Politics FAKE NEWS STILL GOING STRONG

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  1. MARIS61

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    The first and most effective tool of The Deep State has always been the media, and our government-owned media is of course the most corrupted.

    U.S. Government Media Network Extols “Press Freedom” After Firing Journalists Over Soros Report
    MAY 07, 2019

    It’s ironic that, just weeks after firing journalists behind a broadcast critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros, the head of the U.S. government’s international media networks is proclaiming his support for “press freedom.” U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Chief John F. Lansing, an Obama appointee, issued a heartfelt statement a few days ago reaffirming his “commitment to the fundamental principles of press freedom.” In the document, titled “Fighting for press freedom, today and everyday,” Lansing assures the world that his agency “will continue to report the truth,” though it recently cost USAGM journalists their jobs. The occasion was World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on May 3, and Lansing expresses deep concern that his taxpayer-funded agency “continues to witness firsthand how a free and independent media is deteriorating worldwide.”

    Posted on the agency’s website and disbursed worldwide, the document goes on to say “despite some very dark moments, we have not been silenced. We will continue to report the truth. We will continue to find new ways to get independent reporting and programming to global audiences who rely on it. And we will continue to carry through our mission to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. Today, and every day, I am proud to be part of this organization, and call these brave men and women colleagues, as we stand together for press freedom.”

    Lansing conveniently omits that he recently utilized Stalinist techniques to retaliate against USAGM journalists and producers involved in the Soros piece. The Spanish-language segment aired in May 2018 on Television Martí and was available for months online until it caught the eye of a scandal-plagued senator tried for bribery and corruption. Eight reporters and editors at the publicly funded media outlet were terminated and, at the request of the disgraced senator, New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez, Lansing ordered a review of all content to address “patterns of unethical, unprofessional, biased, or sub-standard journalism.” An employee at the Miami, Florida-based Martí headquarters said in a local newspaper report “the environment that has been created by the upper hierarchy of the Agency for Global Media is repressive. People write with fear. Adjectives are no longer used.”

    Television Martí—and its radio counterpart—operate under the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) and comprise one of the USAGM’s five international multimedia networks. The others are Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting. The media outlets get about $685 million a year from American taxpayers and reportedly reach 345 million people worldwide in 59 languages. The global media agency was created to counter disinformation spread by oppressive regimes abroad. The USAGM website states that its mission is “to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” Television and Radio Martí were created to promote freedom and democracy by providing the people of Cuba with objective news and information programming.

    The Soros broadcast focused on his efforts to cripple sovereign governments in Latin America. Judicial Watch was cited as a source because it investigated State Department funding of Soros groups in Colombia and published a report on Soros’ initiatives to advance a radical globalist agenda in Guatemala. Judicial Watch also released a special report documenting the financial and staffing nexus between Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the U.S. government. In that document, Judicial Watch connects the dots between U.S.-funded entities and OSF affiliates to further the Hungarian-born philanthropist’s agenda seeking to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education, and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain. A few years ago Judicial Watch exposed a scheme in which the U.S. government spent millions of dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros’ OSF.

    More than five months after the Spanish-language Soros broadcast aired on Television Martí, Menendez ordered Lansing to conduct an immediate investigation and the USAGM chief retaliated against his own staff for practicing the “press freedom” he defends weeks later. Menendez, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite his sordid history, blocked President Trump’s nomination last year to replace Lansing as USAGM chief so perhaps Lansing owed him. A few years ago, Menendez was charged with federal bribery and corruption stemming from his relationship with a crooked south Florida eye doctor that lavished him with cash, gifts and trips in exchange for political favors. The eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, got convicted of stealing $73 million from Medicare and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Menendez got off because jurors were unable to reach a verdict and his trial ended in mistrial. His colleagues on the Senate Ethics Committee determined that the veteran lawmaker not only violated senate rules, but also federal law and applicable standards of conduct. In a public letter of admonition, the committee writes that over a six-year period Menendez knowingly and repeatedly accepted gifts of significant value from Melgen in violation of senate rules and federal law. “Additionally, while accepting these gifts, you used your position as a Member of the Senate to advance Dr. Melgen’s personal and business interests,” the committee writes.
     
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    You realize anyone reading it knows you're just trolling, right?

    It's a clear and concise article about a lawsuit filed in Federal Court against a proven source of fake news, for deliberately smearing an innocent teenager.

