Weeping and gnashing of teeth seen in Save Anchorage over Halcro's podcast

Good luck getting through this one with a straight face because it's rich.

The pro-Bronson Save Anchorage political Facebook group that has more Republican operatives, candidates for office, politicians, and members of the scandal-plagued Bronson administration in it than one can count is ostensibly one of the biggest disseminators of conspiracy theories in Anchorage and perhaps even the state — which makes it curious that group administrator Reclaim Midtown would even take the time to spoon feed a narrative to the group — seemingly upset over recent reporting by Andrew Halcro.

To be clear, Save Anchorage isn't a good group. Members have been photographed wearing holocaust imagery, have referred to members of the Anchorage Assembly as pedophiles, called for civil war over proposed mask mandates, celebrated the January 6 armed attack carried out on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters, waged disinformation campaigns on mask-wearing and vaccines, and have stated that Dominion voting machines were untrustworthy.

In February, Must Read Alaska received a strike against its YouTube account for "misinformation" after they clipped, compiled, and published public testimony given at an Assembly meeting in which members of Save Anchorage were in attendance and who are known to spread falsehoods about masks and mask-wearing. East Anchorage Assembly Member Forrest Dunbar said testimony given that night was a "platform of disinformation about masks and what they do." It turns out Mr. Dunbar was right.

Some members of Save Anchorage see those on the left side of politics as liars and enemies and often make unsubstantiated false claims, such as this one that asserts former Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz was busted for raping someone.

Anyway, "Reclaim Midtown," which has twice failed tremendously in its efforts to recall sitting assembly members, wrote in a Save Anchorage post that Halcro's recent reporting on Anchorage Mayor David Bronson's shadowy police force was "wack."

"Just so you understand how this works, the political machine pushing these types of narratives bubble up defamatory accusations through fail(ing) blogs and anonymous sources, and then the local media quotes those "sources" in an attempt to give the lie legs," Reclaim Midtown wrote without clarifying what mysterious "political machine" was making the alleged defamatory accusations.

The term "defamation" has been used by members of Save Anchorage in the past, once alleging nonsensically that an ad put out by the Dunbar for Mayor campaign, which outlined differences between himself and David Bronson, made defamatory claims.

Continuing in their narrative, which appears to lament the lack of ethics in journalism, Reclaim Midtown, who has been written about and interviewed quite a bit by far-right propaganda outlet Must Read Alaska, known for utilizing unnamed sources to substantiate their own "reporting," alleged that the "serious claims" Halcro made in his Anchorage Daily News hosted podcast, was a "slap in the face to actual journalists."

If you're still able to read this — not blinded by the tears of laughter caused by the stench of hypocrisy— it gets better, as the civic activist resorted to name-calling and dubbed The Blue Alaskan Blog "The Blue Confabulator," which, while amusing if not petty and dull, is a pretty rich statement coming from an administrator of a group whose members spread baseless conspiracy theories at Assembly meetings, have threatened public officials and who are part of a network of affiliated social media groups.

The Save Anchorage post about Halcro drew a comment from a group member — laced with homophobia, who responded that if Halcro was going to spin lies, they wanted good ones and not "limp-wristed lisping lies."

On brand were other comments made by very fine members of the group who called Halcro a hack, a rino from the old guard, and accused him of pulling a page out of the Pelosi playbook by spinning lies and rumors.

Of course, the pro-Bronson group of supporters had forgotten they'd previously quickly embraced Mayor Bronson's assertion that he did not turn off the city's fluoridation system during an October 1 visit to the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility pl. This story made its way to the New York Times and a host of other media and news outlets after the Alaska Landmine cited anonymous sources about the incident, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, panned true.

What the "do your own research" Facebook clan fails to comprehend is that political scandals can be brought to life by anonymous sources, as was the case when Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein, gave rise to the most well known presidential scandal in history — Watergate.

Admittedly, very few people initially believed that the allegations surrounding Fluoridegate would be accurate, but in the end, they were. In his December 24 podcast, Halcro puts a name to Bronson's alleged shadow police force and drops other interesting details surrounding Unelected Mayor Amy Demboski, who may have information about allegations Mayor Bronson's office "ordered Chief McCoy to have APD officers enter Anchorage medical facilities in order to "rescue" a man sick with COVID and/or compel medical providers to treat the man with Ivermectin."

As the Bronson Administration deals with demands for documents from Assembly leadership, time will tell whether the allegations published by the Landmine and Halcro hold up. Given the fluoridated water dripping into the proverbial water bucket, it seems possible another scandal could rock Anchorage in the near future.