Conservative Media Makes Up a Fake Florida Mansion for Nancy Pelosi

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.thebulwark.com/conservative-media-makes-up-a-fake-florida-mansion-for-nancy-pelosi/


Over the weekend, Conservatism Inc. found a new scandal to promote: A false report that Nancy Pelosi had purchased a $25 million mansion in Florida, home to 2024 hopeful, Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Trump. To underscore: This story is false. Nancy Pelosi has not bought a $25 million mansion in Florida.

But watching how the fake news blew through the conservative ecosystem is illuminating.

The lib-owning idea went something like this: Nancy Pelosi and her ilk have overreacted to COVID-19 at every turn. Ron DeSantis is a freedom loving governor of the greatest state in America. And now Pelosi was all but admitting that DeSantis was right by spending $25 million on Florida real estate. What an elitist hypocrite!

The story appeared to get its start on a fringe webpage called Big League Politics. Note the site’s ads. You can’t make this stuff up.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. You can't make this stuff up. But they do. Repeatedly. The sheeple eat it up. . . .nt

[JHB]

2. Isn't "Big League Politics" Breitbart's original imprint?

It was "Big" Something, before Breitbart.com.

Though this one could have taken the phrase from Trump, it it's not.

[Thunderbeast]

3. I can't wait for Jordan Kleppler to find...

...the MAGAT at the next rally to spout this story as truth.