Category: Fake News
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Dereliction Of “Duty”
And to think some say the “elite” media is utterly delusional: I mean, I get the theory – it’s not quite the puffery it appears to be at first glance. A media that conscientiously checks and balances government is, in fact, vital – not only to democracy, but to the functioning of a free society.…
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Sandman’s Counterattack
Fresh from victory against CNN, Nick Sandman’s attorneys are widening their scope: Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year. Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that…
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Revelation
I have these two jokes – which in a sense aren’t jokes at all. First – when it comes to progressivism, yesterday’s joke is today’s proposal and tomorrow’s policy. And the second: Babylon Bee is becoming less and less distinguishable with “real news”. And now, the former “fact-check” site Snopes is trying to deplatform Babylon…
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Don’t Mess With Fergus Falls
German “journalist” Claas Relotius spent many years on the European and world journalistic fast track, until it was realized he’d spent years falsifying stories. One of those stories was about the xenophobic misanthropic fascist racists in… …Fergus Falls, MN. And he didn’t just make up the little stuff. Two local residents combed through the story:…
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All The News That Fits (The Narrative)
A friend of the blog writes: So, a group of black men video a Chipotle manager refusing service to them. Video goes viral. Good Morning America is all over it. Manager fired. Except, we find out these guys dine and dash all the time. Brag about it on Twitter… Corporate virtue signaling has become more…
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Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers
NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sen. Grassley’s referral of Julie Swetnick and her “teenage rape gang” story to the FBI: Was this an intentional attempt to mislead our reporters? Evidence points that way… https://t.co/MOxE8WiGK4 — Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 26, 2018 Mr. Todd: Isn’t it your job to figure that out? Perhaps – radical thought, here – before…
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Open Letter To The Entire US Senate GOP Caucus
To: Entire US Senate GOP Caucus From: Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant Re: A Big Lie Senators, Confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Now. The allegations against him are of a piece with nearly every leftist narrative today – utter crap. It’s transparent BS. Like most lefty memes – “gun violence”, the “War on Women”, the $15 minimum wage…
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Why Real Americans Hate The Media, Part MCMLXVIII
Last week, it was the NYTijmes sticking Nikki Haley with her Obama-era predecessor’s Marie-Antoinette-like taste in draperies. This week? A hatchet job on Trump that, well, didn’t cut it: “The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Latinos along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking…
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What Do You Want, A Cookie?
Liberals and apologists for Big Media hailed last week’s correction by the NYTimes of their hatchet piece against Nikki Haley as a sign that the mainstream media is, unlike the hack partisian media, “Accountable”. You may recall the story – which debuted last Friday to yuge headlines: State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Residence…
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To Fact Check The Afflicted And Afflict The Factual
I was about to writre “Sharyl Artkisson lists fifty times the media has botched reporting on President Trump“… …but I suspect it was more like “Sharyll Atkisson lists the first fifty examples before she got tired, looked at the backlog, and gave up”.
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s News Fifteen Years Ago
Victor Davis Hanson notes something that could well become a Berg’s Law: Republican Presidents are always “literally Hitler” until another Republiican is in office: Once a Republican president loses an election or retires after two terms — and is followed by a liberal Democrat — his reputation hits bottom. But once a new Republican president…
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They Know What Matters!
If you were in the Twin Cities from about 1986 to the early nineties – after Channel 11 changed their call letters from WUSA to KARE – you probably remember their ubiquitous, supremely annoying branding campaign: “we know what matters”. Remember those? Not sure KARE expected any but the dimmest viewers to think that the…
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The WaPo: Fake News
That story that Trump has instituted a list of “banned words” at the CDC? The one the WaPo reported on? You might as well be reading Buzzfeed. The terms are “fetus,” “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “evidence-based” and “science-based,” according to a story first reported on Friday in The Washington Post. But Fitzgerald said in a series of tweets on Sunday…
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Speaking Entitlement To Power
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at the Saint Paul Farmers Market, buying pickling cucumbers. He is surprised when MyLissa Silberman – National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau correspondent – walks up behind him. SILBERMAN: Merg. BERG: Oh, hi, MyLyssa. SILBERMAN: Republicans are trying to destroy the free media. BERG: Er, what now? SILBERMAN: A Republican legislator…
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Word Choice
Rolling Stone, reeling from a decade of decay of the print publication biz and its own growing irrelevance, is on the market; Jann Wenner is looking for a buyer. The NYTimes notes (emphasis added by me): But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on…
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Another Of Joe’s Rhetorical Questions
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why doesn’t the public trust the media? Joe Doakes Because the public keeps trusting its lying eyes?
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Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers
If it bleeds – or coughs, stings, goes “boom” or rots your insides out as you hack lungs out – it leads. Animated infographic showing how media hysteria compares to actual deaths caused by the stories they were about. I’m not saying I don’t trust the American mainstream media. Because why stop with America?
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Fake Minneapolis
Yesterday, we reported on the fishy use of camera angles in presenting Saturday’s Dreamsicle rally in Minneapolis. While the media narrative was that the events were well-attended, the photographic evidence from the even couldn’t be shot from angles tight enough to show that attendance was sparsse at best… …and, from the looks of it, mostly not…
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Fake Reality
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hollywood is where they make movies, fictional stories presented for entertainment. They are carefully scripted, staged and shot to show the best angles and most effective presentation. Pallywood is the term given to movies made by Palestinians, fictional stories presented to gin up outrage against Israel. They are carefully…
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Note
The thing to remember, when reading of the medias “reporting” about Trump – in this case, about his budget – is that so much of it is completely made up.
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Fake News, Alternate Facts
Over at the WashEx, a catalog of the ongoing reportorial flubs, context-manglings, bobbled facts, unreliable anonymous sources with the wrong story, and just plain made-up BS… …in the past not-quite-a-month. It’s not only helpful to view the MSM as Democrat operatives with bylines; it’s pretty much the only intellectdually honest approach.
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Focus
You’d never know it from watching/reading the WaPo, the NYTimes, NPR and the big three – but the American public trusts used car salesmen more than journalists. Nope – not making it up: According to an Emerson College, poll, the public trusts the Trump about a quarter more than the mainstream media: The Trump administration is…
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Today’s Facts, A Year Ago: Fake News Edition
The Daily Caller notes that the “database” used by the liberal media to try to create hysteria about mass shootings, overstates the number of such incidents by at least an order of magnitude: The website “Mass Shooting Tracker” (MST) has been regularly used by news outlets, like The Washington Post and PBS, to claim “mass…
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Fake News, Fake Leadership
Congress’s Democrat brain trust jumped on the news that former National Security Advisor Flynn had tweeted he was a scapegoat. They were obliging enough to do it on video: And who can blame ’em? It was in the NYTimes and the WaPo. Of course, it was fake news. When it’s political and it’s in the Times or…