Philly Inquirer: Doug Mastriano is deleting his videos from Facebook as he runs for Pa. governor

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Doug Mastriano is deleting his videos from Facebook as he runs for Pa. governor

In three months, 14 videos have disappeared from Mastriano's page. In them, he dismisses global warming as "pop science" and says Republicans who oppose him secretly "disdain veterans."


by William Bender
Updated 4 hours ago

In early April, Doug Mastriano was recording a Facebook Live video on his phone after a legislative session in Harrisburg when he segued into his thoughts on global warming. The state senator from south-central Pennsylvania, who would become the Republican nominee for governor the following month, told his supporters he wanted to pull the state out of a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, calling it “nonsense” that human activity could significantly alter the earth’s climate. A connection between burning fossil fuels and global warming? Merely a “theory,” Mastriano said, based on “pop science.” “Heck, the weatherman can’t get the weather right 24 hours out,” he said.

As supporting evidence, Mastriano referred to an event he said he attended in Washington, D.C., in about 1970 when he was a Cub Scout. Environmentalists there had been warning that when the world’s population reached one billion, he recalled, there would be a major catastrophe.“That was the outrage and fear back then,” Mastriano said. “There was no global catastrophe when we reached one billion. … They talked about it like it was fact, like with climate change.” The anecdote, of course, makes little sense, not least because the world population at that time was already an estimated 3.7 billion. The video has since disappeared from Mastriano’s Facebook campaign page. In the last three months alone, more than a dozen other videos have also been deleted.

The removed videos include freewheeling discussions in which Mastriano predicts that this November’s election will be marred by Democratic voter fraud; accuses Republicans who don’t support him of looking down on veterans; and calls the fight against abortion “the most important issue of our lifetime.”This has become somewhat of a pattern for Mastriano, 58, a retired Army colonel who bills himself as a plainspoken populist. He communicates directly with voters online, yet sometimes covers his tracks. Before this latest batch of deletions, Mastriano removed potentially problematic or controversial posts, including tweets promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory, as well as videos in which he called local faith leaders “cowards”; acknowledged his COVID diagnosis while visiting the White House; and feuded with GOP lawmakers in Harrisburg.

Mastriano’s Senate website has also been scrubbed of a plan he pitched during the early days of the pandemic to lift medical privacy restrictions so the government could disclose the names and locations of people infected with COVID-19. Videos have been deleted from his official Senate Facebook page, as well. “There are traces of them, but the videos are gone,” said Erin Gallagher, a disinformation researcher at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

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More: https://www.inquirer.com/news/facebook-pennsylvania-governor-mastriano-abortion-climate-20220718.html

[Maraya1969]

1. I hope this means that someone has copies.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The Inquirer article had excerpts from 3 of the removed ones embedded

It doesn't look like the "no paywall" version preserved the actual video content although it includes the stills from the videos.

[Demovictory9]

17. Me too.

Hope they run the videos in ads

[Demovictory9]

18. Me too.

Hope they run the videos in ads

[RAB910]

2. The GOP is so morally and intellectually bankrupt that hiding their opinions is the only way

for them to possibly get enough votes

[Efilroft Sul]

4. Scrub-a-Dub-Dub Dougie.

[MsLeopard]

5. I just looked it up

And the earths population reached 1 billion in 1758. He can’t even get his facts straight if he thinks the population was just reaching 1 billion in 1970. What a joke he is.

[twodogsbarking]

6. Without looking it up I think earth had about 3 billion earthlings in 1970.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. He is just part and parcel of the loon previously-dormant zombies that have sprouted here in PA

after being brought to life after the 2016 election.

He is also neck deep in the insurrection, having hosted Ghouliani's Gettysburg, PA overthrow super-spreader event and breaching the barriers at the U.S. Capitol while the media tip toes around him as if he is some kind of legitimate human being.

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John Fetterman
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Nov 28, 2020
Let me be clear: This is nothing but a pitiful, desperate publicity stunt.

They literally could introduce a resolution calling for a ham sandwich to be our state bird.

This isn’t going anywhere.

The sponsors know this better than anyone. 1/2
https://legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=S&SPick=20190&cosponId=32629
John Fetterman
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All of this: the bizarre snake-handling at the Ramada, the tin foil hat conspiracy theories, is demented carnival barking to distract from they *can’t find any fraud whatsoever*

Zero. Their “cases” are quite seriously laughed out of court- even by the Trump appointees. 2/3
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5:23 AM · Nov 28, 2020 from Braddock, PA

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John Fetterman
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Nov 28, 2020
Replying to @JohnFetterman
Go enjoy your weekend and let them argue 1+1= 3 because “I read that on a FB thread and my cousin’s girlfriend’s sister heard it at work yesterday.”
John Fetterman
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The Gettysburg Times also reports that Adams County (literally as 🟥 a county as you can get) said it’s election was “top notch, relatively flawless”.

These snake-handlers can’t get a single county to admit fraud BECAUSE every single 67 counties has affirmed there was NONE.
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12:11 PM · Nov 28, 2020 from Braddock, PA

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Josh Shapiro
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I want to make this clear: Doug Mastriano knew what he was doing when he defied law enforcement, crossed police barricades, and marched to the Capitol on January 6th.

