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Last week, suspected lesbian, part-time exotic jungle dancer, and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waddled like a postmenopausal penguin into DC and urged a captive crowd of lawmakers to beware of âfake newsâ:
The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past yearâitâs now clear that so-called fake news can have real world consequences. This isnât about politics or bipartisanship. Lives are at risk.
OK, Madame Secretary, I think Iâm pickinâ up what youâre throwinâ down hereâdisseminating false information can kill people, is that about it?
Would this include the time you voted for a war based on a lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and about five thousand American soldiers died as a result of such fake news. Would it also include your fake storyâwidely disseminated at first by a fawning, gullible mediaâthat a video caused four American deaths in Benghazi?
Still, many journalists have joined with Ms. Clinton in decrying this horrid recent shit-tsunami of fake-ass news. Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather warned about âcompletely false thingsâ that âgo viral and worldwide.â (It bears noting that Ratherâs journalistic career suffered irreparable harm after it was revealed that he pushed a set of documents attempting to discredit George W. Bush that turned out to be âblatant forgeries.â)
On his new MSNBC show, Brian Williams stated, without a shred of supporting evidence, that âFake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.â (It bears noting that Williams no longer hosts NBCâs Nightly News after it was publicized that heâd completely fabricated numerous items about himself and his journalism career.)
âAt this late date, anyone who fails to realize that the US government and its media accomplices generate fake news as a matter of course is a dim bulb indeed.â
This sudden recent moral panic about âfake newsâ was ramped up by a November 24 Washington Post article called âRussian propaganda effort helped spread âfake newsâ during election, experts say.â
(The Washington Post is a highly esteemed American journalistic institution. Along with achieving notoriety when one of its reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for a completely fakestory about an eight-year-old black heroin addict, its reporters were also members of the 2008 âJournoListâ cabal that privately colluded to help elect Barack Obama. Proving that it is indeed an objective and trustworthy news outlet rather than a DNC mouthpiece, the Post recently hired twenty reporters to dig up dirt on Donald Trump during the presidential campaign and apparently zero reporters to investigate Hillary Clinton.)
In their recent attempt at a hard-hitting âfake newsâ exposĂŠâwhich The Hill described as âperhaps the shoddiest piece of feature writing since Rolling Stone published its blatantly false story about a campus rape at the University of Virginiaâ and which Rolling Stone called âShameful and Disgustingââpredictably geeky-looking writer Craig Timberg cites an anonymous group calling itself PropOrNot, allegedly comprised of ânonpartisanâ researchers who just so happen to have an axe to grind with âmuthafuckinâ fascists.â The group has compiled a blacklist of 200 or so websites they accuse of being either actively complicit with, or âuseful idiotsâ of, Russian propagandists. No evidence is offered for how or why any of the content that these sites publish would qualify as Russian propaganda, just as none of PropOrNotâs members are identified or their credentials scrutinized. Still, many other MSM outlets ran with the Postâs story like the dupes they are and were apparently born to be.
The venerable New York Times is also up in arms about the âThreat of Fake Newsâ that may, as serial murderer Hillary Clinton suggested, lead to the loss of human lives.
(The New York Times is a highly regarded American daily newspaper. While Joseph Stalin was purposely starving millions of Ukrainians to death, a Times reporter won a Pulitzer for denying that it was happening. More recently, the paper was forced to fire a reporter for âroutinelyâ fabricating his articles. And during the presidential campaign, a Times scribe wondered out loud about whether reporters should dispense with normal constraints such as âobjectivityâ when dealing with the Rising Orange Monster Named Donald Trump.)
Itâs hard to believe that any of these major news outlets care that lives are at risk when their blind pursuit of ideology at the expense of facts has helped push the country to the brink of a violent race war. I lived through the LA Riots of 1992 in which 55 people died, but it wasnât until a few years ago that I learned Rodney King had two accomplices with him on the fateful night he was beaten. They obeyed police orders to remain on the ground and didnât get pummeled. If the mainstream media had even dared to mention this fact, the riots might never have occurred.
