Fake News

[Speaker to Animals]

[Fife]

I'm so sorry; don't worry. I'm so sorry; don't worry.

DON'T WORRY

CNN is a joke. The state is a joke.

The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker.

[Speaker to Animals]

Guys, I think we're killing them.

[kybkh]

[C-Mag]

That's my girl!

Love Sharyl, one of the few great independent investigative journalist around.

[Fife]

Shot:

After Self-Reflection, Journalists Discover They’ve Been Too Critical Of … Democrats

There was too much reporting going on, they argue. Democracy dies in excessive transparency, apparently. Who is at “fault” for the election of Donald Trump, they ask, as if Clinton had been predestined to wear her crown. And did journalists do enough to propel history in the proper direction?

There is plenty of data available on this question. It’s difficult to believe this now, but at one point a number of top media outlets considered the first-ever FBI investigation of a major presidential candidate in the history of the republic to be somewhat newsworthy. So they proceeded to cover the candidate’s many lies, her purging of somewhere around 30,000 pieces of evidence, and the FBI’s she’s-so-freaking-guilty-but-not-guilty verdict. And when authorities uncovered a computer that should have been in the possession of the FBI but was instead accessible to the sex-addicted husband of a top Hillary aide, they reported that, as well. This should have all been ignored.

Chaser:

The Great Tune-Out
Better things to do.

If this sounds to you less like an award show and more like a repellent therapy session for frazzled liberals, you’re in voluminous company. Though adjustments may change the preliminary verdict, this year’s Emmys are set to underperform even last year’s all-time low ratings. Maybe the politics on display were irrelevant; maybe the rise of streaming services has made traditional broadcast television a dying product. Maybe. But the Emmys misfortunes are of a familiar sort. This tune out is starting to feel like a trend.
. . .

Movies, cable and broadcast television, music; this tune out isn’t entirely about cord cutting. This is something broader. Any attempt to divorce politics from the public’s waning interest in entertainment media cannot compel without addressing the ubiquity of liberal political messaging permeating the products artists produce. Of course, no one can or should compel an artist to sacrifice their values for commercial viability. Nor, however, can you force consumers to endure a scolding they’d rather avoid.

[C-Mag]

I'm so sorry; don't worry. I'm so sorry; don't worry.

DON'T WORRY

CNN is a joke. The state is a joke.

The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker.

I saw this a while back, I love that gal. She was pissed and waited around for them to go live just to bitch them out for being the vampiric soulless bloodsucking leeches that they are. Fucking Corporate news.

[kybkh]

Heard the MSM bemoaning how Trump was attacking Senator Songbird on his deathbed because how good a patriot 5-Time Lucky McCain is. Made me want to see what they had to say about him before he had outted himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mort-sner ... 23546.html

Here’s a few things we DO know:

1. He graduated at the bottom of his class at the naval academy. Some reports state that he wouldn’t have graduated at all if not for his father, the decorated admiral.
2. He crashed five planes.
3. He broke both his arms, not from abuse by Viet Cong but failing to hold them in when he ejected after being down.
4. He received special treatment in POW camps due to his father’s position.
5. He gave military and other information to his captors in exchange for medical treatment not afforded other prisoners.
6. He made 32 propaganda films/tapes for the Viet Cong.
7. He was given access to dignitaries and international reporters.
8. He was kept away from other prisoners much of the time (which makes verification conveniently tough).
9. He was given the nickname “Songbird” because he so freely gave out information.
10. He snubbed the villager that saved his life after the crash, but maintained a life-long relationship with one of his captors.
11. He was not promoted after being released, which is often the case.
12. He went to great lengths to have his military and POW records sealed.
13. He also fought to seal the records of other MIA/POW’s and prevent their families from investigating and trying to recover their loved ones.
14. He continues to hedge against benefits for GI’s, even though he is the recipient of those benefits.

His whole campaign is based on his status as a war hero. But if he’s really the hero he claims to be, why not release the records? Why change and embellish the few stories he likes to repeat? Why not help others who are still missing their soldiers in Vietnam after all these years? Why not speak out for better treatment of GI’s and veterans? Why not talk about his experiences candidly and answer questions frankly instead of holding them up as a banner of unimpeachable glory?

[Hastur]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09 ... ussia.html

The Washington Post has made a correction to an explosive cover story that undermines the entire premise of Monday’s front-page article headlined, "Obama sought to prod Facebook on Russia role."

The problem, according to a Facebook executive, is that when Obama reached out to the social media giant in 2016 to discuss political disinformation spreading on the site, he didn’t actually call out Russia – essentially making the Post’s headline misleading and inaccurate. Or, as President Trump would call it, “fake news.”

As first reported by Axios, the Post added significant information to the digital version of the story with the disclaimer, “This story has been updated with an additional response from Facebook.” The response from Facebook that didn’t make the paper’s print edition is vital and changed the story enough that the word “Russia” was removed from the updated headline.

[Fife]