    We all know you understand that and are simply posting crap.
     
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    MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski fails to get panel to bash Trump during Memorial Day segment
    By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

    MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski made a failed attempt on Monday morning to rile up her "Morning Joe" panel to bash President Trump on a segment dedicated to Memorial Day.

    In the segment, Brzezinski began by asking the "reflections" of MSNBC commentator Mike Barnicle by invoking Trump's deployment of troops at the southern border.

    “I want to ask you what your reflections are during this time in terms of our attitudes in America, our knowledge and our understanding of people who serve in the military, who serve multiple tours of duty, who have taken part in wars on behalf of this country, and also, are being deployed by this President by -- let’s say maybe perhaps controversial means in terms of their deployments at the southern border for caravans that are coming in. It’s a convoluting time, is it not?” Brzezinski said.

    Barnicle responded by expressing a "sadness" that now surrounds Memorial Day, one that had nothing to do with the president.

    “There’s a certain sadness with me, about Memorial Day, because you think of the word memorial, and part of that word incorporates memory,” Barnicle told Brzezinski. He talked about the tendency to forget on a day dedicated to remembrance, about the cultural steps backward of technological steps forward like Twitter, how it used to be there was almost no one in America whose life hadn’t been touched by the loss of an American servicemember."

    Brzezinski then pivoted to SiriusXM host and combat veteran Paul Rieckhoff in hopes that he would take the opportunity to slam Trump. He didn't.

    “And Paul, I would love for you to reflect on what Mike Barnicle just said,” Brzezinski told Rieckhoff, “And also, given the work that you have done, how you’re feeling about the way the military perhaps is beings used by this presidency? Does it really match their role in history?”

    "I think sadly that's right, Mika, but I think as a starting point Memorial Day still can be a time where we come together as a nation at this time when we are so divided,” Rieckhoff responded. "Even if you take just one minute on the a moment of silence... just take one minute and reflect on someone that you know that has died or even if you don't know someone that has died, someone that has died on your behalf to give you the opportunity to go have a barbeque or go to the beach..."
     
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    I just about don't watch TV during this month and Memorial Day, it always reminds me of the Battle for Iwo Jima. I had just concluded about
    Memorial day 1945. I was old enough to know about the war and even followed it some over the radio and Warner Path News at the movies.
    News from Iwo Jima made me acutely aware of the war. I hate to see jerks like Joe Scarrbough on TV talking some shit or other this time of year. Silly I know, but it is.

    You never hear the real story about battles and fuck ups like Iwo Jima. But Wiki does now gets close.

    "After the heavy losses incurred in the battle, the strategic value of the island became controversial. It was useless to the U.S. Army as a staging base and useless to the U.S. Navy as a fleet base.[6] However, Navy Seabees rebuilt the landing strips, which were used as emergency landing strips for USAAF B-29s.[7]"

    Not exactly grand historical justification for taking on the battle that brought the most Casualties ever to the US Marine Corp. What goes unsaid in this description of a controversial issue, is the B29 force did not even have as many men to save as the Marines (and Sailor) that were lost. The whole force was only about a third the size of the number casualties taken to capture the friggin island. What fucking plan!

    A hugh reason I like Trump, I can not see him wasting good troops in stupid battles like his predecessors in history. Iwo being a massive and terrible example.
     
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    @MarAzul "this is why i love trump" lmao
     
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    Spot on! Man have you been duped. Trump is handling this the right way and sure as hell about time.

    Think about it. Think about that war. Roosevelt called for unconditional surrender as his vision of what Victory would look like.
    Well our Nation pursued that awful vision right down to the end. When the Battle of Iwo Jima took place, Japan essentially had no Navy
    to meet the US fleet. Our B29s flew a 1000 strong daily over Japan, burning one or more civilian cities after the other. They had no Airforce
    to come up and meet the big bombers.

    We wasted 28000 Casualties at Iwo but we killed ever Jap on the island. We continued this shit for 6 more months, killing millions.
    I have long since forgive Japan for starting that war that we finished with an embarrassing zeal. The Japanese people did not start that war
    a few dumb ass politicians did. But I don't know that their dumb ass politician were any worse than our dumb ass leader that called for
    Unconditional surrender, and let his wild ass General Curtis Lemay loose on the Civilian population of Japan, fire bombing and killing millions of them as if he were on a mission of sanctioned genocide.

