

6. the picture is actually Melissa Carone, a supposed voter-fraud witness cited by Rudy Giuliani

[Hugin]

24. I'm really not sure which is worse.

The fact or the fiction.

[Lovie777]

7. For the GQP . . . .

it is now she was saved.

For Democrats, it would be viewed the opposite and blasted all over the republican owed media.

[Walleye]

8. I didn't believe it, but she deserves to be slandered. Let her go ahead and sue

[TwilightZone]

9. I know that Occupy Democrats is very popular here...

but they often do us no favors.

[demmiblue]

13. Absolutely agree!

I stopped following them on Twitter long ago.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

18. +1

RETWEET IF YOU AGREE!!!

[karynnj]

10. The undocumented charges came from a REPUBLICAN super Pac - liberals should not spread them

for three reasons.

1) There are hundreds of reasons to argue that she is not qualified and a terrible person.

2) The charges may not be true.

3) Her MAGA supporters won't care. Trump paid for abortions and Melania was at least involved with pornographic photos. Yet, the MAGA crowd argued that she was the most beautiful classy First Lady.

[blm]

16. People forget that Cawthorn was taken down by other Republicans.

[TheRealNorth]

17. I had heard that it was the same group that took down Cawthorn....

Had made these allegations against Boebert

[LeftInTX]

20. Yes, but Cawthorn was caught in the act

Boebert has a past, but it's not like there are videos of her humping someone

[blm]

28. My point is the PAC's origin is Republican

[Caliman73]

11. Well, if the story is inaccurate then the PAC has to retract and apologize.

The idea that "liberals rushed" to spread information and noting that 3 Democratic or aligned politicians simply "spread the information" is also FALSE.

The 3 politicians clearly stated IF it is true she had an abortion, it is good she had access to that safe and legal procedure with only Wu commenting on the hypocrisy of the allegations and Boebert's political stances.

I don't see "Liberals rushing" to do anything. A couple of politicians commented on the matter, none of them saying that it was gospel truth.

[Sympthsical]

12. It's really interesting the MSM isn't touching this

Not even Reddit is really discussing it, and usually this sort of thing would be at the top of all by now and spread all over the place.

So, banner day for us I guess, lol.

[TwilightZone]

15. That's usually a good indication that it's nonsense.

[TheRealNorth]

19. Yeah

Even the Young Turks were careful to call this an allegation and pointed out that they had not been independently verified.

But they did report that origin of the report was from the same people that outed Cawthorn.

[TlalocW]

14. We do need to be better than this

Not that I wasn't hoping this was true. I really, really was, but we need to slow our roll and let it play out and get verified or not, and I think for the most part, we did. We shouldn't be like QAnon where every conspiracy theory is automatically taken as true, and we shouldn't be like Project Veritas where we lie to gain political power. We need to take the kids gloves off, but we shouldn't be doing that so that we can more effectively punch people in the crotch.

Yes, I am a poet. Was it my evocative imagery of my last sentence that clued you in?

[TheRealNorth]

21. I am not so sure...

Does spreading lies really hurt Republicans?

[TlalocW]

22. Well, I guess take what I said

With a grain of how Machiavellian we want to be.

[TheRealNorth]

29. The trick is to start an untraceable rumor mill on social media

I almost don't care anymore about using facts against Republicans - it doesn't matter to them. I think we would be better served with flooding THEIR ZONE with bullshit.

[Ilsa]

23. And yet, it isn't even as crazy as the stories on QAnon sites.

Of course, the more unbelievable the story, the more likely it is to be accepted as true.

I guess the idea of Boboert being an escort and having two abortions isn't unbelievable enough.

[LeftInTX]

25. Then, she's an alien who had abortions from an alien father

Maybe that's how QAnon persists. It's so "out there", that the MSM would never pick it up or bother to debunk it

[Vogon_Glory]

26. Progressives and Democrats should assume dubious-unless-proven

Not that I’d mind if the representative from Rifle, CO got taken down, but Democrats and progressives have gotten burned too often by taking right-wing news sources as credible (Al Franken’s ouster was but one of many such disinformation scams). Wait for honest, competent journalists’ analysis and research before taking anything from tainted right-wing sources as truthful or accurate.

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. That's a good rule of thumb

My hunch was that this was BS.

[TwilightZone]

33. Yes, please.

We're much too quick to buy into nonsense like this. At the very least, wait for confirmation from something more than a questionable blog post that looks like it was thrown together in an hour.

[onethatcares]

27. well, alot of people are saying and maybe it's true but

I'm not taking sides in this......but

who's the grandmaster of those words? After all, there are good people on both sides..

[demmiblue]

31. Lauren Boebert's lawyer says he has sent a letter to the PAC that alleged she has worked as a paid

Lauren Boebert’s lawyer says he has sent a letter to the PAC that alleged she has worked as a paid escort and had two abortions, stating that she intends to sue them and their donors for defamation.

Link to tweet

[JHB]

32. Odd (but unsurprising) framing, as it's also liberals who say "cool your jets" on this...

...due to lack of veracity, or outright debunking it.

It's the same phenomenon we've seen in the past: Fake News aimed at liberals has a very short shelf life, and can't go a day or two without extensive fact-checking, whereas conservatives freely repeat every horseshit claim that comes down the pike.

[Montauk6]

34. Hmmm.... reminds me of something... oh yeah...

Now two wrongs clearly don't make a right, though the RIGHT has a history of committing WRONGS like this.

(Oh, for the DU young'uns, these are viral dog-whistle pictures falsely alleged to be of Trayvon Martin that rightwingers circulated to justify not-even-a-rent-a-cop George Zimmerman gunning him down one rainy evening 10 years ago)