Project Veritas do great work, catching candid admissions in private of the real power games and corruption going on.
“Look what we did. We [CNN] got Trump out”
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester, admits on tape, in a private discussion that what they do is propaganda, and he 100% believes if it weren’t for CNN, “I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out”. “I really don’t think so”.
He was focused on getting Trump out of office, it wasn’t just a political leaning, it was his raison d’etre: “I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that. “
So CNN is the place political lobbyists go to get paid to push election outcomes towards the President they personally want.
Climate change is coming next. “It’s going to be the next Covid. They’ll be able to milk that for quite a bit.”
h/t ClimateDepot
UPDATE: Twitter sees their competition exposed, and a way for Twitter to put itself at the center of the global news debate, … and ..O… immediately cancels and bans Project Veritas. Protecting CNN and or Biden is more important than growing its own audience?
Clearly Twitter is a political machine with similar goals to CNN. They all benefit from Big-Government. None of them serve their audiences, and they don’t want the audience to know that. Evidently they have other masters…
James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas, has been permanently blacklisted by Twitter, just as his organization releases bombshell undercover footage showing senior CNN employees admitting to using “propaganda.” @Project_Veritas, the organization’s official account, has also been suspended.
In a comment to Breitbart News, a Twitter spokeswoman said the suspension was permanent. This comes directly after O’Keefe and Project Veritas publicly embarrassed the far-left news network CNN.
In a statement, O’Keefe vowed to sue Twitter: “I am suing Twitter for defamation because they said I, James O’Keefe, ‘operated fake accounts. This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay. Section 230 may have protected them before, but it will not protect them from me. The complaint will be filed Monday.”
Power, Profit and Ideology all point in the same direction. Convenient, eh?
h/t Murray Shaw and RicDre
For anyone who has watched the deterioration of CNN over the decades from a legitimate news organization to a public relations arm of the Democratic Party, this isn’t surprising.
They aren’t alone. The objectivity that was prevalent 50-60 years ago in the MSM has gone poof.
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Ditto here in Australia, with our national broadcaster, the ABC.
The Australian ABC are shameless in their promotion of left-wing issues, yet are most disparaging and downright hateful of any suggestion of Australian nationalism or other conservative ideas and policies.
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“downright hateful of any suggestion of Australian nationalism or other conservative ideas and policies.”
Be fair. There is hardly anything of which to be hateful
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“downright hateful of any suggestion of Australian nationalism or other conservative ideas and policies.”
Fair go. There are very few conservative ideas and policies of which to be hateful
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I doubt there ever was objectivity, but it used to be these giant media companies were the only source available, and they knew it, and they enjoyed it.
What they hate are alternative points of view … as more direct sources of information have become available their lack of objectivity has slowly but surely been revealed.
Read up about Ted Turner … he was never a nice guy … wanted to impose a one child policy on the world for 100 years, but then went and had five children to several wives. The guy has spent his live being untrustworthy and made millions out of misleading people. Don’t tell me there ever was a time when CNN was objective.
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“the MSM has gone poof”, can you use that word these days??
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Someone will take offence on behalf of poofs, sadly woke PC won’t blow away like puffs of smoke.
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True FIFO, MSM is not a word that is liked here.
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FIFO means first in first out where what you really mean is GIGO for garbage in garbage out, which is the modus operandi of the MSM, where CNN is at the top of that garbage heap.
Although, the behavior of the MSM over the last 5 years is more properly characterized as TILO, which stands for truth in lies out.
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While agreeing with the import of your post, in my case the “F” stands for “Fly”. Cheers.
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Ha, ha.
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Gone poor or go poor- that is the question.
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2000 Global Warming
2015 Climate Change
2021 Climate EMERGENCY
Have to hurry before the ice caps continue to not melt.
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Sending you a laugh…
This is a politician who got vaccination and then went to the podium.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/head-denmarks-health-agency-keels-drops-unconscious-presser-decision-stop-using-astrazeneca-vaccines-happens-vaccinated/
Needless to say…Timmmmmmber.
Yes I know it is not the topic but it is hilarious.
