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This is borderline media malpractice

Journalist Tim Pool is floored by the level of dishonesty from the MSM the last few days. He quotes the headline from a Dennis Prager oped to sum up his view:

America is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump

 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


Then - if that's your opinion, you should dig up reasons WHY this lying to tilt a political agenda. Start with Trump's outright lies and then you can go from there.
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


What if these white terrorist guys are paid Kamikaze?
 
He is. I've seen this on twitter. The exact memes he was warning about. He didn't say that Trump did it on purpose, maybe someone else like nat-c troll Stephen Miller thought of the date w/o telling trump, but these guys see symbols in everything. I see it all the time on twitter, especially the Qannon community. I don't know why conservatives no longer believe US Intelligence agencies after they claimed to be the party of law enforcement.

Oh let me guess. That's like when a woman smiles at some dude in a store, and he starts stalking her because she signaled to him that she is in love with him.
Those signals. Who knew?
 
The malpractice part comes in when Brian Williams, instead of challenging Figluzzi or presenting an alternate theory (such as "Maybe Trump just wanted the flags at half staff for two days, one for El Paso and the other for Dayton") simply rolls with the conspiracy.

Listen, if you guys really believe that everything Trump says can reasonably be interpreted as promoting domestic terrorism then you can't logically deny that Figluzzi and Williams did the same.

Rolling with the conspiracy is salacious, makes for ratings and fits the narrative that the audience is accustomed to. They all do it. The only difference I can see is that it is many channels anti Trump, only one pro.
 
If you choose to see only hatred and conspiracy in everything Trump says or does you will definitely find it but that's not because it's the truth, it's because you only see what you choose to see.

Democrats suffer from TDS and cannot see the forest for the trees as they say.
 
So, in summary:

The US president orders flags flown at half-mast.

But that means they'll be raised again on August 8th.

...which in short date format is 08/08, or 8-8.

...but 'H' is the 8th letter of the alphabet. Hence 8-8 could stand for H-H.

...and HH are the first letters of "Heil Hitler"

...hence neonazis might shoot up another Walmart.

It's rock-solid analysis, except it overlooks one critical element.

The flags will be raised in the year 2019. But 2019 can be split into 20 and 19, which correspond to letters T and S, or S-T when sorted lexicographically. ST are the first letters of "Shoot The". Many American flags are made in Mexico, hence the flag itself stands for "Mexicans". Putting these symbols together, we get "Shoot The Mexicans". The initial analysis is corroborated.

You've got to admire MSNBC for sharing it with the public. They could've sat on it. Gotten an hour's head start broadcasting the dead bodies over their competitors. But now all the cable networks will be able to pump out the dead body footage with due haste.

I have a granddaughter who was born 8-8-8 Heil Hitler, Honey?

Love your humor.
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


For how many years have you labored under the delusion that today's mainstream media is run by ethical journalists? Do you think Scott Pelley is such?
 
I really hadn't considered the "nothing to lose" aspect. There may be something to that.

The NY Times thing is incredibly disturbing. They changed the headline SPECIFICALLY to address a certain political agenda. If your job is to produce news then you're not supposed to have a political agenda!

I don't know where all this is going to end up but it's one hell of a mess. There really isn't an unbiased, reliable news source left in this country and some of the stuff that's coming out of the outlets that used to be news are at a propaganda level that would make former editors at Pravda and Tass blush.

Dan Gainor: The New York Times changes its headline, caves to the mob and shows it has lost its mind | Fox News
 
He is. I've seen this on twitter. The exact memes he was warning about. He didn't say that Trump did it on purpose, maybe someone else like nat-c troll Stephen Miller thought of the date w/o telling trump, but these guys see symbols in everything. I see it all the time on twitter, especially the Qannon community. I don't know why conservatives no longer believe US Intelligence agencies after they claimed to be the party of law enforcement.

Yep, the 88 is not a coincidence.
 
I really hadn't considered the "nothing to lose" aspect. There may be something to that.

The NY Times thing is incredibly disturbing. They changed the headline SPECIFICALLY to address a certain political agenda. If your job is to produce news then you're not supposed to have a political agenda!

I don't know where all this is going to end up but it's one hell of a mess. There really isn't an unbiased, reliable news source left in this country and some of the stuff that's coming out of the outlets that used to be news are at a propaganda level that would make former editors at Pravda and Tass blush.
Ive been using axios as a news source lately. They are as close to as being straight down the middle as i have found recently. They stick to facts and let people decide for themselves and they offer some context at the bottom of each article. The context part has some bias in it but the articles themselves are generally just objective facts.

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Twitter piling on the victim.
Oh, the poor turtle is a "victim", he won't bring bi-partisan election protections to the floor....and he is pissing off his constituents.

Poor Moscow Mitch.....
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


Yeah, the "Eight-Eight" for August 8 being a nazi signal is a bit of a /facepalm "WTF???" speculation that certainly made me choke on my drink. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Trump, who is clearly not a brainiac, is being pushed by members of his staff into saying stupid stuff like that either through ignorance or manipulation.

But speculating about "secret signals" on tv from a guy with a strong Intelligence pedigree seems like shooting his own credibility in the foot to me. It's a head-shaker. (Truth in Advertising, I stopped watching after that stunningly stupid speculation, so if Williams managed to clean it up later, I missed it.)
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


I've been saying this for a while now and it has certainly caused some interesting discussions with a few of my liberal acquaintances. The media doesn't do its job, and their cry of an independent media or journalist is now just a joke. They are way to politicized.
 
