Fake News Reporting Thread

[Kidlicious]

[Berzerker]

fake news: Mexicans are rapists and neo-Nazis are good people

and some of the people who keep repeating these lies say Trump's strategy is to repeat lies often enough they're believed.

hypocrites

[Proteus_MST]

fake news: Mexicans are rapists and neo-Nazis are good people

and some of the people who keep repeating these lies say Trump's strategy is to repeat lies often enough they're believed.

hypocrites

One has to admit that Trump seems to follow the advices of "one of the best" with regards of Propaganda (or at least, Trump proves him right)

All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

[-Jrabbit]

Here's what Trump loyalist Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said on Fox News today. I'll put the punchline at the top for TL;DR types:

"President Trump himself in the [former FBI Director James] Comey memos said, ‘If anyone connected with my campaign was working with Russia, I want you to investigate it. Sounds to me like that was exactly what the FBI did."”

Full text:

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the FBI acted appropriately when it used an informant to gather information about Donald Trump campaign advisers who allegedly had suspicious contacts linked to Russia prior to the 2016 election. “

"I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,”" Gowdy said Tuesday during an interview on Fox News.

Gowdy last week attended a classified DOJ briefing alongside other top lawmakers regarding the informant and the tactics the FBI had used during the 2016 campaign. The South Carolina congressman, who is retiring this year, is the first GOP lawmaker briefed on the informant to directly rebut Trump and his allies regarding the surveillance claims.

Trump has ratcheted up his attacks against the Russia investigation, the Justice Department and the FBI in response to the revelation. He claimed the agency “infiltrated” and “spied” on his campaign under the orders of President Barack Obama, and he demanded that the Justice Department investigate the accusations and turn over any relevant documents to Congress.

Trump again tore into the FBI during a rally in Nashville on Tuesday evening, insisting that his campaign had been “infiltrated” by his political opponents. “Can you imagine?” he said, to boos in the audience.

But Gowdy maintained the FBI was simply following Trump’s orders when it investigated his campaign’s ties to Russia. "President Trump himself in the [former FBI Director James] Comey memos said, ‘If anyone connected with my campaign was working with Russia, I want you to investigate it,’”" Gowdy said Tuesday on Fox News. “"Sounds to me like that was exactly what the FBI did."”

[Kidlicious]

Howdy is assuming that they were spying on individuals, not the campaign. We'll see.

[Aeson]

Yah, Gowdy has only seen all the evidence first hand, w need to wait and see what some right wing pundits can speculate about!

[Kidlicious]

No he has not seen everything. They are hiding information.

[Kidlicious]

Idk why this had to be reported over and over again. They should have told Trump what was going on. They lied to him. That's why Comey was fired.

[Kidlicious]

fake news: Mexicans are rapists and neo-Nazis are good people

and some of the people who keep repeating these lies say Trump's strategy is to repeat lies often enough they're believed.

hypocrites

Hitler wishes he had CNN. My mother insists that she saw it on CNN, Trump say that Nazis are good people. They do Some kind of thing where they edit video and put graphics up that brainwash people. They say two things at the same time.

[-Jrabbit]

Good thing you're immune to such devious brainwashing! It must make you sad that you could not save your mother from this terrible fate...

[Ming]

Hitler wishes he had CNN. My mother insists that she saw it on CNN, Trump say that Nazis are good people. They do Some kind of thing where they edit video and put graphics up that brainwash people. They say two things at the same time.

Well that explains where you get it from...

[pchang]

Kid is not familiar with scrolling headlines while the talking heads speak about something else. He must not watch Bloomberg. He'd be so mesmerized, he'd never leave the TV.

[Broken_Erika]

ABC Criticized For Unrealistic Portrayal Of Racists Actually Facing Consequences

THIS IS DISGUSTING!

[Proteus_MST]

https://twitter.com/MacMcKinseyIV/status/1001817588366626817/

[Proteus_MST]

Roseanne has claimed that a sleeping medication she takes, Ambien, is responsible for her racist tweets.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/30/medi...ets/index.html

Sanofi, the producer of Ambien, meanwhile has reacted to this claim:

People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around the world. While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.

https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992

[Berzerker]

people protest removing statue of Robert E Lee
other people show up to protest the protesters
fight breaks out and Trump says good people on both sides
media shows images of neo-Nazis parade at night with tiki torches instead
media calls neo-Nazis good people, not Trump
if the neo-Nazis were the good people, doesn't that mean neo-Nazis were on both sides of the fight?
A murderer was at the protest, why doesn't media accuse Trump of calling murderers good people?

people protest police brutality
'you' say good people at protest
rioters and looters show up at protest
media accuses you of calling rioters and looters good people

Trump's a lying ahole, media throws stones at him from glass houses

[Kidlicious]

Roseanne has claimed that a sleeping medication she takes, Ambien, is responsible for her racist tweets.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/30/medi...ets/index.html

Sanofi, the producer of Ambien, meanwhile has reacted to this claim:

https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992

How much fun are you having ganging up on an independent woman?

[rah]

Do you really need to ask the folks here about how much fun they have ganging up on someone?

But blaming the medication on your racism is one I've never heard before. The response was predictable but still quite entertaining.

[Berzerker]

I liked the makers of Ambien's rebuttal, the drug does have side effects but racism isn't one of them