Former OC GOP Chair Scott Baugh, who lost a bid for a seat in Congress to Rep. Katie Porter, took to Twitter to lie about the Congresswoman’s statements on how people who are LGBTQ are smeared as pedophiles and child groomers. Baugh lied and his Tweet led to additional condemnation of Porter by Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas who was fact-checked by CNN.
Here’s a cut and paste of Baugh’s Tweet:
Here’s a Fox News video that reports on the story, after a short piece about the Rail Strike. And their reaction is outright criminal.
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From CNN, this:
Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas accused Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California of having said that “pedophilia isn’t a crime.”
But Porter did not say that. Jackson, like some conservative Twitter personalities, was wrongly describing Porter’s remarks.
Jackson has more than 500,000 followers on Twitter. Here’s what he tweeted: “Katie Porter just said that pedophilia isn’t a crime, she said it’s an ‘identity.’ THIS IS THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL! The sad thing is that this woman isn’t the only VILE person pushing for pedophilia normalization. This is what progressives believe!”
Facts First: Jackson’s claim is false. Porter did not say that pedophilia isn’t a crime. Full video from a congressional hearing on Wednesday shows that Porter actually said that LGBTQ people are being falsely smeared on social media as being a “groomer” or “pedophile” merely because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. She did not defend pedophilia itself.
In other words, Porter is being baselessly described as a supporter of pedophilia over comments in which she was denouncing how other people are being baselessly described as pedophiles.
Here is a transcript of what Porter said:
Porter: I wanted to start with Ms. Robinson, if I could. Your organization recently released a report analyzing the 500 most viewed, most influential tweets that identified LGBTQ people as so-called ‘groomers.’ The ‘groomer’ narrative is an age-old lie to position LGBTQ+ people as a threat to kids. And what it does is deny them access to public spaces, it stokes fear, and can even stoke violence. Ms. Robinson, according to its own hateful content policy, does Twitter allow posts calling LGBTQ+ people ‘groomers’?
Robinson: No. I mean, Twitter, along with Facebook and many others, have community guidelines. It’s about holding users accountable to those guidelines, and acknowledging that when we use phrases and words like ‘groomers’ and ‘pedophiles’ to describe people – individuals in our communities that are mothers, that are fathers, that are teachers, that are doctors – it is dangerous. And it’s got one purpose. It is to dehumanize us. And make us feel like we are not a part of this American society. And it has real-life consequences. So we are calling on social media companies to uphold their community standards. And we’re also calling on any American that’s seeing this play out to hold ourselves and our community members accountable. We wouldn’t accept this in our families, we wouldn’t accept this in our schools. There’s no reason to accept it online.
Porter: So – I mean, I think you’re absolutely right. And it’s not – this allegation of ‘groomer’ and of ‘pedophile,’ it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow, and engaged in criminal acts, merely because of their identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity. So this is clearly prohibited under Twitter’s content. Yet you found hundreds of these posts on the platform.
Porter never said pedophilia isn’t a crime. She pointed out false accusations of pedophilia that are based on a person’s identity. She never said, as Baugh claimed, that pedophilia is itself an identity.
Porter has little kids; Baugh does not. Someone should put Baugh on Santa’s Naughty list for next weekend.
A bold headline in the Orange Juice blog late to this story; enjoy that libel suit. Baugh is a public figure but knowingly publishing a falsehood to attack his reputation is libel and Vern has unlocked that achievement. Merry Merry
I see the OJ boys claim there’s no libel here. Vern’s post meets the standard for actual malice. I’m sure Katie was happy to thimp Baugh, but even she would be horrified by the headline of Vern’s story
I love how Vern downplays Pete Hardin.bailing on him because of so-called Trolls.
Pete told me that Vern was an alcoholic sociopath that sexually stalked a married women.
It didn’t help that Vern referred to Jose Diaz as a “retard” because of his accent or his racist slurs against Kim Ngyuen.
These OJB guys are so out of touch, they think they are some how relevant outside their fantasy world.
who was the married woman? And was she aware of the stalking? Donna won’t be happy
I heard her name m e was Audrie, he scared the bejeezus out of her with threats of sexual violence. He later apologized but, not before victimizing her further posting pictures.
I first heard of this from a splashy mailer aparantly from the DPOC.
Al Jabbar’s wife, clutched her daughter tight the night this was discussed by Pete Hardin and Ada Bricineo.
I can guarantee this. The only person who hates Greg Diamond more than Julie Tait is……Supervisor Sarmiento who, Diamond called “A liar, thief and lowly Bolivian” noting his Non-Mexican heritage.
A quick Google search explains everything
At first it was interesting, then kinda scary. One of the flyers lays out a half dozen instances of Vern’s antics.
I did not get to the five DUI’S and prison sentence, it was like a time vampire.
One such search result has a video describing Verns wife in a mental crisis while another features his blog mate victim shaming a sexual assault survivor, comparing providing pornographic images to a teenage girl to Pioneer Woman.
No wonder people flee from him like typhoid.
if memory serves, it was LA County jail back in 2009; curious your search terms. Greg and I have been trading emails. He has a post with 12+ reasons why politicians need to fear him but he left off #10 and defended it. Greg seems to think I post comments here under different names. That stroke has really affected him