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Old 03-24-2017, 09:28 PM
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Alex Jones, the conspiracy-loving media personality, apologized Friday for his role in promoting “Pizzagate,” the baseless viral story that a Washington pizza restaurant was the locale of a child sex-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta.

In a surprising and rare bit of backtracking, Jones posted a six-minute video on his website, “InfoWars,” in which he read a prepared statement formally distancing himself and his site from what became a textbook story of fake news run amok. He addressed his apology to James Alefantis, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, the restaurant that was the supposed locale of the alleged conspiracy last year.

“I made comments about Mr. Alefantis that in hindsight I regret, and for which I apologize to him,” Jones said. “We relied on third-party accounts of alleged activities and conduct at the restaurant. We also relied on accounts of [two] reporters who are no longer with us.”


Meanwhile, a North Carolina man who commandeered a Washington pizza restaurant with an assault-style rifle in December pleaded guilty Friday to weapons and assault charges in a deal with U.S. prosecutors.

Between this and TrumpCare going down in flames, true Trump believers can't catch a break.
True Trump believers haven't caught a break since becoming part of the GOP base decades ago.
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Old 03-24-2017, 09:59 PM
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True Trump believers haven't caught a break since becoming part of the GOP base decades ago.
Yet, they remain convinced that the GOP will deliver for them.
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Old 03-24-2017, 10:05 PM
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Yet, they remain convinced that the GOP will deliver for them.
Didn't the first GOP President explain this?
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Old 03-25-2017, 01:26 AM
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Didn't the first GOP President explain this?
Lincoln? How so? I don't recall him calling for a "...government of the rich folks, by the rich folks and for the rich folks."......

Lincoln intended to deprive rich people of ignorant, compliant slave labor, not create a ready supply for them.

That would have been Reagan.
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Old 03-25-2017, 05:17 AM
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Lincoln is said to have said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time...."
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Old 04-03-2017, 05:11 PM
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The fight against fake news is about to get a huge infusion of cash and support from the tech industry and academia.

Facebook and Mozilla have teamed up with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, academic institutions, nonprofits, and other organizations to launch a $14 million consortium dubbed the News Integrity Initiative, aimed at "helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online."

"The initiative's mission is to advance news literacy, to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation," according to a Monday news release. It will fund "applied research and projects, and convene meetings with industry experts."

Founding funders also include the Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Tow Foundation, AppNexus, and Betaworks. The initiative will be run as an independent project by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.


http://www.pcmag.com/news/352820/14m...acebook-mozill

I'm guessing they won't being looking at Whell's favorite whipping boys, the WashPost and NYTimes.
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Old 04-03-2017, 06:27 PM
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Recognize a few of those as supporters of PBS' The News Hour, scrupulously balanced news which Trump, of course, wants to defund.

Where is Bezos? I guess he figures funding WaPo is already doing good. Fair enough.
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Old 04-03-2017, 06:56 PM
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Trump is with the Repug's on dominating the narrative with "alternative facts", commonly known as bullshit.
The mainstream and public broadcasting media interfere with this agenda with fact-based information.
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Old 05-19-2017, 04:55 PM
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Here are some of the successes of Whell's Fake News Sources

The Post’s Feb. 9 report that national security adviser Michael Flynn, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, talked with the Russian ambassador about U.S. sanctions before Trump took office. Flynn was out soon thereafter.

The Post’s March 1 report that Jeff Sessions also spoke with the Russian ambassador but did not disclose the contacts when asked about possible contacts during his confirmation as attorney general. He was forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

The Post’s March 28 report that the Trump administration tried to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying on the Trump campaign’s possible Russia ties. She later testified about the White House’s failure to act on warnings about Flynn.

The Times’s March 30 report that two White House officials helped provide Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with intelligence that Nunes made public. Nunes was forced to recuse himself from the committee’s probe.

The Post’s report this week that Trump shared highly classified intelligence with Russian officials, jeopardizing the cooperation of allies.

And the final blow: The Times’s report this week that Trump asked FBI Director James B. Comey to shut down the FBI’s Flynn investigation, according to a contemporaneous memo Comey wrote before Trump fired him.

There were many more, and other outlets have flourished, too. On one day this week, the United States awoke to a report from Reuters that the Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians; a McClatchy report that Flynn, who had been paid as a Turkish representative, stopped a military plan that Turkey opposed; a Times report that the Trump team knew Flynn was under investigation before he started work at the White House; and a Post report that the House majority leader told colleagues last year that he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin was paying Trump.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e8c_story.html

Keep up the good work, folks.
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Old 05-19-2017, 05:40 PM
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Looks like the Post has more friends in this administration than Trump does.
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