In another brazen display of the left's willingness to manipulate public perception, a George Soros-backed outfit, cunningly crafted to resemble a legitimate local newspaper, has been caught red-handed peddling outright fabrications to Michigan voters. This sham publication, the "Michigan Independent," recently sent unsolicited mailers that brazenly labeled Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as a "veteran."
The truth? El-Sayed is no veteran. Not even close. This isn't just a minor oversight; it's a deliberate attempt to bestow unearned credibility upon a candidate, a tactic that undermines the very foundation of public trust and dishonors true American heroes who have actually served.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the deceptive mailer proclaimed, "El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick." A stunning claim for a man who has never worn the uniform, a fact even his own campaign concedes he would never claim.
When confronted with this blatant falsehood, Joe Conason, president of the American Independent Foundation — the group behind this "Michigan Independent" and recipient of a $500,000 Open Society grant in 2022 — offered an explanation so flimsy it mocks the intelligence of every voter. He claimed it was merely a "typo," that the headline was "supposed to say that he was a 'veteran doctor and public health official,' ie, 'veteran' modifying those two terms."
And there it is. The left's playbook: when caught in a lie, pivot to an even more absurd fabrication. Because, of course, a single word magically transforms into an adjective for entirely different, equally questionable claims.
The deception didn't stop at military service. When pressed on the accuracy of calling El-Sayed a "veteran doctor," Conason weakly asserted, "Well, he's been a physician for a long time." Yet, this too crumbles under scrutiny. Politico has reported that while El-Sayed completed medical school and refers to himself as a physician, he has never actually been licensed to practice medicine. As Politico bluntly states, "there's overwhelming evidence that he's had no experience as a licensed medical doctor."
Conason's desperate retort, "Whether he's a physician or not, he's a doctor," perfectly encapsulates the intellectual dishonesty prevalent on the left. That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. A degree does not equate to a license, and an aspirational title does not equate to professional experience.
To recap this masterclass in misinformation: this Soros-funded propaganda piece, masquerading as objective news, described Abdul El-Sayed with four key identifiers. Two of them—"veteran" and "doctor"—were demonstrably false. That's a 50 percent accuracy rate, a figure so abysmal even the corporate media establishment would struggle to defend it. This is more than a typo; it's a window into the calculated efforts to mislead voters, undermine truth, and manipulate our elections. Americans deserve facts, not fabricated narratives from shadowy, left-wing operations funded by globalist billionaires.