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dogface …
laughed.
I’m deplorable.
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Close but no cigar. Trump wasn’t voted out.
According to many sources, including videos showing vote tallying misfeasance, videos of real-time TV showing Trump’s landslide vote tally in swing states going backward on election night and books written after the fact detailing all of the above, it is clear that Biden did not win the election legally.
Joe Biden was installed based on the hundreds of thousands of trucked-in Biden votes delivered to the swing state electoral offices overnight after the unprecedented early closure of vote counting in those states.
Lo and behold, next morning, Joe Biden has won the election.
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Fully agree GD, CNN was and is a factor in the voter fraud machine but to come out and claim to have that much influence and power over who gets to be President is just arrogance dialed to eleven, I find these self appointed puppet masters to be closely aligned with bureaucrats that infest departments that never do anything but screw with lives and never leave.
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My reading was he fully expected to get laid by the Veritas plant girl asking the questions and was trying to impress her with his role in bringing down Orange Man Bad. Nonetheless, it confirms everything we already knew about fake news CNN.
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And Jo right here has been saying for a long time now “the media is the problem”, Jo.
That they admit it is refreshing.
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I remember the video of him lying on his bed trying to undo his fly.
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I was in the US on election night in 2016. Not only was the early coverage on CNN clearly favouring HRC, but the majority of the news media reporting the election seemed certain of her victory. The mood started swinging about 8:00pm. Then we noticed something strange. All the US media updates being broadcast started to slow down.
Our daughter back in Oz was telling us numbers that were not being shown to the US public, despite their numerous “live” tally rooms. Not sure what was happening in the background, but the counting was done that evening, and Trump was clearly the winner, much to the shock of the majority of talking heads in the media
The DNC learnt its lesson. That’s why counting was shut down early in 2020. What a bizzare process to watch an election being rigged in real time.
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Not quite how I observed it. Some States took at least 4 days to find enough votes to get Biden over the line.
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Wow GD, where did you here about all that?
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Thanks. I’d forgotten about that.
So when I use this tool it finds lots of reports about baseless conspiracies and misinterpretations, plus a whole lotta failed court cases. I wonder if Rick tried one of those other search engines that filters out facts.
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*GD
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GA, try using media sources other than ABC, CNN, and ‘our’ ABC. You might learn something.
btw, the book I linked to was written by a never-Trumper.
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Biden’s vote improved dramatically as mail-in ballots were counted. The Democrats had promoted the use of mail-in by its supporters, while Trump inexplicably discouraged it. It is not the Democrats’ fault that so many states prohibited the counting of mail and early ballots prior to the close of voting on 3 Nov.
Team Trump new full-well that (a) Biden was critically ahead in all the swing state polls, (b) mail-in and other late-counted ballots were going to favour Biden really heavily, and (c) their only strategy was to claim (absurdly) that only the votes counted on 3 November should be allowed.
The vote tallies on the night (even with some reversals and amendments / corrections) merely reflect our ballots are counted, packed up in big bundles, and shipped to the central counting room, and then reported to waiting media.
Vast conspiracy theories about the election being stolen are … just that. There is no credible evidence that it was rigged, in real time or otherwise. Vote counting was not “shut down” by Democrats – in almost all states there was Republican management of the election processes.
I flicked between CNN and Fox News for the whole process (here in Australia) – both stations explained quite clearly what was happening with the numbers in all the states, in real time.
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Please TT, stop quoting fake CNN, ABC BS!
Just tell me TT, if as you say there was no evidence it was rigged and it was all 100% above board, then what the heck are the dems and the Maricopa County board of supervisors so afraid of an independent audit of the Maricopa County election results???
