Posted on 05/19/2017 2:26:38 PM PDT by ApeStyle
President Donald Trump is about to resign as a result of the Russia scandal. Bernie Sanders and Sean Hannity are Russian agents. The Russians have paid off House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz to the tune of $10 million, using Trump as a go-between. Paul Ryan is a traitor for refusing to investigate Trump’s Russia ties. Libertarian heroine Ayn Rand was a secret Russian agent charged with discrediting the American conservative movement.
These are all claims you can find made on a new and growing sector of the internet that functions as a fake news bubble for liberals, something I’ve dubbed the Russiasphere. The mirror image of Breitbart and InfoWars on the right, it focuses nearly exclusively on real and imagined connections between Trump and Russia. The tone is breathless: full of unnamed intelligence sources, certainty that Trump will soon be imprisoned, and fever dream factual assertions that no reputable media outlet has managed to confirm.
Twitter is the Russiasphere’s native habitat. Louise Mensch, a former right-wing British parliamentarian and romance novelist, spreads the newest, punchiest, and often most unfounded Russia gossip to her 283,000 followers on Twitter. Mensch is backed up by a handful of allies, including former NSA spook John Schindler (226,000 followers) and DC-area photographer Claude Taylor (159,000 followers).
There’s also a handful of websites, like Palmer Report, that seem devoted nearly exclusively to spreading bizarre assertions like the theory that Ryan and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell funneled Russian money to Trump — a story that spread widely among the site’s 70,000 Facebook fans.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
ALL lunatics. They are good for a laugh...but must be crushed.
They’re NOT falling for it; they’re making it up in cohorts with their friends in the media.
They aren’t falling for it they are manufacturing it!
In reality, Democrats are creating fake news about Russia.
They are taking advantage of the first amendment by knowingly lying to the public. They should be shot for treason. If it was truth, like Trump says, that’s ok, but lies? Not acceptable. ALL communications briefings should be posted to YouTube.
This is the same party that has been in bed with the Soviets since Lenin.
“We know that Trump’s team has a series of shady connections to the Kremlin. Some of Trump’s allies may have coordinated with Russian hackers to undermine the Clinton campaign.”
This guy has no better “evidence” than any of the other baseless fantasies he mentions.
Don’t forget the Establishment Republicans are probably in on that.
Harvard Study: Media Coverage of Trump’s First 100 Days Sets ‘New Standard’ In Negativity
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/05/19/harvard-study-media-coverage-of-trumps-first-100-days-80-negative-sets-new-standard-compared-to-past-3-presidents-n2329249?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
Rosenstein: Comey Routinely ‘Usurped’ the DOJ
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/05/19/heres-what-rosenstein-told-house-members-n2329264?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
Libtards: because if you repeat a lie often enough, it magically becomes true!
Vox is a really liberal website, and I normally wouldn’t post anything from them, but I thought this was pertinent in light of the Louise Mensch and Palmer report crap that has been posted here today.
Why does everyone seem to wish to dignify a particular type of news by calling it “fake news” when it is nothing more than a bald faced lie? And people who do it are called liars. In addition in many cases they liars should be called terrorists because they try to create a false atmosphere for people that can’t see the lie and react to it with behaviors contrary to an intelligent society. They end up getting people harmed or killed. Please call them liars. The next step is accessory to murder. And they’ve earned it.
rwood
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