If you’re going to try to pass around a fraudulent photograph of your rally, you may want to try a little harder than this.
A Republican running for Congress in Mississippi named Tom Carter decided to lie about the crowds attending the pro-life “March For Life” rally in Washington.
Clearly still bitter about the record-breaking numbers of protesters who showed up to protest Trump’s assault on women’s rights at the Women’s March a week prior, Carter got a little creative with his “proof.”
Carter, who describes himself as a conservative Christian, decided to bear false witness and even had the audacity to challenge the media for how they covered crowd size.
There was one major flaw in his plan: People who live and work in DC could look out their windows.
In fact, a simple Getty Image search proves that the photo Carter chose to use came from President Obama’s inauguration.
Weird. Getty Images says that's a picture of Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. https://t.co/0lRHvagKQo https://t.co/Bcb6paAWQU
— Buffalopundit (@buffalopundit) January 27, 2017
So Carter took the mature step of immediately apologizing, right? Nope! He deleted the tweet, and buried his shame in a tweetstorm about how evil the mainstream media is.
Kimberly, I agree. However, we don't need to be like the #MSM with unsubstantiated claims. We need investigative reporting, not perception https://t.co/pfFFe72XMk
— Carter for Congress (@TomCarterforMS) January 27, 2017
Classy.
This is not the first time a conservative has been caught using an unrelated image to hype up a poorly attended Republican-backed rally. Breitbart, Trump’s de facto state media outlet, was busted pulling a similar maneuver to boost perceptions of Trump’s popularity.
That photo, as you may notice from the crowd’s colors, comes from a rally to support the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team - not Trump’s stump speech in Jacksonville.
One movement that didn’t need to use fake pictures? The Women’s March, which according to estimates, was the largest coordinated protest in American history.
Funny how that works.
Featured image via Twitter