Why TT, why? If there’s nothing to hide, what are they so afraid of?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/02/sketchy-business-maricopa-arizona-county-board-of-elections-hold-emergency-meeting-then-refuses-to-allow-election-audit-in-local-facility/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/15/maricopa-county-arizona-ballot-audit-will-take-place-at-state-fairgrounds-as-board-of-supervisors-refuses-to-permit-use-of-county-tabulations-center/
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And here is another woderful piece of Fake News, this time from the Washington Post:
Washington Post Gave Trump ‘Four Pinocchios’ When He Questioned ‘Russia Bounties’ Story
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/15/washington-post-gave-trump-four-pinocchios-when-he-questioned-russia-bounties-story/
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And this update to the story:
U.S. Intelligence Walks Back Russian Bounty Claim that Democrats Used to Attack Trump During 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/15/u-s-intelligence-walks-back-russian-bounty-claim-that-democrats-used-to-attack-trump-during-2020/
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And on a related story:
White House Cites Debunked Russia Taliban Bounty Reports as Reason for Sanctions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/15/white-house-cites-debunked-russia-taliban-bounty-reports-reason-sanctions/
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/new-york-times-under-scrutiny-stories-deemed-false
Justthenews.com and zerohedge.com carried that story too.
Even True Believers in everything “on the News” must be starting to be angry at being lied to about everything.
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Without Trump CNN, Sky etc all saw their ratings plummet.
So CNN killed the golden goose
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“So CNN killed the golden goose”
True, but ideology has long trumped (pun intended) ratings at CNN. Of the three major US/Cable news organizations, CNN, MSNBC and Fox, even with the “Trump” boost, CNN was always in last place in terms of ratings, and MSNBC was not much better though unlike CNN, MSNBC didn’t pretend to be an unbiased news organization.
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I don’t think it was ideology “trumping” ratings at all. CNN is a business, and they shape their programming to try and maximise their market and their income. There are a lot of people out there who want their political news to be skewed centre-left – just like there is a solid market for Fox News skewed towards starboard.
The major broadcast networks are trying to maximise audiences from everywhere of course – big cities, the burbs, regional towns, and out in the sticks – so they all tend to gravitate to the broad centre.
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I’m waiting for the biggest shock of all … apparently there’s a video proving that something CNN once reported wasn’t just leftist propaganda.
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It’d be deleted in moments. You’ll have to be quick and on the ball if you’re really waiting for it.
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Further to the Veritas /CNN videos, reported on Michael Smith news that Twitter has blocked the account of James O’Keefe of Veritas.
Big Tech looking after the Swamp. Is there nothing these people will not do! We have crimes being committed in plain sight and being aided and abetted byThe Social Media giants.
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Twitter said quite clearly that Mr O’Keefe was banned after previous warnings, for opening lots of dodgy shadow accounts, and basically for telling a lot of porkies, and distorting the truth. Nothing political or ideological about it.
(Just kidding – don’t jump on me 🙂 )
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These people are now so brazen that they feel comfortable coming out and saying what we all know. MSM has been a cesspit of lies, distortions and selective silence for many years now and to have a CNN director actually come out and proudly announce themselves as a disseminater of propaganda for their political masters is an indication that they consider victory is now assured, with conservatism defeated and a clear path for a Marxist takeover.
A further indication that we should now be very worried is the intention to stack the surpreme court with Marxist puppets to capture full control of the constitution and ensure that the takeover is complete. If this happens it will be possible to officially ban conservatism and we can already see this happening within the armed forces, which indicates the very real intention to execute a military style coup within this term of government. This might sound like crazy conspiracy, but consider how the riots are being encouraged by the Democrats, with a very obvious intention to create enormous civil unrest by dividing the community along racial lines and with the continuous propaganda blaming the GOP and conservatives. Once the civil unrest is out of control then you have the power to hit the reset button and send in the armed forces. This is exactly the game being played out today. It’s also why they want to remove (de-fund) the police, as this helps create more civil unrest. Forget China, this is the real war being played out in front of our very eyes and most people can’t see past the lies and spin being sprayed from the back of the left wing media’s manure trucks.
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I think we ignore China to our own peril.
Remember Sun Tsu: “Don’t interfere with your enemy when he’s doing things to destroy himself”.
(I’ve put that in quotes for the idea, not his precise words.)
Cheers
Dave B
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I don’t disagree with the threat from China. My point is that there is a far more powerful and immediate threat that is of a much higher priority. If we fall to the forces of Marxism then China wins without firing a single shot.
