The MAGA who runs Staunton Guided Tours, Bruce Fox, seems to think that his freedom of speech has more weight than anybody else’s.
“What I have learned from this is that opposing views are not welcomed at AFP. Not so free, in my opinion. Augusta Liberal Press might be a better name,” Fox, a transplant into Staunton by way of Montana, Colorado and Minnesota, wrote in a thread on the AFP Facebook page attached to a story headlined “Staunton Guided Tours on our Facebook page: ‘There is no Epstein file cover up.’”
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News flash, Brucie: “liberal” ain’t the insult you seem to think it is.
The story published on Tuesday reported that the “person in control of the clicker on the Staunton Guided Tours Facebook page had posted on a comment thread on our Monday story on Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares hosting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi at a human-trafficking conference.
The thrust of our reporting on the Miayres-Bondi thing: Miyares, who has exercised his right to remain silent on Jeffrey Epstein, was hosting a human trafficking summit that had Bondi, who is in charge of the Epstein files coverup, as a guest speaker.
Fox, under his own name, this time, confirmed what we already knew.
“I accidentally posted from my business account instead of my personal account. The ‘people’ at Staunton Guided Tours are just me, Bruce Fox,” he wrote.
So, the owner of the business – thanks for that clarification, Bruce, seriously, we had no idea – is the MAGA who opined this on the Epstein files matter:
“Do you honestly think that if there was something bad about Trump in the files the Autopen administration would have kept it secret?”
Fox wants us to see a distinction in how he meant to post this comment lending legitimacy to the politically directed coverup of the most extensive child-rape ring in recorded history under his name, and not the name of his business, which, in his view, should keep the name of his business out of the discussion.
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- Donald Trump, again, changes his story on Jeffrey Epstein, that guy he doesn’t know
- Trump now claims breakup with Jeffrey Epstein was over underage girl
He’s trying to do damage control here.
It’s not working, but, credit, he’s trying.
My whole point to sharing what the guy at Staunton Guided Tours had to say about the coverup of the Epstein files is, Fox runs a company that operates guided tours in a left-leaning city – Staunton voted Democrat in each of the past three presidential cycles, giving both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris double-digit victories locally.
Of course, locals don’t need a guided tour. People coming to town for Shakespeare and fine dining are the market.
The liberals that Fox doesn’t care for coming from Northern Virginia and the Northeast thinking that Staunton is a safe space for a weekend of good food and theater have a right to know that the guided tour company posted up at the Staunton Visitor Center is run by somebody who thinks the word “liberal” is an insult, among whatever other things he thinks about them.
“I do not claim to share the same views as my many incredible tour guides, some of whom are regular attendees at the frequent Saturday rallies,” Fox wrote, by way of trying to further the effort at damage control.
Which he then quickly undid.
“I stand by my comment,” Fox wrote.
Good on you, my man.
I actually respect the guy more for not backing down just because the mean ol’ liberal wrote something that a couple thousand people have read, and is going to be online forever and a day, since that’s how the interwebs work.
You be you, Bruce Fox.
That having been said, let’s keep this going.
I’m not sure we’ve got enough stories with “Staunton Guided Tours” as a headline to achieve what I’d like to in terms of SEO quite yet.
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