By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
I was talking to a friend of mine who is running for Congress the other day, and he told me that Facebook has targeted him, as well. Edwin Duterte is one of the Republicans targeting Maxine Waters’ congressional seat. His candidacy is in a district, District 43 on the Southbay corner of the Los Angeles area, where the GOP is definitely a demographic minority. Yet, folks are beginning to believe that Mad Max’s seat may be retrievable by the Republican Party. The biggest challenge for the Duterte campaign has been funding, so, as a way to pull together some money for his incredibly challenged run, a gun range shooting competition fundraiser has been organized. Edwin advertised it on Facebook. Facebook erased its posting, and then penalized Duterte for daring to put it on his Facebook page.
The hard left Democrat machine has already called the American born candidate of Filipino heritage a “White Supremacist,” so I guess that makes him a GOP Nazi, a racist, a bigot, and “hater,” and someone who hates people of color . . . even though he’s a candidate of . . . wait for it . . . color.
A Democrat friend of mine says I am lying. She says it’s a conspiracy theory seeking evidence that does not exist. When I provided evidence, she said it didn’t count because it was from conservative sources. I went to retrieve the conversation from my Twitter Page to show you with a screen shot of it . . . but that conversation has magically vanished.
I wonder. Was it Twitter, or Kristin, who killed the conversation?
Now, however, the evidence is everywhere.
That last one was reported by the New York Times. Hey, Kristin, is that a good enough resource for you?
Now that Facebook has been caught in the act, and the mainstream media is actually wondering about Facebook’s privacy and user-data leaks that are connected to the social media platform’s anti-Trump and anti-conservative crusade, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief of Operations, has suddenly become gun-shy. After being quizzed by Today’s Savannah Guthrie and Fox News’ Dana Perino, Sandberg’s next grilling was to be by ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.” Normally, the ABC show would be an ally, but in this age of Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, doing what he can to scramble in such a way as to subdue his out of control social-media scandals, and after Sandberg learned she would be quizzed by trailblazing journalist Martha Raddatz, and not ABC News star Stephanopoulos, the Facebook high-ranking gal suddenly backed out of the interview.