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Goodness – how do you sleep at night with such big important worries of this scale?
I’ll tell you what – if there is NO military style coup within the term of this government (ending 20 Jan 2025) will you fly me to any city of my choice in the world, and buy me a beer? If there is such a coup – I’ll put you up in Melbourne for the duration.
Do we have a deal? 🙂
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Let me guess, you long for a one way ticket to Beijing or perhaps North Korea 🙂
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I was thinking Aspen in winter, or possibly Positano on the Amalfi Coast in early summer … what say you?
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Ah, of course – A long plane trip that burns heaps of CO2 and ending up in a luxury resort with your Marxist mates, where you discuss how everyone else should live a peasantry existence, LOL.
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All these exposes tell you that the US election was clearly rigged. With this Veritas tape and the Time Magazine article there are clear admissions that there was a coordinated approach to rig the election . The question of whether there was fraud as well is not as certain but there was a clear approach to manipulate circumstances such that investigation of the possibility of fraud was to be avoided at all cost. One thing is certain is that the level of Trump Derangement Sympton suffered by his critics is so severe that it is clear they would have had no hesitation in committing fraud if that’s what was needed.
Unfortunately even though Trump had rightly assumed these rigged circumstances were inevitable he didn’t even have the support of his own party or the Supreme Court to help. The US system has been too corrupted and the anti Trump elitists have too much power.
It is so obvious from the actions being taken since the election to legalise voter fraud opportunities, to get rid of the filibuster and to pack the Supreme Court are the actions. not of a party confident that it’s policies and actions are popular and have been given a clear mandate by the people but of a party that knows that it’s policies and actions are so unpopular that there is no hope of retaining power legitimately.
Everything that has taken place since the election merely confirms that the election process that got rid of Trump was not kosher.
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“The US system has been too corrupted and the anti Trump elitists have too much power. It is so obvious from the actions being taken since the election to legalise voter fraud opportunities, to get rid of the filibuster and to pack the Supreme Court are the actions. not of a party confident that it’s policies and actions are popular and have been given a clear mandate by the people but of a party that knows that it’s policies and actions are so unpopular that there is no hope of retaining power legitimately.”
I agree entirely – except it’s for the Republican Party and not the Democratic Party. The Republicans have never relied on the popular vote – because they know their pro-business and anti-working family policies have no popular support out in the burbs. They rely on other stuff (wink, wink).
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Nod nod.
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And you know this, how? You do understand that Wall St. and large corporations have been tied to the Democratic party for a long time? I mean look at the contributions they have made to BLM, SPLC, etc. You could not find 1/100th those contributions made to any “right” group.
Your claims are evidence free made from the antipodes from where the tire meets the road.
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Yeah, the notion that Republicans are the party of big business is laughable in this day and age.
It was true prior to the 1990s, but Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy really put an end to Republican dominance in the board-room. Democrats DOMINATE donations from the two biggest private industries in America (Tech and Finance), and have an absolute monopoly on donations from public institutions. Clinton and Biden both outspent 2 to 1 on the campaign trail in 2016/2020, and Biden tripled Trump up in terms of dark money.
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Huh?
The Republicans have done very well with suburban voters since the 1980s. The definitely took a hit in 2018 due to yoga/soccer moms hating Trump, but gained back a lot of those votes in 2020 as Republicans whittled down the Democrats 2018 gains in the House. There was a lot of ticket splitting (some might even say a suspicious amount) going on where otherwise Republican voters chose Biden at the top spot, but all and all, 2020 was a pretty good year for Republicans in the suburbs.
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It is becoming so clear that governments are becoming determined to implement climate alarmist agendas , committing to cut emissions without any intention of actually doing anything substantial. The consequences of having a large proportion of your grid relying on renewables means that costs go up and the grid becomes more unreliable. So countries cheat, They either use fossil fuel as back up, they count the emissions selectively, they import energy from neighbours who are using coal . If you look at the Chinese they just pump out emmissions as fast as ever and sell renewable equipment to the rest of the world.
