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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:55 AM Jan 2017

A bit of what our conservative neighbors are reading

FAKE NEWS PROJECTION: Claims that honest journalism is fake news are being used to frame coverage of virtually every issue.

Rush Limbaugh: Mainstream Media IS Fake News!

President-Elect Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump  3h: Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany? (A phrase he took from, if I remember correctly, a favorite source of his own, Alex Jones' Infowars)

InfoWars: FAKE NEWS MEDIA DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-TRUMP PEEGATE PROPAGANDA, Anti-Trump legacy media has entered its swan dive

The Weekly Standard: THE MEDIA TURN AGAINST THEIR OWN FAKE NEWS CRUSADE “Fake news"! The phrase was such a handy hammer for liberals to pound the heads of conservatives—until conservatives grabbed the hammer and started pounding liberals, pointing out some of the fakery that liberals had fallen for. How dare they? So now the liberal mantra is: We must retire that dreadful phrase "fake news." 

National Review: The Trump ‘Kompromat’ Story Is Disturbing — Every Bit of It ...This is all disturbing. From the leaks, to the Buzzfeed document dump, to the substance of the allegations themselves. Are there “officials” who hate Trump so much that they’re willing to leak information that they know will lead to widespread public fear that the president-elect is compromised by a hostile foreign power? If so, that’s extraordinary. ... ...And yes, there are members of the media who hate Trump so much that they’re willing to print the wildest possible rumors, repeat them across the web, and then mock him relentlessly based on claims that can likely never be properly investigated, much less proven. ...

Breitbart: Ann Coulter: Tips for Hate Crime Hoaxers. ...This week, we’ll provide tips for selling a hate crime that didn’t happen. … Hate crime hoaxers, I don’t think I need to tell you this, but you do NOT want a police investigation. Much better to send anonymous reports into America’s leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, so your story can appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the “Today” show, “Good Morning America,” etc., etc.

Weekly Standard: The Problem with BuzzFeed's 'Let the Readers Decide' Standard, Journalists change their own rules just in time for the Trump presidency. … (BuzzFeed did release unverified memos, MSM did not, but they're all using this to deny the credibility of all information they don't like about Trump, including Trump's own accusation that CNN is a fake news site.)

Infowars: 4CHAN CLAIMS TO HAVE FABRICATED ANTI-TRUMP REPORT AS A HOAX: A hoax fabricated by a member of a chatboard as "fan fiction". In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous “golden showers” scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as “fanfiction”, then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

The Hill, via Newsbusters: “Meryl Streep's Promotion of 'Fake News' at the Golden Globe Awards” (another argument that Trump never mocked a disabled reporter – No surprise that Newsbusters would print this, but they got it from The Hill! Yes, TH, like Politico, skews right, but now that I'm looking I'm noticing more of this stuff.)

The Media’s Fake News About Obamacare By The Foundation for Economic Education (a libertarian group, a sample from just one of many, many receiving funding from the Kochs)

Breitbart: FAKE NEWS: BUZZFEED, CNN TARGET TRUMP WITH ADMITTED UNVERIFICABLE RUSSIA MEMOS and ARGUMENTS FROM BAD AUTHORITY: HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TRY TO TRICK YOU

BIG right wing story making the most of the drama of a high school student's "Pig Cop painting," serializing the political struggle over its display in the Capitol, the theme being outrage, of course, but not exactly in sympathy with the artist's.
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Daily Caller: The Tedious Russian Hacking Lie Recycled (from Trump favorite Roger Stone denying he is one of the connections being named between Trump and Putin)

RT: Top Trump aide hints ‘disproportionate’ sanctions against Russia may be rolled back

Daily Caller: U.S. Intel Report Confirms Kremlin Pushed Anti-Fracking Propaganda

Daily Caller: FLASHBACK: FBI Found No Clear Link Between Donald Trump And Russia

Fox: Glenn Greenwald: Democrats hoping intelligence agencies will 'undermine and subvert' Trump presidency

RT: Crime climbing: Murder, violent offenses up in most of US in first half of 2016, FBI finds

Fox: Cloud hangs over Obama return to Chicago: As President Obama returns to his adopted hometown of Chicago to give his farewell speech Tuesday night, a dark cloud hangs over the city where the record-setting murder rate is so high there are pleas to declare a state of emergency.

Breitbart: REPORT: LEIPZIG A HUB FOR LEFT-EXTREMIST POLITICAL TERROR IN 2016

Infowars: SOROS CEMENTING CONTROL OVER EUROPE’S LEFT, Globalist trying to stop anti-EU populism

Washington Examiner: Most Obamacare enrollees already had health insurance
New research finds that Obamacare covers fewer previously-uninsured people than government statistics suggest.

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RedState: EVERYONE GETS A MEDAL Obama Surprises Biden with Medal of Freedom. President Obama and his administration clearly are wasting no time in clearing up the things they must do before leaving the White House; that is the task of passing out medals amongst themselves.

Breitbart: They Go Low — Report: Obama Intel Officials Used ‘Russia Blackmail’ Claims to Undermine Trump Relations with Israel

Obama refers to himself 75 times in Farewell Address, it's all about him

The Blaze: Under Obama every disagreement becomes a matter of character “Somehow, under the Obama presidency, every disagreement in politics was turned into a referendum of the character of those on each side, and of course his side was always good,”

Weekly Standard: A Divisive Obama Warns of Threats to National Unity in Farewell Speech
After eight years of polarizing policy and politics. ... Enraptured by his own oft-celebrated eloquence, Obama took his good time soaking in the love …

Townhall.com: Netanyahu: We Have 'Unequivocal Evidence the Obama Administration Led Effort to Pass Anti-Israel UN Resolution'

Infowars: JUDICIAL WATCH GOES AFTER ‘ANOTHER CORRUPT POLITICIAN — ERIC HOLDER’ Effort aims to “expose how California state legislators are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician"

Infowars: Streep's Anti-Trump Rant Debunked: The Ravings Of A Hollywood Faker (2556 comments)

Daily Caller: Juanita Broaddrick Rains Hellfire On Meryl Streep — ‘Hollywood Still Doesn’t Get It…’ Daily Caller poll: Do you Agree Hillary Clinton is a Wife Enabler of Rape?

Infowars: JUDGE NAPOLITANO: FBI’S LATEST HILLARY DUMP IS ‘THE SMOKING GUN IF THERE EVER WAS ONE’ Claims President Obama may have to issue pardon

The Left’s Bubble Extends To Their Ignorance Of What It Means To Run A Small Business



This shallow grab at what catches my eye, on the home page usually, doesn't begin to convey the depth and breadth of right-wing slant or outright lies being pushed. Like mainstream newspapers, they have subsections, and subsections of those.

Interestingly so far, in spite of my pattern opening these sites over the past couple of weeks, when I search stories they're hitting on Google for the most part the worst of them are not being presented up top. That is a big change.



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