I guess the spinner landed on Russia again, seeing that Hillary is back in the news.
Fighting Back Against Fake News
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I guess the spinner landed on Russia again, seeing that Hillary is back in the news.
I think it's becoming pretty obvious what we are seeing is the first counter-attack of the neo-cons against Trump. Look who's out front, Johnny McCain and his stunt double, Lindsey Graham. Both have seemingly made it their life's work to start WW III. So the coalition of neo-cons and republicans owned by the defense industry, ie pretty much all of them, don't like the idea of Trump changing foreign policy to one that actually benefits the US.
Typical of their cowardice, they didn't have the stones to take on Trump directly. they laid back and waited until the democrats/major media started this russian hackers bogus scandal. Then they hopped in. they saw it as no lose. They figured they could always use the whole thing as leverage with Trump and trade it for something they cared about.
Mr. Trump don't play that game. He took dead aim at Boeing and fired, direct hit. He was afraid he still didn't have their attention. so he fired off a volley at Lockheed Martin. Ouch, that left a frickin' mark. Message: don't fuck with me. Capiche?
Yeah, you got to ask yourself why so many on both sides of the aisle are so eager thrown down with Putin.
If foreign hacking is what it takes to expose the corruption then that's what it takes. Our own "journalists" have abandon any pretense of investigative reporting, so we cannot and should not trust them until they EARN back that trust. The people at FOX and the others are no worse than MSNBC, CNN and a long list of other left leaning outlets. Truly, it is a sad state of affairs when we must rely on foreign entities to expose the truth, but that's what happens when the American media climbs in bed with the very people they're suppose to be holding accountable.
To paraphrase VDate, why should we get in a war to preserve Crimea's borders when our elites have no interest in defending our own borders?
That's the world we find ourselves in. We know we can't trust the media. They have been lying about Trump for a year. Suddenly they are going to become trustworthy?
We know we can't trust the congressional republicans. In some ways they are even more despicable than the media. At least the media are open with their hostility. The republicans pretend to be our allies but sell us out at the first opportunity.
Now it appears that the CIA has become so politicized that we can't trust it either. It is brazenly trying to undermine a new president by leaking unsubstantiated conclusions.
Frankly, I don't really care who leaked the wikileaks stuff. The media and the left have been playing gotcha games with our side for so long, it's about time someone turned the tables on them. It's not our fault they opened themselves up to this embarrassment by their own unethical conduct.
When I bitch at the media, I am really bitching at myself. What I'm really mad at is I once trusted her (the media.) Believed everything hook, line and sinker. If I saw it on tv that verified it. Yes, they all lied to me. Screw me once and I like it. Screw everybody all the time shame on you. And I'll never fall for the media or anything like it ever again.
"Hillary Clinton takes time out from running a child sex ring and chopping up babies to say that fake news is an 'epidemic"...
Hillary Clinton: Fake News an ‘Epidemic’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats...s-an-epidemic.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
She must be watching MSNBC while reading the New York Times.
Hillary Clinton: Fake News an ‘Epidemic’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats...s-an-epidemic.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
She must be watching MSNBC while reading the New York Times.
I hope at least a few here realize how comedic this article is. The author committed the identical crime that he/she criticizes.
Fighting Back Against Fake News
BY ANDREW KLAVAN DECEMBER 11, 2016
Every liar from Hillary Clinton to Brian Williams is up in arms at what the liars at the New York Times are calling the "Fake News Onslaught." The make-believe outrage, largely aimed at censoring conservative opposition to the media's left-wing agenda, hit fever pitch last week after an armed man walked into the popular D.C. Pizza joint and music venue Comet Ping Pong and fired a rifle, claiming he had come to investigate the online rumors known as Pizzagate.
Pizzagate is the notion that Hillary Clinton and her minions are running a satanic child sex ring in the restaurant's basement. I've taken the time to look into the theory and it's ridiculous, wholly unfounded, its "proofs" absurd.
But when I mentioned that the theory was bunk on my podcast the other day, a few listeners became angry with me. One was so incensed she says she cancelled her subscription to The Daily Wire, the website that hosts my cast. This certainly testifies to how attached people become to these false ideas, and how dangerous they can be.
So as a public service — and braving the anger of my readership — I'd like to expose a few other absurd fake news stories.
1. Police Target Blacks
After a white police officer shot and killed a large black thug who was attacking him in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, witnesses falsely claimed that the thug had surrendered before being shot, putting up his hands and saying, "Don't shoot." This fed into the mainstream media thesis that police were unfairly targeting black youths for violence. Both the "hands up, don't shoot" scenario and the overall notion of widespread police bigotry have been thoroughly debunked and yet fake news sites such as CNN and the New York Times continue to keep up their onslaught of lies. Unlike the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, these lies have contributed to multiple deaths and repeated riots. Should fake news sites like CNN and the Times be shut down before more people die?
2. The Obama Economy is Strong
Once again, we find the pernicious fake news site the New York Times at the center of this absurd story. Desperate to obscure the near-total failure of the Obama presidency, the Times has been using fake news sites like nytimes.com to spread the absurd notion that "Donald J. Trump can expect to inherit an economy that has added private sector jobs for 80 months, put another 178,000 people on payrolls last month and pushed the unemployment rate down to 4.6 percent today from 4.9 percent the previous month. Wage growth, though slower, is still running ahead of inflation, and consumers are expressing the highest levels of confidence in nearly a decade." In fact, while energy-rich states like Texas and Kentucky have thrived, the National Association of Counties reports that 93% of the nation's counties have not recovered from the 2008 crash. Median incomes are down. And the drop in the unemployment number disguises the fact that labor participation is at its lowest rate since the horrible Carter years. When you add people who would like to work or work more, the real unemployment rate is very close to ten percent. Oh, and by the way, those rising levels of confidence may have something to do with the fact Obama is leaving office.
3. The Climate is in Crisis
This nonsensical story, promulgated by various fake left-wing news sites like NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and others, was designed to arouse the sort of panic that causes people to foolishly give more power to the government. In fact, reports of disastrous climate change have been dialed back even by those most committed to spreading the panic. Just as important, the proposed "solutions" to the climate catastrophe have been shown to be ineffective and overpriced.
These and other fake news stories have endangered lives, cost money and threatened, our liberties. It is time to take action against the fake news sites that spread these lies. Out of respect to the First Amendment, I believe our best approach is simply to ignore them entirely.
Oh wait. We already do.
https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2016/12/11/fighting-back-against-fake-news/?singlepage=true
How so?