What is bizarre is that the climate zealots all seem unconcerned by Chinas actions even though their increased emissions negate all the efforts done by the rest of the world.
When the EU , Australia and anywhere else that is stupidly trying to adhere to their promised emissions target legislate to make electric cars more prominent then a bad situation will just get worse.I hate to think what the impact of recharging a National fleet of cars will do to a grid already weakened by the closure of much of the baseload capacity.
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I’m not sure CNN was ever any good. Maybe their newsfeed cost less than others, so it became popular. A bit like Al Jazeera which is subsidised by its host country via oil money. Back in the 80’s I remember CNN being referred to as “Chicken Noodle News”. Which is very apt.
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back in the 80’s the established media called CNN a lot of things.
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And this just in:
Twitter Permanently Blacklists James O’Keefe After CNN Expose
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/04/15/twitter-permanently-blacklists-james-okeefe-after-cnn-expose/
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Apologizes to Murray Shaw, I missed the fact that you already posted a comment on this topic.
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This is just nuts, and to be honest I’m getting a bit tired of hearing such hyperbolic nonsense.
There is no way CNN is a “far-left network” – it is a mainstream American capitalist corporate business – get it? It has to attract a large audience consistently in order to be able to charge advertisers a hefty rate. That is what a media business does.
It has positioned itself as just slightly left-of-centre and has captured a really large market out there. A lot of middle-class punters did not like Trump.
I would argue that the NYT and WaPo are broadly in the same market. But guess what – they are still very very conservative media businesses – relying on the broad centre-left, and not upsetting the capitalist apple cart one bit.
To call CNN far left is insane … it’s angling for a $$$ market, that’s all.
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Of course, how could people here have missed that;
you’re right again.
Doesn’t it get boring, being sooo purfect!
No excitement, no uncertainty, just constant ongoing purfection.
KK
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I’m not perfect at all … but when I see the kiddies use terms like “far-left” to describe the very mild CNN – well – you must understand why one would roll their eyes! It’s just silly – it has no effect.
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I understand completely, I have the same response to the pejorative term ” f’n far right “.
F left and F right are not that much different.
They are full of self important, self serving graspers who show no interest in running the country.
Australia.
EEU.
USA
BrexiBritain, etc.
A moral collapse on a grand scale.
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“…it’s angling for a $$$ market, that’s all.”
If its angling for the $$$ market its failing badly since it is consistently the 3rd place cable news network out of 3 news networks. Only ideology can explain why a consistently last place network seems content to remain in last place.
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“There is no way CNN is a “far-left network””
From your point of view perhaps, but from a more centrist point of view, leftist is the only way to describe CNN.
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CNN started as a commercial business but that doesn’t mean it can’t be far left. It’s like saying a priest teaches morals so can’t have committed crimes.
That is only slightly left to a common.
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“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Every time they go after someone like O’Keefe or Project Veritas, they only make it more obvious that he is on to something.
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Free speech is dead unless get this out and about and show the danger of banning people like james O’keefe.
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This is crazy assertion by the CNN guy. If the election was not rigged Trump would have won easily, so the CNN effort failed miserably. It was the cheating that got Biden where he is today.
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Trump was never going to win – all the polls showed Biden had it in the bag – narrowly, but still in front – and that is what happened. No thieving was required, the voters decided.
Trump could never get above about 45% of the electorate – and that was never going to be enough. What about this reality is so hard to understand? Thieving was not required.
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“Trump was never going to win – all the polls showed Biden had it in the bag”
All the polls said Hillary had it in the bag and that worked out well didn’t it? These days polls are so biased that they are meaningless.
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Might need an audience for that
As Chiefio puts it
“So look at CNN. Once the media news property. Now has an audience less than mid-scale pod-casts (and far smaller than the more popular ones). Look at the NY Times. Once the authority on what was news. Now a bit of a laughing stock with cratering readership. Right on down the line. Emmys (or was it Oscars? Or both?) from incredible fan fare and importance to “What, they still do that?”. NFL / MLB from Must Watch to Why Watch? Disney from icon of Americana to dreck and flushing Star Wars plans and expansion plans.