The lie that Trayvon Martin was an innocent choco-cherub who was only buying Skittlesârather than a thug-in-training who was bashing âwhite Hispanicâ George Zimmermanâs skull into the ground the moment he got shotâled to a wave of violent cross-country revenge attacks against whites. The lie that Michael Brown had his hands up and was pleading with a white cop not to shootârather than the fact that heâd just robbed a convenience store and was attacking the cop who eventually shot himâled to months of rioting and violence in Ferguson, MO, and other cities across America. And there are the much more recent serial lies about a mostly fake epidemic of pro-Trump hate crimes and the concomitant silence about actual violent crimes committed against Trump supporters. You blind field mice have gullibly swallowed every hate-crime hoax from Tawana Brawleyto Duke Lacrosse to the Phantom Klansman of Mizzouâfabricated mass hysteria which has severely damaged American race relations, if youâre actually concerned about such thingsâand suddenly youâre worried about âfake newsâ?
At this late date, anyone who fails to realize that the US government and its media accomplices generate fake news as a matter of course is a dim bulb indeed. The heroic Church Committee of the mid-1970s revealed that the CIAâs Operation Mockingbird had purposely infiltrated and manipulated hundreds of American media outlets. When Hillary Clinton spoke about âfake newsâ last week, she encouraged as a remedy the passage of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which allocates millions in order to âtrack foreign propaganda and disinformation efforts.â
The American deep state and the media institutions that slavishly prop it up appear to have realized that they no longer have absolute control over the flow of information, and this seems to upset them greatly. All these phony public conniptions about âfake newsâ are merely a collective case of the vapors among ruling elites alarmed at the fact that they can no longer dictate what everyone thinks.
Sure, thereâs plenty of fake news out there, from every deluded fanatic perched at every conceivable ideological angle. But what makes an unregulated Internet great is that if you have even a chipmunk-sized brain, you can sift through multiple sources on any given topic and eventually discern between whatâs real and whatâs fake.
It would be a grave mistake to allow the Powers that Be to erect some new Ministry of Truth that determines whatâs true and whatâs a lie. I canât remember the last war they started that wasnât based on a lie. These lying creeps know all about fake newsâthey invented the art form.
The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past yearâitâs now clear that so-called fake news can have real world consequences. This isnât about politics or bipartisanship. Lives are at risk.
OK, Madame Secretary, I think Iâm pickinâ up what youâre throwinâ down hereâdisseminating false information can kill people, is that about it?
Would this include the time you voted for a war based on a lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and about five thousand American soldiers died as a result of such fake news. Would it also include your fake storyâwidely disseminated at first by a fawning, gullible mediaâthat a video caused four American deaths in Benghazi?
Still, many journalists have joined with Ms. Clinton in decrying this horrid recent shit-tsunami of fake-ass news. Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather warned about âcompletely false thingsâ that âgo viral and worldwide.â (It bears noting that Ratherâs journalistic career suffered irreparable harm after it was revealed that he pushed a set of documents attempting to discredit George W. Bush that turned out to be âblatant forgeries.â)
On his new MSNBC show, Brian Williams stated, without a shred of supporting evidence, that âFake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.â (It bears noting that Williams no longer hosts NBCâs Nightly News after it was publicized that heâd completely fabricated numerous items about himself and his journalism career.)
âAt this late date, anyone who fails to realize that the US government and its media accomplices generate fake news as a matter of course is a dim bulb indeed.â
This sudden recent moral panic about âfake newsâ was ramped up by a November 24 Washington Post article called âRussian propaganda effort helped spread âfake newsâ during election, experts say.â
(The Washington Post is a highly esteemed American journalistic institution. Along with achieving notoriety when one of its reporters won a Pulitzer Prize for a completely fakestory about an eight-year-old black heroin addict, its reporters were also members of the 2008 âJournoListâ cabal that privately colluded to help elect Barack Obama. Proving that it is indeed an objective and trustworthy news outlet rather than a DNC mouthpiece, the Post recently hired twenty reporters to dig up dirt on Donald Trump during the presidential campaign and apparently zero reporters to investigate Hillary Clinton.)