Yeah, the "Eight-Eight" for August 8 being a nazi signal is a bit of a /facepalm "WTF???" speculation that certainly made me choke on my drink. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Trump, who is clearly not a brainiac, is being pushed by members of his staff into saying stupid stuff like that either through ignorance or manipulation.

But speculating about "secret signals" on tv from a guy with a strong Intelligence pedigree seems like shooting his own credibility in the foot to me. It's a head-shaker. (Truth in Advertising, I stopped watching after that stunningly stupid speculation, so if Williams managed to clean it up later, I missed it.)

I tell ya, Di, it's getting to be quite the chore to read the news these days. I find I need to read two "right wing" sources, two "left wing" sources, poke around to find the actual source documents, parse out all the speculation, hyperbole and wishful thinking and then take a nap to ponder it all. The nap, frankly, is the best part of all that.

Anyway, I have NEVER seen people so absurdly divided and never imagined that the so called "news" would serving to widen that gap. I mean, how screwed up is it that we can hardly get a consensus on "mass shootings are bad"? It's like if you agree with someone from the other side of the political aisle even on something as fundamental as that you're likely to be charged with picking a side in the political war.

It's damned sure not fun any more.
 
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I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


Yeah... MSNBC is basically the liberal version of Infowars these days.....
 
Yeah, the "Eight-Eight" for August 8 being a nazi signal is a bit of a /facepalm "WTF???" speculation that certainly made me choke on my drink. Although it wouldn't surprise me if Trump, who is clearly not a brainiac, is being pushed by members of his staff into saying stupid stuff like that either through ignorance or manipulation.

But speculating about "secret signals" on tv from a guy with a strong Intelligence pedigree seems like shooting his own credibility in the foot to me. It's a head-shaker. (Truth in Advertising, I stopped watching after that stunningly stupid speculation, so if Williams managed to clean it up later, I missed it.)

I doubt he's sharp enough to think of doing something like whatever this "Eight-Eight" is supposed to be.

I mean, he's obviously not as stupid as he sounds because people that daft would've squandered their fortune on rare cabbage patch kids dolls or trying to corner the silver market, or something like that. He's definitely a great conman. But his general reasoning skills, especially the ability to think ahead don't seem to be there.
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


Any competent journalist or journalistic organization not only should have, but would have, done just a little bit of checking:

Las Vegas: Oct 2 — Oct 6
Parkland: Feb 15 — Feb 19
Pittsburgh: Oct 27 — Oct 31
Dayton, El Paso: Aug 4 — Aug 8

Each of these half-staff mourning periods: 5 days.

That would be enough to nip the "88" idiocy in the bud, but apparently even the most minimal competence is beyond MSNBC.
 
I already posted the Nicolle Wallace "extermination" comment in another thread but this one actually tops that.

Here's former FBI guy Frank Figluzzi "not saying" that Trump is surreptitiously signalling Nazis because he ordered flags lowered for the victims of El Paso and Dayton. The comment starts at about 2:45.



Brian Williams..."journalist", Brian Williams doesn't challenge the assessment. He calls it "chilling" and eggs the knucklehead on. These people in the "news" no longer even question themselves! They make birthers look like the Romper Room kids and then pat themselves on the back for making these "assessments".

These aren't assessments. This is overt character assassination for the purpose of promoting political propaganda. Yeah, it's free speech but it damned sure isn't professional journalism and it damned sure isn't ethical.


Personally I think it went far past media malpractice a long time ago.. It has been going on prior to the 2016 election and continues to this day. There is a reason why polls show the overwhelming majority do not trust the media.
 
Personally I think it went far past media malpractice a long time ago.. It has been going on prior to the 2016 election and continues to this day. There is a reason why polls show the overwhelming majority do not trust the media.

I think that's why we now refer to them as "the media" instead of "the news". It's barely recognizable as news any more.
 
It was also Hitler's second favouritest day of the week. :shock:

Block after block, sliding into place...

Adding another block... August once upon a time went by the name Sextilis!

Sextilis ("sixth") or mensis Sextilis was the Latin name for what was originally the sixth month in the Roman calendar, when March (Martius, "Mars' month") was the first of ten months in the year. After the calendar reform that produced a twelve-month year, Sextilis became the eighth month, but retained its name. It was renamed Augustus (August) in 8 BC in honor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Sextilis followed Quinctilis, which was renamed Julius (July) after Julius Caesar, and preceded September (from septem, "seven"), which was originally the seventh month.

Sextilis - Wikipedia

Roseann:)
 
Further media malpractice:

  • Stacey Abrams had the Georgia Governor election stolen from her - she lost by 50,000 votes
  • 'Hand Up! Don't shoot!' - 2 investigations later, one from Obama's DOJ, found this to be a lie, yet leftist activists, including Democrat primary presidential candidates and the media keep repeating it as if it were true


The list goes on, and in each case the media support these CTs from the left as it's the political narrative that is demanded, and have been mainstreamed into the Democrats and those further left (hard to imagine), accepted as truth. :roll:

If the news media were honest, were in fact speaking truth to power, they'd call the politicians and others in the media out on propagating CTs, but don't hold your breath.

Yes, #JournalismIsDead.
 
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