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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 05:01 PM Feb 2018

Rob Reiner has posted a series of gun control and anti-Trump tweets. Fox has lost it 's mind.

Last edited Mon Feb 19, 2018, 09:48 PM - Edit history (1)

Posting because we do not have a How The Fox Propaganda Machine Works. Now with Putin input.

The article is actually fair and balanced:

"Following the news of a Florida school shooting, Rob Reiner attacked "GOP patriots" and called for an end to Trump's presidency.

On Sunday, the famed Hollywood filmmaker took to Twitter to accuse the government of putting the president before the lives of children and the country.

The Hollywood writer and director tweeted, "How much longer do we have to put up with a mentally ill sociopath? When the f---ed up psyche of the leader of the free world comes before the horrific deaths of innocent children, it’s time for GOP patriots to stand up and end this sickness."

And:

"There are 21,000,000 reasons why Donald Trump refuses to protect our children from being slaughtered by guns. The NRA has deep pockets. But we will show them that our hearts and our pockets are deeper than theirs," Reiner wrote."

But scroll to the comments section. Putin's anti-gun control bots have been put on hyperdrive.

Not a single positive gun control post and the level of language, not to mention disturbing and offensive, is....Russian bot level.

God forgive me for posting a Fox link here, it is for a Greater cause...so I hope I do not get alerted for violating TOS re: RW sites, given my explanation.

Was going to Ask the Administrators first but there is a bit of a wait, completely understandable.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/02/19/filmmaker-rob-reiner-calls-trump-ill-sociopath-post-florida-shooting.html

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EDIT: Bot attack ended at around midnight, Moscow time.


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Rob Reiner has posted a series of gun control and anti-Trump tweets. Fox has lost it 's mind. (Original Post) Fred Sanders Feb 2018 OP
I am seriously considering self- deleting...reading the comments as they come in rapid fire Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1
They can't handle the truth underpants Feb 2018 #2
Reiner is a thinker...enemy of the State and state media. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #3
this one: "maybe time to end Reiner" CurtEastPoint Feb 2018 #4
Yikes...and the most favorited posts are violent and racist...the bots are circle jerking. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #5

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. I am seriously considering self- deleting...reading the comments as they come in rapid fire
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 05:07 PM
Feb 2018

and completely vicious and stupid and violent and racist and insane is starting to fry my brain...and I see it coming!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Reiner is a thinker...enemy of the State and state media.
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 05:13 PM
Feb 2018

"Back in December, while accepting a social justice award at the African American Film Critics Association Awards, Reiner called the Trump presidency “the last battle of the Civil War.”

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Yikes...and the most favorited posts are violent and racist...the bots are circle jerking.
Mon Feb 19, 2018, 05:35 PM
Feb 2018

Heaven help any souls daring to post a comment pro-common sense gun control or an ounce of empathy for slaughtered children.

I hope no one reposts the really bad fave ones here...but viewing them does give perspective about how a bot attack operation works....put up a neutral article from MSM as bait and then let the bot army loose on the target.

Any mention of the NRA that is not in support is likely to draw a hornets nest worth of them.

Do NOT attempt.

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