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Dick WB Tracy's avatar

If WaPo, NYT, The Guardian, and the rest of the mainstream media are so concerned about the spread of misinformation, they should shut themselves down immediately.

Russiagate and the Steele "dossier" is Exhibit A, and the canceling of the New York Post for the Hunter Biden laptop story is Exhibit B.

And there are about 2 million other exhibits to enter into evidence if we need them.

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Eric Werkhoven's avatar

A nice touch of absurdity in the guardian piece Matt links to, 'Facebook needs a much better mechanism to stop the spread of false information about the vaccine, and they need to make sure they’re doing that across languages,” said Jessica González, the co-CEO at Free Press, a media equity group.' A codirector of an organization called 'Free Press' advocating for more censorship.

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ikester8's avatar

Kuwaiti babies being thrown out of incubators comes to mind.

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jbt1980's avatar

That was a good one! How about those fun times when Russians tried to shut down Vermont power grid, or when they desperately tried to pay Taliban to target US troops because Taliban war effort was flagging and they were close to losing the war :-)

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Fake-News-of-Russian-Cyber-Attack-On-Vermont-Utility-Goes-Viral-Before-Trut

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ikester8's avatar

Yep. The Deep State's Greatest Hits are a laugh riot!

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jbt1980's avatar

Somewhere down that exhibit list, but one of my favorites for the sheer absurdity of what MSM wants us to believe, the "70000 moderate rebels": https://gagrule.net/mps-quiz-cameron-where-are-the-magical-70000-moderate-syrian-rebels/

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Rich Smith's avatar

My favorite is still “fiery but mostly peaceful protest”. It takes a certain kind of nerve to lie about what the camera is showing in real time right behind you.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

2 million?

I've told you a thousand times not to exaggerate

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Dick WB Tracy's avatar

More like ten thousand.

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lucrezia's avatar

The Hunter Biden Story was concocted nonsense. Hell, more than a few Post reporters are laughingly on the record as such. The Post is Gotham city's facsimile of the National Enquirer. I thought this was self-evident to any sentient being--left, right, in-between. The story was even the brainchild of Murdoch himself, who had hoped it would provide Trump with the needed boost to overtake Biden in the final days of the campaign.

And speaking of Murdoch, the very concept of Rupert Murdoch being cancelled by anyone, for anything, up to and including the Almighty hisself, is more than a little amusing. Belongs in the realm of the fantastical.

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jbt1980's avatar

Lost laptops (and guns) are behaviors consistent with drug addiction. With a bit of search one can find fully exposed pictures of President's son, I am sure it was FSB that took those selfies. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/shocking-photos-of-hunter-bidens-crack-addict-teeth/VURR4M7EFMHDUIIYDLFTOBEWGQ/

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CA's avatar

Or his missing teeth

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lucrezia's avatar

Thanks, but I'm searching for pictures of a President's son fully exposed.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Your defense of Hunter Biden just disqualified you from a scintilla of credibility…. Don Jr faced 16 hours of Congressional grilling over campaign phone calls…if he had done ONE of the things that Hunter Boy has indeed done, let’s just say smoking crack in his tidy whities…the media would have exploded… do you not see the hypocrisy??

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lucrezia's avatar

I do. An oversight. Don Jr. should have been given 16 hours on the bastinado. And I'm not defending Hunter Biden, I'm drawing attention to the fact that people who buy into such tripe as the Post story ought to park their asses in a mud hut for a year or two and sort things out. Perhaps I didn't make this last part clear in my last post. Fuzzy thinking. Damaged goods. Highly likely in the future to make unsound decisions as they relate to this great nation's politics. Huzzah!

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Dick WB Tracy's avatar

lucrezia, if some New York Post reporters "are laughingly on record" about the Hunter Biden laptop being "concocted nonsense," please provide details.

Also, as a long time subscriber, I am familiar with others comparing the New York Post to the National Enquirer. I agree that the paper sensationalizes certain matters and has a right wing view of things, but generally is accurate. Unlike the NY TImes, reporters like Jason Blair who fake stories are fired, not encouraged. Again, please provide details that would support this assertion.

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CA's avatar

Take your meds pls

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lucrezia's avatar

Outstanding riposte!

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CA's avatar

Hi troll

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lucrezia's avatar

Certain of that? Viewed through another lens, I might appear as one of the few non-trolls here. Crush that and put it in your pipe and smoke it. Then come follow lucrezia down the path to enlightenment. Come. Come with lucrezia down the path to enlightenment...come...come...

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