“Only one cure for pedophilia, and jail ain’t in it. If we threw every leftist out of our country, I’d wager most of the perverts would go with them. Throw them out, every one. Constitutional~Carry!” – Top comment on the TownHall.com article “Justice Department Alleges This State Lawmaker Used a Biden-Themed Username to Distribute Child Porn,” posted Thursday evening at the lame MAGA site.

If you read National Zero’s Thursday story “You’ll never guess what this Freedom Caucasian was arrested for” then you already know that soon-to-be-former South Carolina state Representative RJ May is a Republican who used the name “joebidennnn69” while posting child sex abuse material online. If you did not read TownHall’s version of the story carefully enough you would, as this right wing commenter evidently was, be mistaken about which political party May is a member of.

Now, the story does twice mention that May a co-founded the state House’s Freedom Caucus and quote their response that he’d “been expelled from our caucus.” So that’s like two and a half acknowledgements, since a Freedom Caucasian by very definition cannot be a Democrat – or a “leftist.” But those are buried in the text of the story and the only occurrence of the word “Republican” is in the last paragraph “Republican state Rep Thomas Beach, in a post on X, stated that ‘The justice system must take its full course,’ but that if May is convicted, ‘he should be punished to every extent that the law allows.'” The word “conservative” doesn’t appear either, nor does anything about May’s career or any of the legislation he introduced or sponsored.

Like if you didn’t know any better you would’ve seen the headline containing “Biden-themed” in it to make it look as if “This State Lawmaker” was somehow a fan of the 46th president and thus a Democrat but then the text of the story put in a handful of partially oblique acknowledgments that RJ May is in fact a far right Republican as to have plausible deniability just in case some shitposter outside TownHall’s readership noticed all their other obvious efforts to obscure May’s politics.

You do know better because you’ve been exposed to way too much right wing propaganda through this site and others like it and you have already understood that is indeed more or less 100 fucking percent what happened. Then there’s that the first words of three of TownHall guy Jeff Charles’s 12 most recent articles start with the following words: “Sen. Elizabeth ‘Lieawatha’ Warren (D-MA),” “Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY),” “Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO),” so it’s pretty goddamned obvious he’s in the habit of identifying politicians by their affiliation – affiliations that National Zero often assumes readers are already familiar with and doesn’t waste the keystrokes on most of the time.

There are other ways to waste keystrokes here. This last bit’s mostly a copy paste from another TownHall article however: “Still Another Quinnipiac Poll Brings Bad News for Democrats” in which Charles’s colleague Rebecca Downs wrote “Even though Trump fares better than Democrats in Congress, with a 38 percent approval rating compared to their 21 percent rating, the headline still focuses on the president’s number. It’s also worth noting that the 38 percent rating may be an outlier, or at least low compared to other polls, especially since Trump’s numbers have been improving,” with “numbers” linked to a paywalled article that nobody bothered to archive.

Meaning Downs apparently was annoyed that the headline of Quinnipiac’s poll findings said “Majority Of Voters Oppose GOP Budget Bill, With Just 67 percent Of Republicans In Support, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Job Approval: 38 percent, His Handling Of Russia Ukraine War Lowest Among List Of Issues” and not that congressional Dems were at 21 percent, lol.