Polis violates his own law, spreads misinformation in convention speech

Aug 22, 2024

Hell froze over this week at the Democrat Convection as several media outlets actually fact-checked Gov. Polis’s speech to reveal it was one rambling whooper of lies from beginning to end.

From CNN, Washington Post and Associated Press to local Channel 7 News in Denver, reporters did their job and called out Polis for spreading misinformation.

PeakNation™ will recall Polis signed a law against spreading misinformation earlier this year. Apparently, some people are more above the law than others.

The convention theme is democracy freedom and Polis indulged in his freedom of speech to hit on Democrats’ favorite punching bag, a book written by a think tank called the Heritage Foundation that Dems falsely claim is Trump’s blueprint for the future.

Here is CNN explaining Project 2025 is not a Trump project, not a page was written by Trump or his campaign, and Trump has denounced it, repeatedly.

Project 2025 doesn’t even say the plan is for Trump, but for the next conservative president to consider, and Trump is a populist, not a conservative. The Heritage Foundation has obviously been working on the book for years. Maybe they thought Gov. DeSantis would be the next GOP president?

But wait, there’s more.

Polis flat out lied about what Project 2025 says when it comes to families and abortion.

Here’s the clip of the fear mongering governor trying to scare up votes for Kamala Harris.

Polis said: “Page 451 says the only legitimate family is a married mother and father where only the father works.”

From the Washington Post:

But the report’s Page 451 does not use the words that Polis suggested he was quoting, nor does it say that mothers should not work. On that page is a proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services to promote “stable and flourishing married families.”

The New York Times concurred with the Post’s fact check.

Polis also lied about the book calling for a national ban on abortion, according to the Poynter Institute’s fact-checking site PolitiFact, the bible of the modern news media.

Trump has also said repeatedly he does not support a national law, but agrees voters should decide on the matter in their own states.

Also from PolitiFact:

PolitiFact did not find any mention of IVF throughout the document, or specific recommendations to curtail the practice in the U.S. The manual doesn’t outright call for restricting standard contraceptive methods, such as birth control pills or intrauterine devices, known as IUDs. Project 2025 pointed out the same.

Someone should probably report the governor for spreading such lies to the state’s new misinformation officer, Attorney General Phil Weiser. He’s really gone over the deep end.

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