Fake News Reporting Thread

[BeBMan]

CNN cut away from Handel's victory speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel

[Ming]

Fake News. Normalizing violence. Sociopathic.

Kidiot

[Proteus_MST]

This definitely fits into the Fake News-Thread:

Trump spreading fake news by complaining, that the Democrats don't (want to) work together with the Republicans with regardds to Healthcare:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...74368661618688


I don't know if this is cluelessness from the part of Trump, or outright lyring ... it isn't always clear with him ...
but if he were honest (and/or well-informed) he would know that the (small circle of 13) GOP senators have blocked so far any information requests of the Democrats about the Trumpcare bill they develope ... and prefer to develope Trumpcare behind tightly shut doors, without any bipartisan input and also without even giving the smallest snippeet of informations (not even to partymembers outside of the small circle of 13)

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/20/po...nts/index.html

Which btw. is in stark contrast to Obamacare, which was develped with lots of bipartian input and informations flowing freely between the outside and the circles that developed it

http://www.snopes.com/aca-versus-ahca/

[rah]

IT's almost like they're embarrassed about it. Or will be when everyone else finally sees it. I just hope that happens before they vote on it.

[Ming]

They probably don't want to give anybody a chance to estimate how many people will lose health insurance because of the new plan.

And Proteus is dead on with his post... The Repubs have NO INTEREST in getting any input from the Dems. Work together? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Proteus_MST]

Perhaps they know that, in order to get the necessary healthcare spending decreases that they need to finance the tax cuts for the rich (Trumps most important project I guess), they need to strip the healthcare act of so much funds, that it will leave millions (of people who now are insured) with no (or improper) affordable health insurance.

No surprise then, that they want the ****storm to start only after the senate voting for the new healthcare act has been (ideally successfully) completed

[giblets]

Ban Shakespeare, his plays normalize violence. Wow, conservatives have gone full ******.

[rah]

They can only afford a couple of defections or they don't have a chance of passing anything. I'm guessing that by not disclosing it so that fellow republicans won't have time to grow a back bone.

[Kidlicious]

Maybe Trump is going to start having "plays" at rallies where Patriots kill "Nazis" but the Nazis wear pantsuits.

[BeBMan]

Ban Shakespeare, his plays normalize violence. Wow, conservatives have gone full ******.

I'm glad the former UN overlord is gone, he always wanted to Ban Ki-moon /teehee

[BeBMan]

Ban

[Kidlicious]

Otto Warmbier's arrest was a big joke for some on the Left - are they laughing now?


By Martin HintonPublished June 20, 2017Fox News

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Otto Warmbier dies one week after release from North Korea

Whenever a tragic event hits the news—whether it’s as monumental as the thousands dying on 9/11, or as personal as the crew perishing on the Challenger space shuttle—something predictable happens afterwards. Continue Reading Below



People make jokes.
It’s part of human nature. Something is so awful, you have to laugh to keep from crying.
But here’s the thing—previously, these jokes were underground. They’d be passed quietly from person to person, sometimes with a sense of embarrassment. You wouldn’t turn on the TV or read a humor column to find them.
Now, however, it seems the atmosphere has become so ugly that TV, and widely-read websites, are the first place you go to hear the mockery.
Otto Warmbier just died. He was 22. Continue Reading Below



A year and a half ago, he took a trip to North Korea and, apparently, stole a propaganda poster.
North Korean officials arrested him and forced him to make a public confession. In June this year he was returned to the United States. He had serious brain damage and was in a coma. He died on Monday.
It’s not a funny story. Yet, when it first surfaced last year, it left a number of people in stitches.
Leftwing website Salon, in a piece that has since been removed, referred to him as “America’s biggest idiot frat boy.”
The Huffington Post, while taking his situation a bit more seriously, used the story as an opportunity to lecture us on Warmbier’s overbearing sense of white privilege.
Worst of all was humorist Larry Wilmore’s take on his Comedy Central show. He did a whole segment on the story, having a jolly old time at Warmbier’s expense.
The piece made extensive jokes about what a dumb frat boy he was, even mocking his name because it sounds like “warm beer.” The show put up a picture of him with the imaginary fraternity letters Alpha Sigma Sigma—ASS.
It might be claimed Wilmore couldn’t know how Otto’s story would end. That he’d likely make it home unharmed, as has happened to other foreigners detained in North Korea.
But even back in 2016, it was clear Warmbier’s story was no laughing matter. North Korea is maybe the most repressive nation on earth, and even under the best circumstances, Warmbier’s plight was horrifying. And since he was being held indefinitely, no one could count on North Korea’s sense of due process or respect for human rights to protect him.
Warmbier did foolish things, no question, and people can learn lessons from what happened. But it shouldn’t be forgotten he was no spy, or terrorist, or murderer, he was just a kid who got killed for what was essentially a prank.
So why were people laughing?
Maybe it does come down to a certain type of privilege. Because Warmbier was a white frat boy, he was the perfect target. A lot of people seem to have felt this allowed them to go after him mercilessly.
I guess they’re not laughing anymore.

I think they are laughing inside, because they lust for blood. It's an evil laugh. There's a lot of it here. JM, you admit to hating "privileged" white frat boys, isn't that right?

[BeBMan]

...even mocking his name because it sounds like “warm beer.”

That's actually the literal meaning of this name in German.

[Proteus_MST]

His name doesn't just sound like "warm beer" it actually literally means "warm beer" in german (the boy obviously was from german descent fom his fathers side)

I am surprised that you aren't glad about his demise ... one carrier of Nazi genes less

Edit:
Ninja'd by Bebro with regards to the name

[rah]

Considering his ample displays of hatred for liberals, it humorous listening to kidiot call out others on their hatreds.