https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1267651450601160706
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I bring this up because I found a reference later that claims the picture of the darkened White House is — I’m sure you are all surprised — a photoshop of a picture taken during Obama’s tenure.

I’ll take Arama’s word for it, since pretty much all of the “damaging” photos produced by the Democrats and leftists to tar Republicans and conservatives have been faked or mislabeled.
There is another photoshop going around as well, relating to the Bible being so outrageously politicized by Mr. Trump.
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/03/debra-messing-spreads-fake-image-to-attack-trump-and-compare-him-to-hitler-the-backlash-is-swift/

The left is getting desperate with their ridiculous fake photos against President Donald Trump over the past day.

First, as my colleague Sister Toldjah reported, the Democrats including Hillary Clinton and David Axelrod fell for a picture allegedly from showing the White House with its lights off. They called it a metaphor and bashed Trump for it, without noting the some lights are turned off every night, the picture they used was from 2015 under Obama and additionally it was made darker by photoshop. But that didn’t stop them from making themselves look silly for what then became an accurate reflection on how bad the Obama administration was.

But Debra Messing decided not to let those Democrats be alone in utter stupidity. She seems to spend most of her time on Twitter obsessed with President Donald Trump. She’s an example of a celebrities who say they want Trump to go away but then are constantly fixated on him, making him ever present in their heads.

Messing spread a picture of the president holding up a Bible at St. John’s Church yesterday that claimed Trump was just like Hitler.
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Messing attacked Trump for having a “photo op” at the Church and she called it a “dog whistle” to racists.

Imagine first of all being so stupid as to fall for a photoshop but second imagine thinking holding up a bible is somehow a “dog whistle” comparison to Hitler. How anyone could be so twisted and have so little understanding of history or reality is difficult to imagine.

The picture caption blared this is not an accident! No, it’s not an accident, it’s a photoshop that anyone could have figured out.

Of course, no one under the age of 60 has any understanding of history.
Even if Hitler had been holding a Bible, it would have been for the purpose of throwing it into a fire. He was notoriously and rabidly anti-Christian.

As for detachment from reality, well, compare the media treatment of a Democrat in church —
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/02/biden-takes-a-knee-media-ignore-photo-op-narrative/

Posted on June 2, 2020 by sundance
An interesting juxtaposition provides yet another example of how national media shape their narratives. Yesterday President Trump visited St. John’s church in Washington DC. Democrats and national media immediately declared it a stunt, a “photo op”.

However, at the same time President Trump was visiting St. Johns’, candidate Joe Biden was visiting Bethel AME church in Wilmington, Delaware, and the media were very careful to avoid labeling this captured moment:
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Like the organized riots, looting and subsequent media political constructs, the Biden strategy is heavily scripted and not organic. From the moment representative James Clyburn aligned his network with Barack Obama’s Chicago machine there has been a strategy at work.

The rest of sundance’s post is a very informative essay on the generational split of black Democrats into two major organizations that service different populations, but come together if there is any genuine threat to their ultimate goal: power over everyone in the country.

JFTR, IMO, Trump really was blowing a dog whistle this time — to Christians.
Although some have questioned his own religious piety and commitment, I don’t have any doubt that he knows where his base lives.
The continued hypocrisy of the Democrats over essential businesses and lockdowns is not inducing many Christians to jump ship, and Trump is reaffirming his position as their protector.
From John Roberts, if necessary.

And, mirabile dictu, the shows were run on the BBC!

Which even then was plenty liberal, but liberals of that era could laugh at themselves.

Not today.

I think that’s also the one where the PM says to a diplomat “You said it was impossible.” The reply: “It should have been, and if you’d left it to us, it would have been.”

I was baptized and confirmed Episcopalian, and defended them until the late 70s. Then I realized it was hopeless. The line from Richard Hooker to Lewis and Eliot is dead. Except maybe in Africa.

Today those shows are still brilliant, but don’t feel so funny.

In case someone misses the connection, the Episcopal Church is what the Church of England in America became after the Revolutionary War.
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James Hacker:
Humphrey, what’s a Modernist in the Church of England?

“Yes, Prime Minister” (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSTKisEgTo

Division into two sects was a bit of a struggle since building and land titles were at issue. A congregation might wish to go Anglican, but the Episcopal Church owned building and land.