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How would you react if Breitbart lied to you?

Posted on 06/27/2017 10:18:00 AM PDT by MNDude

I'm wondering how the CNN fans and liberals will react to the recent revelation that CNN has been creating completely fake news for them for six months. So I"m imagining how I'd feel if the same thing happened to me.

Imagine you've been following Breitbart for six months about a scandal that you just know has to be true like Fast and Furious. Day after day they release news from unnamed sources, and it seems that an Obama impeachment is just around the corner. Finally after six months, film producer Michael Moore reveals on hidden camera video that they have a top producer from Breitbart new admitting the entire scandal is basically "Bull S***" but it's great for the ratings.

Would you be angry with Michael Moore? Would you continue to tune in to Breitbart to get your news just the same?


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1 posted on 06/27/2017 10:18:00 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Buddy, you lost me.


2 posted on 06/27/2017 10:22:03 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Rudy Guiuliani for Head of FBI)
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To: MNDude

The Thrill Is Gone

feat. Muddy Waters

from Mr. B.B. King

The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone, baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong, baby
And you’ll be sorry someday

The thrill is gone
It’s gone away from me
The thrill is gone, baby
The thrill is gone away from me
Although, I’ll still live on
But so lonely I’ll be

The thrill is gone
It’s gone away for good
All the thrill is gone
Baby, it’s gone away for good
Someday I know I’ll be open-armed baby
Just like I know, I know I should

You know, I’m free, free now, baby
I’m free from your spell
Oh, free, free, free now, baby
I’m free from your spell
And now that it’s all over
All that I can do is wish you well

Songwriters
LEW BROWN, RAY HENDERSON

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3 posted on 06/27/2017 10:22:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: MNDude

The liberals don’t care. I sent the CNN links to a liberal friend of mine. He said....

“At least they resigned and left professionally. tRump says it’s ok to grab women by the pu$$y.”

They change the narrative when they don’t understand what to do. I said: “It doesn’t matter if they resigned professionally or left kicking and screaming. They wrote a false story, published and got caught lying.”

The friend said:

“Maybe tRump should release his taxes. He’s lying about some Russia connections in there. Do you think the right wing media is lilly white?”

God help us.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 10:23:49 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: MNDude

Yeah, and how would I react if my dog lied to me?


5 posted on 06/27/2017 10:26:31 AM PDT by heights
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It’s entertainment and its bogging trump down....i.e. They won’t care...

.anyone with half a brain knows the Russia story is either bogus or blown out of proportion


6 posted on 06/27/2017 10:27:44 AM PDT by SPRINK
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Do you think the right wing media is lilly white?” ................... Errrrrr? which media would that be? Just a couple of voices vs. thousands that feed us leftist propaganda?


7 posted on 06/27/2017 10:27:56 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again?)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
My first question is, "Why do you even have a liberal friend?"

I eliminated every liberal in my life about 20 years ago and have never felt better for not having to "deal" with them at all.

8 posted on 06/27/2017 10:28:05 AM PDT by HotHunt
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No matter what the Liberal will never accept that which is not as it believes it is.


9 posted on 06/27/2017 10:28:16 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

yep, for those with a severe case of TDS, only an intervention will do - most like requiring a lobotomy and/or a phototropic drug regimen.


10 posted on 06/27/2017 10:29:57 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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You can see how liberals reacted on reddit (and probably DU but I haven’t been there in a few days). The gist is

* “This” (CNN’s action) is how a REAL NEWS organization deals with liars. Unlike fox, CNN fired the 3 guys from last weeks article because CNN is a trustworthy news organization and doesn’t even want a hint of bias.

* Everything else CNN says about Trump/Russia is true “even if there are questions about” last week’s article that people got fired for.

* O’Keefe is a liar. The audio he has isn’t real.


11 posted on 06/27/2017 10:31:26 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: jonno; TangledUpInBlue
phototropic = psychotropic

(d@mn auto-correct!)

12 posted on 06/27/2017 10:32:13 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

When talking to jackasses it is important to remember that their brains are full of straw. They are only capable of repeating what other jackasses tell them.
Do not try to reason with a jackass. Rather, say something outrageous with great authority. They will believe you and spread it around to other jackasses. This is the way to change the narrative with Democrats.


13 posted on 06/27/2017 10:33:43 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: MNDude

The same way I feel about Fox news. They betrayed me. I get all my news from the internet and I don’t even watch TV anymore.


14 posted on 06/27/2017 10:34:20 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: MNDude

You are asking for a thought experiment based on seekers of facts and reason.

CNN, MSNBC and the other channels are there to serve an audience that is seeking an outlet validating their confirmation bias.

Kinda like Fox or Breitbart are or were echo’s of our bias.

The difference is we will test “so called news” for veracity, while those addicted to the Don Lemmon’s, Maddow’s, etc are only looking for their synapses to be stroked and lose themselves in the fantasy presented.

That’s why people on the left can be hypnotized and look for astrology, tarot card, numerology and palm readings.

They want confirmation of their fantasy.

You want validation? See the Valet.

You want relevancy? Do something productive...


15 posted on 06/27/2017 10:34:24 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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This is really not Breitbart’s style (though I am not the closest adherent)

If evidence in support of some news item ceases to flow, they won’t report on it relentlessly, unceasingly.

Evidence of Russian interference in the ‘16 election is claimed to be gushing forth from an infinite-source fountain with the tacit implication that at some point, you will see the smoking gun, smell the burnt powder, and be able to gather microscopic bullet fragments.

I am willing to believe the Russians TRIED to do whatever they tried to do. I don’t think they changed any votes.

But whether Trump had any involvement in the effort, at all, even one bit, I see zero evidence of that. But the MSM cannot get enough of this jag. When that jag (”Collusion”) fades a bit, they run to obstruction. What that one fades, they run back to collusion. They cannot let this go. When they land on obstruction, they go to Flynn. When they land on Flynn, they go back to Russia. It’s a perfect circle.

I don’t get the impression that Breitbart engages in lying. They may become misled. I don’t think they deliberately set out to lie. CNN absolutely does.


16 posted on 06/27/2017 10:41:13 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: HotHunt

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 10:46:30 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: MNDude

So long as the welfare checks & EBT cards keep coming, CNN can say Jimmy Hoffa is running for President.


18 posted on 06/27/2017 10:48:44 AM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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New White House Seating for the Press...
19 posted on 06/27/2017 10:52:36 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: MNDude

It’s not an analyzable quandary because the circumstances are outside of the conceptual parameters of most if not all conservatives. It’s like asking a conservative “how would you feel if you were in a bisexual orgy and the condom broke?” It doesn’t compute.

The other angle on questions like that is that they’re often asked by liberals, and they’re often asked because the assumption/insinuation of the liberal is that the circumstances being asked about happen equally but “your side doing it just must not make the news or you’re better at keeping it hushed up”.

For the sake of giving an answer to what I consider a preposterous proposition, I’ll say that we’d probably figuratively burn the place down and shake the dust off our feet...


20 posted on 06/27/2017 10:52:37 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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