The school of dirty tricks has gotten more ingenious and nefarious in the age of the internet. Rachel Maddow Says Forged NSA Document Being Shopped Around To News Outlets By Rachel Shapiro, HuffPost MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said she had a “strange scoop” to share with audiences Thursday night after receiving what she believes is a …
Tag: Fake News
Jun 09 2017
Fake News From Russia, the White House and the FBI
Donald Trump calls any news report that he doesn’t like or he deems detrimental to his agenda, whatever that is, “fake news.” Fake news does exist but it isn’t what Trump presents it to be. Much of it comes from Russian in the form of e-mails or planted news stories laced with blatant lies, fictional …
Mar 22 2017
The Weaponization Of Bernie Sanders
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow exposed a fake Bernie Sanders supporters face book page that appears to have beens set up by Russians to discredit the liberal senator, Maddow explained that the Russians are using information warfare to confuse, divide, distract, demoralize and ultimately defeat their rival. The MSNBC host said, “When The Huffington Post did …
Feb 20 2017
About Those Swedish Terror Attacks
It now seems that Donald Trump is relying of Fox news for international intelligence. At a rally on Saturday in Melbourne, Florida, he railed against immigration by citing a non-existent incident in Sweden. “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in …
Mar 11 2010
Screw rent! Ask Stupak if we should KILL our gays now or wait till later
Crossposted at Daily Kos
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I wonder if Fox News will pick up this diary?
While I am very interested in the question of “Who paid Bart Stupak’s rent? ” I would also like to know who was paying the rent of his roommates. Some of those roommates were . . .
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Rep Zach Wamp (R-TN)
Rep Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Who wants to bet Fox asks Doyle about this but not DeMint, who is the front man for their Tea Party astroturfed Corporatist movement.
But that is not the BIG QUESTION I want to ask Stupak and his Christian Mafia cult members. No, my question to them is . . .
“Should we kill our gays now, or wait until later?”
More below the fold . . .
Feb 18 2010
GOP House Rep thinks Bush might have caused 9/11
Crossposted at Daily Kos
If Republicans and Fox News pundits were embarrassed about looking like birthers, loony bins and white supremacists, well, they just got a whole lot more to worry about.
Recently, a truther organization called “We Are The Change” spoke to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) – a friend of (Glenn) Beck and a frequent guest on his show – about reopening an investigation into 9/11. Chaffetz agreed with the activist, and even noted that he had spoken to professor Steven Jones, leading 9/11 truther, who Chaffetz said had done “interesting work”
Houston, we have a WTF.
A transcript and more below the fold.