Colby Hall

I think there's a lot of people on the right who want to appeal to a conservative base

and promote the fact that they've got the law enforcement's back, regardless of the facts, regardless of the anti-Semitic copy in the fundraising website.

And they just want to promote the fact that, oh, I've got a lot of money.

I just want to give this because...

know it's less principled and it's more of a marketing strategy and i think these individuals probably know better but that's not what the point is the point is to promote the fact that they have these people's back because it's the divisive culture war at play that they want to side with and so the facts less uh matter less

than the virtue signal that they are for ICE agents, they're against illegal immigrants, and they think a woman who was killed and left a six-year-old orphan somehow deserved to be shot in the face because of what we all saw was, you know, at worst she made a mistake by pulling away, but the fact that she was killed, it's deeply troubling on many, many levels.

What did you mean by you said it's marketing, Colby?

Well, I think a lot of people sort of, you and I both know people in the conservative media realm who are not

true believers privately but when they get you know behind a microphone and they get on camera suddenly they start spewing a lot of copy a lot of talking points that appeal to an audience what they want to hear and so by marketing i mean they're they're saying things that appeals to an audience that confirms their their bias right it's it's all about narratives it's all about

There's people out there that want to hear a certain story being told regardless of the facts or what the results of an investigation.

And unfortunately, journalism always loses to this narrative game because journalism waits for facts to emerge, right?

They have to be cautious.

That's the friction.

You know this as well as anyone.

You hold a story until you can confirm it.

And what we saw in this instance was Christine Ohm getting way ahead of this and saying that

crazy story.

Like Jake Tapper did a good job of calling her out on Sunday, basically saying, you know, you said that ICE agents were stuck in the snow and that a car tried to ram them and they were surrounded by protesters.

None of that is true.

And, you know, he denied though, yes, it was.