Progressive Data Imagines Senator Hawley SCOTUS Pedo Attacks Signaling To Qanon

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A comic that one of BEST & BRIGHTEST TKC READERS sent our way . . . 

Senator Hawley earns a spot amongst "confirmation clowns" against Prez Biden's nominee.

That's the kind of fun spirited political commentary we've always enjoyed.

Sadly, this passage from a recent NPR screed is a bit more sinister and offers insight into a conspiracy within a conspiracy . . .

A misleading line of attack from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., helped fuel online discussion, some of it violent, linking Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to concerns about pedophilia, according to an analysis of data from Pyrra Technologies, a threat-monitoring company that tracks alternative social media platforms.

Hawley used much of his question time during Jackson's confirmation hearings this week to distort her sentencing record in cases related to child pornography. He previewed that line of questioning last week with a long Twitter thread in which he painted Jackson as sympathetic to child pornography defendants.

Fact-checkers and some conservative legal experts have labeled his claims misleading and note that his comments are tied to conspiracy theories, including the far-right QAnon.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Hawley's attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson fuel a surge in online conspiracy chatter

A misleading line of attack from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., helped fuel online discussion, some of it violent, linking Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to concerns about pedophilia, according to an analysis of data from Pyrra Technologies, a threat-monitoring companythat tracks alternative social media platforms. Hawley used much of his question time during Jackson's confirmation hearings this week to distort her sentencing record in cases related to child pornography.