Oh Well. Not my problem. I’ve “moved on” to other sources. For the Woke-O-sphere it really is a case of “Self inflicted beatings will continue until thinking improves”… “
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🙂 🙂
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Also relative to that
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/15/media-finally-notices-that-the-rcp-8-5-climate-model-is-over-hyped-science-fiction/
And this comment there
“The nickname for the RCP 8.5 climate model should be the Madoff Model.
I’m struck by the similarities of the Madoff case with climate scare models.
From the recent Madoff case summary story on April 14th WSJ:
1) Madoff, one-time chairman of the Nasdaq market (authority figure)
2) Madoff exuded respectability and cut an aristocratic figure( name you climate BT Barnum)
3) He was famously secretive about his methods, adding to the allure (M. Mann)
4) Madoff falsely claimed to beat the market with his “split-strike conversion strategy (cutting edge climate model)
5) Inside the Madoff offices on the 17th floor of the Lipstick Building, only a few trusted employees had access with a keycard. The phony trades were conducted giving higher returns to favored clients (climate data manipulation to fit the message)
6) Madoff didn’t go unsuspected. A 2001 Barron’s article focused on the improbability of his returns. (WUWT)
7) Madoff insisted that his trading operation remain a black box, rebuffed requests from institutional investors to visit his operations or explain them (that Mann again)
8) The SEC’s failure to discover Madoff’s fraud revealed it, in the minds of many, as an ineffectual guardian of the markets. (name your failed agency or professional society)
9) Only the pressure from the financial crisis brought Madoff down, as his fund was overwhelmed with redemption requests when people lost money elsewhere (sadly, the climate does not move that fast so the great con game continues)
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Why are you posting all this bizarre Madoff stuff .. where is the relevance? Enquiring minds would like to know.
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Tx2
IIRC in an earlier thread you announced that “you never read anything at WUWT”
So did you read that or did you “”hit us with a bit of truth serum earlier?
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And in comments further down
“I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a mea culpa report by Pravda (a/k/a The New York Times) or the Washington Post or NBC or the Los Angeles Times or NPR or MSNBC or CNN or PBS’ News Hour or ABC or CBS or the Associated Press (Seth Borenstein).
They are biased, partisan and conscious and intentional distributors of disinformation. This will not come as a surprise to readers of WUWT..
What is surprising is that a number of them have publicly admitted as much (an amazing number are supposedly reputable).
There is a list of print and broadcast news organizations who have signed a public agreement to disseminate propaganda. If you don’t believe me, see:
https://coveringclimatenow.org/the-press-and-the-climate-emergency/
https://coveringclimatenow.org/partners/partner-list/
And
“t’s not just list of orghanisations signed up which is interesting. So also is the list of organisations funding them:
Covering Climate Now has been made possible by generous grants from Actions@EBMF, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Michaux Family Foundation, Park Foundation, Rockefeller Family & Associates, Schumann Media Center and Wayne Crookes. The fiscal sponsor for Covering Climate Now is the DC-based 501c3, The Fund for Constitutional Government. “
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Great analogy.
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Mute a leftwing activist outlet everyday from aggregators. It isn’t enough to just change aggregation sources. The public needs to call out the propaganda and spell out to the aggregators that their feeds are using character assassination and propaganda cultists. Keeping muting sites until you have no unbiased options then cancel the aggregator and call them out. Conservatives need to fight cancel culture and cult propaganda on its terms, because the next couple of months are the prelude to the WEF climate blitz where the trashmedia will blanket cover the world with propaganda and the actual facts of the climate from the last 12 months will be washed away.
The information wars are well under way and common sense is losing because we are allowing it!
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Would be interesting to find out just how much of the “public” is really tuned in to MSM. I’m thinking that, despite the many ways that MSM can invade our lives, the overall % of the public that doesn’t worry about MSM being a big factor is no different to 50 years ago (before the internet etc etc etc). Yes, people are caught up with smartphones etc, but just what exactly are they using them for???
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