BDKJMU wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 1:15 pm
They peddled the Hunter laptop is Russian misnformation hoax as if it was real, which was a FAKE NEWS.
They reported that 50 former intelligence officials said the story had the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation effort. That is true. Also, I must say that the conservative media are way overplaying their hand on this right now. They are acting as though a recent Washington Post report really helps their narrative. For example, the Fox News article at
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washingto ... y-coverage has a headline that includes the language:
Washington Post authenticates laptop after dismissing ‘fake' scandal in 2020
But here is a quote from the Washington Post story that is IN that fox News piece:
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden,"
"Purportedly" is an important qualifier there. According to the Oxford dictionary, "purportedly" means "used to say that something has been stated to have happened or to be true, but this might not be the case." The Washington Post did not "authenticate" the laptop.
I must say, also, that the big thing in the Washington Post story is about a possible interaction with China that has nothing to do with what the big thing was in the original New York Post story (it had to do with Ukraine).
Also, I have seen nothing so far in the recent spate of stories that the incident is not associated with a Russian disinformation campaign.
-They peddled the Trump/Russia collusion hoax as if it was real, which was a FAKE NEWS.
They reported that there was an FBI then later a Special Counsel investigation into possible collusion between members of the Trump Campaign and Russians. That was true. Also, the Mueller report did find collusion, by any reasonable definition of the term, between the Trump campaign director and a Russian intelligence operative. The report was spun as showing "no collusion" when it did not. The authors specifically stated that they were not looking to establish whether there was "collusion" as a general matter. They were looking for violation of a specific statute.
They peddled the the Jessie Smollett hoax as if it was real, which was FAKE NEWS.
They reported that there was a reported assault on Smollett and the story quickly evolved into one in which Smollett was found to have arranged a fake incident.
-They’ve peddled Jan 6 was an insurrection, which is FAKE NEWS.
The oxford definition of "insurrection" is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." It's reasonable to call the January 6 thing an insurrection.
-They’ve peddled that Nicholas Sandman was a racist, which was FAKE NEWS.
I don't think they called him a racist. They depicted him a a Trumpist who was being a jerk. And i think that he was. I went through watching like an hour of that video so I could see everything that led up to the moment captured in that picture because someone said you had to do that to be fair. And the guy was being a jerk.
-They’ve peddled that Kyle Rittenhouse was a white Supremacist (FAKE NEWS) who illegally transported a firearm across state lines (FAKE NEWS) and was guilty of murder (FAKE NEWS).
I don't recall them saying he was a White Supremacist. But I do think there was a racial element to his decision to be there. I did once hear discussion in which people said he transported a firearm across State lines but I heard them contemporaneously corrected. And he should have been convicted of something. If coming in from out of State to run around with a long gun in a situation like that then having it end up in fatalities like that is not illegal, it should be and they need to make a law to make it so. He had no business being our there playing Mighty Militia Man.
