The Hill newspaper, which specializes in political reporting from the nation’s capital, has named Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski a “change maker” for 2024, primarily because she bucks her Republican colleagues.
In the profile of Murkowski, the newspaper engaged in truth-stretching, errors of omission, and outright lies. It’s textbook case fake news.
Here’s the most egregious part of the story:
“She is also the highest-profile proponent of ranked-choice voting in the Senate, something she defended in Alaska this fall when dark-money groups poured more than $12 million dollars into a campaign to get rid of it,” The Hill falsely reported.
In fact, the group trying to get rid of ranked-choice voting raised only about $100,000, almost all of it from inside the state in small-dollar amounts.
It was $15 million in Outside dark money that poured into Alaska to preserve ranked-choice voting, which is the voting system, along with jungle primaries, that was designed by Murkowski supporters to keep Murkowski in office. She no longer has to face a Republican primary, but she can still claim to be a Republican when she gets to the Senate. The group used some of that money to produce ad in which Murkowski lauded ranked-choice voting.
Here’s what else The Hill wrote:
“She was also a pivotal vote in some of the biggest battles of President-elect Trump’s first term: voting against a proposal to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and coming out against Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial nomination to the Supreme Court amid sexual assault allegations.”
The story neglected to mention that Murkowski voted in 2021 to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial — a trial that took place after he was no longer in office.
Now that Sen. Joe Manchin is retiring, “She will be a senator to watch closely as Republicans tussle over the size of Trump’s next tax cut and how much to reduce federal spending to offset its impact on the federal deficit,” The Hill wrote.
“A champion of bipartisanship and pragmatism, Murkowski will be likely involved in any bipartisan deals that emerge in the Senate during Trump’s term,” the newspaper wrote, avoiding mention that she endorsed Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola over a Republican not once, but twice over the course of two elections, and she refused to say who she was voting for for president in 2024, but said she would not vote for Trump.
Alaska’s embarrassment, shows her face again.
A lying politician, I don’t believe it.
I hope this next election cycle we can get rid of this wart on our backside.
Wart, it’s all a game! What do you think party politics is all about–the good of the people? Sure! Look, the amalgamated hordes hold themselves in “high disdain,” so let the Central Committee do the heavy thinking for you and be thankful that it has your best interests at heart!
Proponent means supporter…….The Hill article seems to have correctly stated her position
Nancy and I discussed this at length, that the Democrat Establishment just loves the Murkowski Legacy and will do anything to keep it going for another 50 years. Fake news, write-in campaigns, Rank Choice Voting, father-daughter US Senate appointments, Democrat support both state-wide and nationally, very special support from Lisa’s political pappy Joe Biden, and woke/DEI people with purple hair, nose rings and LGBTQ weirdos. Gosh, the Murkowski Family has branched out far from its conservative
Republican roots over the past two decades. Nancy and I remain confused who to thank for all of this love.
Yup.
The RINO UniParty crowd.
Liars and thieves – getting rich on the backs of taxpayers.
MSM, on both sides of the spectrum are part of the propaganda apparatus by the State.
Tide has now turned – people are waking up to graft and corruption by our “rulers”.
Fact checking. It’s fundamental. Unless you’re The Hill. The publication could have saved hundreds of words by just saying, “Lisa, the Queen of TDS.” She will be a senator to watch closely as she sells other Republicans, Americans and Alaskans in particular down the river. All while using her thinly-veiled catch phrase of “good public policy.” It leaves us all to wonder whether her establishment GOP friends will advise her to play ball, or if she’ll hack through Trumps Achilles and leave his agenda, America’s agenda, hobbled.
I think trumps Achilles tendons are knawproof at this point. I’m not sure his agendas is the same as America’s though.
We need to support the new repeal of Ranked Choice Voting before Senator Murkowski stands for reelection.
Fake news just like Murkowski!