    I am pleased to see President Trump welcome the Japaneses people back with the human race.
    PS, I lost people in that war, but I do not blame the Japanese people, having long since given up that pain.
     
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    I have come to the conclusion that only a feeling Democrat (sometime a Rino) will find the need to appear tough and even heartless.
    Calling for unconditional surrender is one example of this appearance pretense. How foolish can you get? Where heartless in never needed,
    it will never replace logic. I expect even the more ardent of Dems in S2 can understand this logic.
     
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    This is psychopathic
     
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    Perhaps but it was under Democrat leadership.
     
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    Fox (entertainment) News, eh. Do you ever receive any credible news sources or is it all fantasy entertainment?
     
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    Among other disabilities, he's a blathering idiot.
     
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    The first time I was in Kagoshima, it still looked like this;
    kagoshima_1945.jpg

    We took on fuel there, but it was no place for liberty.
     
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    Press trashes Trump’s trip over his shots at those denouncing him

    By Howard Kurtz | Fox News
    'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz weighs in on the mainstream media and Democratic presidential candidates criticizing President Trump's visits to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.

    The mainstream media couldn’t stand Donald Trump’s trip to El Paso and Dayton.

    The coverage was overwhelmingly negative, going far beyond the Trump-isn’t-very-empathetic reviews he got when, for instance, he was tossing paper towels into a crowd after the Puerto Rican hurricane.

    This was more of an indictment: the president made things worse in the wake of two mass shootings.

    Now I’ll be the first to say it would have been better if Trump had put his phone away on Wednesday.

    And there is no question that his past divisive rhetoric is a legitimate aspect of the story.

    But many of the stories and segments were truly striking in their one-sidedness.

    They conveyed the impression that only Trump had fouled the atmosphere with partisan swipes and Twitter taunts.

    But in most of these instances, Trump was responding to slashing attacks from those he wound up criticizing. And yet that was repeatedly downplayed or dismissed.


    It almost seems as if it’s acceptable for the president’s opponents to call him a white supremacist who is fomenting and condoning mass violence, but if he defends himself, he’s committed some awful breach of public decorum. Perhaps some journalists see the anti-Trump rhetoric as justified, and therefore acceptable?

    Sure, you can say, he’s the president and should rise above the attacks in the interest of national unity. But why aren’t the critics held to a similar standard?

    The New York Times headline captured the media zeitgeist:

    “Trump Uses a Day of Healing to Deepen the Nation’s Divisions.”

    See? It’s all his fault.

    A “day intended to show compassion,” the paper says, “quickly devolved into an occasion for anger-fueled broadsides against Democrats and the news media.”

    The “plan went awry” before the first flight, the Times says, when Trump tweeted at "Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke," saying he was polling at 1 percent in the Democratic race and should “be quiet.”

    But the former El Paso congressman, trying to revive his campaign, has repeatedly slammed Trump as a white supremacist and suggested he is condoning mass violence. Shouldn’t that be mentioned right away?


    The Times story also notes that Trump took a whack at Joe Biden, but at least points out that the former VP gave a speech that same day accusing the president of having “fanned the flames of white supremacy.” In fact, the speech was a full-throated attack on Trump’s “toxic tongue”:

    “How far is it from Trump’s saying this ‘is an invasion’ to the shooter in El Paso declaring ‘his attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas?’ Not far at all,” Biden said.

    The Democratic front-runner has every right to make his case, but isn’t he being divisive as well?


    Trump’s tweeted response: “Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech. Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy.”

    The Washington Post led its story this way:

    “On a day when President Trump vowed to tone down his rhetoric and help the country heal following two mass slayings, he did the opposite — lacing his visits Wednesday to El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, with a flurry of attacks on local leaders and memorializing his trips with grinning thumbs-up photos.”

    The president did come on strong after his meeting with Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley. The senator said Trump was well received by hospital patients there, but that some didn’t want to meet with him, and that the president has been using racist language.

    Trump “reacted with fury,” according to the Times, and called their presser a “fraud.”

    By the way, Trump also accused the media this week of spreading anger and rage, and in our polarized environment, he has a point.


    Now the president could have chosen to stay above the fray and ignore the attacks, but that’s not in his nature.