In their recent attempt at a hard-hitting âfake newsâ exposĂŠâwhich The Hill described as âperhaps the shoddiest piece of feature writing since Rolling Stone published its blatantly false story about a campus rape at the University of Virginiaâ and which Rolling Stone called âShameful and Disgustingââpredictably geeky-looking writer Craig Timberg cites an anonymous group calling itself PropOrNot, allegedly comprised of ânonpartisanâ researchers who just so happen to have an axe to grind with âmuthafuckinâ fascists.â The group has compiled a blacklist of 200 or so websites they accuse of being either actively complicit with, or âuseful idiotsâ of, Russian propagandists. No evidence is offered for how or why any of the content that these sites publish would qualify as Russian propaganda, just as none of PropOrNotâs members are identified or their credentials scrutinized. Still, many other MSM outlets ran with the Postâs story like the dupes they are and were apparently born to be.
The venerable New York Times is also up in arms about the âThreat of Fake Newsâ that may, as serial murderer Hillary Clinton suggested, lead to the loss of human lives.
(The New York Times is a highly regarded American daily newspaper. While Joseph Stalin was purposely starving millions of Ukrainians to death, a Times reporter won a Pulitzer for denying that it was happening. More recently, the paper was forced to fire a reporter for âroutinelyâ fabricating his articles. And during the presidential campaign, a Times scribe wondered out loud about whether reporters should dispense with normal constraints such as âobjectivityâ when dealing with the Rising Orange Monster Named Donald Trump.)
Itâs hard to believe that any of these major news outlets care that lives are at risk when their blind pursuit of ideology at the expense of facts has helped push the country to the brink of a violent race war. I lived through the LA Riots of 1992 in which 55 people died, but it wasnât until a few years ago that I learned Rodney King had two accomplices with him on the fateful night he was beaten. They obeyed police orders to remain on the ground and didnât get pummeled. If the mainstream media had even dared to mention this fact, the riots might never have occurred.
The lie that Trayvon Martin was an innocent choco-cherub who was only buying Skittlesârather than a thug-in-training who was bashing âwhite Hispanicâ George Zimmermanâs skull into the ground the moment he got shotâled to a wave of violent cross-country revenge attacks against whites. The lie that Michael Brown had his hands up and was pleading with a white cop not to shootârather than the fact that heâd just robbed a convenience store and was attacking the cop who eventually shot himâled to months of rioting and violence in Ferguson, MO, and other cities across America. And there are the much more recent serial lies about a mostly fake epidemic of pro-Trump hate crimes and the concomitant silence about actual violent crimes committed against Trump supporters. You blind field mice have gullibly swallowed every hate-crime hoax from Tawana Brawleyto Duke Lacrosse to the Phantom Klansman of Mizzouâfabricated mass hysteria which has severely damaged American race relations, if youâre actually concerned about such thingsâand suddenly youâre worried about âfake newsâ?
At this late date, anyone who fails to realize that the US government and its media accomplices generate fake news as a matter of course is a dim bulb indeed. The heroic Church Committee of the mid-1970s revealed that the CIAâs Operation Mockingbird had purposely infiltrated and manipulated hundreds of American media outlets. When Hillary Clinton spoke about âfake newsâ last week, she encouraged as a remedy the passage of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which allocates millions in order to âtrack foreign propaganda and disinformation efforts.â
The American deep state and the media institutions that slavishly prop it up appear to have realized that they no longer have absolute control over the flow of information, and this seems to upset them greatly. All these phony public conniptions about âfake newsâ are merely a collective case of the vapors among ruling elites alarmed at the fact that they can no longer dictate what everyone thinks.
Sure, thereâs plenty of fake news out there, from every deluded fanatic perched at every conceivable ideological angle. But what makes an unregulated Internet great is that if you have even a chipmunk-sized brain, you can sift through multiple sources on any given topic and eventually discern between whatâs real and whatâs fake.
It would be a grave mistake to allow the Powers that Be to erect some new Ministry of Truth that determines whatâs true and whatâs a lie. I canât remember the last war they started that wasnât based on a lie. These lying creeps know all about fake newsâthey invented the art form.
