Fake News

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Thanks to deO for tipping us off to this one,

Top 10 distorted headlines of the week

This week’s top 10 list included headlines that sensationalized the way public figures relate. For instance, Rand Paul’s, the Koch brothers’ and Michael Cohen’s relationship to (can you guess?) President Donald Trump made the list. Try matching these descriptions with one of those three parties: “special bond,” “blow up détente” and “Russia wingman.”

https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-new ... nes18aug3/

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[Haumana]

CNN Phail Porn never goes stale. Almost as good at the TYT election night coverage. Top shelf nonetheless.

[C-Mag]

CNN Phail Porn never goes stale. Almost as good at the TYT election night coverage. Top shelf nonetheless.

Do you think hosts on CNN get docked pay or dressed down for allowing a guest to say something positive about Trump?

Working at CNN must be grueling and boring. I'd want to kill myself if I worked there. Can you imagine what it's like...………………..

Let's see John, what's making news today. Oh, we're going to run 23.95 hours of Trump sucks. Jane what have you got today...……… Well, I'm really out of new stories on how Trump is a racist, actually I've been out for 3 years, but I can go find a black college professor who will state that I guess...….

Doing the same shit, same stories for FOUR YEARS.

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Poor lil jimmie

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Brooke is hot tho

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Did you say BOOBS??

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Did you say BOOBS??

Sorry. Female mammalian protuberances then.

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Check this out.

Trump Throws Word Salads at California Wildfire Crisis

It’s hardly unprecedented for the president of the United States to say nonsensical or completely mendacious things on Twitter, worded strangely. But this tweet over the weekend was especially odd:

California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018

As, well, just about every expert noted immediately, you don’t stop wildfires by spraying them with water like you’d do with a house fire in a city.

Note the link to another story to back up their claim from "experts." Where does that go?

Trump tweet blaming water diversion for fires baffles experts
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/articl ... 133880.php

There are only two people quoted in the piece. One is a spokesman, not a firefighter, who said,

Not that I’m aware of. ... but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

and the other.....

wait for it

a climate scientist

and get this

he didn't say shit about how fires are fought

But the tweet had LeRoy Westerling, a UC Merced professor specializing in wildfire and climatology, chuckling.

“On the water side, it boggles the mind,” he said. “We do manage all of our rivers in California, and all the water is allocated many times over. So I’m not sure what he was recommending.

“Even if we eliminated all habitat for riparian species and fish, and allowed saltwater intrusion into the delta and set up a sprinkler system over the state, that wouldn’t compensate for greater moisture loss from climate change.”

Nothing about water not being used to fight fires on the page linked to to supposedly show that experts all agree that water has nothing to do with fighting fires.

The funniest part was cubicle gardener running in here to lay down some nawlidge about not fighting fires with water.