He took part in an attempted coup — and now he wants to be our Governor. We can't let him.

He's too dangerous.
5:03 PM · Jul 17, 2022

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Josh Shapiro
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Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are getting behind our campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania.

And it's because the challenges we face affect each of us — and we must work together if we're going to get things done.
11:35 AM · Jul 17, 2022

[gab13by13]

7. Scary thing,

I see a lot of Mastriano signs in central Pa. Only saw 1 Oz sign.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I think the GOP here is looking to unseat Bob Casey in 2024

and taking a hard pass on Senate right now in this 2022 race.

But there is also a good-sized group of moderate, Raygun/Poppy Bush/Thornburgh-Ridge Republicans who have been throwing their support behind Shapiro.

I saw ads running during MSNBC's post-J6 hearing coverage last week. WaPo appears to have it on their site although I can't find a youtube link to it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/shapiro-on-mastriano-way-too-extreme-campaign-ad-2022/2022/07/06/b8bdcf76-6966-4174-8603-6e3d2391031e_video.html

One set formed a PAC called Republicans4Shapiro. Their website is here.

The Lincoln Project had this ad out -

[Initech]

9. Silly conservatives! There's no take backs on the internet!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Let's Go Doug!

He's gonna be toast. And "Let's Go ....." could be used to troll any Republican. They invented the slogan, use it against them.

Used against Republicans, wouldn't that tend to neutralize the Brandon ones?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. LOL

[IronLionZion]

13. That's what they voted for in the GOP primaries

he's worried general election voters are not into extreme stupidity

[FakeNoose]

14. Josh Shapiro - our PA AG - saved Pennsylvania from going over the cliff last year

There would have been numerous fake "election audits" in several red counties after the 2020 election because they were all ITCHING for it. Lots of unsupported claims of "fraud" and "they stole it" from the ChumpHumpers, led by Doug Mastriano.

Josh Shapiro kept his cool. He said OK any counties that impound their brand-new electronic voting machines for a fake audit - THOSE COUNTIES WILL PAY TO REPLACE THEIR VOTING MACHINES out of their own funds. The counties all shut up immediately because the ChumpHumpers had nothing to say. They all knew it was a lie. A Big Lie.

If you recall the weird stuff going on in Arizona in 2021 (the fake election audit), it would have been even weirder in Pennsylvania if Josh hadn't put his foot down immediately. The same asshole (Mastriano) who tried to orchestrate the electoral vote coup in Pennsylvania is now running against Shapiro for the Governorship. There are still a lot of red hats here in PA. Even so enough of us are smart enough to see what a disaster Mastriano would be if he ever got elected Governor. The Dems and the independents are uniting behind Josh Shapiro. Even a few Repukes have endorsed Shapiro - that's how bad Mastriano is.

Thank you Josh Shapiro!

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Yeah between Fetterman's unrelenting trolling of the loons and Shapiro's - "I got this"

that was the only way I could survive the onslaught that we had to suffer through during and after the 2020 election.

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Josh Shapiro
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I’ve been telling everyone who will listen: these suits are baseless, stay calm, Rudy has no facts, I’m on it.

When can I say I told you so? 😉

Suit dismissed. Laws matter.
Jeremy Roebuck
@jeremyrroebuck
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign's last lawsuit seeking to delay certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
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6:30 PM · Nov 21, 2020

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Josh Shapiro
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🚨 Pennsylvania Election Update 2:

The Trump campaign was attempting to throw out ballots from eligible voters.

Guess what? They just lost in the PA Supreme Court. Again.
3:47 PM · Nov 23, 2020

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Josh Shapiro
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🚨Pennsylvania Election Update:

48 hours after a blistering ruling from a federal judge denying Rudy’s claims, another attack on the election process was just denied.

One more victory for PA voters. The will of the people will not be thwarted.
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4:10 PM · Nov 23, 2020

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AG Josh Shapiro
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Pennsylvania’s presidential electors have been chosen and certified in accordance with the popular vote in our Commonwealth.

This is exactly how the process should happen — the people vote, those votes are counted, and the electors chosen reflect the will of the people.
Governor Tom Wolf
@GovernorTomWolf
Today @PAStateDept certified the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for president and vice president of the United States.

As required by federal law, I’ve signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
11:31 AM · Nov 24, 2020

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Josh Shapiro
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I just cast my electoral vote in Pennsylvania for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris.

The American people voted ✔️
Joe Biden got the most votes ✔️
States certified election results ✔️
The electoral college cast votes ✔️

Next up: Inauguration Day 🇺🇸
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12:38 PM · Dec 14, 2020

[gab13by13]

15. Can't wait to vote for Shapiro and Fetterman.

[dchill]

19. KR4PA!

[Deminpenn]

20. This story was reprinted/reposted in the Post-Gazette today

Sure looks like ol' Doug is trying to scrub the crazy off himself, but it won't work.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2022/07/18/doug-mastriano-deleting-facebook-videos-pa-governors-race-candidates-josh-shapiro-conspiracy-theories/stories/202207180060

We all know nothing ever dies on the internet.