Headline USA (Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After failing to get him booted from the ballot through bogus lawfare efforts, the alt-left has sunk to a new low in its smear attacks against Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., unearthing decades-old photos and miscasting their context.
Politico was the first to report last weekend pictures of Cawthorn dressed in women’s lingerie, apparently in a party setting, and in an attempt to expose an imagined hypocrisy juxtaposed the photos against Cawthorn’s conservative politics and Christian upbringing.
Cawthorn “was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity,” Politico proclaimed.
While admitting the photos and their context could not be independently verified, Politico ran the story, noting that the pictures were provided “by a person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign.”…
