FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

[Chicks]

Just received a print copy of the propaganda rag The Epoch Times in the mail, addressed to "resident". It went straight in the recycle bin. First time I've ever received this disgusting garbage.


From Wikipedia:

The Epoch Times is a multi-language newspaper and media extension of the Falun Gong new religious movement.[4][5] The newspaper is part of the Epoch Media Group, which also operates New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD).[6] For its articles, the publication draws from a network within China, as well as staff living in the West.[7][8][9] The Epoch Times has been publishing in Chinese since May 2000. It is either sold or distributed free-of-charge in 35 countries, including various international regional editions. The Epoch Times websites are blocked in mainland China.

The media outlet is primarily known for promoting far-right politicians across Europe and the United States, and in particular for its promotion of U.S. President Donald Trump; a 2019 report showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign.[10][11][12][13] The group's news sites and YouTube channels have spread conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccination propaganda.[6][14][15]

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Almost as good as a degree from Trump U!

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‘60 Minutes’ cites ‘Fucker Carlson Tonight’ for coronavirus misinformation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...isinformation/

On his April 14 show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued his exploration of China’s role in the pandemic by focusing on the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “So the lab in Wuhan was unsafe. That was obvious to Americans visiting there two years ago, and because of the practices there, the Chinese may have unleashed a global pandemic on the rest of us,” said Carlson. “Here’s something remarkable and upsetting: The work in that lab, including its research into disease-carrying bats, was funded in part by you, by U.S. taxpayers through the National Institutes of Health.” Carlson then introduced Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who said, “Yes, I’m against funding Chinese research in our country, but I’m sure against funding it in China. The NIH gives this $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Hold on a minute. In the words of “60 Minutes”: “There never was a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan lab. But the falsehood spread like a virus, in the White House and, without verification, in the briefing room.” Spread it did, on various websites as well as on social media.

...and no doubt, to our resident Fucker Carlson cultist idiot.

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These disinformation researchers saw the coronavirus 'infodemic' coming

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...oming-n1206911

Fox "News" isn't the only culprit here; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc are doing very little to stop the spread of nonsense.

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"Faux & Fiends" host Brian Kilmeade makes an unexpected admission: "Wall and fences don't work"
Trump's favorite morning show thinks fences can't stop beachgoers — yet they somehow work at the southern border

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/21/fox...ces-dont-work/

Ummmm... Walls don't work. I think everyone with a brain already knew that, yet Faux has been championing Donny's idiotic wall for years. Doh!

[donquixote99]

Tucker Carlson claims there’s ‘no evidence’ stay-at-home orders saved lives. He’s wrong.

"The thrust of Carlson’s complaint isn’t really about the utility of the stay-at-home orders. Instead, it’s just a tool for bolstering his main argument: The elites are stealing your freedom and demanding fealty, Philip Bump writes."

In other words, Tucker is just stomping on emotional hot buttons, like the demagogue he is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ource=facebook

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Tucker Carlson claims there’s ‘no evidence’ stay-at-home orders saved lives. He’s wrong.

"The thrust of Carlson’s complaint isn’t really about the utility of the stay-at-home orders. Instead, it’s just a tool for bolstering his main argument: The elites are stealing your freedom and demanding fealty, Philip Bump writes."

In other words, Tucker is just stomping on emotional hot buttons, like the demagogue he is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ource=facebook

Expansion of Carlson: The elites, who have options, are stealing your freedom, are eliminating your livelihood and are demanding obedience. They are doing so mainly for partisan reasons. And btw my positions are not evil - look at Sweden.
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Carlson has done yeoman's job in bringing balance to the virus scene.

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

Expansion of Carlson: The elites, who have options, are stealing your freedom, are eliminating your livelihood and are demanding obedience. They are doing so mainly for partisan reasons. And btw my positions are not evil - look at Sweden.

Your "positions" are so ill defined, no one knows WTF they are. You are manifestly unable to express yourself, so you drink the Kool-aid and follow a propagandist. Sad! Yet so typical of the ill-informed.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Expansion of Carlson: The elites, who have options, are stealing your freedom, are eliminating your livelihood and are demanding obedience. They are doing so mainly for partisan reasons. And btw my positions are not evil - look at Sweden.
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Carlson has done yeoman's job in bringing balance to the virus scene.

Which elites do you speak of--the ones that favor medicare for all, and generous support for the out-of-work? Or the ones who favor forcing workers back to work under pandemic conditions, on pain of losing unemployment benefits?

Work, risking death, or starve strikes me as the greatest stealing of freedom ever.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Or the ones who favor forcing workers back to work under pandemic conditions, on pain of losing unemployment benefits?

I think the way you worded that was comical. As is the case throughout history, nobody is forced to work. They're just forced to work if they would like to eat food and wear clothing and, maybe, not sleep under the stars - or rain/snow.

i.e. it's the human condition.

And I have good news: We've been under "pandemic" conditions for the entire history of mankind. Well, the last few thousand years, anyway.