    My only question is this: If Trump’s opponents are castigating him in the most caustic terms, and he fights back, why are the stories mainly framed around the president ruining a healing moment? Why don’t they say that both sides are engaging in partisan politics at a time when the country is grieving?

    And all this has the unfortunate effect of diverting the focus from the victims and their families at the center of these twin tragedies.
     
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    The answer is simple: The mainstream media is all out to get you.
     
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    Oh, that sneaky mainstream media again. Further proof that they're out to get you.
     
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    Security guard for CNN's April Ryan reportedly facing charges over incident with reporter

    By Brian Flood, Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

    Bodyguard for CNN's April Ryan attacks journalist covering her event

    New Brunswick Today editor Charlie Kratovil speaks out after the attack on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

    The security guard of CNN political analyst April Ryan will apparently face criminal charges after he was captured on video appearing to violently remove a local news editor from an event where the outspoken pundit was a keynote speaker.

    The alleged victim, Charlie Kratovil, editor of New Brunswick Today, tweeted an image of himself holding up court documents on Monday, noting that Ryan’s security guard, Joel Morris, will be arraigned on Sept. 12 in Superior Court on charges of harassment, assault and theft by unlawful taking.

    A reporter also tweeted the document, but New Brunswick Municipal Court did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for confirmation. The court’s online archive was not updated with Monday’s documents at the time of this report.

    CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    CNN'S APRIL RYAN AFTER BODYGUARD EJECTS LOCAL JOURNALIST: 'WHEN I SPEAK, I DON’T HAVE NEWS COVERING MY SPEECH'
    The alleged incident occurred on Aug. 3, when Kratovil said he was covering a speech given by Ryan at the 4th annual New Jersey Parent Summit, which focuses on "educating, empowering and preparing parents for our future leaders.”

    In emails obtained by Fox News, Kratovil had RSVP'd to the event and received confirmation.

    Kratovil said during the event he was approached by a man who started to ask him questions. He said that he found out later that he was Ryan's security guard.

    "During the intro, this man came up to me, mentioned my video camera & asked me 'Who are you with?'" Kratovil wrote on Twitter. "I gave him my card & explained that I followed the proper channels to cover the event. I asked if he had a card & he responded by saying he was 'with the speaker.'"

    Kratovil alleged that Morris threatened to "take... down" the camera if he himself didn't and the public relations team began "pressuring" Kratovil to stop recording all while, ironically, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. was praising the American Urban Radio Networks reporter for her "Freedom of the Press" award she received.

    CNN HAS BAD WEEK AMID APRIL RYAN, CHRIS CUOMO AND DON LEMON NEWS: ‘IT WAS QUITE EMBARRASSING’

    Morris appears to approach Ryan as she was speaking at the podium and whispered something to her. She nods and then pauses for almost 30 seconds until Morris grabs Kratovil's camera equipment and tripod and walks out of the ballroom.

    “Don’t touch my camera, please. Put that down. Don’t you dare. Put that down, sir," Kratovil told the bodyguard as he followed him out of the room.

    As Kratovil and Morris begin causing a scene, Ryan explains to the crowd, “When I speak, I don’t have news covering my speech." Kratovil said another journalist was recording her speech.

    The two men then enter the lobby, where Kratovil is berated by Shennell McCloud, executive director of Project Ready, the group that hosted the event. McCloud accuses Kratovil of "interrupting" the event and demands his removal from the hotel.

    Security camera footage from the hotel lobby appears to show Morris forcibly pushing Kratovil toward the exit.

    Once I got the camera back, I was concerned for my physical safety and I asked for hotel security. I was hoping they would maintain order and maybe document the theft of my camera and any damage that may have occurred to it as a result," Kratovil told Fox News. "I was thinking, 'Wow, this guy is really crossing the line here.' At the same time, I was trying not to fall down face first while also trying to protect the camera, and yelling for bystanders to call the police as this was happening."

    Kratovil expressed his solidarity with Ryan, an outspoken critic of President Trump and his treatment of the press, but told Fox News that "her reputation" now depends on addressing what had happened and is hoping for an apology.

    "I think that the President deserves much criticism for his administration's lack of transparency, his own irresponsible rhetoric towards the media, and his childish attacks on individual reporters like Ms. Ryan," Kratovil said. "Her reputation now depends on finally addressing this situation head-on and proclaiming that what happened that night in New Brunswick cannot be tolerated."
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-april-ryan-security-guard
     

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